burro
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Your second best bet is to stay put and get yourself a burro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2024
For this reason, as well as lack of resources, proponents of a new burro roundup are pessimistic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
The time is ripe, they say, to severely reduce the burro population with a roundup that is certain to be controversial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Meléndez’s illustrations of a seven-pointed star and a burro piñata are among a select group of 31 stamp issues this year.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
He hobbled the mule and tied a long rope to the burro and let them graze on the thin, bluish green leaves of salt bushes growing at the entrance to the canyon.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
And more than 70,000 wild horses and burros now compete with livestock for forage.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
A 1971 law declared wild horses and burros “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West,” and made it illegal to harass, capture or kill them on public lands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
“They’ve been here for over 70 years and they roam between the canyons and they’re just so sweet,” Cheatham said of the burros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
The youngest were two burros estimated to be two to four months old, according to DonkeyLand volunteers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2025
These burros were not wild ones, but had saddles on them, and we rode them back up the Canyon wall after spending the night in an inn at the bottom.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
