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BewilderBeasts!Ep 47: The Sheep in The CloudsIn 1783 a duck, a rooster and a sheep named Montauciel were heading straight for the sky. How does their unlikely story change lead to three Billionaires ending up in space over 200 years later? ********** https://storytellershat.com/2016/08/30/montauctiel-the-flying-sheep/https://time.com/3583782/hot-air-balloon-history/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hot-air-balloon-rooster-sheep-duck-firstScience Comics ROCKETS : Defying Gravity by Anne Drozd and Jerzy DrozdStuff You Missed In History Classhttps://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1780-1789/ https://www.britannica.com/biogr...2021-10-1828 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 46: Housetraining HeiffersWhy scientists are looking to potty train 1 billion cows to combat a growing acid rain crisis. **************Resources on The Moo Loo:USGS.govThe GuardianChick a Pig board gameNPRBeef Market CentralAnd if you want to watch a cow open a door, go pee - a LOT of pee, then get a treat, you can go to YouTube.com - the Telegraph has a great short video on the subject which you can a...2021-10-1118 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 45: Bone-y and ClydeA Smithsonian Museum exhibit depicting the skeletal remains of Dr. Grover Krantz and his beloved Irish wolfhound, Clyde. But, who was Dr. Krantz, and why is he - and his dogs - at the Smithsonian? And, why is this photo of their posthumous posed parts circulating social media? Resources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/grover-krantz-donated-his-body-to-science-on-one-condition-38726179/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/scientist-grover-krantz-risked-it-all-chasing-bigfoot-180970676/https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/summer-2018-our-town/man-myth-and-legend-grover-krantzhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-21-me-krantz21-story.htmlhttps://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phi...2021-10-0421 min
The Modern Dog Trainer PodcastEp. 37 - Melissa McCue-McGrath on Expectations of Dogs in the CityMelissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is the author of “Considerations for the City Dog“, the urban dog's handbook. Additionally, she's the co-Training Director of New England Dog Training Club (the oldest AKC Obedience club in the country). In this episode, we discuss tips for navigating the city with dogs and considering the environment as a consideration in animal placement from rescue and breeding. She is also the host of the BewilderBeast podcast.
Melissa is the host of "BewilderBeasts" - a podcast about the intersection of animals and humanity. She's been featured in Bark Magazine, Maine Dog Magazine, and has been...2021-03-0953 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 27: Living His Best AfterlifeSea cucumbers magic superpower, a bear found and ate 76 pounds of cocaine he found in the woods, and a flock of holy geese saved Rome.Support the show (https://paypal.me/muttstuff)Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a professional dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog". More about Melissa can be found at...2021-03-0830 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 26: The Rebellious Runaway Reenacting RoosterToday's topics: Civil War reenacting rooster flew the coop, a dark walk through history thanks to a Border collie who inherited $5 million from her dead owner, and pigs can play video games for science!Send in your topic ideas via: BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.com, About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a dog trainer& author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog". More about Melissa can be found at MelissaMcCueMcGrath.com*******Intro Music: “Tiptoe out the back” by Dan Lebowicz. Interstitial music: MK2Runaway Chicken "Final...2021-03-0125 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 25: The CIA's Failed Spy CatsThe one time the CIA tried - and failed - to use a cat as a spy (code name Acoustic Kitty), some cats need hypoallergenic humans, and what happens when cats bail on sea shanties. #AcousticKitty Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a professional dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog...2021-02-2232 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 24: Emily SpinachWe meet Emily Spinach - the pet garter snake of wild-child first daughter, Alice Roosevelt. Also, the hilariously creepy, Wild Taxidermy Room in Melbourne, Australia, says goodbye and pandas throw the weirdest parties.Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a professional dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog". She has a dog trai...2021-02-1424 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 23: Dwarf Giraffes and Two Danny DeVitosMelissa talks about the cutest little toilet plunger thief, the tallest dwarfs in the animal kingdom, and how honey bees twerk murder the murder hornets while using the grossest tool to protect their hives. More at https://BewilderbeastsPod.com ****Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a professional dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations f...2021-02-0826 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 21: Fish Fart DiplomacyHow fish farts nearly caused a war between Russia and Sweden, how severed octopus arms continue to try to feed the octopus, and why we use a rodent to predict the future. More at BewilderbeastsPod.com Email: BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.com TWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/ Support the show! Paypal.me/muttstuffAbout your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a professional dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Considerations for the City Dog". Mor...2021-01-2724 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 20: Quoth the Raven, "Baltimore!"Today on BewilderBeasts, we’re going to meet a pig who wants to be a therapy dog, a headless chicken lives for 18 months & and the raven who haunted the grandaddy of creep, Edgar Allen Poe. Let’s go! ****Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a pr...2021-01-2020 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 19: Armadillo Justice!Melissa dives deep on how horseshoe crabs are saving us from COVID19 (this was recorded before the vaccines started rolling out), platypuses are WAY weirder than imagined, and a case of armadillo justice! Love BewilderBeasts or want more of these stories? Help support the show by visiting BewilderBeastspod.com - share your favorite episodes, read about the show or leave some love via the PayPal button to help keep the show going!Let’ go! *****Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bewi...2021-01-1319 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 18: Side Effects Of Toad Licking Today on Bewilderbeasts Melissa explores Australia's hallucinogenic toads, New Zealand calls "fowl" in voter fraud, and a Salem, Massachusetts, landmark has its roots in animal history. Let’s go! ******Send in your topic ideas!BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER : @BewilderedPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a science-based dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and author of the book, "Cons...2021-01-0619 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 17: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas: BewilderBeasts REMIXFor the last episode of the year, Melissa reviews all the creatures we talked about in a not-so-classic retelling of Clement Clarke Moore's, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", but with more dogs, swearing parrots and an exploding whale. If you make your own version of this, please feel free to send it in or have your littles record their versions in the Voice Chat feature on Facebook Messenger at Bewilderbeasts Pod on Facebook. Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWI...2020-12-2212 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 16: OK, BoomerToday, Melissa explores other customs, like the "Boomers" who pull Santa's sled in Australia, how a video game about animals has given a place for practicing Muslims to find community in a pandemic, and what a confused Rooster has to do with Christmas in the Philippines. Let’s go!*****Send in your topic ideas!BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER : @BewilderedPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA, is a science-based dog trainer outside of Boston, MA, and autho...2020-12-1627 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 15: Christmas Carol CreaturesToday on Bewilderbeasts, Melissa explores two popular Christmas Songs: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and the 12 Days of Christmas. Why are the reindeer named “Donder and Blitzen?”; when DID Santa decide to go with reindeer instead of a nice mustang? And, we’re going to figure out why on EARTH someone’s true love gave them all those dang birds. Send in your topic ideas via:BewilderbeastsPod@gmail.comTWITTER: @BewilderedPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod (DM, voice text or comment)Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/About your host:M...2020-12-0932 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 14: The Little Snot House That CouldToday Melissa discusses the rats of the Black Plague who got a bad rap ; the tiniest, but mightiest, snot house of the sea, and a common house pet who is banned from Queensland, Australia. Let’s go! *****If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, animals with a misunderstood history, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com@BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.face...2020-12-0223 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 9: Political Animals SpecialWith 6 days before the 2020 national election in America, Melissa talks about animals in politics, including a berserker bunny who nearly sunk President Jimmy Carter's boat), why the two parties use a donkey and an elephant for representation, and animals who became town mayors in Vermont. Let's go!https://www.vote.org/ If you have ideas for future episodes, have an animal on your ballot, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.co...2020-10-2822 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 8: The Profane Presidential ParrotToday on Bewilderbeasts, Melissa talks about some foul-mouthed parrots who got evicted from a zoo (they won’t be the last) and another parrot whose F Bombs got him kicked out of a President’s Funeral. Let’s go! ************If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com@BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod2020-10-2114 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 7: The Pigeon Who Saved 194 MenToday on Bewilderbeasts, host Melissa McCue-McGrath introduces a pigeon who saved 194 people in WWI and goats who are fighting wildfires in an unusual way. If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com@BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bewilderbeasts/...2020-10-1411 min
BewilderBeasts!Ep 6: The Exploding Whale FailToday we'll discuss a whale fail that lives in infamy & the first cat to solve a murder (not the last).Big thanks to author and columnist, Dave Barry, who wrote about the whale incident in 1990 where I was able to find it, read it, and never forget it. His humor is absolutely a cornerstone of this podcast and I'm ever grateful for stumbling upon that article as a young person.Let's go!If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky...2020-10-0717 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 5: A Mathematically Inclined EquineToday on Bewilderbeasts we’re going to talk about an animal who has cubed poop (OW! And, EW!) and we talk about a mathematically inclined equine, and his owner - a former slave turned veterinarian in the 1800s who vowed never to teach animals with a whip. If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com@BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: 2020-09-3022 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 4: Getting Loopy On Penguin PoopToday on Bewilderbeasts we’re going to talk about some amazing dogs who are detecting COVID19 & there’s something silly in penguin poop. Let’s go! If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com @BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bewilderbe...2020-09-2315 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 3: Mrs O'Leary's CowToday on Bewilderbeasts we’re going to talk about Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire. OMG CROCODILES ARE FASTER THAN YOU EVER IMAGINED. Let’s go. If you have ideas for future episodes, know of historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com @BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/bewilder...2020-09-1614 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 2: Get Naked for Polar BearsOn today's episode of Bewilderbeasts we’re going to explore dogs who find whale poop FOR SCIENCE & why you might want need to strip off your clothes for polar bears. If there are topics you would be interested hearing about on the podcast, know of any historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com @BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod 2020-09-1410 minBewilderBeasts!Ep 1: These Bees are the Bomb!On this first episode of BewilderBeasts we explore why farmers are painting eyeballs on cow butts, and we do a deep dive on honeybees who are trained to find buried land mines in Croatia. Let’s go! If there are things you’d like me to talk about on the podcast, historical animals who changed the world, animals who help humans, or wacky animals in the news, send them in to: bewilderbeastspod@gmail.com @BewilderedPod on TWITTERFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/BewilderBeastsPod2020-09-1315 min
Barks from the Bookshelf#12 Melissa McCue McGrath - Considerations For The City DogHowdy Doody Bookshelvers!It's Episode 12 time. Melissa McCue-McGrath CPDT-KA is just amazing. We hit it off like a house on fire and we have all decided to move in together (ok that last part isn't true but we could!) Do your good selves a favour and find her on the interwebs and beyond you will not regret it. Her book "Considerations For The City Dog" opened our eyes to some unique challenges facing dogs living in our urban jungles. Written partly in response to a dog nearly killing a 6'4" man and his German shepherd in her...2020-06-012h 49