Earl Thigpen
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I worked cattle this weekend and my donkey came into the pen with the cattle. When my help arrived they tied their horses to the outside of the corral. We were busy vaccinating, branding and cutting so didn't pay too much attention to the donkey and the horses except every once and a while we would look over to see the donkey going nuts at the horses. The horses were geldings, by the way.
As luck would have it I had one old cow who refused to go into the crowding pen so (I'll call him Tom) got on his horse and rode into the pen and roped the cow. The donkey seized the opportunity (and the horses rump) trying to get amorous. Tom, with cow on the rope and donkey on the horse, was having a difficult time (no kidding).
Well, Tom passed the rope to me, I fed it through the chute and tied it off and Tom got down off the horse to come help. This is when everything went downhill. The donkey changed his focus to Tom. Tom, who was not necessarily in the same mood as the donkey, hit the fence - with donkey firmly attached. I came around the gate and tried to get the donkey off Tom. I hit the donkey with the hot shot to no avail. I then hit the donkey with the hot shot (really hit him) and broke the wand which came back and hit me in the forehead.
Between the blood running down my face and the tears in my eyes from laughing so hard the donkey finally gave up and went to lay down. I don't know if he lit a cigarette or not but my wife finally agreed with me that I really need to get the donkey a jenny. Wish I had filmed this.
As luck would have it I had one old cow who refused to go into the crowding pen so (I'll call him Tom) got on his horse and rode into the pen and roped the cow. The donkey seized the opportunity (and the horses rump) trying to get amorous. Tom, with cow on the rope and donkey on the horse, was having a difficult time (no kidding).
Well, Tom passed the rope to me, I fed it through the chute and tied it off and Tom got down off the horse to come help. This is when everything went downhill. The donkey changed his focus to Tom. Tom, who was not necessarily in the same mood as the donkey, hit the fence - with donkey firmly attached. I came around the gate and tried to get the donkey off Tom. I hit the donkey with the hot shot to no avail. I then hit the donkey with the hot shot (really hit him) and broke the wand which came back and hit me in the forehead.
Between the blood running down my face and the tears in my eyes from laughing so hard the donkey finally gave up and went to lay down. I don't know if he lit a cigarette or not but my wife finally agreed with me that I really need to get the donkey a jenny. Wish I had filmed this.