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Suffering donkeys - 14th March, 2009
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OPINION: Phillip Adams | March 14, 2009
(writing earlier in the piece about dogs in East Timor)

Article from:  The Australian
In my experience only one  other creature  endures comparable suffering – the Egyptian donkey.
There are some 50 million donkeys around the planet. Leaving aside Australia’s ferals, most are in penal servitude in China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Mexico. Donkeys [...]


The Wisdom of Donkeys - 29th December, 2008
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Live life at a donkey’s pace

Terry Peters, North Shore News
Published: Friday, December 26, 2008
- The Wisdom of Donkeys, by Andy Merrifield, Greystone Books, 247 pages, $22.95.
There are few other domesticated animals that we ever interact with who move as slowly as a donkey. They stubbornly stride through the world at their own pace and as author [...]