APRIL 2006 • VOLUME 8 • ©HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

TRUE STORY – THE PUB

A True Story

A pint a day,

A pint a day,

That’s all I asked

To work and play

Walk into the neighborhood pub and what do you find. Swilling back the beer. But me. I mean the old lady she tried to keep me from going to the pub every evening. I don’t know what she was complaining about. I came home every night didn’t I.

Where else would I get my pints? She wouldn’t let me drink at home. I think she thought maybe I would be a bad influence on the young ‘uns. So she tried and tried to keep me at home. But me mates were at the pub. They welcomed me with open arms. I mean I was the talk of the town wasn’t I. Not like I was wandering all over the road. I stuck to the ditches, went to the pub, had my pints and went home and back to bed. I don’t think she had to go to such extreme measures to try to keep me at home.

Can you imagine!!??

Where she got the idea that one more strand of wire six inches off the ground was going to keep me at home. It did make it a little more difficult to escape each night. That beer belly you know. Had a hard time wiggling and squiggling under that wire. But nothing was going to keep me from my mates. Or the beer! Mind you it was harder to get back under the wire after a few beer to get back in!

Its not like I spent all her money. My mates would always buy for me.

Not like I woke up the next morning with a hangover. I can hold my liquor.

It was a nightly affair. Her trying to keep me at home, me taking off to the neighbourhood pub. You think by now she would understand.

Personally I think it is just prejudice. Just because I look a little bit different.

So my ears are a little bigger than most?

As to be a little gray, that is the way I look naturally it has nothing to do with the beer!

And I can bray with the best of them.

But of course, my mother was a donkey.

A true tale.

But the question had to be asked!

“What was a donkey doing in a pub? Surely he was under age??”

Here is Diddle the Donkeys owners’ reply.

In the beginning maybe!

Diddle-I was a law unto himself. I reared him from on bottle and he used to sleep in the kitchen with the dogs. Unfortunately this gave him an identity crisis and he always thought of himself as a dogkey or even a donkog.

This month we welcome the opportunity to share a special story of one of the animals that work with disabled children. No surprise that he was unique or quite a character. Can you imagine your horse laying down in front of your car, to stop you from driving away? It so often seems that it is the most unique of characters that one gets to meet in a disabled riding program, or is it that in a disabled riding program is where the true character of these incredible creatures has an opportunity to come out and amaze us.

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