No fool, this mule: She paints and dunks hoops

Young Grace can dunk a basketball, play the piano, paint on canvas, get the mail and do basic multiplication. Pretty good for a 4-year-old.

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Lou the mule alerts Tenn. woman to house on fire

Lou the mule brayed his way into his owner's heart with a New Year's warning that her rural Tennessee home was on fire.

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High gas prices drive farmer to switch to mules

High gas prices have driven a Warren County farmer and his sons to hitch a tractor rake to a pair of mules to gather hay from their fields. T.R. Raymond bought Dolly and Molly at the Dixon mule sale last year. Son Danny Raymond trained them and also modified the tractor rake so the mules could pull it.

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Man Rides Mule From Minnesota to Wyoming

He rode his mule into town looking for work.

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Cloned Mules Lose to Naturals in Pro Race

Nature triumphed over nurture as two cloned mule brothers came up short in a professional race against traditionally bred runners.

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Reflections on some animal friendships

I wrote this in a post in response to a comment that a snarling dog, waging its tail means it is friendly and is not going to bite you.

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A baby mule has been born, standing just 20 inches tall. Yes... there is a picture :-)

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A depressed mule hurled itself off a cliff to its death, apparently to 'avoid facing any more hard labour' hauling rocks in a quarry.

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Jolene Solomon is beginning the new year with her life, her mule named Lou and little else. The Southern Standard in McMinnville reported Solomon had just finished eating supper on New Year's Day when Lou's braying and acting up got her attention.

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Jolene Solomon, 63, was sitting down to dinner on New Year's Day when she heard her pet mule, Lou, come running out of the barn.

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While this is a sad ending to what might have been an even sadder life... The body was discovered when a parks worker went to remove the abandoned black canvas suitcase near the park's entrance and the victim's leg popped out.

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A couple from Montana were out riding on the range, he with his rifle and she (fortunately) with her camera. Their dogs always followed them, but on this occasion a Mountain Lion decided that he wanted to stalk the dogs (you'll see the dogs in the background watching).

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In late September, Mark Hartman received an email from eBay's Trust and Safety department informing him that his bid on a high-end road bike had been canceled because the auction was suspected to be fraudulent.

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Senator Charles E. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, is investigating six prominent evangelistic ministries to determine whether they have illegally used donations to finance opulent lifestyles.

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High up on the Mesa, in the Grand Valley town of Collbran, a tiny four legged wonder sticks close to its mothers side. It is the latest addition to the ranch owned by Larry and Laura Amos. But this is a once-in-a-million, genetically impossible occurrence of a mule giving birth.

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The first-ever mule clones, Idaho Gem and Idaho Star, will race at an event scheduled for early June in Winnemucca, Nevada, the University of Idaho has told Animal Planet News [...] the American Mule Racing Association has registered and sanctioned the racing of the mule clones.

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Continuing our occasional series "When Blue Rinses Go Bad", we have the sorry tale of a South African grandmother who has just been banged up in New Zealand for a cool eight-and-a-half years for "trying to smuggle cocaine hidden in garden gnomes".

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