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I had put off trimming over there as long as I could, and with cordless weed whacker in hand, set about bringing clean cut order to wildly growing grass chaos. After going down the long side of the porch room I started work on the area near the step coming out of the man room. [...]

I turned my foot sideways, and gently scooted another tarantula out of the way with it. This was the third one I had to gently scoot out of the way as I went about my watering routine. As I watched the latest angry arachnid crawl off in a huff, it once again occurred to me [...]

I have been battling mice off and on in the house ever since we had all that remodeling done. Between the holes Nick left when he did his thing, and the holes the a/c people left when they did their thing, the mice had plenty of points of entry into the house. During the day [...]

Elephants are painting self portraits, and a horse named Cholla has had some of his paintings sold and exhibited in several art shows. Are we discovering that animals are smarter, and perhaps have much more of an aesthetic sense that we previously believed? According to a story I read, elephants have been [...]

Scientists have given 25 octopuses Rubik’s cubes to determine if they have a favorite tentacle, and to relieve stress. Thanks to this story, I found out all kinds of neat stuff I never knew about octopuses before. For instance, octopuses have over half their nerves in their arms, and even partially think with [...]