He could get a donkey too 
.And some goats.
ON second thoughts, praps not
George Melly on goats:
"There is something very un-English about goats. It's not only that there aren't many of them, it's their pagan eyes, either milky-blue or honey-yellow, with their elongated pupils, and their extraordinary smell, and the way their skeletons are so functional, so in evidence, with the flesh draped on the bones like heavy material."
Curiously ~ I had just read that when I read your post.
