A church in Redditch, Worcestershire, UK, has yet to fill one vial role in their annual Christmas pageant: the donkey. They put out a call via the Redditch Advertiser for a "placid and calm" donkey for the Christmas Eve service. Along with a real donkey, the pageant will include a real baby and a cast of children. "Donkeys and of course, babies, can be unpredictable but that only adds to the experience...
Weird things happen to horses. Horses are big. They're curious. They eat things they shouldn't. Many of them live in areas nature never intended for them to be, often with other species they weren't intended to mix with. People use them to perform tasks they weren't designed to do. Roll all of this up, and weird things happen to horses. And, because they're considered fairly exotic animals by the majority...
