March 1, 2026

Dolly Parton the Donkey

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. First, a woman's cats discover a mouse, leading to an elaborate but failed capture attempt. Second, a finger prick test may soon simplify Alzheimer's diagnoses. Third, researchers identify bacteria as a contributor to kidney stones. Fourth, a Chilean man quits his job after being mistakenly paid 330 times his salary and wins a legal battle. Lastly, Michigan State Police successfully return a wandering donkey named Dolly Parton to her owner.

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

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good news stories. There was this woman and she noticed

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the cats were looking behind the fridge. She didn't think

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much of it. Cats do stuff like that. And then

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she saw the cats acting the same way behind the

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bookshelf and she was like, hm, what's going on? What

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are you doing? Habibi and Hugo they started grabbing the

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books as if they were trying to get something. Have

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you figured out what it was? That's right, it was

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a mouse. She started filming this. She said on the

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video they found Jerry, but she also reassured her viewers

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Jerry is alive and well, apparently Jerry the mouse outsmarted

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both cats. So what do they do? She put Hibibi

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and Hugo outside so the woman could try to catch

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the mouse, but the mouse disappeared without a trace. She

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put two humane traps out, one with cheese, one with

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chocolate to see whether the mouse could be lured in,

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but the mouse was too smart at these traps. I

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had these at one point. They're called mice cubes. It's

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like a plastic rectangle with a sliding door, so the

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mouse sees the cheese and goes in and then gets

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trapped and the door closes behind it and can't get out.

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So I had these at one point, and you might

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think like, Johnny are a crazy person, But I feel

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bad for the mice. I don't want to kill the mice.

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I just don't want the mice in my house. So

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I would take them and drive them down the block

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to the field, and people would be like, you're insane,

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and it kind of does look crazy. Anyway. This was

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so one day I head out with the mouse, drive

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down the block, drive to the field, open up the thing,

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let the mouse out, and boy, out of nowhere, a

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hawk just went shoot boom and ate the poor mouse. This.

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I can't believe how quickly this hawk spotted this thing.

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I tried, mister mouse, I'm sorry. Anyway, her mouse traps

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didn't work. She brought the cats back in and the

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cats trap the mouse under the room. BA. She explained,

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we moved half the living room around and build a passage,

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hoping the mouse would find his way outside. The mouse

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ran everywhere, just not through the door. They tried for

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three more hours and finally the mouse is like, all right,

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I'm out. Totally Switching topics a finger prick test may

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simplify diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Doctors may soon be able

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to diagnose Alzheimer's there were a simple finger prick. One

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thousand volunteers are having their blood drawn and tested for

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three proteins linked to the condition. Researchers are hopeful that

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the finger prick test revolutionizes how the disease is identified. Meanwhile,

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this is good news for me. Researchers have found a

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bacterial component to kidney stones. Can we make the kidney

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stones go away? And I get these all the time?

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A research team was studying calcium stones and observed live

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bacteria and layers of bacteria in the crystals. You see.

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There's a long held assumption the kidney stones developed solely

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through chemical and physical processes, but the study shows bacteria

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may actively contribute to their formation. Gotta love this baller

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moved by a guy in Chile. He was mistakenly paid

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three hundred and thirty times his salary. So what did

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he do? He resigned. He was expecting around five hundred

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thousand paysos, but he discovered he'd been paid one hundred

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and sixty five million Chilean pesos, roughly around one hundred

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and eighty grand. At first, he informed the company about

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what had happened and said he'll go to the bank

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and get the money back. But then he thought more

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about it and was like yeah, No. For three days,

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he couldn't be reached. He didn't show up at work.

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After three days, he submitted a letter of resignation. The

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company filed a criminal complaint for theft. The legal battle

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went on for three years. The workers lawyers said, there

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was no theft. You guys made a deposit. There's no

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deception or fraud. The court ruled in favor of the employee.

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The ruling is that it was an unauthorized appropriation. That

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offense is not punishable under Chilean law. If you would

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a thirty day free trial. Hey, good news, we found

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Dolly Parton the donkey. Yeah, Dolly Parton the donkey had

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wandered away from her owner's farm in Michigan. They got

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the Michigan State Police involved. The MSP set on social media.

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Troopers were dispatched after the donkey exited through a gate

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that had been left open. Sounds like a very very

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busy day. Troopers canvassed the area and we're able to

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locate Dolly taking a stroll along a roadway in the

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township and turned Dolly part and the donkey back to

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her owners unharmed. Now, interestingly, Dolly Parton had escaped with

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another donkey named Henry. Henry came home on his own

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donkey owner Jason, and told the local news. You know,

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if they get an opportunity to wander, they're going to wander.

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Those are five get new stories for today. You have

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a great day.