Why Donkeys and Mules?
“Mystify’s foaling day” Labrador Hill is unique in the region in our devotion to these wonderful animals as equals to horses and ponies in beauty, intelligence and kindness. I have a genetic predisposition to the care of longears, having inherited my great-grandmothers hatred of animal abuse. The very Victorian, very dignified, Emmi Hoch, my mother’s Swiss grandmother, while traveling in Spain in the late 19th century saw a farmer beating his donkey on the side of the road. Leaping blithely from her carriage, she attacked the farmer summarily with her parasol and was arrested by local police for her efforts. When I acquired, several years ago, a light pink standard donkey foal, I named her Emmi in honor of that great lady of times past. Donkeys and Mules are a central part of our education program. Where a horse can be persuaded to act under most circumstances, donkeys and mules require that the human present evidence that the action is correct! They are not stubborn, simply cautious t
