Black and white beauty: This foal may look like a dalmatian but Domino is a dazzling mule

At first glance, you might be forgiven for thinking this horse had adopted a dalmatian. 

But the little black and white beauty staying close to his mother’s side is actually a mule called Domino. 

He was born at a farm in Somerset on Thursday – and his owners were so dazzled by his novel looks they shared photos of him online. 

Domino’s mother is a spotted mare called Pandora, and his father is a rescue donkey called Pablo who used to live on Paul Webber’s farm in Axbridge. 

Mr Webber said Domino inherited his spots from his mother. Mr Webber, 60, said yesterday: ‘We are lucky to have had a spotted foal – they don’t usually come out that way.’ 

He added that Domino’s birth was a ‘lovely surprise’ as he had not thought Pandora – his 18-year-old daughter Niamh’s horse – was pregnant.