Tag: animals

Handsome mule packer in his late forties with sun-lined face, light brown hair, short beard and blue eyes standing beside a brown mule at the rim of the Grand Canyon at golden hour

A Hiker Collapsed at the Bottom of the Grand Canyon, the Helicopter Was Grounded by Wind, and the Only Way Out Was Seven Miles Straight Up on the Back of a Mule Nobody Else Could Ride

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I pack mules in and out of the Grand Canyon for a living. Delilah is the most stubborn animal on the South Rim, and she has thrown every wrangler who ever tried her, except me. The night a man’s heart failed at the bottom of the canyon, she was the only chance he had.

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Handsome former jockey in his early fifties with short sandy gray hair, light stubble and blue eyes leaning on a white fence beside a tall black thoroughbred in rolling Ohio farmland at golden hour

The Vet Said My Blind Racehorse Should Be Put Down. A Little Goat From the Farm Next Door Disagreed, and Moved Into His Stall

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Midnight Charlie won eleven races. Then he went blind in both eyes, and his owner wanted him gone. I took him to my little rescue farm in Ohio, and for two weeks he wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t walk and wouldn’t stop shaking. Then a runaway pygmy goat named Biscuit walked into his stall and decided she was his new eyes.

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