I’m going to be looking for an elk or moose herd to join. I just hope the herd will let a jackass like me in 🫣

...from where I live. There are always elk herds around there.

I'm sure Diesel is very happy with his pack. They surely will protect him.

BTW...The elk are magnificent.

them here.
😁

I read a local article that implied he had been returned to his humans. Well, may he live happily and even better than his best life.

She has large herds of elk often visit her property and in the last three years they
are accompanied by a feral donkey that had escaped his owner (who did not want him)
and now lives the free life in the wild.

She sent me a picture this spring; he looks great; wintered well and
is thriving.

Use donkeys in areas with predators. Here in SWV where I live almost every cattle farm has a donkey or two living with the herd.

Conscious-being hanging out without concern for otherness.
No need to be different.
No need to reject difference.

But this particular donkey doesn’t have a mirror and I think it is all very sweet

The coyotes will not know what hit them when his back legs get kicking.

Made my day

Cheers!

The World's Stupidest Tomcat (TM) disappeared one day. I don't think he got chased off or ran away, I think he just wandered a little farther than usual and couldn't find his way back. Yes, he was that dumb.

A year and a half later, I spotted him several streets away, sporting a shiny red collar. He'd obviously found people who loved him and cared for him, so I just moved on. It was nice to have closure, that he'd found a good home. I wasn't going to disturb that.

were neighbors' cats who moved in with me. I did not entice them or give them food. I just finally let them inside when the weather was really bad. I guess I have a reputation in the neighborhood, but all of the cats were required to live outside. Here, they run the house.

A lot of people look at mustangs and think they're filling the ecological role previously held by native North American horses that died out around 10,000 years ago.

Two problems with that. First - the area where mustangs currently run was very different 10,000 years ago. It wasn't nearly as dry, and different vegetation grew there.

But more importantly, native horses didn't look anything like mustangs. They were smaller and stockier. They'd have looked more like a modern steppe or Przewalski's horses - or, for that matter, more like a donkey - than anything descended from domesticated horses.

Not saying mustangs should be cleared out as an invasive species, but they're not replacing anything.