00:00Hi I'm Theo with Manchester World, today I'm out on the streets of Manchester
00:03talking to people about donkey rides at the beach and we know that can sound a
00:07little bit strange but a petition's been signed by many many people wanting to
00:11ban it and that's because we can't be sure of the conditions that the donkeys
00:13are kept in. So we want to know whether people have fond or negative memories of
00:17riding donkeys at beaches and whether they'd support a ban. As a kid yeah but
00:22like we'd never like it is when you see it now it is really sad to see and you
00:27wish you hadn't done it as a kid. Yeah obviously if you know the donkey is not
00:30our pair then it's not. We've not seen donkeys at beaches, I think I've seen them in Blackpool
00:35maybe in Whitby. I like to think that we live in an age where the donkeys are
00:40like treated well. If it's like a family thing and you've like brought it up and it
00:44trusts you and stuff then like I you know I understand like riding it and it
00:48being like kind of like your pet but like they work a long long hours in like
00:52really boiling hot weather and like I do feel sorry for them because they don't
00:56look happy most of the time they do look a little bit sad.
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