Sept. 27, 2026

Bride rides a cow into church wedding

Show Notes
Transcript

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories, including a farmer bride, Victoria, who rode a Swiss cow named White Chocolate Button into Holy Cross Church after arriving mostly by tractor, then returned to the farm to milk cows with her new husband Mike before their reception. A Cincinnati Animal Care kitten, Gelato, previously seen using a homemade wheelchair, received a custom 3D-printed wheelchair after the story went viral. In Australia, a large python was found in a car’s glove compartment and was removed by Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers and taken to a wildlife hospital for a small injury. A 97-year-old British woman, Betty, broke her own Guinness record for oldest female wing walker on her sixth wing walk. Tourists also visit a private Greek island to swim with pigs, nicknamed Piggy Island.

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Hey there, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories.

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Let's just get to the headline. Bride rides her favorite

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cow into her wedding. Victoria is a farmer. She married Mike.

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Victoria traveled most of the way to the ceremony on

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a tractor. before climbing aboard a Swiss cow named White

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Chocolate Button for the final 30 seconds into Holy Cross Church.

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This wasn't like a last-minute idea. Victoria said she wanted

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to ride a cow into her wedding since she was

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10 years old. She said, it was what I'd always

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dreamt of. It was truly incredible. Even though it's pretty

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unheard of, people ride horses and there's no difference to

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riding a cow. White Chocolate Button the cow even got

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dressed for the occasion wearing a specifically made flower crown.

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Victoria's bridesmaids did not ride cows. They walked in. Victoria

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said white chocolate button absolutely loved it. She was such

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a good girl and just took it in stride. Would

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have been my wedding if a cow wasn't there. Our

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cows are family in our life. Now, I have a

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question about, you know, what if the cow, you know,

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had to go? What would have happened? I don't know.

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After getting married, Victoria and Mike went to the farm

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to milk the cows before heading to their own reception.

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Victoria had already been up at 430 that morning to

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do the first milking and said she only got about

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an hour sleep before the wedding as for white chocolate button.

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Victoria says the cow sometimes follows people around the farm

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and sometimes comes in on the house and enjoys eating bread.

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Victoria had originally considered another cow. That's Basil the cow.

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Basil wasn't interested. Victoria explained, I tried to ride Basil,

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but she didn't like it, so we didn't make her

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do it. I felt like she was telling us to

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go away. White Chocolate Button, however, was perfectly happy to participate.

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Victoria said she was always going to be part of

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the day, whether it was bridesmaid or ring bearer. Good

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news for an Ohio shelter kitten who went viral for

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getting around in a homemade wheelchair. We had told you

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about Gelato. Gelato had arrived at Cincinnati Animal Care with

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a spinal injury that left his back legs too weak

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to support his weight. Mallory, the vet, had built Gelato

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a tiny wheelchair using rulers, cardboard, zip ties, tape, and

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Hot Wheels cars. Remember that story about a month ago? Well,

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folks saw the story and they built a custom 3D

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printed wheelchair designed specifically for Gelato. The shelter said, that's

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what community looks like. We couldn't have made this happen

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without everybody who shared our original post and helped to

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get Gelato's story out there. In Australia, a driver got

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a surprise when they opened the glove compartment. It's Australia.

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You could probably guess where this is going. Was it

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a croc? Was it a spider? No, it was a snake,

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a large python specifically. They had to call in Sunshine

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Coast Snake Catchers, which is, you know, apparently a business.

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You can make a living doing this. Anyway, the folks

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at Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers responded to the call and

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sent Summer, the reptile wrangler, to remove the snake. Summer

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said the snake had found itself a nice warm place

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to hide. The python did have a small injury, so

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after being removed from the vehicle, the snake catcher Summer

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from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers took it to a wildlife

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hospital for treatment. Here's a Guinness World Record for you.

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A 97-year-old British woman broke her own record for wing walking. Betty,

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97 in 127 days. It was her sixth time wing walking.

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She first tried it at age 87. Boy, wow. It's

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not like she did this, you know, in the 1940s

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or whatever the math would have been. Wow. She had

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previously set the Guinness World Record for oldest female wing

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walker when she was 93. She told the BBC, I

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just get bored of life. Otherwise, I can't drive. I

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can't see very well and I get frustrated. So I

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want to do the things I can do like wing walking.

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And good news, if you like to swim with pigs,

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you can go to a small Greek island in the

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Ionian Sea where tourists frolic in the blue waters with pigs.

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It's a private island. And it's become a social media sensation.

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Draws visitors from all around the world who come to

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swim alongside and even feed the pigs. The pigs mostly

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mind their own business. They're just hanging out. Sometimes they

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go in the water. Francisco is a local and says

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they seem to be in their environment and they don't

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try to bite you if you don't touch them. On

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social media, people are calling this Piggy Island. You gotta

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love it. Another local said the island has become viral

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because of the pigs. Many people actively asked to come here.

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Jamie was an American visitor who said, This is so amazing.

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I recommend it to anyone. Never in my life have

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I thought I'd be doing this on Piggy Island. Those

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