Feb. 15, 2026

Cat walks home from Spain to France

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A Minneapolis pizzeria received $83,000 in donations from their 'buy a pizza, give a pizza' initiative to help vulnerable families. French sailor Charlie secretly battled gastrointestinal cancer while completing a 24,000-mile solo race. A study reveals the number of recognized mammal species has grown by 25% since 2005, thanks to genetic analysis. In Florida, a 9-foot boa constrictor was safely removed from a residential yard. In Spain, a cat named Fe Lou astonishingly walked 155 miles back home to France after jumping out of its owner's camper.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. In Minneapolis, a pizza place is delivering

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free food to vulnerable families amid the ice crackdowns. Rectangle

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Pizza launched a buy a Pizza, give It Pizza to

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a family a need deal to support community members. In

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a few days, they received eighty three thousand dollars in

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donations to support their efforts. They sold two two hundred

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and ninety one pizzas in four days and said we

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couldn't be more stunned or grateful. Congratulations to Charlie, a

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French sailor who completed a solo sailing race while secretly

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battling gastro intestinal cancer. He began the twenty four thousand

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mile race as the favorite after narrowly finishing second to

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previous year. Unknown to competitors and most of his team,

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he had been diagnosed a year earlier with a fifteen

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centimeter tumor in a small intestine. Doctors weren't sure what

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was going to happen, but immunotherapy appeared to slow the

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tumor's growth. Charlie chose to race while continuing the treatment

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at sea. During the multi month voyage. He had to

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deal with torns, broken equipment, brutal storms, fatigue. He had

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to take daily cancer medication alone aboard his sixty foot boat.

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To take the lead, he made a risky decision steering

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toward a powerful storm system that allowed him to build

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a lead. He eventually had a lead of more than

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two hundred miles. One of his rivals caught up, but

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then Charlie reclaimed that extended the lead. He crossed the

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finish line in January. He didn't say anything about his

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illness at the finish he didn't want it to overshadow

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the achievement. A few days later, a post race scan

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revealed the tumor had grown during the race. Surgery followed.

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He was hospitalized for weeks. He's uncertain about his long

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term prognosis, but he said there's no proof of racing

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worsened the condition and says watching the race from home

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would have been unbearable. Good luck to you, sir, and congratulations.

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A new study in the Journal of Mammalogy says the

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number of recognized living mammal species has increased by about

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twenty five percent since two thousand and five. That's more

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than thirteen hundred newly recognized mammal species in just two decades.

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Some of them include the Peruvian andes, which is a

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mouse opossum, a dwarf shrew in Ethiopia, and the olunguito

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in Ecuador. Think I told you about that one one day.

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So these are because of what scientists call splits, where

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advanced genetic analysis reveals that animals thought to be one

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species or actually multiple distinct ones. Modern DNA sequencing makes

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it cheaper and faster to analyze hundreds of animals at once,

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so they can all figure this out. Good news In

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Florida they got rid of the nine foot boa constrictor

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that was in someone's yard. Yikes. The Indian River Sheriff's

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Office set on social media that Corporal Cremer was called

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out to a home where a resident said, hey, big

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snake in the yard. The Sheriff's office shared photos of

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Kramer capturing the nine foot boa constrictor snake, who was

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turned over to animal control. No one knows from one

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where it came. And in Spain, a cat jumped out

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of its owner's camper during a stop at a gas station.

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What did the cat do? It walked home to France

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feelw The cat jumped out the window on August ninth

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at a gas station at Spain, located near the French

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border but still one hundred and fifty five miles from home.

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Patrick said they didn't notice the cat was gone until

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the next morning. They returned to the gas station twice.

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In the next few days and weeks, no one in

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the area had seen any cat. A couple months went by,

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then they got a call in January from someone who

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was less than a mile from the house saying, Hey,

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we found your cat. The woman said she'd been feeding

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the cat outdoor since December and noticed he was very

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thin and appeared to be coughing, so she took him

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with a vet. The vet found the chip. How the

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cat figured out how to get home, we'll never know.

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Those are your five good news stories for today. You

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have an awesome day.