Meet Buckwheat, the donkey you can hire to crash Zoom meetings

Buckwheat at a sanctuary for animals near Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. For a price, the donkey can be hired to ‘crash’ Zoom calls. — Farmhouse Garden Animal Home/AFP

UXBRIDGE, Canada: The coronavirus pandemic has led millions of people to embrace meetings via Zoom, but admittedly, those can be as tedious as in-person conferences.

So one animal sanctuary in Canada, in dire need of cash after being forced to close to visitors, found a way to solve both problems.