In his leather apron, he handled the donkeys with a particular ease and authority.
In October, Ken Norman, the farrier from Pawlet, Vermont, came to trim the donkeys' hooves.
They are using all means: by car, by motorbike or on the donkeys.
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The donkeys refused to get into the truck, and the experiment almost failed.
In an hour or so, Kirk the vet showed up, gave the donkeys their appropriate shots, said they were fine.
And as I've lost no sheep to these common predators, the donkeys seem to me to be doing their jobs pretty well.
After about half an hour's hard climb - though it's the donkeys that have done all the work - we reach the Deir, a truly magnificent facade carved massively into a coffee-coloured cliff face.
The two donkeys wander green rolling fields during the day and dine on fresh hay and ginger snaps.
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There are currently 5, 000 donkeys and mules being cared for permanently by the sanctuary in the UK, Ireland and Europe, but the charity also rescues donkeys all over the world.
Dr Svendsen also founded The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys in the UK, to provide riding therapy with donkeys for children with special needs and disabilities.
For when the television cameras tracked sideways, revealed were all the other donkeys that helped haul them up there.
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Yet looking at the neatly-bridled donkeys on the platforms, and listening to them bray, it struck me that really it was too easy to lay all the blame for the straw-like insubstantiality of contemporary British politics at their stable door.
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We used to travel to faraway towns such as Zalambessa and Adigrat in order to buy cereals which were carried on the backs of donkeys for days, up and down the mountain paths.
The lions-donkeys concept, ascribed to various nationalities, goes back well into the 19th century.
All of the Grays were banned from keeping horses, ponies and donkeys following the neglect.
In 1495, during his second voyage across the Atlantic, he brought four jacks and two jenny donkeys to the island of Hispaniola.
In Afghanistan, for example, we shipped literacy textbooks on the backs of donkeys through remote provinces.
South Norfolk Conservative MP Richard Bacon, who previously described the trust as "lions led by donkeys", said the resignation did not go far enough.
All of them were banned from keeping horses, ponies and donkeys following the neglect.
Some people who did not have donkeys carried the cereals home on their shoulders.
But that hasn't stopped British citizens from organizing the rescue of Greek donkeys abandoned by cash-strapped owners.
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Riding donkeys on the beach in coastal resorts like Blackpool and Brighton was once a highlight of British vacations.
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The market for work donkeys has plummeted along with demand for Greek debt.
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Once, donkeys were the tractors and ATVs of country life, performing agricultural and mercantile tasks integral to farming and commerce.
Since the animal charity began in east Devon in 1969, it has helped more than 14, 500 donkeys and mules in the UK and abroad.
Another flicker of hope is the bicommunal campaign on Facebook, a social-networking website, to protect the island's wild donkeys, ten of which were mysteriously shot dead recently.
Not content with rescuing animals in the UK, she developed the charity's work overseas, to help donkeys working in "desperate conditions" in some of the most impoverished communities in the world.
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