If anyone ever tells you donkeys can’t tell time, be assured they don’t know what they’re talking about. Every evening, right about 5:30 or so, the drama begins. If you didn’t know better, you’d think the boys were starving and hadn’t been fed for three days. It usually goes something like this:
Bernard thinks flaring his nostrils and sucking in his breath makes him look super skinny.
Ellsworth prefers to play the sympathy card.
Ellsworth: Oh mamma, I’m so hungry I can’t hold my head up.
Ellsworth: Bernard, let’s try puppy-dog eyes and see if that works tonight.
Ellsworth: I wish Carolynn was here. I bet she’d feed me right now.
Nigel and Fergus: Oh my gawd. Can you believe these clowns? Do they have no shame?
Bernard: Heck no, I have no shame! Look mamma, I’m flaring my nostrils again! I’m so hungry and skinny.
Ellsworth: Mamma, we need sweet feed, stat! I’m just going to pass out this instant!
Me: Oh, Ellsworth. I love you, my angel. You do save the drama for your mamma. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
September 22, 2010 at 4:45 am
Oh my WORD! What pathetic little faces!
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September 22, 2010 at 5:35 am
Schnauzer boys can also tell time, and make the same faces around 4:30. It’s the universal “Feed me, I’m dying!” look that gets us hustling off to the food bin.
Have I mentioned lately that I love your boys? I do! Wither scritches from Wisconsin to the herd.
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September 22, 2010 at 6:02 am
If I’m not working around supper and someone drives in the yard you’d think they were starved the horse whinnying and the donkeys braying and the chickens running toward them…only at the “Funny Farm”!
I love all your photos, such sweet pathetic faces!!
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September 22, 2010 at 6:30 am
HA! Thanks for the midweek smile and chuckle. Your narration of the great shots of your boys is perfect.
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September 22, 2010 at 6:34 am
Wow! Your boys looks adorable! And very smart too!
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September 22, 2010 at 6:47 am
Thank you for sharing these wonderful photos! Great captures!
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September 22, 2010 at 6:50 am
Oh dear. How sad. Clearly no one has fed them in weeks……… Poor Ellsworth can’t even hold his ears up, he’s so weak.
🙂
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September 22, 2010 at 6:59 am
Poor, sad donkeys! I’m gonna call the ASPCA right away. 🙂
I love the droopy ears on Ellsworth. So hungry he can’t hold them up.
One of my dogs clanks the dog bowl precisely at 5pm.
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September 22, 2010 at 7:04 am
That was so funny! Loved the captions, loved the pic’s. Thanks for sharing.
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September 22, 2010 at 7:08 am
I see a benefit concert coming up. Morning Bray Farm Aid, to feed the poor starving animals.
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September 22, 2010 at 7:27 am
I think all animals can tell time when it comes to dinner.
What great photos!
And just think… coming soon is the Daylight Savings time change, and you will have to explain to them that 5:30 isn’t 5:30 anymore…
Oh the Burro-manity….
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September 22, 2010 at 7:55 am
In amazing truth, the burrors as well as all other animals,they have pretty much ways similar as ours like intelligence, habits, emotions and etc which is why I respect them! I simply adore their expressions especially with their noses flaring… ;-D
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September 22, 2010 at 8:07 am
Whenever Russell flares his nostrils and sucks in his breath…the braying begins! He just can’t hold it back. Your guys are really good at giving you the “I’m starving” look! Poor Ellsworth looks positively famished! 🙂
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September 22, 2010 at 8:28 am
I’m checking on available flights, right now! Hang on Ellsworth, honey…
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September 22, 2010 at 8:45 am
Noooo…. *not* the nostril-flaring! My girls begin NF about the same time as your boys, it seems. Occasionally there’s a soft, breathy ‘hee…hee’ to go with it. So pitiful.
Those pictures are fantastic!! I just ♥ those boys!!
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September 22, 2010 at 8:46 am
With my cat Gretchen, heaven forbid if I don’t come home directly from work to feed her. She tells me off from the time I enter the house.
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September 22, 2010 at 9:20 am
Good help is SOOO hard to find. Hang in there boys, at least you get fed at a set time. With all the volunteers around here we NEVER know what’s going on.
It’s awful.
Cute eyes, Elsworth. *wink*
–Lily
(Mom note: sorry. I think she’s in heat again.)
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September 22, 2010 at 9:49 am
I am laughing so hard right now. Oh my gosh the same exact thing happens here. You would think that the horses and donkeys were starving. Between the brays, grunts, sighs,neighs,well, it’s a regular zoo sound here.
Heck, who needs a clock when you have animals!
Great pics.
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September 22, 2010 at 11:58 am
Oh, those poor starving boys! You and Carson make me want to have burros and donkeys. At least your boys don’t jump on you in bed in the morning to get you to feed them like Emma the Calico Queen does!!!
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September 22, 2010 at 12:02 pm
LOL Donkeys do love feeding time don’t they?
Do Nigel and Fergus get vocal at feeding time yet?
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September 22, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Mel,
Nigel, no. Fergus is starting to do the “under the breath” hee-haws. 😀
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September 22, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Makes me want to move right in to your barn so as not to miss a bit of the show!
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September 23, 2010 at 8:57 am
Pathetic creatures! Poor, poor starving burros! Love Ellesworth’s lips in the last photo, he’s positively sniveling!
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September 24, 2010 at 8:16 pm
OMG one pic gets cuter than the next! They are so damned cute they almost look like stuffed animals ❤
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