uhmn... have any of you actually LOOKED at a donkey up close?? They are cowhocked so bad their hocks knock and their butt sticks out about two feet past their back legs. They do a skittery little trot and a canter. I have all gaited horses that have been in with a donkey for years. Nasi has been with a donkey since weaned, and actually, its his best playground partner. he plays with that donkey for hours, most of the play running around and chasing each other. Not one of my horses has ever "moved like a donkey" one friggin step I beg your pardon in fact i would say it is conformationally impossible. if there was a young icelandic there moving like a donkey i hate to break it to ya, it aint the donkey making it move like that! here is in fact a video of nasi and our donkey playing and moving in unison. Does nasi look like he is moving like a donkey even tho he is matching him gaitwise in almost every way? or maybe the donkey is "moving like an icelandic".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1itkF7OI_NU People who have owned and bred walking horses for 70 years expressly breeding for gait can tell you straight away you can't create gait by putting another animal in with it. Even the idiots around here know that much! Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
