Vegas Rock Dog Radio Show Episode 76 Big Fat Good News Show

Hello everyone, I’m Sam the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll dogs and host of Vegas Rock Dog Radio Show. On today’s show, I’m sharing good animal news from around the world.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Pet Life Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's talk pets.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Thus Rote Dog Radio, pets, people, pop culture.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Let's bring on.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
The host, Sam the Queen of Rock and Roll Dogs.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Hello everyone, I'm Sam, the Queen of rock and Roll
Dogs and host of Vegas Rock Dog Radio. Today's show
is my big fat good news show. So stay right there.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Let's bring on.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
The host, Sam the Queen of rock and Roll Dogs.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Hi. Everyone, welcome to the show. I'm your host, Sam,
the Queen of Rock and Roll Dogs, and this is
Vegas Rock Dog Radio. We're a rock and roll show
all about pets, people and pop culture. And to day's
show is extra special because it's my big fat good
news show. I think, with so many horrible stories out

(02:08):
there in the world in any kind of topic, sometimes
we just need a good old dose of good news.
So what do you think about that, Jim idea? I
do too. I think people really are going to need this.
And before we get started, I've got Miss Thornton in studio,
and I've got mister Twigs and Jim is producing the show.

(02:28):
Can I get a little bit more headphones?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Jim?

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Thank you. We're back again for another live show, and
like I said, it's I think it's a good time
to have some really really good news. I don't know,
since when did news stations just become all doom and gloom.
It used to be a balance, didn't it, jim of
of serious stuff and and and inspiring stories and happy stories.

(02:55):
And now it's few, very few people now in my
circle are even listening to the news anymore. They go, oh,
can't I can't take it.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Well.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
I don't blame them, to be honest, but I do
hope all my friends are listening in today to the
big fat good News Show. And before we do get started,
let me tell you where you can connect with us
on the Internet. Of course, we have our main website,
Vegas Rockdog Radio dot com, and they'll find us on Periscope, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumbler,
and Instagram. Our blog is the Rock and Rolldog dot com.

(03:27):
And if you happen to miss the live show then
of course you can do a big, big fat catch
up on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Spoke by SERIOUSXM, and Spotify. But
if you happen to be using a different kind of
podcast app you will be able to find us. We
are on every platform I think available, and we're also
on Google Play, so let's not forget that. So they

(03:51):
go pretty easy for you to find us, no matter
what kind of app you have on your phone. So, Jim,
tons of stories. I'm going to start with this one. Oh,
this was this was super cute, super super cute, and
I think this might have been out of my hometown
in Sheffield and here it was the best. It's the best. Honestly,

(04:11):
it made me smile. So there's a dog and this
dog's name is Bracken, and Bracken is a Springer Spaniel
and Bracken gets his own spending money. We call it
spending money in England. You call it pocket money here,
don't you, Jim, Yeah, pocket change, pocket change. No, you
didn't get pocket change as kids. You got pocket money.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Got an allowance?

Speaker 4 (04:30):
Oh you're an allowance in England, we say, got some
spending money. Well, this dog has its own spending money
every single week. Jim, on's he go to?

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Where's he go buy it?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
I'm going to tell you. So how this all started
was Bracken grabbed a five pound note and his dad said, listen,
if you drop it, I'll give you a fiver, which
is what we use for five pounds to say a five,
give us a five. Yeah, I'll give you a fiver.
So the dog dropped the money and he said, okay,
this money's your money now. And so every Friday from

(05:04):
that moment onwards, Bracken gets five pounds. He's even got
his own wallet, so cute. So he gives it him
and he takes it with his mouth and then he
puts it in his wallet. Then they go shopping and
they go to the pet store and he buys treats
and stuff. It made me laugh because he takes the wallet.
He had about fifty pounds in there or fifty quid. No,

(05:26):
we don't let me have that much. Fifty quid. That's
a little slang term for pounds. Yeah, so you'd about
fifty quid in this wallet. And what made me laugh
is they went to pay for their stuff and his
dad opens up the wallet and because it's fifteen pounds,
he tells brack and it's fifteen pounds, and he shows
him he's taking fifteen pounds about the wallet and pays
for his treats and toys. I thought it was the

(05:49):
sweetest fun story and again made me smile. So this
is what this whole show is going to be about
of those really fun, sweet stories. Now moving on on
spring Watch. Jim and I love anything to do with nature,
don't we. Jim and We love.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Nature, nature, wildlife and speace, which.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
Is look it we particularly like. I particularly like on
a Sunday morning, a good old nature program while we
have a coffee or a tea, something like that. So
spring Watch is one of my favorite shows. It's a
I want to say it's a BBC show. It is.
It's a BBC show, but I watch it on the
brit Box App. So for anyone that's not in England

(06:29):
and you need to catch upon your television, your British television.
I love BritBox App. I think it's fantastic. So this
is what I found on their website this week, and
oh gosh, I really wish I could have participated in this,
but they This is what they posted on their website.
As our towns and cities sprawl out into the countryside,
our gardens are becoming more and more vital as wildlife reserves.

(06:51):
As wildlife reserves of the future, we want to map
the resources available for wildlife in gardens up and down
the country and find out which wild is it is.
They attract. We also want to find out what our
gardens are gardens are lacking and how we can improve
them for nature. And this is where you at home
play the most important role. So if you're in the

(07:11):
NAT Kingdom, this one is for you. So this year
they're teaming up with the British Trust of Ornithology and
the Open University for their biggest citizen science project ever
and it's called garden Watch. I would be the first
to sign up for this, wouldn't I gim the first?

(07:32):
That can help you as well? Anyway, So there's there
are four projects and on this garden Watch mission that
you can get involved in if you live in the UK.
And here are the four projects now. The first one
is called Beyond the back Door What are your gardens
defining Features? And so what you do is you go
to their website. Of course we're linking everything in the
show notes. You go to the website, you choose the

(07:53):
project you want to get involved in, or all of
them if you want to, and you're going to start.
Basically it's an online uh I don't want to say choirs,
what do you call it? Survey kind of thing? Yeah,
And what they're wanting with this particular one beyond the
back door. We need your help to map the resources
available to wildlife in gardens and in other outdoors spaces

(08:14):
up and other country, So you take part to help
them discover the collective importance importance of garden habitats for
the animals that live alongside us. So basically they're going
to ask you, have you got foxes, have you got badgers?
Have you got hedgehogs? That kind of thing. I mean,
we already know that hedgehogs are a massive decline. I
think there's only a million of them left now in Britain.

