Featured Video: Breakfast is Served...by a Donkey

Featured Video: Breakfast is Served…by a Donkey

It’s Monday, and that alone is reason enough to take a break and enjoy some animal silliness.

In this video, from Annabelle’s Equestrian, a stable and riding school in Suffolk, England, Dave the Donkey is helping one of his barnmates get every last bit of his meal. It looks like Dave could easily walk off with that grain dish and enjoy the spoils on his own, but he doesn’t. Sharing is caring, and Dave knows that.

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Leslie Potter

Leslie Potter is a graduate of William Woods University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Equestrian Science with a concentration in saddle seat riding and a minor in Journalism/Mass Communications. She is currently a writer and photographer in Lexington, Ky. Potter worked as a barn manager and riding instructor and was a freelance reporter and photographer for the Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar and Saddle Horse Report before moving to Lexington to join Horse Illustrated as Web Editor from 2008 to 2019. Her current equestrian pursuits include being a grown-up lesson kid at an eventing barn and trail riding with her senior Morgan gelding, Snoopy.

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Marion says:
February 28, 2017 at 3:59 am
Awh Dave, you're so cute! My donkey loves to pick up his feed tub, but he don't offer it off to anyone!
Kathy says:
March 1, 2017 at 3:59 am
Looks like he has his own personal waiter! Very cute!
Sherry says:
March 2, 2017 at 3:58 am
Oh Dave you're adorable! What a good sport holding the feed tub!
CeCe says:
March 3, 2017 at 3:58 am
What a good boy Dave, so helpful of you!
Heather says:
March 4, 2017 at 3:56 am
Awh, I want a Dave in my barn! So cute!
Andrea says:
March 7, 2017 at 3:59 am
Oh Dave, you remind me so much of a friends donkey!
Jenny says:
March 10, 2017 at 3:57 am
AWH always wanted a donkey, now for sure! How adorable!
Carol says:
April 6, 2017 at 3:59 am
What a great little guy, so cute!
Brenda says:
April 9, 2017 at 4:02 am
Oh My Lord, how precious! What great buddies~
Heather says:
October 7, 2017 at 3:54 am
Just adorable! I think they probably have been together a long time! Love donkeys!