So now that I am buying a house with all this land, I've been researching the next animal I am going to get. As if our little bitch is not pain enough to deal with. I thought that whenever I owned a house I was going to get a goat. Kim, who runs Artemisia Gallery, had goats that she kept for their wool; she said they were a pain. Shannon and I almost got a pig but felt they did too much rooting around in the yard and that it would be hard to take one on trips. A dog is one thing, but most people would draw the line at letting a pig stay the night. Last week it came to me... a donkey! Donkeys are great; they are funny, they can pull things, and they will eat your grass.