(08:36):
So the next one was is that the worm detective
and what's living below ground? And they said earthworms and
other ground dwelling invertebrates are an essential part of the
diet of many birds and mammals, and they need your
help to count soiled invertebrates so we can work out
how abundant this vital food source is in different garden habitats.

(08:58):
The next one is bird detective, which I think a
lot of people would quite interested in, and what are
the garden birds getting up to? So gardens are vital
for birds in spring because they provide the resources they
need to breed, including food, shelter, water, nesting sites. We
need your help to record what birds are doing so
we can find out how they benefit from garden habitats

(09:19):
at a critical time of the year. And then the
last one is the mammal detective, who are our very neighbors.
Mammals are often elusive nighttime visitors to the garden. We
need your help to find out how much of these
often underrecorded animals use gardens and to understand which resources
are most important for their survival. Now I'm on a
group and it's a group from my hometown of Sheffield,

(09:43):
and it's it's an incredible it's an incredible group. I mean,
first of all, they post pictures of press past, present
and past and present, and then lots and lots of
pictures of nature and their gardens especially, But they also
post up a lot of footage from their security cameras
from night from the nighttime, from the nighttime that sounds
so funny, from the nighttime, so I would think they'll

(10:05):
be able to gather more informations. More and more people
are using security cameras to be able to record what's
going on, and lots of these people love foxes. Despite
what you hear sometimes in the news, people really love
foxes and they they love badgers and they love hedgehogs.
So there you go. So that's a real I thought
this was such a good news thing for our wildlife

(10:27):
in the United Kingdom. How you can get involved and
I know tons of people will because we seem to
have such a such a love of nature back home.
I mean, it's all about going for a walk and
getting in the fields. And there's there's one guy and
I want to say he's on the Sheffield page and I

(10:47):
want to say it's called Sheffield Pictures Past and Present
or something. He's gone a little mouse that comes to
his house, his backgarden, but he's and built a little
mini village for the mouse. It's absolutely fantastic.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
They might have lots of mouses later.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
They might do and they'll love that. They'll live in
the village and absolutely honestly it's adorable, absolutely adorable, And
this mouse is becoming famous. But it's very very sweet.
Another person who's worth following is Jim. He's the photographer
at Chatsworth and he's he's the nature photography has full

(11:29):
access and he's got some incredible photos of wildlife. And
again he names all of all of the animals that
he sees because he sees them every every single day
and they're absolutely wonderful. I will I will link his
stuff up as well, So I do think it's a
great project. Oh who's Who's who's stamping on my toes?

(11:49):
Is that mister Twiggs. He's just come under my feet
a cute little thing. So there you got. And that's
good news for nature, good news for the wildlife. And
I really wish I could participate in that because that's
something I would really enjoy. Well, let's move on, let's
move on. This is a great title. Guy dressed as
Batman has rescued dozens of shelter pets from euthanization. Now

(12:14):
he's honestly heads to the whole gear, the whole thing,
and this is the article. It is not all heroes
wear capes, but this guy has already saved dozens of
dogs and cats from euthanization. And he has done it
all dressed all the time, dressed as Batman. So he
goes into the shelter as Batman.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
He comes home with the animals as Batman. His twenty
seven year old. His name is Chris ben Dawn, and
he's been a huge fan of what they call the
Cape Crusader, that's Batman. So when he began volunteering for
various animal rescues around or Land of Florida, because this
is where he's located, he decided to combine two passions
and that was his Batman suit and his love of

(12:56):
animals and the importance of adoption and how he could
use that to bring attention to these animals in these shelters.
This is the kind of stuff I love. I just
you know, you don't want to be in a sea
of sameness because as you need to stand out, particularly
when you're you're you're involved in causes, you've got to
be doing things that are different. You don't want to

(13:16):
be going, oh, this is how everybody does it. No,
you need to stick out like a saw thumb. And
this is exactly what he's doing and it's working. So
he said, it kind of just came as a way
to embody all the good I wanted to do in
the world and make it easy for people to talk
to me right off the bat But which you would,
I mean hardly walk pasted him pretend it was just normal.

(13:39):
You'd say, hey, Batman, I think it's a brilliant icebreaker
to be able to talk to people. Now, not only
has he used the suit as a conversation starter for
why people should adopt shelter pets, but he has also
done the suit to transport dozens of animals from the
shelter to their loving forever homes. Can you imagine he
transports He shows up at your house with your your
newly adopt pet, and it's Batman. So initially he used

(14:03):
the costume as a means of keeping all of his
rescue missions anonymous, but his good deeds finally brought his
real identity into the light after he was featured as
an honorary GoFundMe hero back in May. So obviously someone
was paying attention. And since there's time, and that was maytime.
Since then, he's actually launched a nonprofit and it's Batman

(14:26):
for Pause. Actually, no, he launched in twenty eighteen Batman
for Pause. That's the number four, and he's embarked on
dozens of hours long cross country road trips to rescue
doctrum from basically death row and bring them to loving
families that are willing to adopt them, and they said, thankfully,
this GoFundMe article helped him finance his rescue missions, and

(14:48):
collectively he raised thirty two thousand dollars thirty two thousand
dollars over the last ten months, which is so helpful
when you're starting this kind of venture, and how generous
of people to do that. And he said, when I
first started out, I was keeping everything really anonymous. I
would sign everything Bruce Wayne and not put my real
name out there. And my catchphrase is it's not who

(15:10):
I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
And he says he still holds true today. True today.
He hopes that he'll be able to find a compassionate
citizen to donate a bigger van so he can replace
his current batmobile, which is actually a humble hond Accord
and transport more animals in his rescue missions. He also aims,
he said, and I'd love this too, because we've got

(15:30):
a couple of organizations that already do this. He wants
to get his pilot's license as a means of air
travel and being off cause far more efficient and quicker,
you know, especially when you've got animals in distress, you
can get them moved straight away. And additionally, he says
he recently got his trusty side kick, mister Boots Licenses,
a therapy dog, and the two have been making plenty

(15:53):
of guest appearances about my Robin of various hospitals around Florida. Oh,
it's so great. So of course they are a die
dynamic duo. They've done their costumes for adoption events and
these animal shelter fundraisers, and he says the costume helps
to draw more visitors and he takes every opportunity to
hand out brochures and stickers, you know, all to get

(16:13):
this message out about adoption and why it's important. He
does have a website, as I say, it's Batman for Pause,
number four, Batman for Pause. And I think that is
a great story and certainly not in a sea of sameness,
that's for sure. Do you love that, Jimmy, if you
are If you had if you had to choose a
superhero to do your rescue stuff, what would you wear?
Who would you?

