My husband and I went on a Caribbean Cruise over New Years. On one of our stops at Grand Turk, we went horseback riding (pictures and story to follow hopefully). While we were driving to the “stable” we started seeing donkeys. They were just wandering around town and out in the brush.
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| Pretty much me… all day… |
There were a ton at the stable and I asked our guide who said they were all feral and they just run around breeding and doing whatever they want on the island. There were tons of them and some of them were babies.
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| Nursing baby donkey |
Of course, all the normal people on our tour were just sitting around after the ride waiting for the picture guy to return or staying in the shaded hut, but not me. I was out bribing the donkeys with granola bars and fig newtons. The donkeys were quite friendly and very interested in being fed.
Nilla might have some big ears, but these donkeys had huge, fuzzy ears! I seriously wanted to adopt all of them. The guide was like, please, take them all. The locals just don’t care. Actually, most of the tourists also did not care. It was mostly just me. And like one 8 year old girl. But she kinda just pet them and then walked off. I was the only one obsessing.
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| So Cute and Fluffy |
Now brace yourselves because the little sleeping baby we found was the cutest thing ever. And he was so tiny. I could have picked it up and put it in my suitcase if anyone would have let me.
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| cutest baby ever |
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| With me for scale |
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Omg omg omg. That's my heaven! I'm obsessed with mini donks and FOR ALL OF THEM TO BE ROAMING FREE!!?!? ZOMG.
Yeah. That's pretty much exactly how I felt. It was amazing. If you ever do a cruise again, go to Grand Turk.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I would have been obsessing too! They are sooo cute!!! You're making me want more donkeys. Since they don't want them maybe I can go steal some hehehe. I'm glad you had fun! I'm too terrified of stomach virus epidemics to ever go on a cruise. I've heard some true horror stories.
Do you ever do anything with your little donkey? I think I'd train mine to jump or drive a cart. Of just wear cute outfits.
No not really. I did clicker training with him to tame him down but I haven't had time to do anything since moving, building our house and starting Chrome under saddle. My donkey is not gelded, he's seven and he's wild. He was never handled from birth (I got him when he was two and a half). We catch him in a small pen to deworm but that's about it. One of these days I will actually work on taming him down again. I really need to get him gelded but I'm scared something will happen to him since he's so old. So he's mostly just a companion for Chrome. I would love to teach him to drive but I don't know that he would ever be trustworthy. He's very skittish.
Awwwwwww – Too cute!
The little baby one looks a lot like yours.