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Why farmers use donkeys to guard sheep

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Far from being the stubborn, lazy creatures depicted in cartoons, these animals harbor an intense, violent hatred for predators. If a coyote or wild dog approaches a flock they are protecting, the donkey will viciously stomp the intruder into the dirt. Farmers literally deploy them as heavily armed organic security systems for helpless sheep.

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