Alie Ward

jaw it's got a stout frame and this really beautiful pewter colored velveteen looking coat and yes donkeys have been our friends and tools for millennia according to researchers of the 2022 paper the genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys in the journal science domesticated in africa went all around came back to africa but before donkeys made that world tour genetically

Okay, so there's at least all of you who want more info on this.

So please see the 2024 paper, Donkeys, Genies, and Demons, Fantastical Creatures in Ancient Egyptian Ritual Texts and Funery Assemblages, which notes that the donkey was depicted in ancient tomb scenes since the Old Kingdom, which was roughly 5,000 years ago, and it represented an ambivalent creature in

They could either assist in the nightly journey of the ancient sun god, or it could be a malevolent force.

It could go either way, like a cat or something that loves you and then tries to kill you.

You mentioned that from the deserts.

Is that why they have such big ears, like a fennec fox kind of?

We're going to communicate to you more about their communication in a bit.

But first, let's crunch some numbers.

You now have a donkey sanctuary.

You are the mother to donkeys, if you will.

I'm a mom.

Mamacita.

Where are their origins typically?

Do you take in a lot of working donkeys that are retired or maybe that had been mistreated?

I know that donkey welfare is like the cornerstone of your life.

That's right.

And so where are a lot of your donkeys from?

Yeah, what is the difference there?

Are there a lot of working donkeys that are maybe not treated fairly or not well-kept?