[quote=LovelyAnastasia]
There is a German version that is pretty close to that actually. There's an iconic image of the donkey with the other three animals stack on its back as they peek into the window at the robbers.
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There are a few different versions of the story, in the Celtic one I'm using as my basis (if I'm allowed to use it) he rescues the donkey from drowning in a bog, he feeds the cat when it's starving to death, he saves the dog from a crowd that want to kill and possibly eat him and he rescues the rooster from a fox that's chasing it and that's why they go with him and why, in my alternate version, are unendingly loyal to him.