“A donkey’s tail is different from a horse’s,” he writes, “less proud, less flamboyant, more disheveled like a cow’s, more Zen-like in its rumpled simplicity, with its short body hair ...

A donkey has had its tail cut off in a "barbaric" attack in Pembrokeshire. Eeyore was left with spinal fluid leaking from his tail after attackers broke into his paddock in the middle of the night.