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July 2011

Horse Helps Build Fiber Optic Cable System

By | Horses

Fred, a Belgian draft horse, working with line crews to attach a fiber optic cable to a utility pole in East Burke, Vermont, on June 24, 2011. Fairpoint Communication hires Claude Desmarais and his horse Fred to pull fiber optic cable through difficult terrain in a effort to bring high…

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Seeing-eye Sheep, Goats Guide Blind Horse In Montana

By | Horses

By Laura Zuckerman (Salmon, Idaho) (Reuters) – Michelle Feldstein was prepared to provide special accommodations for the blind horse she recently added to the flightless ducks, clawless cats and homeless llamas inhabiting her animal shelter in Montana. But nothing could prepare her for the 40-legged, seeing-eye entourage that accompanied “Sissy,”…

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Kitty Wells – 1952

By | Music

Ellen Muriel Deason (born August 30, 1919), known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”, made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female…

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Avoid Heat Stress When Moving Or Working Cattle

By | Cattle

by: Heather Smith Thomas First appeared on the CattleToday website. Weather can be very hard on cattle, especially when humidity is high (which makes it more difficult for the animal to dissipate body heat), or when cattle exert and overheat. Moving or working cattle in hot weather can become life-threatening…

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