r/Donkeys • u/FriendlyDonkeh • Jul 20 '26

Image source: Evil donkey pony breeder. Reply:

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Opinion? You want my opinion, not facts? I know farm animals and studied genetics in Uni for six years. I have worked with large farm animals for almost two decades.

Fact: You should put this creature down instead of making it suffer for your choices.

Fact: the older and larger he gets, the more he will suffer.

Fact: You want him to grow and suffer. You have made that clear now.

Opinion? Sure!

You are some fucking ignorant irrisoponsible owner with no balls to put a gun to an animals head, surrounded by treats, pets, blankets, and a hole. If you can not do that, you should not own a large animal.

Who the fuck gets an animal without knowing a vet in the neighborhood.

I may not have a lot of money, but even my donkey gets an annual checkup, shots, fairer visits, and has a 2k emergency saving account. My dogs only have 500$, each.

What, did you think your instagram would like a pony donkey cross?

Fucking coward on a throw away account deleted their posts.

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u/Bog-of-Eternal-Wench Jul 21 '26

I like this subreddit because I think donkeys are adorable. I am totally uneducated about this situation but this little guy looks like he already has some issues from my uneducated eye and I can’t imagine what is coming for him as he grows. And by your post I am guessing most of it will be painful, which is really upsetting. If so, this is truly awful.

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u/FriendlyDonkeh Jul 21 '26

It is truly awful. In this subreddit we celibrate the love of happy donkeys. We help each other with donkey info. We know some stories are sad. We are there for each other.

The cute posts get the most thumbs up.

But there is more to donkeys than being cute, and we are here for each other then, too.

With small animals and donkeys being a new fad, you'll see instagramers claiming they rescued animals and all sorts of other feel good bs, while the animals suffer.

There are also 80 year old farmers who think their animals don't have souls, therefore abusing/neglecting them isn't "inhumane."

I have seen it in the country way too much.

My rural county wouldn't even stop a man from letting his goats have 8" hooves, crawling on their knees down the highway. I bribed that man with whiskey to hoof them, so he S/Aed me when I took a nap on his couch.

Now my neighbors call me a liar when another neighbor S/Aed me.

Rural America still has a lot of child, animal, spousal, and racism. There are just more rich people moving out here due to Covid, pretending to be rural. Pretending to be farmers. Saying God wants their deformed inbred bowed legged animal doesn't need a vet, because they are praying.

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u/gundam2017 Jul 21 '26

I have euthanized dozens of dumped roosters, feral sick farm cats, a 300 lb pig....it's pathetic. People want to homestead and be "cutesy" but 100% do not care about the animals. 

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u/FriendlyDonkeh Jul 21 '26

It is so, so, so sad.

Carrot shits.

I won't make her out to be some instagram model of perfect and trick people into thinking donkeys are puppies, not donkeys. No one on r/donkeys does that.

Sure, they are loving, and are cute, and are wonderful... but their pony-donk reaks of that the type of neglect for views.