Giant Escaped Iguana

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Two thousand dashounds were on the beach for their annual mile long walk. It is the largest gathering of a single dog breed. The event began in twenty seventeen and has become one of the UK's largest meetups for dogs. People from all over the world come. One couple wore matching tomato, sauce and mustard outfits while their dash ounds wore hot dog style coats. That's funny. This year's event was called the Sausage Stroll. Laura started this thing in twenty seventeen and it attracted one hundred and fifty dogs. The world record for the largest number of same breed dogs in one place set at the event in twenty twenty two, when two hundred and thirty eight dogs attended. Laura explains, it's really difficult to count that Betty. In Chicago, a man was reunited with his family dog ten years after the dog disappeared thanks to a microchip. Peter the poodle doodle mix escaped from his family's home ten years ago. Edmund never gave up hope.

1:10 He'd say, I think if he's alive. I'm sure that I'll see him again. I'd say things like that and people would laugh and kind of go along with me. Well, on September twenty second, he got a call from the pet microchip company revealing Peter the dog had been found in Indiana. Pete was walking down the street. Wow, I mean, you just want to know what this dog's been doing for ten years? Right, Pete the dog is back at home. It's like we picked up where we left off. I'm happy, he's happy. Everyone who hears this story's happy. I'm thankful for the folks at animal Control. They got me my dog back. That's awesome. Also in Indiana, a twenty two year old comic book fan earned a Guinness World Record for her collection of two thy, three hundred and eighteen items related to the Joker you know, the Batman villain.

1:53 Megan started collecting in middle school. The collection is everything from comic books to Joker, rollerblades, escape board and milk caps from nineteen sixty six. She explained how you apply for the Guinness World Record. She started the process in twenty twenty three. She had to measure and document each officially licensed item and the process had to be overseen by five expert witnesses five. Her collection is still growing. She's not afraid of losing the record, she said, it will only inspire me to collect more. Go for it. There's a dare good news for a tortoise. It had wandered onto a busy railway line. Mister T. The tortoise was on the train tracks. Passengers were like, hey, hey, hey, there's a tortoise on the tracks. Railway staff rescued mister T.

2:37 The tortoise fed the tortoise and lettuce and water in the station cafe. Apparently mister T had escaped from his nearby home. All right, let's see what random animal the police hunted down this time. Well, we're in Daytona Beach. Police in Florida responded to reports of an unusually large iguana. The Daytona Beach Police Department said officers quote responded quickly when the large iguana was spotted quote roaming around. A video shared by the PD shows officers attempting to apprehend the giants iguana next to a residence air conditioning unit. The iguana attempted to flee, but was grabbed by an officer.

3:17 While the iguana was trying to squeeze through a fence. Police speculated the iguana was likely someone's escape pat due to its size and the distance from where iguanas are usually found in Florida. Now you're wondering, John, what happened to the iguana? I don't know. I wish I could tell you. So those are your four point nine good news stories for today. You have a good day.