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Be?

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Very difficult to choose? I like Hong Kong fuy.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Oh oh yeah, and he was a dog and it
was a dog.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I think it would be Hong Kong Fu or Muttley.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, oh I love that. I'll be Penelopo pit stop,
Peneloti pit stop? Yeah, Oh my gosh. What does she
used to say?

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Stop?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
Help? What she used to say? Help us?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Help me?

Speaker 4 (16:58):
Who used to say? Stop?

Speaker 5 (16:59):
The wall?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
I can't remember what it was?

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Her, wasn't it I don't think so Wolf never chased her?

Speaker 4 (17:05):
I don't know. But they had those gangsters, didn't They
had the the what they called it five o'clock shadow?
Who else were the characters on Penelope? If it'll stop?
That's right?

Speaker 1 (17:17):
And yeah, what was the guy's name?

Speaker 4 (17:23):
It's a long time.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I can't remember the guy that drove the Who's up there?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Someone's jumping up? I'm actually I'm actually enjoying standing up
doing the show, to be honest. So someone's taking advantage
of my empty seat. Just make sure he doesn't knock
anything enough, because.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
He doesn't care. He doesn't care about anything.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
He wants to be up on the chair and jumping
on the table, which he's kind of looking like he
wants to do, which let's see what happens. Who even
knows he's so crazy? The first time I think I've
done a show scratching his bumb and we must, we must,
this would make oh gosh, this would put a smile
on your face. Oh so funny. Oh, it's hilarious. So

(18:04):
he had his toy and he was spluted on the
floor and I scratched his little bottom and I said,
pump it up, and he stuck his bum bomb up
in the air. So he was doing like a mega
downward facing dog year or a play play bear as
we like to say. But now I don't have to
touch his bomom and he sticks it up in the air.
It's hilarious. Oh oh, this is why, this is why,

(18:26):
this is why he wants to be up. He was
he stick his head out out the studio window and
bark at something that's not there. Yeah mm hmm, Oh,
this would make you smile. He's such a sweet boy.
I don't love that story, Jim.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
That's excellent.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
It's really great, isn't it great? How you would never
think in a million years that that batman and animal
rescue would would work hand in hand.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
But it does, It really does.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Now here's a good one. Actually, do we need to
sack a quick rate before we do anything? Yeah, we
could take a break we let's do that because I've
got tons more good news to tell and good stars.
I'll make you smile, so we'll be right back. You
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Speaker 4 (20:04):
Welcome back everyone. You listen to Vegas Rock Dog Radio
and today is the big fat good news show so
that we can put a smile on your face, maybe
inspire you a little bit, and just know that there
are there are some really great things happening in the
world when it comes to animals. This is a fun one, Jim.
And this is about a dog that shoplifted a book

(20:27):
and the name of the book, well, the topic of
the book was about abandonment. Like so this is a
straight ar I don't know, and it was certainly given
a lover it was asking for. So instead of being
disciplined for his misdeeds, which seriously, that's as adorable as
you could get, this unlikely shoplifter is being given more

(20:49):
love and attention than ever before. So last year, this
stray dog caught on camera. So this is why we
know it happened because I've seen the video caught on
camera sneaking into the Fevale University bookshop in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil,
and after managing to get past the front desk the
pub can be seen grabbing a book in its mouth

(21:11):
and trotting out of the store. But it wasn't just
any old book. It was entitled The Days of Abandonment
and they said a pretty you know, relatable topic for
a straight animal to be picking up. So before the
dog had a chance to read the pages, you know,
pulling the pages over and over. One of the campus
students retrieved the book and gave it to the stunned cashier.

(21:35):
And that person was working that front desk. Not very
good at their job if they can get books stolen
right from under their noses. But their bookstaff is said,
were so tickled by the sneaky dog. And I'm going
to say someone British wrote this article because of the
words they're using, and I love that tickled. They posted
a video of what they called the heist, and they

(21:57):
posted it on Facebook, and of course it went vas
irol and as fate would have it, a group of
local animal rescuers saw the video stop by the bookshop
and checked the dog into their care, and the dog
was given a bath, it's vaccinations, and a faster home
following its rescue. I love this story, Maybe this dog said, listen,

(22:20):
I need to get myself on a viral video. What
can I do? You know what, I'm going to go
and steal a book and it worked out great. Isn't
that a cute story?

Speaker 1 (22:29):
It's excellent.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
That sounds well. You'd have to take mister Twigs into
a shoe store.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh steal, Oh yes, and oh yes, he would see
if he could get well, I've seen him run with
two shoes in his mouth. How he's done that, I
don't even know. But yeah, he loves your shoe. He
just loves a shoe. He you know, you you come
home and the first thing he does he picks up
a shoe and then he runs runs to greet you.
And then if he goes outside for a week, he
takes a shoe, or he takes one of his toys

(22:56):
for a week, because I think he reckons that they
need a wee wi as well. He's gathering some friends though,
isn't it. Gym. He's got Panda, the kit cat, the
baby which is a dog, and we've got a squirrel
which is a rubber squirrel. We have a monkey. But
I would say he loves shoes more than anything. Shoes
and shoes and socks. Yeah, absolutely loves them. And Jim

