Our in-depth resources encompass every aspect of working mule care, including nutrition, grooming, preventive health measures, and effective handling techniques. Our goal is to ensure working mules around the world remain healthy and strong through proper education and intervention.

Working Mule Resources

Mules walking on mountain

What is a mule? 13 things you didn’t know

Learn about the difference between a donkey and a mule and whether mules can reproduce.

Mule Fact File

Are you interested in learning more about mules with SPANAs interesting mule fact file including how long they live for and their diet.

Mules walking on mountain

What is a mule? 13 things you didn’t know

Learn about the difference between a donkey and a mule and whether mules can reproduce.

Mule Fact File

Are you interested in learning more about mules with SPANAs interesting mule fact file including how long they live for and their diet.

Working Mule Success Stories

A working mule and its owner wait for treatment at a SPANA veterinary clinic in Tunisia

How SPANA helped Nahid the mule beat parasites

Find out how SPANA’s veterinary team in Tunisia provided much-needed veterinary care to a mule suffering from parasites.

Mule in Tunisia suffering from habronema and harness wounds

Beji the mule’s itchy eyes

Find out how SPANA’s veterinary team in Tunisia helped a mule with a painful eye condition.

Two men, one in a purple shirt holding a brown mule. The other man in blue scrubs holding the mules mouth. The mule has brightly coloured bags on his back

Leila the mule’s sore withers

Leila the mule’s ill-fitting pack saddle had caused a painful wound to develop on her withers. Find out how SPANA vets in Morocco eased her...

white mule's face with a metal contraption round its face and in its mouth. The mule is at the dentist.

Bono the mule’s visit to the SPANA dentist

Find out how SPANA vets in Morocco helped an elderly mule in need of urgent dental treatment.

Two hands holding the head of a donkey wearing a colourful harness

Nadia the mule’s new shoes

This World Animal Day, we’re highlighting the plight of animals, like Nadia the mule, who work in extreme conditions across the world.

Two SPANA vets operating on a mule

Yasmin the mule’s navel surgery 

Yasmin the mule was suffering from a rare condition that needed immediate surgery by SPANA’s skilled vets in Chemaia, Morocco. 

A working mule and its owner wait for treatment at a SPANA veterinary clinic in Tunisia

How SPANA helped Nahid the mule beat parasites

Find out how SPANA’s veterinary team in Tunisia provided much-needed veterinary care to a mule suffering from parasites.

Mule in Tunisia suffering from habronema and harness wounds

Beji the mule’s itchy eyes

Find out how SPANA’s veterinary team in Tunisia helped a mule with a painful eye condition.

Two men, one in a purple shirt holding a brown mule. The other man in blue scrubs holding the mules mouth. The mule has brightly coloured bags on his back

Leila the mule’s sore withers

Leila the mule’s ill-fitting pack saddle had caused a painful wound to develop on her withers. Find out how SPANA vets in Morocco eased her...

white mule's face with a metal contraption round its face and in its mouth. The mule is at the dentist.

Bono the mule’s visit to the SPANA dentist

Find out how SPANA vets in Morocco helped an elderly mule in need of urgent dental treatment.

Two hands holding the head of a donkey wearing a colourful harness

Nadia the mule’s new shoes

This World Animal Day, we’re highlighting the plight of animals, like Nadia the mule, who work in extreme conditions across the world.

Two SPANA vets operating on a mule

Yasmin the mule’s navel surgery 

Yasmin the mule was suffering from a rare condition that needed immediate surgery by SPANA’s skilled vets in Chemaia, Morocco.