Mammoth Donkey

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diplomaticandtactful

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She is listed at a dealer I went to see when I was looking for a horse last year - failed the vetting. She is a 14'2 donkey, imported from Netherlands but I bet her chip will show she came from France. She looks poor, ride and drive. Probably had a hard life, bought sight unseen collecting tomorrow.

Tintin said it was ok.
 
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She was very shut down at the dealer's yard, but she has brightened up a bit since she got here. I untied her in the box so she could sort herself out. To me, she doesn't appear to know much, so I do wonder about how she does ride and drive. She was very back off but she likes treats so we worked with them. A bit of a sad girl.
 
Aw what a lovely face she has. Glad she's come to you, she will have a fabulous life ahead of her. Yes, makes you wonder on the ride and drive, could they be stretching the truth a bit. I suppose you will know more once she's properly settled with you. Glad the treats worked. I hope she's less sad soon.
 
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Aw what a lovely face she has. Glad she's come to you, she will have a fabulous life ahead of her. Yes, makes you wonder on the ride and drive, could they be stretching the truth a bit. I suppose you will know more once she's properly settled with you. Glad the treats worked. I hope she's less sad soon.
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saw images of her being ridden and with harness on but she hardly knows how to lead properly, loaded straight away, travelled ok once I untied her so she could move around. She is the image of Tintin very like him same shape, not elegant, long and lanky and a bit spare parts
 
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What happened on her back? Looks like it's been purple sprayed. Hopefully nothing too serious.
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tail rubbed when she was last transported rubbed raw on the breach bar. She was finding it hard to balance and could see she was at the far stretch of the two tie ins so I stopped and opened the partition fromt the grooms area and undid the cross ties so she was loose and could find where she wanted to be.
 
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Moved her to give her more room and found a rug that is no fill and fits her. Think i have another gallop one which may also. Just looked at the price of rugs, gone through the roof. She is very sweet, going to be fun with the farrier.,
 
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That's a great size. I didn't know you could get them that size, only mules.
I wonder why we don't see more of them?

What she called?
 
I would have said the chance of doing her hinds would have been zero with many more zeros added but with a cunning plan, they were done today, no donkey worried or hurt in the process. I put my rope halter on her, and fed her some treats, managed to get the rope around her ankle and lift and hold the leg so she was balancing with the rope helping her and her head was free. Cleaned one, she has deep clefts and repeated the process with the other hind.
So none of the wild swinging the hinds out at great speed and very high, as donkeys don't have a check ligament so they can move their hinds at lightning speed and further than you would imagine. Instead her head and hind leg were on the same rope, but the only tension was on the hind, she had no pressure on her head.
Thrilled to bits hopefully by the time the farrier comes she will be able to lift and hold without help but she did so well in terms of trust.
 
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Great job! And you are brave, I have been kicked by a donkey and it is no joke.
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Not brave just awfully careful, was much worse with Suze, when she was so scared and double barelled in panic, she could have killed me. But she is great now. I have been kicked by Tintin and crushed against a stable wall a few times until i figured out there was absolutely no point in trying to make him do anything he didn't like and the other option was to find a way to do it that he found acceptable. Which we did.
 
Mlle Lily did not wish to be caught today so we explored most of the field....i could have tried to put her on a circle and do join up but think it would really have scared her, though she did some licking and chewing. I did block her at one point to halt her and we gradually negotiated that she could have her halter on, her rug and lift a hind. We did a bit of leading - she really knows nothing. Can't back up doesn't know how to lead, really no idea how she was ridden and driven....
 
I would think she does actually know lots of things, she just doesn't know what you are asking.
The sharer who has moved in with the cob is getting to grips with our set up because it's a totally new environment with different horses, routine, sight and smells etc.
 
She's doing well, calls a lot, once the light goes on she yells. Her first instinct is to avoid but managing to rug her and she will approach me, once you get a hand on her she is fine. If only they could talk.
 
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