After the big media kerfluffle over the parasailing donkey,
British tabloid The Sun stepped in and purchased the donkey for 70,000 roubles
(£1,500 or $2,346.75). She is now ensconced in the Kremlin Horse
Riding School where she receives four-star treatment. You can see the story here.
Except…
According to The Guardian, Komsomolskaya Pravda says they got the wrong
donkey. The donkey getting the massages
and organic carrots is Anpaka. The donkey
who went on the sky ride is Manya, and she is still at home by the Black
Sea.
I had hoped for a happy ending to this story, but instead we will have to settle for a Loretta Lynn song containing a mule analogy.
Aug 18, 2010 @ 09:46:03
This is both good and sad.
Can’t they press fraud charges on the guy who knowingly sold them the stand-in?
Aug 20, 2010 @ 16:59:01
I hate that.Can I tell you a story? Boyfriend and I went to the Ventura County Fair a couple of weeks ago, and we visited Annie, a Sicilian donkey.She was in a barn, in a very large cage, and seemed content. She counted as ‘small livestock’ (she was little), I guess…Anyway, I could reach her through the bars and was skritching the right side of her face, behind the ears, on the cheek. She liked this, and pressed her face against the bars. Then, quite calmly, she walked forward, turned around and came back, so the left side of her face was pressed against the bars.And she waited for the skritching to continue. Which it did.
Aug 20, 2010 @ 17:03:13
Awesome. Donkeys are love.