And it has nothing whatsoever to do with Democrats. Jenny the donkey is playing extremely hard to get. She is refusing to date or to let people anywhere near her. She's driving the humans crazy.
Varricchio and Mary Gaeta decided to buy Jenny two months ago because they'd heard that having a donkey around the farm would ward off predators like fox, coyotes and raccoons that have been snatching 50 to 60 hens a year.
But this donkey had a mind of her own, fleeing the corral on Jan. 18, a couple of weeks after arriving at the farm, called "Mary's Gardens."
Varricchio said his son shot Jenny with a tranquilizer dart, but she ran away into the woods. Apparently it had no effect, because she was up and about when they located her two hours later, he said.
They tried putting tranquilizers in her food. That didn't work, either.
The latest effort, on Sunday, involved a horse whisperer.
"Some people call me a horse whisperer; some people call me an equine psychologist," Karina Lewis, of Benton, told the Morning Sentinel newspaper. "I like to call myself a problem-solver of people and horses." (Ed Note: They have donkey whisperers now?)
But she couldn't figure out Jenny, who she thinks is part donkey, part horse. Lewis and her partner rode horses in an attempt to corral Jenny. The donkey came close, but kept running away.
Note that the tranquilizers do not work at all on this donkey. Longtime readers will, of course, see the nefarious paws of the Animal Uprising™ in all of this. We here in the Crabitat have strong suspicions that Jenny has been genetically engineered to be tranquilizer-proof, similar to the Taser Proof pigs and cows the animals have been using. Now, when they get an animal that is immune to Tasers AND tranquilizers, all we'll have left is golf clubs.
