Never underestimate the emotional lives of animals. They\u2019ll surprise you every time! Just take a look at the incredibly sweet way that three donkeys ran towards each other in a video that\u2019s gone viral online. They\u2019d been separated for a long time. It would make sense to believe they didn\u2019t remember each other. But that couldn\u2019t be farther from the truth, as the video adorably shows.<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t this the absolute sweetest? The time apart hadn\u2019t changed how these three donkeys felt about each other. They were so excited to see each other, despite the distance.<\/p>\n
The animals had the reunion of a lifetime after all three were bought by Grace Vaughn and her family. It\u2019s not clear how long they\u2019d been apart from each other, but it seems like it had been quite some time.<\/p>\n
Related: Donkey Hurrying to Hear Neighbor Boy Practice His Trombone Is Too Sweet to Resist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n As soon as they saw each other, the animals took off running. They had so much to catch up on! You can just tell there was a gabfest that was about to happen. These are three gossipy donkeys<\/a>, I can tell.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way they RAN towards each other had me crying,\u201d Vaughn wrote in the video\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n It really goes to show that all it takes is one person to step up to completely change an animal\u2019s life. Or in this case, change three animals’ lives. Which is why people in the comments section were so deeply touched.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you for doing that,\u201d wrote one person.<\/p>\n \u201cThe gang\u2019s back together,\u201d chimed in another commenter.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to need weekly reports on them now,\u201d joked one person.<\/p>\n \u201cDoing God\u2019s work,\u201d one commenter praised.<\/p>\n Vaughn later released another video of her adorable donks online, which showed the animals still getting used to their new home!<\/p>\n Donkeys Are Social<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve ever raised donkeys before, then you know that these guys are friendly! Donkeys are social animals, who need to be around others to be happy. In fact, they can get downright depressed if they\u2019re left alone. It makes total sense that they remember each other. A donkey is a friend for life.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/strong><\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by PetHelpful<\/a> on Nov 17, 2025, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Never underestimate the emotional lives of animals. They\u2019ll surprise you every time! Just take a look at the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":386533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[56545,184498,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-386532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-donkeys","9":"tag-grace-vaughn","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115568250945093487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}