The peace of an otherwise quiet summer weekend is often muddled by the sound of lawn mowers and leaf blowers. NPR reports that In Los Angeles’ business district, an old-fashioned method of ground control provides an alternative soundtrack – the munching of goats. In a steep hillside city park on Bunker Hill, right next to […]
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Shannon Wiggins had a long list of things she’d never do. She never wanted to get married, have kids or own animals. So you might be surprised to find that she lives on a farm with a husband and five children. Besides running a farm she also sells various goat milk soaps reports Peninsula Daily
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MSNBC: Marie Moody’s career went to the dogs. Specifically, to two pooches: Stella, a terrier blend, and Chewy, an Airedale-Shar-Pei mix. Stella and Chewy led this fashion rep to leave the world of design and start her own dog food company. Since there weren’t any commercial raw dog foods available, Moody decided to make meals
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Debbie Kulak is aware just how close some owners are to their pets reports MyCentralJersey.com. Kulak of Bridgewater worked in sales and marketing but decided to take time off to focus on raising her children. When her kids were old enough, she found she had time to start her own company. Again and again, Kulak
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I’m including this story because it’s NOT about Twitter or Facebook or the iPhone. It’s about Buttercup. Buttercup the chihuahua is a new mommy, but not to a scrappy litter of yapping puppies. No, the tiny 2-year-old pooch has become a mom to nine orphaned kittens at the Angel Animal Hospital in Surrey, England. Buttercup
The Southland Times: A Lochiel man’s ingenuity has helped to work out how to get a round bale to roll over in a square cage, solving the smallholder’s problem of feeding out baleage without a tractor. Fencer Kevin Cairns spent about a year designing a method for one person to load a 750kg bale of
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Fresno Bee: To hear the folks at Organic Pastures dairy tell it, Louise and McQueen were all but bound for the slaughterhouse or an industrialized farm. The two organic dairy cows were living in crowded, cold conditions, and their financially troubled owner needed to get rid of them. They faced an uncertain future. Organic Pastures
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When was the last time you laid out in a hammock to relax? What about your dog or cat? Sometimes our pets just want to ‘hang around’ as much as we do. An entrepreneur has come up with a new small animal hammock that can comfort your pets while they rest in their cage, reports
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One entrepreneur hopes that Canadians are ready for a new way to bond with their dogs – using a story book, reports The Gazette. Jenan Mujkic, director of marketing and development at Ideas Inc., will be promoting his new book on CBC’s Dragon’s Den, a TV program that gives inventors an opportunity to pitch their
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Keep your eye on the shelves of your local hardware store, where you may be able to find new tape from an unlikely source: the gecko, reports The New York Times. Geckos have millions of microscopic hairs on their toes, each with hundreds of tips that adhere to surfaces, with no residue left behind,” said
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