Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Mammals on 10 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Goat ‘condoms’ save Kenyan herds

Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought. The olor is made from cowhide or a square piece of plastic, and is tied around the belly of the male goat. It prevents the bucks from mating with the...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Culture, Mammals, Music on 10 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments

7 Reasons Why You MUST See the Fleet Foxes Play Live

Fleet Foxes He Doesn't Know Why from Grandchildren on Vimeo. I saw the Fleet Foxes at The Bottle Tree Cafe in Birmingham, AL (a venue that visiting bands regularly declare as the best bar in the nation, by the way). The Bottle Tree is a great bar filled with great people and perhaps even greater bands,...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

Fla. deputies Taser Plop-Plop the unruly emu

Bay County Sheriff's deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. The large female bird escaped from a farm last weekend and on Monday, she holed up with some horses and goats in a pen. When deputies arrived, the emu "went kind of crazy," said Sheriff's deputy Randolph...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 11th, 2008 | No Comments

City law really gets their goat

It's just not fair, said Peat Willcutt. How can it be legal to have goats, pigs and bees in St. Paul, but people in Minneapolis have to hide theirs? As urban agriculture booms in the Twin Cities area, Minneapolis residents are pressing their city to let them expand their backyard farms beyond chickens...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 08 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Capturing Deer Safely With Minimal Trauma Using New Apparatus

A portable device that allows researchers to humanely trap deer and other wildlife as part of field studies to control ticks and other parasites has been developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist. The apparatus, developed by ARS entomologist Mat Pound in Kerrville, Texas, effectively...
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Posted by Tyler Quattlebaum in Uncategorized on 07 26th, 2008 | No Comments

Animals Find Sanctuary At Rainbow End Farm

There is an aura of content among the donkeys, cows, pigs, goats, horses, rabbits and cats at Rosia Kennedy's Rainbow End Farm in Granby. Kennedy rescued all of the 45 animals at the 8-acre farm from abuse, neglect or slaughter. Today they live in stalls and cages kept spic-and-span by Kennedy, a wiry...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Uncategorized on 07 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Alabama police nab Mercedes-climbing goat

The goat was arrested, the Mercedes-Benz was assaulted and the dog came along for the ride. It happened Sunday when a woman driving the Mercedes saw a goat and dog playing on U.S. 72 in northern Alabama, Sheriff Mike Blakely said. She stopped, afraid they would get hit, Blakely said. But the goat jumped...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Uncategorized on 06 30th, 2008 | No Comments

The new faces settling into suburbia: Owners cite practical, spiritual rewards of farm animals as pets

To hear John McGoldrick tell it, Bambi the goat isn't as much a pet as he is a living Zen koan, a bridge to the peaceful side of his inner spirit. And he does a pretty nice job keeping the weeds down, too. "Bambi has a mission here - he adds a bit of humanity to a world that's lacking it," the Maynard...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Uncategorized on 05 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Screw Worm Outbreak In Yemen

An outbreak of the insidious ´screw worm´ fly in Yemen, is threatening livelihoods, in a country where rearing livestock is a traditional way of life. In recent weeks, a Ministerial delegation was at the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, to turn to the international community for emergency assistance to fight...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Uncategorized on 05 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

A Rescued Goat Gets a Chance for a Normal Life

They are both amputees: She lost part of her right leg to bone cancer at the age of 10, and he lost part of his left leg four months ago because of an injury he most likely suffered at a Brooklyn slaughterhouse. Her name is Jenny Brown, and she is a 36-year-old television producer turned animal rights...
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