(23:18):
goes out every couple of days and just gathers up
the shoes and brings them all back in. And if
I'm missing a shoe, I know it's outside. And you
know what, it was only in the very beginning that
he damaged some shoes. You know, those Carlos Santana Wan's.
They were nice shoes, but.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
He bit the nubs off a few flip flops.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
He does, you know what, He's so smart. He knows
that one little nub is the only thing that makes
it flip flop, flip flop, and if it's not there,
it's no longer a flip flop, it's just a flop.
So he he loves that bit. It's a pretty smart boy.
I'll tell you what. I just came across the day.
It was this video. Were sat watching TV and I'm
watching him and he goes up to a cupboard that

(23:57):
I rarely open, and he opened it himself and he
climbed inside. I'm just, oh no, there's a whole other
level of security we have to go through to make
sure he doesn't get into anything. But he's a smart boy.
All right, let's move on. So this is a great
news story. Man is responsible for restoring mobility to over
twenty thousand animals, and he wants others to help do

(24:20):
the same thing. Now, despite previously making a career out
of helping humans, this guy is now responsible for helping
over twenty thousand animals. Have truly a lifeline and a
new lease on life now. Derek Campaigna is an orthotist
who specializes in making prosthetic limbs and customized braces for

(24:41):
disabled animals. And he'd made something of a name of
himself as a trailblazer in animal orthotics and in addition
to being the first person to build an authotic brace
for an elephant, Wow, that's a big undertake him. He
also is one of only a few people who specialize
in making braces and prosthetics for animals like kangaroos, goats, camels, sheep, lamas,

(25:05):
and deer as well. He's beyond you know, cats and dogs.
He's taken care of as many as he possibly can.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Now.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
He has an office and it's in Sterling, Virginia. Have
you ever been there, Jim.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I think I know where that is. Yeah, I think
I've been in that area.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
And he he's crafted thousands and thousands of these prosthetics
and braces for animals and it's for all animals all
throughout the world, so it's not just locally. And he's
got two companies and kind of love the name of
this one, Bionic Pets, since we're talking about Batman, Bionic Man,
Bionic Pets and animal Ortho Care. He's got two companies. Now,

(25:43):
what he's trying to do is share his expertise with
other animal care specialists so that more and more of
these animals can be given what they call this gift
of renewed mobility. And if you see some of these
these videos on Facebook, for example, when a dog first
gets its wheels or you know, to be able to

(26:03):
move is fantastic. So you can imagine he's changing lives beyond.
But he's hoping that he can expand the interest in
his field and they'll be able to help more and
more animals. And you know, the more that more people
get to produce these things, it can bring the cost
down because it can be cost list to that kind

(26:24):
of things. They have to be customed otherwise they don't
work properly. And he said, I just want to share
the story of what I do and all these animals
have overcome adversity. It's all about awareness and people just
aren't aware that these type of therapists exist. And if
they did, and they knew they were cost effective and
could really extend the life of the pet, then that
they said, that's my goal. It's to help all of

(26:45):
these animals, So that's something that you're interested in. You know,
the field of animals so many jobs. There are so
many different ways that you can get involved, and this
one is I bet it's so rewarded. I can't even
imagine when you, you know, you give an elephant aprosthetic
and there you go, it can it can walk down

(27:06):
and that's quality of life. You know, that's that's improved
animal welfare. But yeah, there's two companies, Banic Pets and
Animal Altho Care. Now this story came in this week
when I was asking people, I said, Hey, I'm doing
the Big Fat Gnus show. There is there any animal
related news that you know of that I need to
know of. Well, someone I actually know got involved in

(27:29):
this particular story and it's the let me get here.
It's the Humane Society of Clark County in Arkadelphia, which
is an Arkansas and they were hit by massive flood
in the middle of the night, which is sometimes you
just in badge you're like, oh, it's a bad storm.
But it was a massive flood and that was mid June,

(27:52):
so it's that's a tropical storm barrier they call it.
It brought in six inches of rain and it just
devastates this town. Anyway, Staph and the volunteers arrived early
in the morning to find that one little puppy had
drowned and as a result of this, you know, horrible
torrential downpour. Of course, you can imagine the other animals.

(28:12):
One hundred and fifty plus there were cats and dogs
and the property. They were just wandering around, cold and
wet and confused. And this tiny community they just pulled
together and basically, you know, you've got your own situation,
but they realized that shelter, Oh my gosh, we've got
to get these animals out. So they did an emergency

(28:33):
foster situation and fostered all the community pulled out seventy
two of the displaced dogs. That's a whole lot of
dogs to pull when you got your own issue as
well going on, and probably your own pets. So staff
and volunteers they rushed to clean up an area for
cats and kittens so that they could remain on the property.
But the community just pulled together, We've got to get

(28:54):
these animals out of the shelter. And you never think
about that deer, you know, in natural disasters. It's like
I was asking, well, you know, remember last week I
was all fired up abouts not having an emergency plan
for people and pets where we are, and I'd called
the animal control in the shelter because they were saying
they were part of the plan, and they said, well, yeah,

(29:16):
you can bring it pets here, you can't stay. But
they don't have much more than twenty kenmels, which I
would think would have animals in them that are already
you know, getting ready to be adopted out and they
need space for animals coming in. But what if they
were in a situation where their building was crumbling, what's
their plan to get to get those animals out? And
it would be down to the community. Just like they did.

(29:39):
They would say, let's step in, We've got to help
these animals. And this is what they did, and that
was absolutely brilliant. But you know, of course, because of
this disaster, all their donated food and supplies are just
completely destroyed. And it's funny because I think not funny,
but when you I guess, when you go through a
disaster you've not been through in a shelter, that'll be
one of those things where they say, okay, so how

(30:01):
do we protect our food and supplies? Should it happen again,
you know, if you don't think about that, dear anyway, So,
this small community and this tiny, tiny shelter, they're now
gathering resources to rebuild and restock whatever they lost, and
they said no amount is too small to go towards
the funds needed to clean restart and their medical supplies, food, litter, bedding,

(30:23):
and more. And they have a wishless, an Amazon wishless.
So I'm going to put that up there. But the
person that posted this, her own sister volunteered, so she
was like, yeah, we went down and we volunteered and
we helped. So that is to me, it's just great
community coming together for animals in need. Just a great story.

