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26-06-2009 11:40:26
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#OnThisDay 1965: Fyfe Robertson introduces the animal now being championed as the ideal household pet.
They are naturally house-trained, with an “astonishing respect for furniture”. “The ideal thing”, one breeder claims, “to have in a flat in London”.
The humble donkey.