Aug. 21, 2025

Ozzy the Rhino and the 100 Mile Parrot

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A southern white rhinoceros named Ozzy was born at Safari West. Two Australians started Orange Sky, a mobile laundry service for the homeless, now a global initiative. In Indiana, a sunflower named Clover unofficially broke the world height record. In Pittsburgh, a man and a mysterious pit bull saved two unconscious people. Lastly, a 7-year-old Alexandrine parakeet named Rambi was found 100 miles from home after going missing.

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Kalaruka Shok Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. On July twenty second, Ozzy Osbourne passed away.

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On that same day, at the Safari West, a healthy

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male Southern white rhinoceros was born. They named it Ozzi.

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Ozzi is the younger sibling of Otto, who was born

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at Safari West in April of twenty three. Their Motherisha,

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is a twenty year old Southern white rhino. Dad is Angava,

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a twenty nine year old Southern White rhino who resides

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at Safari West. Doctor Nancy Lang is the founder and

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conservation director, and said every rhino birth inspires hope and

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underscores the importance of protecting these extraordinary animals. Were honored

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to care for this calf and grateful for the collaborative

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partnership that made this birth possible. Hi. There are two

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Australian dudes, Nick and Lucas. They're hanging out one day,

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They're looking at a washing machine. They think themselves, hey,

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what if we put the washing machine in a van.

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Now most people would be like that's a terrible idea,

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but not these guys. They went ahead and did it

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and created Orange Sky. The world's first mobile laundry van

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for people experiencing homelessness. They drive around Australia armed with

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the washing machines and a couple chairs, and they deliver

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free mobile laundry. Isn't that cool? Ten years later, Orange

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Sky has a bunch of vans and laundry machines. They've

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washed over a four and a half million kilograms of

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laundry and delivered over fifty thousand warm, safe showers. It

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has now expanded into the Global Laundry Alliance without posting Greece,

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the US, Norway and the UK. Nice job fellas. In Indiana,

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a sunflower has unofficially become a world record breaker. The

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sunflower is I'm not misspeaking here. Okay, this is how

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tall the sunflower is? Thirty feet seven inches tall. The

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sunflowers named Clover. It has unofficially beaten the previous record

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of thirty feet one inch. It has already in the

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US record at twenty six feet eight inches. The city

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of Fort Wayne supported the sunflower efforts by giving Alex

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a cherry picker to protect Clover the sunflower from squirrels.

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He told local TV, We've been here thirty years. We

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absolutely love Fort Wayne, We have a lot of friends here,

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family here. Everybody's been so supportive in this town. It's

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been really cool, and honestly, everybody's support is what's been

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pushing us to push this plant. In Pittsburgh, a man

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and a mysterious dog teamed up to save two unconscious individuals.

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Gary was playing with his own dog in the park

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and then a pit bull showed up. The pit bull

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didn't seem to have a human with it and was

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making a plea for attention. Gary says he'd get just

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close enough where was out of arms reach, and he'd

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bark and turn and run a few steps and then

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turned back around. Something put the idea in my head

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very strongly that this dog wanted me to follow him,

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so I did. The pit bull took him down a secluded,

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overgrown path to a tint encampment where he found a

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pair of unresponsive bodies. That's scary. Gary says, At first

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I just saw the one and him. Then I tried

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to get his attention to wag him up, but he

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was completely unresponsibut, even if his breathing or not. And

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I turned around and saw a pair of legs sticking

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out of ten I tried to shake him, and it

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was a woman who wouldn't respond to me either. Gary

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called nine one one dispatcher showed up. Gary told the

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story on Facebook. A commenter reached out, saying she was

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the woman and she'd like to meet him. Gary responded, sure,

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would love to and let her know that the dog,

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which he had been fostering while the parent were in

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the hospital, was waiting for her. Gary said, it's an

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honor for me to take care of this guy until

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his humans are well enough to reunite with a dog

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that loves them very much. And it's a five Good

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News Stories trope story. Yes, good news, we found your parakeet.

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It's one hundred miles away, but we found it. Ramby,

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the seven year old large green Alexandrine parakeet had never

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left home before. Somebody left the cage open during a barbecue.

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Off goes Ramby. The family looked around in the neighborhood.

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No parakeet, the owner said, because he's never really flown

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before other than around the house, with thought it had

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been nearby. We went to bed that night devastated. We

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searched every street, knocked on every neighbor's door, put posters up,

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contacted every vat shop, everything you can think of. Then

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they get a call from the animal charity Wildlife and

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Need saying they'd found a parakeet. Even the charity was like,

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it's probably not the right bird because it's kind of far,

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but the number on Ramby's ankle tag matched. Now did

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the bird fly one hundred miles? Experts think the bird

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may have hitched a ride in or on someone's car.

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The family said, we don't understand how he got there.

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He traveled over one hundred miles in the space of

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six days. That's unheard of. The only way we'll find

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out what happens is if he tells us at some point,

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because he does talk. Gotta love this story. Those are

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