Aug. 3, 2025

Heartwarming Efforts by The Lost Stuffy Project

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00:11 Heartwarming Efforts by The Lost Stuffy Project
01:45 Plants Communicate Under Stress
02:31 Lost Dog Rescued in Alaskan Wilderness
03:23 World's Most Expensive Cheese Auctioned
04:03 Blueberry Spill Causes Traffic Jam

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

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good news stories. Can you remember those just awful awful

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floods in Texas? One group, the Lost Stuffy Project, is

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trying to make it at least a little bit better.

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Some of the campers had brought along stuffed animals. One

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girl had brought a stuff brown dog she'd named rough Ruff.

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Another had a pink poodle blanket she had called her Guppy.

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There were stuffed lambs, monkeys, bears. The Lost Stuffy Project

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just trying to bring every small measure of comfort possible

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to families affected by the flood by replacing the stuffed

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animals and blankets and other comfort items. The girl who

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had rough Roff had been evacuated from the camp by helicopter.

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When she left her cabin, she was clutching the dog,

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but somewhere in the chaos, Roughroff was lost. The girl's

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mom later contacted the Lost Stuffy Project, asking if there's

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any way that could help. The mom said she'd had

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the stuffed animals since she was a baby. Lost Stuffy

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Project went to work. They posted a photograph of rough

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Ruff on Instagram. The group figured out the brand guns

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and the name of the dog by brand Mutsy. Internet

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Salutes went out to track down a replacement and say

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they were able to return the dog to the family

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in under two days. Randy Jaffey is the founder of

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the Lost Stuffy Project and said I've worked with kids

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and families in horrific situations for about fifteen years. In

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those situations, she kept returning to that he ever turning

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a child's most treasured comfort item. The group aims to

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find the best possible replacement knew is ideal, but sometimes impossible.

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Sometimes the only options are well worn replacements. They work

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with a volunteer in Michigan who does a stuffy rehab.

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That person does a deep cleaning, replaces the in size

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any holes, and does a full makeover before it's return

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to the family. Switching gears, Scientists have found that plants

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make a series of sounds to indicate they're under duress.

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Certain animals can actually hear the sounds. There's a genus

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of moths known to lay its eggs on the leaves

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of the tomato vine so that the larvae have a

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food source when they emerge. Scientists at Tel Aviv University

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performed a series of trials to see if this would

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lay their eggs on plants which were making sounds. The

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hypothesis would be that if moss could hear the sound,

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they might avoid laying their eggs on the quote unquote

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screaming plants. The result exactly that the study will now

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make a catalog of sounds from different plants to see

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how many, if any, animals are reacting to them. Now

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they're not claiming sentience. They're saying the sounds are made

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by changes in the physical structure of leaves, so it's

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not vocalization, but it is a sound. Interesting good news.

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A dog lost in the Alaskan wilderness was found by

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a pilot nine days later. Lewis and Amber were camping

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near Carmen Lake over the fourth of July. Coda got

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spooked and ran off. Lewis said, we tried to grab

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his collar. He grabbed his frisbee and said, I'm out

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of here. They posted in Facebook groups that caught the

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attention of volunteer searcher pilot John Kagerer. John landed As

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played about half a mile from where Coda disappeared, and

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the dog appeared within minutes. Here comes the dog, but

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it wouldn't get any closer than about ten feet to me.

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He used some dog treats he keeps in his plane

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the lower coda to come close enough and secured coda

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with a rope, got him back on the plane, reunited

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him with his owners. Amber said that sucker punch in

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our stomach for nine days and afterwards was like this

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huge weight was lifted off your shoulder. Just amazing to

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have him back home. Do you like cheese? The world's

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most expensive cheese has sold for forty two thousand and

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two hundred and thirty two dollars a Cabrolet cheese aged

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in a cave for ten months. It reached top marks

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in a competition in Spain and was auctioned off for

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forty two grand. The cheese was created by the on

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Hel Diaz Herrero cheese factory and purchased by a restaurant,

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Eliegard de Coyoto. The cheese five pounds, made with cow's milk,

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aged for ten months in the Los Maso's cave, which

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is nearly five thousand feet above sea level. The regulatory

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Cancil dop Cabrales named it best cheese of the competition.

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Ah yes, it's another one of the troops of this program,

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Why are you late for work this time? While you

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see boss? Somebody spilled blueberries all over the highway. Police

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in British Columbia said there was a literal traffic jam

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on the highway after a pickup truck lost its load

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of freshly picked blueberries. A white pickup truck had stopped

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at the corner. When it started up again, some crates

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of the blueberries fell into the roadway, The cops explained.

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Some crates when crashing down on the roadway. Thousands of

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blueberries spilled out onto Louheed Highway, creating a sticky messer

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vehicles that drove over the fruit. Police officers were called

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to the juicy incident. They used to shovel to push

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the blueberries out of the way. The road is now reopened,

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so get to work. Well yeah, and those are your

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five good news stories for today. This one was a

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little funky. I try you have a good day.