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RE: Appreciate Beauty of Nature with @phortun: round 221

in WE ARE MOVING โ€ข 7 months ago

I love the photo with the donkey, I am a fan of donkeys, I am a donkey lover ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿค—.

Well, don't worry and don't feel sorry for your decision, do what you have to do and focus on the priorities that you have right now, we will miss you but we know that you'll come back more creative and enthusiastic than ever ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿ˜‰.

My entry for this weekend, this are the flowers of a plant that grew alone in one of my pots hahaha, I don't know what it is but her flowers are lovely โ˜บ๏ธ, I took this photo on Friday, May 31.

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Nice to know that Gatubela The Ultimate Nature Lover loves all animals equally, even donkeys :D Thanks for your kind feedback and a cool entry! Very nice flower close up :)

Of course, I love them all ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿฆ“๐Ÿ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿฆ˜๐Ÿฆ›๐Ÿฆฆ๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿฆ”๐Ÿฆˆ๐Ÿฆƒ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿฆ‚๐Ÿฆ’๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ„๐ŸฆŠ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿจ๐Ÿท๐Ÿค—, donkeys are one of my favorite animals, my grandmother in Greece had a donkey, when I was a kid I was so happy when summer arrived because we were going to my grandmother's house who lived in the country and she had chickens, goats, sheep, dogs, cats and the donkey, she was so beautiful ๐ŸคŽ๐Ÿ–ค, my grandmother always took us for a ride on the donkey and I loved combing her hair and petting her snout, donkey snout is super soft ๐Ÿ˜Œ. They are such noble animals ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿฅฐ.

I'm glad you liked it ๐Ÿ’ฎ.

Aww, these are sweet memories :) Donkeys are cool animals. Just too bad they are often abused in the tourism industry :( In many countries (including Greece), donkeys are used to carry tourists who are often too heavy for them :( Itยดs just heartbreaking to see the poor animals carrying fat lazy inconsiderate humans on their back. I know that a healthy donkey can carry an adult person but not someone who weighs 100 kg or even more... There should totally be weight limits on the rides.

Soooo sweet memories ๐Ÿฅฐ

Yes, that's absolutely true, in many Greek islands, the most famous and also others that cars don't exist because they are really small islands, they use donkeys for tourism ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ™„, both to carry people on them or to pull carts, the poor donkeys are working all day under the hot Mediterranean summer sun ๐Ÿฅต๐Ÿ˜ž, that's not fair, I haven't been in a Greek island but I wouldn't pay for a donkey ride. There are some countries here in south America like Argentina where they use horses to pull tourist carts and they abuse of those poor horses ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿ˜ฅ but in some Argentine cities they are already prohibiting this type of rides thanks to animal rights movements.

Yes, donkeys can carry a lot of weight but not inconsiderate fat people who even laugh when they get on the poor donkey and see that it can barely walk with so much fat on top ๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿคฌ.

Honestly, I think the donkeys would be happy if they could carry people like you because you are like a feather :D But like I said, many people are stupid and inconsiderate and they donยดt care if they hurt the animals by putting too much weight on them :( It can be the same with horses. It all depends on how much weight they carry and in what conditions the animals are kept. In Krakow, for example, where we lived for some time, there are horse carriages too but there are two big and strong horses for each carriage and the carriage usually carries just a few people (like 3 or 4) so it feels like the horses are comfortable with that. But I know that in some other cities and countries, there is just one horse for the carriage and itยดs loaded with many people. Thatยดs animal abuse for sure :( I would just love to kick those lazy fat asses down from the carriage!

๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคญ well, that's true, I'm like a feather hehehe ๐Ÿ˜ธ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ.

You know, donkeys can carry a lot of weight but most of the donkeys that people have to carry load they work for a short time and not everyday but the poor tourism worker donkeys have to carry stupid and fat people 7 days a week until the sun goes down, and I suppose you must already know that in summer, in Greece the sun sets around 9 o'clock pm so that means that they probably have to work more than 10 hours ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜’๐Ÿ˜ก๐Ÿคฌ, that's animal abuse and here in Venezuela we call that animal abuse.

I have seen those huge and strong horses that people use on farms and fields to transport crops, merchandise and even as transportaciรณn but most of those horses are breeds specialized in heavy lifting like the Percheron, amazing and beautiful animals by the way ๐Ÿ˜ป, I wish I have one ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐ŸŽ, they look like powerful superheroes ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป hehehe.
But yes, in most of the countries that have tourist carts, like Argentina, they use normal horses that they have neither the size nor the strength to work so many hours and carry so much weight, especially since most of those carts only use one horse ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜’.

Yeah, me too, get off that carriage ๐Ÿคฌ.

You are right, there is still so much animal abuse happening in the world :( And we only mentioned donkeys and horses here, while in fact there are many other animals that have to suffer because some stupid tourists on vacation want to have "fun". Very sad. Like I said, the world just needs more Gatubelas who would always be there to protect our animal friends ;)