It’s Fall and our daylight hours are starting to be shorter and shorter causing our evening feeding time to need light to assist in finding the right buckets. For years we have had this “magical” light that comes on when its dark lighting up the paddock area, however, it has recently began to stay on then off so I called the electric company to see if they could send someone out to fix it and to my surprise they said there would be someone out in about an hour.
My sister and I waited to watch for the truck so we could tell them to use the big gate out on the highway. We gathered up all the herd to keep them from being in the way. Down our narrow lane comes one of the electric company’s BIG WHITE trucks. We failed to catch him before he came down the lane, he gets out of the truck to ask where the pole with our magical light was located. We pointed to it and told him he would need to go through the pasture to reach it. He noticed the donkeys and asked if there would be any problem. “No, we said, they will just stand with us and watch.
By now it was getting dark and the BIG White truck came through the gate with its lights on finding its way through bushes making lots of noise like a bulldozer its lights taking on the appearance of big spooky eyes, its big chrome grill seemed to be a mouth with teeth and the roar of the motor sounding like a big monster! We stood back with the donkeys watching then I noticed Petunia was missing there she was standing directly in front of the Big White Monster with her ears up in the protective stance her feet braced firm she was not going to let this monster get her people!
At first, we thought that she was just being nosey, so I went to get her, and she snorted at me telling me to get behind her! The repairman finished and brought the boom down he noticed the little donkey standing guard asking if it as okay to get down. He got into the big white truck to leave however little Petunia took exception and we had to go get her so he could leave, As the Big White Monster made its way to the gate Little Petunia followed him all the way to make sure he did not come back!
Check out Hobby Farm’s article about how Donkeys Make Good Guardians.