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When offered a handful of grain, Stella, an alpaca, sticks out her long tongue to scoop the food into her mouth, leaving slobbery drops on the offering hand. Within minutes, [...]
Read More →When offered a handful of grain, Stella, an alpaca, sticks out her long tongue to scoop the food into her mouth, leaving slobbery drops on the offering hand. Within minutes, [...]
Read More →A litter of kittens, along with their “street cat” mama, was found nearly six years ago under a busy highway bridge. Hope Animal Rescue of Iowa rescued the mom and [...]
Read More →As a lifelong animal lover, when Patty Lenz turned 60, she pondered her 44-year career training horses. Realizing it was time for a change, she switched gears and began training [...]
Read More →When Ellen Bell started beekeeping with two hives in her backyard, she never imagined she’d have nearly 6 million bees 10 years later. Bell is a beekeeper at Bell Farm, [...]
Read More →When visualizing a miniature cow, what comes to mind? A cow the size of a dog? Or a goat? For reference, a regular cow weighs about 1,200 pounds. However, a [...]
Read More →When Liz Warner was growing up, she was afraid of dogs and avoided them during her elementary school years. When she went to college, a friend had a miniature dachshund, [...]
Read More →In the middle of a Des Moines neighborhood is a bustling place for injured songbirds, sparrows, waterfowl, robins — anything with feathers. The Iowa Bird Rehabilitation is a nonprofit that [...]
Read More →As store owners get creative with increasing sales and retaining customers, one four-legged friend is all about making guests feel welcome. Dude, a Weimaraner, is the official greeter at Wild [...]
Read More →Kaitie and Greg Lagan left suburban West Des Moines to raise their family in rural Norwalk. The acreage included room for a pasture, and Kaitie thought a few goats would [...]
Read More →Some people might declare they are either a cat person or a dog lover. Brandi Munch likes both. Brandi had dogs as a youth and as an adult. After her [...]
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