(30:44):
Very sad that they lost a little puppy, though, very sad.
Let's go on to this. Oh gosh, I've got all
kind of like like movie references and character references as
far as like animals go. Today because a woman she
has a home with ninety rescue animals she named after
the Lord of the Rings characters ninety ninety zero nine zero.

(31:09):
I don't know what it is. When I was saying,
whenever I say thirty or ninety, people think I'm saying
thirteen and nineteen.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I just know that's a lot zero.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
So it's lady, of course, is an avid animal lover.
She would have to be. But she shares her home
with ninety different rescue pets, and all of them are
named after Lord of the Rings characters are there? That
many are there? That many they must be obviously anyway,
her name is Adri or Adri Rochelle. She's got a

(31:43):
menagerie of animals. She's even got this is funny, Bilbo
Baggins the mule, She got Gandolf the goat, Froda. I
was waiting for frodouse. We used Frodo a lot in
rough Fromst. Jim's feet. By the way, Frodo. There's Vaniel
and two cats named Borrowmeir and Farama. But she's thirty

(32:06):
one years old and she's actually a dog sitter. She's
in Georgia, and she says she's rapidly running out of
Middle Earth names.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
She can't have a job in ninety animals.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
That's her job.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
She just yeah, she probably she has ninety of her own,
and then more.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Yeah, she says she's always loved animals. I don't think
anyone is surprised that I'm living like this. She said,
when I was a kid, my room was full of
stuffed animals because she couldn't get the real ones, so
she substituted. They do all have names, and eighty percent
of them are named after Lord of the Rings. And
she says she's a fan. Of course, she's a big
fan of Tolkien, and she's a little obsessed with the

(32:46):
books and the films. Technically, we haven't run out of
a Lord of Rings names, but I really have to
search for them now. So she's got into probably people
who had walk on parts. So this is what she's got.
She got twenty two rescue pigs, twelve dogs, eight chickens,
six cats, four parrots, four horses, four peacocks, four rats,

(33:08):
three hell of s, guinea pigs, two goats, two ducks,
two cockatoos, two cows, two mini cows, a mini cow,
two al packers, two ferrets, two geckos, one tagu lizard,
one bearded dragon lizard, a mule, a hamster rabbit, the tortis,
and the python. She's got it all going on. I
bet it's quite fun, though, to name them, because she's

(33:29):
got a lot of variety in animals. I bet she
matches their characters up with their name. I love that.
But I love that she made Gandolf the goat because
he's got that beard. Yeah, anyway she's done is this
is hilarious. She has constructed a special ten foot wide

(33:49):
bed so that at least four of her animals can
pile in with her at night, and she says, without fail,
the pigs will join me in bed, and usually dogs
and cats will come into And she's set up tree
ranchers in the headboard. Oh my gosh, I'm looking at
the picture. It's amazing. She's set up tree branches in
the headboard so the birds can sleep near her too.

(34:09):
She says, I've taken naps with my rats before as well.
I think it's she's fact. She's dedicated, this girl. I'm
telling you, because even though I built a bigger bed,
they'll sleep on top of me. Well, of course they do.
And she moved into a farmhouse, that's what she did.
So she's got property. And that was back in twenty fifteen,
and of course she needed the extra space. And she

(34:30):
said her chrystal companions cost her are whipping ten thousand
dollars a year and veterinary bills and food. I do
don't think that's that bad for ninety animals, do you.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
I just can't imagine living with ninety animals.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
She's got the space around, but you got the space.
I mean, it's basically it's basically a.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
S animal farm. She's on a farm animal farm.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Anyway. Her crytic companions as a cost her ten thousand,
which we just spent seven hundred the other day. We've
got two. That's for one dog. So she must have
a great vet, That's all I'm saying. I want to
know who her vet is. But she now, of course
she's got to feed them. So it's frozen mice for
a snake, and roaches and crickets and super worms for

(35:12):
the reptiles. And she says she's got a feeding routine
down to forty minutes a day, and cleaning cages and
closures takes another half an hour. She's efficient, She's efficient,
she says. I like to make sure everyone is settled in,
and then I'll feed the dogs their breakfast and I'll
feed myself, she says, if I'm lucky, And they give
the rest of the animal's breakfast around ten and they

(35:32):
get fresh fruits and vegetables, hay and pallets of the horses,
and all the pigs get bananas. And she says I
can go through and spot clean all the cages and
enclosures in half an hour. She says, I just put
on a podcast and I do it. And she said
she's also spent a good ten thousand animal proofinger eleven
thousand square foot.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Guesthouse eleven thousand wow square foot guest house. Excuse me,
hold on a second, though. The guest house is.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Eleven yes, so that her pigs, dogs and guinea pigs
could live inside. Do you know I want to be
her friend? A bar now it's a proper yeah, it
says the birds like to chew everything. So we took
out all of the molding and the baseboards, and the
carpets and child pro all the cabinets and yeah we
know about the cabinets, and now they can fly free

(36:19):
and not be locked in cages. You know what. I
hope she has a website, so I need to find
out where she is. But she even rigged a home
with cameras so she can always keep an eye on
them if she's not at home. And she said she
has the credit of parents, Larry Jacobs, who's a retired
natural resources specialist, and her mom, Cynthia, who's a retired
nurse who you know, showed her how to be this

(36:43):
animal loving person, this great nature that she's got. She says,
my dad would go every year to count in danger
species like bald eagles, frogs, and snakes, and my mum
would constantly taking in stray animals like baby birds, kittens,
and dogs. She said, really raised chickens, rabbits, and ducks
growing up. She's probably about two animals. So I mean
this is this is not a hey, I'm going to

(37:03):
jump into her feet with ninety animals.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
I mean this is she is an animal husbandry expert.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
She's been around on my whole life, starting with the
cuddly toys. But she said ten years ago she started
taking and rescue pigs and that's where it started to grow.
And her family sometimes wish she would focus on her
self instead of her many pets, but she said she
just doesn't want to be doing anything else with a
time or her money other than looking after these animals.
And she says, I ended up with lots of these

