Posted on January 23, 2011 by WayCoolDogs

He was tied to the railings of the stone stairway leading down to the kennels, by a piece of dirty frayed rope, and the rest of his coat was just as filthy and unkempt, so it was hard to tell where one stopped and the other started. When I asked, they told me he had been given up by a woman who said she couldn’t manage him, as he was too aggressive. Since this has never stopped me before, I sat on the railing beside him and waited – nothing happened, so I tentatively rubbed his head.

Posted on September 25, 2009 by WayCoolDogs

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist, Charles Cantrell, had been told by his grandfather that the fresh, crushed leaves of the American beautyberry (Callicarpa Americana) always helped him keep biting insects away from his drafts animals—the horses and mules. This bit of wisdom passed onto the scientist is possibly going to be the next breakthrough [...]