Love Knows No Species: Emu And Donkey Have Fallen For Each Other, Caretakers Say
A male donkey and a female emu have reportedly “fallen in love,” creating an unexpected roadblock for a North Carolina animal shelter in rehousing them.
The unlikely pair have been “comforting each other” for possibly as far back as years at a farm in Kershaw, S.C., Jennifer Gordon of the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue told The Charlotte Observer. The animals were discovered after the owner of the farm seemingly abandoned it last week.
Gordon guesses the animals’ relationship grew out of loneliness there. “They are very bonded,” the Carolina Waterfowl Rescue said in a Facebook post.
“They like to cuddle and even sleep together,” Gordon told the Observer.
The rescue took the farm’s animals, including dogs, cats and chickens, in on Monday. Volunteers attempted to separate the donkey and emu in different enclosures.
The donkey started to cry and the emu grew upset and “paced around like an expectant father,” the Observer reports.
Gordon added that the donkey attacked three other donkeys with which he briefly lived.
“He’d rather be with the emu,” she said. The pair is now in the same enclosure.
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