The donkey is a great guard animal, not a shepherd. There is a difference between a herding dog and a guard dog. All three are useful in their own way.
‘There is a difference between a herding dog and a guard dog’
That is why a German Shepherd is perhaps one of the most useful worker canines out there. An elegant mixture of both.
I will consider more the ‘guardness’ of asses - simply saying they have no teeth as it were - cheers
One of my ancestors, Peter Powers, was a pioneer into the unsettled regions of New Hampshire in the early 18th century. He was tired of loosing pigs, and so he raised a guard bore, Old Tusky, who, after a few years on the job took on two big bear at once, killed them both, and survived, “to tell the tale”, although he was torn up pretty bad.
The story was put into writing fairly early on, and eventually published.
That’s some pig.