(37:28):
animals because other people had taken them in and just
didn't want them. And she said a lot of them
arrived in just really poor condition. And people say she's
an animal hoarder, but there are people who failed at
having just one animal. Here I am with other people's
animals all around me, and I'm doing a great job.
People are rude, don't be rude. This is a good story.
And she's got the space and the experience wow, and

(37:50):
the money amazing.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
So eleven thousand square foot guest house.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Yeah, hoarding is a very strong word to use with
someone who's actually taking care of animals much space, and
hoarding is a very yeah, it's a very defined you
know what's going on. You know, there's no space, they're
not taking care of They just keep taking more in
when they can't take care of them. They don't have

(38:15):
the finances, they don't have the food. It can't keep
them clean. A bit of an insult. I would have
been quite upset about that.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
Anyway, lack of care.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
It does, It absolutely does. So we can push that
to one side because I think she's doing a great
job and she says she absolutely does adore a zoological lifestyle.
It's not for everyone, and it's not I mean that's
a life commitment, isn't it. And she's a thing. For
a normal person, it would be a lot of work,

(38:43):
but a lot of noise and cleaning. She's for me.
It's almost therapeutic. She gets so much satisfaction from caring
for her animals, and she says, out of ninety only
five of them weren't adoptable. I weren't adopted. I'm able
to provide unwanted animals with a home and this is
a little piece of paradise. So she she has a
YouTube channel, Yay Adri or Audri Rochelle a d r

(39:07):
I Adri Rochelle Adri and I've never heard of that
name is agreed, sounds made up. She's applying for a
nonprofit with the hopes of turning her home into a
true sanctuary. And that always helps when you become a nonprofit,
because before Rocking for Rescue is a nonprofit, we were
raising money all the time. But when you're reaching out
for donations often they don't want to work with you

(39:30):
if you're not a nonprofit. And that's fair enough, you know.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
Maybe short for Adrian.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Maybe yeah, and then it's you know it, it does
limit you. Although I don't think we were really that
limited because we just got so many people on board
and then we became a five to one C three
and you know so, I think that's great that she's
doing the next thing. She can take donations and she'll
be able to help more animals. I love it. That's
another good news story. Now more. There were so many.

(40:00):
I mean, honestly, I could have put a thousand stories
into this show today. But here we go. This is
probably my last one, I.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Think, Jim, Well, you got plenty of time.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
I think it's my last one. Okay, because how you
have done six stories up to me? How much attainment
time do I have?

Speaker 1 (40:20):
You get about twenty minutes?

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Oh maybe you can find me some more stories while
you're at it.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Yeah, yeah, I don't have my device. I have to
go get it.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
It's here. I took it away from you because because
I here we go, dozens of creatures thought to be
extinct are found alive in a lost city in the jungle.
I can't imagine.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
I do have one good story.

Speaker 4 (40:47):
Would you want to do yours before mine?

Speaker 1 (40:49):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Go on.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
The recent earthquake in rich Crest, California that affected all
the Southwest had a very tremendous effect and Death Valley
at the very very important ecological place, a cavern where
the pupfish, the very rare desert pupfish live. Yeah, and
there's camera footage because they have a camera in this

(41:12):
area where these pupfish are located. Yeah, the water sloshed
up and down the walls during the earthquake shaking, and
they were worried. There was about one hundred pupfish, which
are very rare and very fragile environmental fish here in
the Southwest, and they were concerned that there was going
to be a problem and loss of almost all of them,
and they're they're virtually on the edge of extinction. And

(41:36):
they had cameras and they checked that area after the earthquakes,
and it turns out all of the pupfish survived. So yeah,
I did have a good one.

Speaker 4 (41:47):
They're endangered. I mean, they do have to be.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
You see this water videos. So the crevice in the
desert out of Death Valley or just went berserk from
the earthquake.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Yeah, well well I did. I can imagine, you know,
you're in water, you live in water, and the whole
thing's out slashing around or that's really good news because
you know.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
In that like geothermal water, you know that comes up
at it southwest here.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
Oh, I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
In the pop fish, you know, we have pop fish
out here somewhere too. Not in the Virgin River. I
think they're existing.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Huh, Virgin River down in Laughlin.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
No, the Virgin Well, no, that's not the Virgin River.
That's the Colorado.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Okay, Virgin River's up in Mesquite.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
Oh, Mesquite area. Wow. After look at that video.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, the pop fish in the earthquake, are.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
They big fish?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Here we go. Let's move on to this one then,
because it goes right into you know, goes hand in
hand with this one, because it's about finding animals that
are the thought very extinct. A swat team of scientists
travel to a lost city very deep within the jungles
of Honduras, and they were stunned by the sheer amount
of biodiversity that they found. So this started in twenty

(43:09):
seventeen and these researchers were from the Conservation International and
they conducted this three week research expedition following the discovery
of ancient ruins at a site deep within the Mosquitia
Mosquetia Mosquitia Mosquitia rainforests, pick your pronunciation of that one.

(43:33):
But it's known as the last city of the Monkey
God all the White City. So this is in Honduras. Now,
since the rainforest remains one of the most unexplored areas
of Central America, they just hoped they were going to
shine a light on the ecological state of the regions.
This is what they were going out for. Now the
organization and organization did finally publish a report of their findings,

(43:55):
and it detailed how this ancient settlement is encompassed by
a pristine driving ecosystem. They said it was teeming with
rare and unique species, including new ones and ones that
they thought were extinct. Can you imagine being that person.
You know, this whole team goes out, they're going for
one job and then all of a sudden, you go, WHOA,

(44:15):
what the heck? And I've never seen that before and
I thought that was gone. That's amazing. So in total,
this team they documented one hundred and ninety eight species
of birds, ninety four butterflies, forty small mammals, fifty six
amphibians and reptiles, thirty large mammals. These were, oh my gosh,

(44:38):
pumas uslots and jaguars and a variety of plants, fish,
rodents and insects. WHOA, that's more than more than dozens.
It's a couple of hundred. It's more than that, isn't it.
They're like three hundred. I can't imagine. I cannot imagine
coming across that. I bet they were losing tiny little

(45:00):
minds and jumping up and just oh so excited. But
here we go. Some of these more notable finds included
a tiger beetle, which had only ever been recorded in
Nicaragua and was believed to be extinct, and the false
tree coral snake, which had not been reported in Honduras
is nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 1 (45:20):
They're poisonous coral snakes?

