After Maryland’s highest court finds pit bulls “inherently dangerous,” the breed’s supporters take their fight to the General Assembly.
Still carrying his Nerf dart gun, 10-year-old Dominic Solesky ran outside and down the alley behind his family’s East Towson row home after hearing his friend, Scotty Mason, screaming.
“We’d played...
Milking a goat for fun? Why farmcations are a hot, new tourism trend.
When I was a child growing up on a small farm in Virginia’s rural Blue Ridge Mountains, it never occurred to me that wading through yellow grass among cattle who watched with casual indifference or...
<p>Police K-9 units have become an increasingly essential law-enforcement tool in and around Baltimore.</p>
On a clear, crisp March day, Officer Christopher Davies prepares the second floor of a long-abandoned building at Rosewood State Hospital to go to the dogs—or, more specifically, to the Baltimore...
In January, when Ellicott City resident Janet West realized her dog, Winston, was missing, she did what any concerned owner would do—wrote on her Facebook page.
"I felt helpless, so I posted on my...
Under Armour’s Kevin Plank has his mind set on winning the Triple Crown. Smart money shouldn’t bet against him.
Six horses come barreling around the rail at Churchill Downs, a cacophony of thundering hooves and screaming fans providing the soundtrack to one of the most astonishing finishes in recent horse...
Fall birdwatching is fun, but so are shopping, dining, and B&Bs in nearby towns.
A forest of oaks, maples, and black gum trees unfurled below us, forming a plush autumn carpet tinged with rust, gold, and yellow. Through it twined the mighty River of Rocks, an arid boulder...
Reports of colony collapse and notions of sustainability have locals swarming to bee suppliers.
Dennis Miller—who likes to say that his day job fixing TVs found him "behind the set, not on it"—has been selling bees and apiary supplies from his home in Chase for the past 15 years. The native Tar...
At the Aquarium, things really start hopping (and crawling and swimming) after visiting hours. See what happens behind closed doors.
This article originally appeared in print in our May 2010 issue. Included here are extra entries and photographs that did not appear in print. Where possible, this additional content is noted with an...
Why is local veterinarian, entrepreneur, and bon vivant Kim Hammond spending so much time in East Africa?
Kim Hammond's obsession with Africa began, like a lot of things in his life, with a girl.
In 1997, the veterinarian, founder of the Falls Road Animal Hospital, and notorious man about town, found...
Mike McClure, General Curator and Elephant Manager, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
"I honestly never expected to work with elephants, and I never gave them a whole lot of thought. I have a bachelor's in biology, and when I was studying I put a lot of my focus on animal behavior and...
