Why adopt a wild burro?
Providing a home for a wild burro can be both challenging and rewarding. Adopting a wild burro is a unique opportunity to care for and train a living symbol of our country’s history. With kindness and patience, a wild burro can be trained for many uses. Due to their gentle nature, wild burros can be used as companion animals for high spirited domestic horses. In addition, wild burros are social, yet very protective animals. As a result of this trait, they are very effective in predator control and are often used as guard animals to protect sheep and goats. Wild burros are known for their sure-footedness, strength and endurance and are used as sturdy pack animals for backpackers and hunters. People also use wild burros as riding animals. People use burros to pull carts or small wagons, too. The greatest advantage to adopting a wild burros is that they make excellent family pets.
