Posted on 09/09/2016 5:13:50 AM PDT by jiggyboy
Juan, a miniature donkey, has passed his first test to make visits as a therapy animal.
He underwent testing Friday in the Columbia County Extension Office.
Young’s Funny Farm animals were also recertified during testing by Julie Cope of Leighow Veterinary Hospital of Danville.
Three-year-old Juan was turned over to Funny Farm owners Neil and Vonnie Young last October.
Also passing their tests again were Honeybun, 27; Ruby, 11; and Surprise, 5. Young’s farm, near Berwick, is the only farm in the United States using adopted wild donkeys from the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse snd Burro Adoption Program. Honeybun was captured in Big Bear, Calif. Ruby was captured in San Bernardino, Calif.
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“These once wild donkeys are calm enough to ride in elevators to visit people,” he said of the animals that make numerous free visits each year to schools, nursing homes, hospitals, churches and other locations throughout the region.
Also tested and certified by Cope for Pet Partners were the Young’s therapy ducks. Young said they have share a special bond to people with autism.
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Are they really going to let democrat asses to be off the farm to “treat” OTHER democrat asses?
Of course not they’re donkeys not horses ... sheesh. Course they could be muleing it around in their heads. :)
For some jackass.
LOL — now let’s get the over-under date for somebody demanding that their donkey flies with them in Business Class.
One of my neighbors has mini donkeys. They are all typical obnoxious beasts, just like the full sized ones.
I mountain bike on a guy’s property. He allows camping and partying, and has tiny burros that scare off and stomp the coyotes that threaten his livestock.
They think they’re dogs, and they’d hang out near our campsite to get rubs.
I do not know the breed, but was told that they are the friendliest of all the burros.
My drunk friend went to pet them and I filmed it because it was TOTALLY going to end in tears. I was disappointed.
lol.. The wild donkeys around here will stand in a almost perfectly spaced row on a ridge watching for trouble such as coyotes. I have never seen it but some range riders have witnessed donkeys stomping a coyote into dust. Alpaca owners around here keep a donkey or a llama with their herd for just that reason.
We would love to have Donkeys again. They are like BIG puppies, and so full of love. We had three. They got old, and passed on.
Too old to start up with any more critters now, so just enjoying the old ones we have until their time, or ours is up.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
LOL Ping!
The animals are being tested by Pet Partners, the most respected testing and registration organization in pet therapy. Snoopy was tested by them.
That is great! While the idea of donkeys was initially amusing to me, it’s certainly true that all animals capable of affection and good manners are a great blessing to people in times of need for love, loyalty and encouragement!
After I was already looking forward with a smile to the possible experience of a horse of the clever “Mr. Ed” variety all seatbelted in on an aisle seat across from me as someone’s sanctioned comfort animal.
There are so many dogs and cats flying in cabin these days that at least one airport, National Airport in D.C., now has a doggy comfort room along the same terminal walls as the human rest rooms. I saw one the other day with a big welcome placard standing on the floor where people almost trip over it. The “comfort” room has got astroturf all over the ground and a great big plastic fire hydrant in the middle of the room. Here’s a photo of a smaller hydrant at
JFK. http://petfriendlytravel.com/airports I didn’t see a human sink in the one in D.C. as I glanced in, so really glad to see one here.
The following map sheds a lot of light on the trend of welcoming hairy mates at airports across America:
http://petfriendlytravel.com/airports
I wonder why pet hair doesn’t reach the threshold of peanut allergy in the airline industry. I heard a lot of allergy-like sneezing on those doggy/kitty flights.
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