More Than 1,100 People Join A Facebook Campaign To Save Donkey

Ok its all not just in the favor of donkey, they are actually annoyed by him. When Joseph (name of donkey) brays, his eeyore reverberates around the village, across the valley... and if the wind is blowing in the right direction, it can be heard in the neighbouring village two miles away.

Samantha Thompson, who created facebook group

And He does it late at night and early in the morning, often waking residents. Until now, everyone has accepted the loudmouth ass as a quirk of life in the South Yorkshire community of Brierley.

But a single complaint to the council from an unknown source has prompted an investigation into ‘whether or not the donkey is causing a noise nuisance’.

When residents learned his not-so-quiet life in a field behind the village club could be under threat, they rallied round to launch a campaign to save him.

A Facebook group called ‘Save the Brierley Donkey From Being Shot’ – not that he really faces such a grim fate – has more than 1,100 members.

Beauty therapist Samantha Thompson, 41, who set up the group, said she was often woken by Joseph at 4am but could not bear it if anything happened to him.

‘Sometimes the noise is a bit overwhelming at 4 or 5am but it’s no different from living next to a busy road or a railway line. You get used to it.’

Joseph’s owners, Phil and Clare Williams, discovered a complaint had been made to the council’s environmental health department when an officer visited last month. Mr Williams, a father of nine, said: ‘He has got a very loud bray. You can hear it over the hill in Grimethorpe, the next village.