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The Pros and Cons of buying a Donkey

  • 01-05-2021 9:19am
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    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,717 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Can you help me out with a Pros and Cons list for buying a donkey. What I have o far:

    Pros
    I'll have a donkey
    The Tax Credits

    Cons
    I'll need to buy a bigger bed


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Get a wee donkey. Careful you don't end up with an ass. Much harder to get an ass in the passenger seat of a Ford cortina.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,937 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    He'll be smarter than you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Andrea B.


    Difficult if living in apartment. Especially above ground floor as very stubborn when it comes to lifts or stairs. Also, they may exceed the weight rating of balcony.
    Once bitten, twice shy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭martinedwards


    Shoo in for the kids nativity play


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Can you help me out with a Pros and Cons list for buying a donkey. What I have o far:

    Pros
    I'll have a donkey
    The Tax Credits

    Cons
    I'll need to buy a bigger bed

    It's hard to get into pubs with a donkey and even if you do, they probably won't serve the donkey.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    It's hard to get into pubs with a donkey and even if you do, they probably won't serve the donkey.

    Of you give the Donkey a name like Ben, people will say "here comes Ben and the donkey'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,879 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    You'd have pletny of hot girls coming up to you and asking if they can pet your ass....

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,128 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Either way it’s a big decision, you should definitely mule it over for a while


  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Con:their noisy animals and roar at yous,if your coming in late at night drunk


    Pro: they have a cross on their back,to aim for when landing on em via parachute




    The donkey sanctuary in cork is worth a visit though


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    It's hard to get into pubs with a donkey and even if you do, they probably won't serve the donkey.


    Any good pub will have a pole outside for tying up your donkey


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Either way it’s a big decision, you should definitely mule it over for a while

    Maybe ask the neigh-bours?


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,128 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Maybe ask the neigh-bours?

    Ah Jayses that’s only ass-king for trouble


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,836 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    People refer to 3 legged donkeys as a “wonky”, but actually 3 legs is the most efficient and stable arrangement of legs, as per tripods and 3 legged stools. So be sure to get a 3 legged one if you have uneven ground and you don’t want it to wobble.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Allinall


    If you can source one without a tail, you can rent it out for kids parties.

    It’ll pay for itself in no time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Maybe ask the neigh-bours?


    Donkeys don't neigh, they bray. So the OP will have to move to Wicklow.


  • Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    I’m seeing a lot of pros here, all genuine, and very few cons. Go for it op.


  • Registered Users Posts: 22,128 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    I’m seeing alt of pros here, all genuine, and very few cons. Go for it op.

    The only donkey Kong is that they tend to throw barrels at you


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,038 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    He'll leave hoof prints on the lino.

    Hee Haw Hee Haw Hee H'always does that.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    I love donkeys.

    To anyone reading this, if you have any money at all to spare, give it to the Donkey Sanctuary. Donkeys have particularly urgent foot-care needs, because they originate from hardened climates where their feet are naturally worn by their environment, but can over-grow on Irish soil.. The Irish Donkey Sanctuary go all around the country, tending to donkeys' feet.

    To the OP, if you have half an acre of grass and the time and temperament for a donkey, you will be richly rewarded.

    They are fantastic creatures. Very intelligent. Biblically modest, none of the haughty arrogance of horses. It should come as no surprise that Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem on the back of the same animal that carried his pregnant mother into Bethlehem. Everybody's life is enriched by having a donkey in it. Nobody in human history has regretted befriending a donkey.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,307 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    The only good donkey is the one that wins the Donkey Derby. The rest are all losers.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Plus: we can all call around to your house for live action Buckaroo!


    I'll start collecting mining equipment pronto.


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,505 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Any good pub will have a pole outside for tying up your donkey

    those are saloons you are thinking of barkeep


  • Registered Users Posts: 966 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Can you help me out with a Pros and Cons list for buying a donkey.

    The donkey market is way overheated at the moment. Would you not consider renting a donkey for the time being and see what the future brings?


  • Registered Users Posts: 32,879 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    those are saloons you are thinking of barkeep

    Claerly, you've never been to Mayo...

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,171 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    those are saloons you are thinking of barkeep


    No there was one in Ballincollig. Had a thatched roof, red wooden windows and doors. Twas definitely a pub. The Auld Fox it was called. You could tell if your friends were inside because you recognised the donkeys. Fierce handy altogether


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    I love donkeys.

    To anyone reading this, if you have any money at all to spare, give it to the Donkey Sanctuary.

    Reminds me of this


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Any good pub will have a pole outside for tying up your donkey

    The best pubs will serve your donkey a few pints.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    the local idiot and a donkey walked into a bar and the bar man asked where did ya get him '' i won him in a raffel '' said the Donkey


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,138 ✭✭✭Archeron


    You'll finally have something good to do with all that lettuce you grew in your windowbox over lockdown.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,466 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Donkeys are social creatures . They bray a lot if they are alone , which is why the donkey sanctuary boards them out as pairs .
    They will need a field shelter that they can enter and exit as they wish .

    You need to have a farrier who will give them the proper foot care as mentioned .
    I’d say you’d need at least a few acres , so that you can “ rest” paddocks as needed .

    They are wonderful animals . When I win the Lotto , I will re-home a few pairs from the Donkey Sanctuary . At present I can just about pay to keep 1 horse .


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