Stella The Dog Uses A Soundboard (Cool Weird Awesome 170)

Stella the dog lives with a speech-language pathologist and has been using a soundboard to "say" several dozen words, raising hopes that someday the show "Dog With A Blog" may come to life. Plus: Quilty the cat likes to spend his nights freeing the other cats at the animal shelter.

By |2019-11-13T06:15:26-05:00November 13, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , |

The Little Robot That Cleans Up After Your Dog (Cool Weird Awesome 156)

A startup called Beetl is developing an autonomous device that’s ready to clean up after our dogs on demand, thanks to a large scooper on its underside. If they’re willing to do this job, maybe robots aren’t trying to conquer us after all.

By |2024-01-12T09:46:05-05:00October 24, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Meet Owney, The Legendary Postal Dog (Cool Weird Awesome 92)

The National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, has an exhibit telling the story of Owney, the dog who loved the mail so much that he helped deliver it all over the world.

By |2024-02-21T06:11:59-05:00July 26, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |

The Spy Whale Who Loved Me (Cool Weird Awesome 35)

The story of the whale wearing a GoPro that might be some kind of Russian surveillance agent is pretty wild, but it's not even close to the first time governments have turned to animals for surveillance purposes.

By |2023-11-22T08:45:32-05:00May 8, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , |
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