How Winnie the Dog wound up in the college marching band

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news for a goose. The goose is found at an elevation of ten thousand feet on Mount Shasta in California. The US Fourst Service said ranger stationed in the mountains came to the rescue of a particularly unprepared Mount Shasta climber the goose. They said on social media. Rangers were on a routine patrol when they found a goose that somehow was at ten thousand feet, the post said. Point a rangers' arrival, the climber had on only one layer of down, I see what did there, and was neither prepared for the temperature nor overnight camping.

0:43 The rangers say they were able to offer the goose a quick descent to a local pond at lower elevations before returning to regular duties. I have some questions for the goose, but I guess those are going to go unanswered. Meanwhile, the Canton Police Department set on social media that two goats were spotted and detained for a behavior. Is this the new thing that the cops find an animal and do funny puns on social media I'm smiling, why not? Their po said, We're not sure where the goats came from, but the two of them got it into their heads that chasing people would be a good time. Don't goat us wrong. They're very cute, but no kidding around. It's not okay for people or goats to chase others, the department says. When asked why they were being so aggressive, one of the goats bleeded that he was just feeling a bit had today. The goats were not booked for their nefarious acts, but were given a comfy ride to the King County Animal Shelter. Officials are trying to find the owner of the goats got another message in a bottle.

1:39 An engineer was inspecting a two hundred and nine year old Scottish lighthouse and found a message that went back one hundred and thirty two years. Yeah, Ross is a mechanical engineer. He removed some panels in a coverb at the Corsewell Lighthouse spoted a bottle hidden inside the wall. Russell and the team used some rope and a broom handle to fish the bottle out of its hiding place and opened it with the current lighthouse keeper, Barry the team said the quirk was stuck in place had to be carefully removed using a drill. Barry said, we all swore ourselves to silence. If it was a treasure map. Nope, no treasure map. It was a note dated September fourth, eighteen ninety two, bearing the names of the three engineers who had installed a light at the top of the lighthouse. Barry said, it was so exciting. It was like meeting our colleagues from the past. It was actually like them being there. It was like touching them, like them being part of our team instead of just four of us being there. We were all sharing what they had written.

2:28 Because it was tangible and you could see the style of their handwriting. You knew what they had done. You knew they had hit in such a place that wouldn't be found for a long long time. The note reads, this lantern was erected by James Well engineer, John Westwood millwright, James Brody engineer, David Scott laborer of the firm James Milnian Sun Engineers during the months from May to September, and relighted on Thursday night, fifteenth September eighteen ninety two. Russell said The plan was to put the bottle back into its original hiding place with a new message of their own. That's fun. Check back in one hundred or so years, let you know what happens there. Fans at the University of Northern Iowa are enjoying a new member of the Panther Marching Band. It's Winnie the Dog. Winnie is a service dog for twenty year old Gabby. Gabby joined the marching band earlier this year after transferring from a university that did not allow her participate because of the dog. Gabby has loved the drums ever since she got a toy drum set back in the second grade.

3:24 She knew from then on she was going to be in band once you reached high school. She did it all, pep band, jazz band, and of course marching band. That previous university wouldn't let Winnie the Golden Retriever on the field, but apparently the University of Northern Iowa is a lot cooler than that other place. Winnie suffers from POTS, a chronic condition that causes an abnormally rapid heart rate when standing up from a sitting position. The diagnosis in twenty twenty three interfered with her senior year of high school. Gabby said, there was a point where I couldn't stand up without passing out. It was really draining mentally and physically. I didn't experience my senior year of high school because of all this. Gabby fought for six months to get her diagnosis. Once she could start walking on her own again, she knew she needed a service dog to help her. Winnie.

4:05 The dog is trained to alert Gabby if her heart rate gets too high and alert others if she needs help. She goes everywhere with Gabby, even on the field during halftime of football games. Gabby says, without Winnie, I don't think college would even be possible. Good news for some orphaned bears. They've been released back into the wild after being rehabbed. The cubs were found in separate incidents. During rehabilitation, the cubs were kept isolated from humans and fed a specialized diet to prepare them for hibernation. They were released in areas where they're less likely to encounter humans or become roadkill. There are five of them. They spent the summer at Colorado Parks and Wildlife Departments rehab center the Frisco Creek Wildlife Rehab Center in Del Noortday says there's no talking allowed near bear pens and the bears never see a person feeding them. They get a feed diet as well as natural foods such as berries and dead fish from a hatchery. As they grow, they're moved into larger pins with more rehab bears. As the weather changes, steps are taken to prepare the bears for dinning, and their diet is switched to high sugar and no protein.

5:04 I think I'm on that diet. Kara, the spokesperson said. We decrease the feeding as the year goes on to mimic the conditions in the wild and encourage their bodies to go into hibernation. When they're ready to hibernate, we release them in the wild so they're able to build their own dens. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption. If you're on Apple Podcast, look at that banner there and I'll explain to you how it works. If you're not on Apple, there's a link in the show notes. You have an awesome day