Speaker 4 (45:21):
Are they nineteen sixty five? Fifty four years ago?

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Related to the cobra. I didn't know that coral snakes.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yes, So they said that team of scientists were just
shocked at this discovery because it was just so rich
in biodiversity and all these rare and you know, they
said threatened species.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Now.

Speaker 4 (45:42):
The director is Tron Larsen. He's the director of Conservation
International's Rapid Assessment Program. I hope we've got an acronym
for that. And the White City is one of the
few areas remaining in Central America where ecological and evolutionary
processes remain intact. Said, overall, our findings straight that the
area is of global environmental as well as archaeological significance.

(46:05):
Armed with his knowledge, stakeholders can now begin to design
and implement conservation strategies to protect this critical eco system.
So they've obviously got a lot more research to do
and find out why it is, you know that they're
all thriving in that area. They hope that their findings
will help to implement additional conservation measures that will help
to protect the region from deforestation, which we know is

(46:28):
not a good thing. So isn't that amazing? You know?
I'd love to do something like that, go on a
on an expedition, Jim.

Speaker 1 (46:36):
Where to?

Speaker 4 (46:37):
I don't know. I'll go there, go meet all these
these news spools, just like Google.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Just then we're too Ted.

Speaker 4 (46:44):
He's referring to Father Ted the show Father Ted.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Why do you want to do that? Ted?

Speaker 4 (46:50):
It's such a good show. Who watched it? Who watched it?

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Today?

Speaker 4 (46:53):
Really fun? Yeah? Wow, such great news, such great news,
so as I said, hey, you know what, we turn
on the news generally and we got and we zone
out because it's just too much. But there are there
is a lot of good news around the world, particularly
when it comes to animals. Jim, you've got any more stories?

(47:14):
Were you were?

Speaker 3 (47:15):
You?

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Were you searching for them or going down a rabbit hole?

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Let's see.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
I mean I'm around good stories often because I work
with so many rescues. I mean, the stories don't always
start off happy, but I do know that once animals
end up in rescue that their lives do change. And oh,
I tell you something. I do have a little catch up.
You remember I told you about the little Galgos dog
in Spain at the galgo Still Soul Rescue. Little Crumpet

(47:43):
was found two broken legs, front legs, and this week
she went to a new home in the States. I
think it's I think she moved to New York. So
you know, again, I see these stories come in. You
know they're not they're not the happiest when they come in,
but I do know, oh my gosh, they're in the
right place. That's the minute that lies start to improve.

(48:04):
And I mean, is it any better? Than moving to
New York City. Yeah, I got another. Here's a good story.
You can't go wrong, Ken.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
This is one of the top stories that came up.
It's about a It's about a morning drive. Kitty was
the unwitting passenger in a wild ride that ended in
a rescue.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
Oh what happened?

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Nine week old kitten found her way into the subframe
of a two thousand hondo court in Lexington. At Lexington,
Kentucky became trapped in one of the holes.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
Oh my gosh, I.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Noticed by the owner at first. She was carried hidden
in the car from Lexington to Frankfurt, where she was
discovered still stuck. How long?

Speaker 4 (48:38):
What was that? You know?

Speaker 1 (48:38):
Did?

Speaker 4 (48:39):
They say?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Not sure? When the man stopped for lunch on his
way home, the trapped kitten was spotted out the window
by the manager of a Hearty's drive through. A concern
worker jumped into action, contacting local firefighters in the nearby
Midas Auto shop for help to free the Felie. Oh
my gosh, a Midas mechanic posted photos and wrote on Facebook.
After an hour of rear subframe remove a Lexington fireman,

(49:01):
my lead tech and myself with some soap sweat and
prayers were able to extract the kitten from the clutches
of the rear subframe.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Tired and frightened, kitten appeared to be all right. They
took the vet clean bill of health. Wow. The Midas
workers named her Marigold, after the fictional daughter of King
Midas and Nathaniel Hawthorn is the Tale of King Midas
in The Golden Touch. Is now starting her new life
with an adopted family. And that'll be your last car

(49:30):
ride for a while. She was literally stuck in the
subframe of the car. Underneath she could have been terribly
terribly injured.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Well, you know what it is is they were You know,
if it's warm, you've been in your car, and you
know they will. They'll climb up on the tires and
they'll get inside. And it's one of those things where
you know, if you do live in one of those
really cool climates and cats tend to do this, you
need to beat your horn to make sure there's no
cats underneath. But wow, what a good store. In the end.

(49:58):
What was her name again?

Speaker 1 (50:00):
What did the name Marigold?

Speaker 4 (50:02):
I think that's great. I think that's fantastic. Now, if
you always want to get a daily dose of cuteness
that just makes you happy, is you know, we can
do run over to Instagram, and of course there're some
fantastic animals pets that have their own Instagram accounts, and
I'm going to name a few of them. Jiff Palm

(50:23):
is a good one, and we of course Pomeranian adorable
beyond cute, Doug the pug, who I'm very familiar with.
Who else is on this list? Grumpy Cat, Well, Grumpy Cat,
as you know, passed away, but they're still doing a
lot of good for animals, and you know, Grumpy Cat's
legacy is going to continue on, so definitely follow that account.

(50:45):
And Marnie the Dog, who's seventeen amazing, amazing, and my favorite,
my favorite right now is Juniper the Fox. I can't
even I can't even tell you how adorable Juniper the
Fox is. And and she's you know, she's got a

(51:07):
book and it's called it actually is a boy? Is
it a boy? Juniper seems like a girl's name to me,
but it's there, but boy or girl? The happiest fox
that you'll ever see, And again rescued, Oh you went, honestly,
you get on that get on that count. You'll not
believe it. It's Juniper Fox the two x's at the end.

