Christmas has become a very busy time for our four-legged friends. Our donkeys & ponies are regularly hired to attend Christmas light switch ons, school fetes, care homes, private Christmas parties, shopping centres and all manner of other Christmas events as well as often leading the popular parades of the festive season.
The animals are situated in a pen (either supplied by us or the client) for people to pet. They come dressed in their personalised Christmas outfits, including their little Santa hats with their ears peeking through!
There aren’t many things cuter than one of our Christmas donkeys or ponies and they really help spread a little bit of festive magic. As with all of our bookings, you can rest assured that the animals will be taken care of to the highest standards both at home, on the way to and at your event.
Our animals are always in demand to attend nativities. The assisted-therapy donkeys are trained to go inside buildings and so these can attend nativities where we are required to go into churches, schools and halls with no worry of them worrying about being inside.
Christmas Eve is a very popular date we can attend churches to walk down the aisle as Little Donkey rings out.
Animal welfare is becoming more and more important to the public and we both recognise this and embrace it, ensuring that our animals are happy in what we ask them to do.
When we set up a pen, there is always a side that is inaccessible to the public, so that the donkeys don’t have to constantly interact with people when they don’t want to.
Every time they leave home, it is logged as a ‘work day’ regardless of what they're doing.
This ensures that they stay happy and fresh in their ‘work’. Prior to the Christmas season they will have had enjoyed two months holiday in the fields, so by the time late November comes they’re bored and desperate to get out, meet people and soak up some attention.
Remember that our donkeys and ponies can be hired to work inside if required, taking the stress out of planning for the weather. We also have specially-made waterproof rugs to go under their Christmas rugs to ensure they remain dry and toasty all the time.