Hero Dogs, Lab-Grown Pet Treats, and More

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Jonny Mack with five good news stories. Good news for a pair of Flora residents they got to see jay Leno, but better news for their neighbor, who the jay Leno fans snatched from the jaws of death. An alligator had ran down Rick. As Rick was walking his dogs down the street in Naples. Rick was passing a pond where he'd seen alligators lounging every so often, and then he felt a tug on the leashes of his dogs. There was an eleven foot long alligator sprinting with its mouth open towards the dogs. And the dogs are labradors. Rick said, I tripped in all the frenzy, and the minute I fell down, the alligator got him. Rick and the alligator lay on the grass.

0:45 The gator didn't even know what to do next. Rick said, every so often, you'd feel a lurch, a tug. He wanted to move me, but he couldn't. I was bigger than he had anticipated. I wanted to know that I was there. I had a lot of fight left in me, and I was very conscious of not passing out, because the minute that would happen, I'd be done. He started poking the alligator's eyes, tried to pry its jaws open. No luck. Fortunately, Walt and Paula drove by. They saw what was going on. They thought he had fallen, but after the dogs moved a little, they were like, oh, an alligator, So here's what happened. Walts held Paula put the dogs in the car. She did, and then he ran over the alligator with the car. The alligator lived and ran back down into the pond. Rick was okay. They used a t shirt and a dog leash to stop the bleeding. They were nominated for local newspaper contest and they won tickets to go see Jay Leto the world's first lab grown meat for pets has gone on sale.

1:36 That's right, dog treats made from lab grown meat have gone on sale in the UK. Chick bites are made from a combination of plant based ingredients and meat. Lee's lab grown chicken chick Bites is not revealed what the proportion there is. The lab grown chicken meat was produced from a single sample of sales taken from one chicken egg. The company claims it's just as tasty and nutritious as traditional chicken breast does that mean somebody ate the dog food. Anyway, that's pretty good news if you're a chicken, I think. The Washington Post reported on a woman. She's one hundred and she's journled every day for ninety years and says, there's no excuse for me not to. She hasn't missed a day since January first, nineteen thirty six. Her dad had given her a diary so she could follow his tradition of recording the day's events in her hometown. It was a week before her eleventh birthday. Nine decades and thirty three thousand entries later, she's still doing it, journaling every night before bedtime. The first entry reads, Grandma's were at our place Clarence walked from Aunt Almas this morning.

2:32 The diary goes on to tell us about farm chores, high school crushes, the births of her three children, the death of her husband in twenty ten. As you can imagine, it's more than one diary by this time. Dozens of volumes are kept in her cedar chest, and she says, I never write in print letters. It's always incursive, and every night, when I finish writing, I always look back one year to see what I was doing the year before in New Orleans, Scrim the Dog became a hero. Scrim was a runaway dog, eluding capture and developing a giant fan base. Scrim evaded death at a shelter that needed to make room for more dogs. He's been shot at, He's dodged a train. He's ran across an interstate highway, and survived on cat food left out for strays. He's around three years old, weighed seventeen pounds and as a coarse, cloudy fur and for several months, a lot of people in New Orleans were looking for him. As he evaded capture, his fame grew, and so did his reputation. Became almost a mythical figure. His saga has inspired tattoos, murals, mordigras floats.

3:27 In October, a tipster reported seeing Scrim in a parking lot where a limousine company parked his vehicles. They were able to shoot him with a dirt gun. Scrim ran around for seven minutes before wabbling down. People from the shelter got him and said you're safe. He had broken teeth, a chunk of his ear was gone. He'd been shot with a pellet gun. Separate from the dirt. He wound up in a new shelter home, and then one day they went up and checked and he had bitten through the screen window on the second floor and gotten out again. Scrim had figured out how to use New Orleans one way streets to his advantage. If he ran against traffic, it was harder for the humans to catch him, but they did catch him. Scrim squeezed into a trap that had been set for feral cats. Two days later he was at the rescue house. He was perfectly calm. But there are those who believed that Scrim is plotting, waiting for the perfect opportunity to run away again. Sure we'll do back to back dog stories. Congratulations to two therapy service dogs at a hospital in Ohio. They are retiring.

4:20 Lisha and Chevy are two ten year old Golden Retrievers slash lab slash Poodle mixed dogs and graduates of the Canine Assistants. Canine Assistance is a nonprofit which trains had provide service dogs. They wrapped up their tenure at Cincinnati Children's with lots of cuddles and kisses. Carry explained so many staff members said that the dogs had impacted their time there and it was just really to be able to come in and see the dogs one last time and kind of have that moment to say goodbye. There's something that's been such a huge part of their working life. As for Chevy, he's at a point where, unfortunately he's not able to keep up the pace of going to work and engaging as much as he used to. So he's going to be getting lots of pets for the people he loves the most, spending a lot of time in the backyard. I'm taking lots of nons. And those are your five good news stories for today. I love that one. If you enjoyed the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You have an awesome day. Congrats doggies.