Katie McRose, the founder of the traveling animal shearing business Right Choice Shearing, remembers the first time she posted a TikTok video showing off her work. It was back in March of this year, ...

A team of five Australian and New Zealand shearers has set a world record for shearing 2,301 sheep over eight hours. It is the first time this record has been attempted and sets a new bar for other ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s springtime, and just like us, animals ...

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

What makes a dream job? The chance to travel the world? A workplace in the great outdoors as opposed to a stuffy office? Honing a skill to a competition-worthy level? Sounds pretty good – which is why ...

In a 2000 study, researchers at the University of Southern Australia found that by every measurement taken, from sustained heart rate to oxygen consumption to calories burned, sheep shearing was ...

SPOTSYLVANIA — Shearing sheep has been an annual rite of spring for most of Richard Beasley’s life. The Spotsylvania County farmer has taken care of his own herd and even done the backbreaking duty ...

A heated debate has erupted online over whether sheep shearing is ethical or exploitative. Alaina Wood (@itsthegarbagequeen), whose bio says she's a sustainability scientist and climate activist, took ...

Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...