Oct. 28, 2025

Giant Escaped Iguana

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Johnny Mak presents five uplifting news stories. Stories include 2,000 dachshunds attending the UK's largest dog meetup, a Chicago man reuniting with his dog after 10 years thanks to a microchip, a 22-year-old setting a Guinness World Record for her Joker memorabilia collection, a tortoise named Mr. T being rescued from train tracks, and Florida police capturing a giant escaped iguana. Ending on a humorous note, Johnny Mack describes these as '4.9 good news stories.'

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Two thousand dashounds were on the beach

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for their annual mile long walk. It is the largest

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gathering of a single dog breed. The event began in

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twenty seventeen and has become one of the UK's largest

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meetups for dogs. People from all over the world come.

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One couple wore matching tomato, sauce and mustard outfits while

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their dash ounds wore hot dog style coats. That's funny.

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This year's event was called the Sausage Stroll. Laura started

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this thing in twenty seventeen and it attracted one hundred

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and fifty dogs. The world record for the largest number

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of same breed dogs in one place set at the

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event in twenty twenty two, when two hundred and thirty

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eight dogs attended. Laura explains, it's really difficult to count

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that Betty. In Chicago, a man was reunited with his

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family dog ten years after the dog disappeared thanks to

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a microchip. Peter the poodle doodle mix escaped from his

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family's home ten years ago. Edmund never gave up hope.

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He'd say, I think if he's alive. I'm sure that

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I'll see him again. I'd say things like that and

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people would laugh and kind of go along with me. Well,

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on September twenty second, he got a call from the

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pet microchip company revealing Peter the dog had been found

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in Indiana. Pete was walking down the street. Wow, I mean,

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you just want to know what this dog's been doing

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for ten years? Right, Pete the dog is back at home.

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It's like we picked up where we left off. I'm happy,

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he's happy. Everyone who hears this story's happy. I'm thankful

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for the folks at animal Control. They got me my

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dog back. That's awesome. Also in Indiana, a twenty two

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year old comic book fan earned a Guinness World Record

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for her collection of two thy, three hundred and eighteen

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items related to the Joker you know, the Batman villain.

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Megan started collecting in middle school. The collection is everything

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from comic books to Joker, rollerblades, escape board and milk

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caps from nineteen sixty six. She explained how you apply

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for the Guinness World Record. She started the process in

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twenty twenty three. She had to measure and document each

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officially licensed item and the process had to be overseen

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by five expert witnesses five. Her collection is still growing.

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She's not afraid of losing the record, she said, it

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will only inspire me to collect more. Go for it.

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There's a dare good news for a tortoise. It had

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wandered onto a busy railway line. Mister T. The tortoise

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was on the train tracks. Passengers were like, hey, hey, hey,

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there's a tortoise on the tracks. Railway staff rescued mister T.

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The tortoise fed the tortoise and lettuce and water in

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the station cafe. Apparently mister T had escaped from his

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nearby home. All right, let's see what random animal the

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police hunted down this time. Well, we're in Daytona Beach.

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Police in Florida responded to reports of an unusually large iguana.

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The Daytona Beach Police Department said officers quote responded quickly

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when the large iguana was spotted quote roaming around. A

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video shared by the PD shows officers attempting to apprehend

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the giants iguana next to a residence air conditioning unit.

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The iguana attempted to flee, but was grabbed by an officer.

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While the iguana was trying to squeeze through a fence.

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Police speculated the iguana was likely someone's escape pat due

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to its size and the distance from where iguanas are

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usually found in Florida. Now you're wondering, John, what happened

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to the iguana? I don't know. I wish I could

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tell you. So those are your four point nine good

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news stories for today. You have a good day.