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The rescue a teenager built because nobody else would
Eilan Keister was sixteen when she started taking in rabbits nobody else wanted, working out of her family's home in Portland. Six years later, Avalon Microsanctuary fields about 30 calls a day from people who found a rabbit in trouble, somewhere between 35 and 40 of them living onsite at any given time, the rest in foster homes. Keister is studying pre-veterinary medicine now, with one very specific idea about what she wants to build next.
âSeeing a mangled rabbit become a whole new rabbit in six months and be more comfortable and healthy is rewardingâ
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The telegram that said everything in one word
In 1928, a blind man named Morris Frank traveled to Switzerland to train with a dog most reporters back home assumed would never really work in a busy American city. Skeptics wanted proof, not a promise. So on a June morning in New York, Morris and his new guide dog, Buddy, walked straight into traffic in front of a crowd of journalists waiting to see them fail. What Buddy did next launched an entire field of guide-dog training in America.
âSuccess.â
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Why ancient Egyptians dressed their cats in gold
Cats were never worshipped as gods in ancient Egypt, but they came close to something just as good: total royal favor. Pharaohs kept them as prized companions, dressed them in gold, and let them eat straight off the royal plate. Everyday Egyptians kept cats too, for a much more practical reason: keeping venomous snakes and scorpions out of the house. Somewhere between those two facts is how an ordinary house cat ended up carved into temple walls for 3,000 years.
âMembers of the Egyptian royal class dressed their cats in gold and let them eat from their platesâ
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