(51:27):
Then you've got Pumpkin the raccoon who loves blueberries. By
the way, Jill the Squirrel. I can't even tell you
how much I love the name of that account. Of course,
lots of people know Little bub it's a count with
a very very unique little face, big big eyes, really wide.
And then you've got rag On the Doodle. And I

(51:49):
think I would be remiss if I didn't mention our
friend Odie's eyes, Odie's account, Odie's eyes. And also ooh,
it's missus Missus crew called Oh hang on, Missy's got
a great, a great Instagram profile of her dogs. Let
me find out they called the Something Crew. Oh, let's

(52:10):
see if I can remember it. But yeah, if you
want a daily dose of cuteness, then definitely follow some
of those accounts. Isn't it funny because I know years
ago we wouldn't even thought of giving your pet its
own profile, but it's such, it's such the norm now,

(52:30):
it's so normal to do that. But yeah, if you
want a little daily dose of happiness, then definitely running
over to Instagram and follow some of those accounts. Let
me see if I can find Oh, why can't I
find the account of missus? Here we go the fluff

(52:51):
It's not that it's Fluff Dog Crew. Oh it's called
bu the Zoo and Fluff Crew and oh my gosh,
if you to watch cute, adorable shit sus and Missy
who runs the profile for her dogs. She's a huge
fan of eighties music, huge and she ties that all

(53:14):
into all of her posts with her dogs. It's very,
very clever. We interviewed both her Andalicia last year on
the show when we did we did. We videoed the
show actually because it was for super Zoo and it's
up on YouTube and I'll probably link that out because
that was fun as well, because you know, they are
pretty big, important social media influencers with their pets, and

(53:38):
I think Missy's like sixty yeah, sixty thousand followers, so
they're popular for a reason. But they will make you smile.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
You got any more stories, Jim, There was a couple
that I looked at, but I think you hit all
good ones. I don't want to be anticlimactic with There's
actually a site that I looked at that had all
positive pet stories.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
I like it that you can just seriously just go
into you know, get on the internet. We go into
any of these social media channels and just you know,
search some hashtags, you know, happy dog stories or there's.

Speaker 1 (54:14):
This one we have a couple of minutes from.

Speaker 4 (54:16):
Pet stories, those kind of things, and you know, look
for good stuff. I think it's always nice to be
able to know that the good stuff is out there.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Here's top ten happy pet stories from our friends over
at best Friends from a couple of years ago. Oh yeah,
so this isn't current events. But let me see this
is a little bit slow on my interwebs coming up.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
But you know, when you think about it, what is
there not to smile about? When it comes to animals,
I mean, they just they just make you smile. I
love the Donkey Sanctuary that they've got quite a few
of them back home in England, and that's really sweet.
There's some sweet rescues out there, but they know how
to make it fun and give you the happy stories.

(54:58):
And yeah, I've just got to the point now where
I'm just like, no, what, I just only want to
read about happy stuff. It's all I'm really interested in
right now, not interested in anything else but good news.
And that's why I wanted to do this shows I
think everybody needs a good old dose of that. Oh actually,
talking of good news, good friend of mine, Aeron, we

(55:19):
call her the Bunny Lady. She's doing a pretty big
fundraiser August the second here in Las Vegas, and it's
the the bun Fundraiser, and it's the twelve dollars a
ticket and you could have three course meal. There are
a feign trace to choose from. It includes non alcoholic drinks.
You'll get a little swag bag you'll get I think

(55:40):
you get a couple of raffle tickets thrown in there
as well. And she's holding a big, big raffle with
some really nice stuff. Oh my gosh, not just rabbit stuff,
because I mean, not everybody's you know, not everybody is
into rabbits, but they're into helping animals, do you know
what I mean? You might get your dog people who
say I'll go because I want to support what she's doing.

(56:01):
It's great, but they may not have rabbits themselves, you know.
So I'm going to make sure that we've got a
couple of baskets in there for her that you know,
dog and cat related and that's coming up and you'll
be able to find that on my radio show page
on Facebook. So yeah, I'm excited about that. That's I
think this is probably going to be the biggest event
that she's done to date for animals, for bunnies, and

(56:26):
we've got to be problem here with people dumping rabbits.
So she's out there all all manner of hours, trust
to be feeding them, does a wonderful job at getting
them adopted at and them fixed up because these aren't
these aren't farul rabbits. These are domesticated rabbits that people
have dumped out there. So she brings a lot of
good news with all the bunny adoptions that she does.

(56:48):
But this event's going to be great, So I'm very
excited about that. And then I think that's it, Jim,
unless you've got one more for me, No.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
There's nothing as good as what you've already done. I'm
scrolling through a few.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Yeah, so we covered how you can get involved a
help wildlife, that's if you're in the UK, and say
I'll link everything out all the way through and then
we've got Batman, Batman and Robin saving animals now turned
into a charity. We got the dog that we're gonna

(57:18):
call a tea leaf thief. That's a little cottony rhyming slang.
The tea leaf dog stole a book on abandonment and
then got scooped up and he's going to end up
with a home. That's another great story, a funny one too.
The guy that is helping animals you know, move, you know,
giving him a new lease on life, having helped over

(57:40):
twenty thousand of them. And then the little town that
all pulled together after the recent tropical depression called Barry
where the actual rescue needed help. So that was a
really great story. And then of course the lady who
I cannot wait to read more about how the ninety animals.

(58:02):
I think that's brilliant as she names them. After all
the characters in Lord of the Rings and what else
have recovered. Oh yeah, I'm finding all the extinct animals
and brand new species never been seen before in Honduras.
I think that's a I think that's a good show, Jim,

(58:22):
a good old dose of good news.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Yeah, and you got to remind everybody about the fiftieth
anniversary of Apollo eleven and to keep your eye on
television and watch out for space.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
There you go. It's been quite the month, hasn't it.
Celebrating all of that, we've enjoyed it, I must admit.
All right, then that's it, my friends. If you've enjoyed
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(58:55):
always help animals in need, either rescue, adopt, don't eat,
volunteer or shed information and rescue your next family member.
Replace the word shop with adupt, and of course be
kind to all animals. Thank you Jim for of course
researching some stories at the very very end there, and
to my dogs for just being well just really cute. Actually,

(59:16):
it's been an absolute pleasure. However, you'll listening today, take
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see the cute faces. They make us happy. And today's
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Thank you, Jim really appreciate it. And today you've been

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