Race Your Pumpkin While Dressed Like Top Gun

0:03 Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, shunning back with five good news stories. In Dubai, a British woman has gone above and beyond to save a stray cat that had been living for two years in a derelict bathroom. The cat is going to move to her new home in the UK. Chicu is a hobbyist animal rescuer and got a message from a stranger who spotted a frightened cat hiding and an abandoned building in Abu Dhabi. Chicu got in her car drove ninety minutes from Dubai to find the cat. Chicu says she's such a gentle cat who has endured such hardship. It broke my heart when I first saw her. Workers at the site said the cat had lived there for years, sheltering under sheets of metal in the crumbling bathroom.

0:49 For three weeks, Chicu made the long drive every night after work, bringing food, sitting with the cat, slowly earning the cat's trust until she was able to coax her out and take her to a vet. The cat is now named Terara Nova, meaning a new Star. Chiculo tells us she looked completely lost and fearful. We thought she had probably been a patent had been abandoned. She was scared and alone. I couldn't walk away. On the paper work clears Terra Nova will live in England. That's really cool. Good news if you are a North Atlantic right whale. After years of decline, researchers say, you guys are bouncing back. The population is up two percent, not a lot, but it's better than down. They believe there are now around three hundred and eighty four whales. That's seven percent up since twenty twenty. Heather Pettis works at the New England Aquarium and said it's always a great feeling when we can share positive news about this critically endangered species. This slight increase leaves us cautiously optimistic about the future of the North American right whales. There's new hope for people losing their sight. A tiny implant is helping restore central vision to those with age related muscular degeneration, the condition long considered untreatable. Here's how it works. An implant is placed behind the retina and paired with augmented reality glasses that of a tiny video camera. The camera captures images and converts them into signals. And sends them to the brain, essentially recreating what the eye can no longer do. After one year, eighty percent of patients regained enough vision to read again. Wow, that's really awesome. American ranchers are trying something new. Instead of miles and miles of wire fences, they're turning to virtual fencing systems. You know those like

2:21 do you have one of those invisible offenses for your dogs? Imagine that except for cows. The cowswuare collars, which uses GPS to keep the cattle grazing where they're supposed to without the cost and hassle of fixing fences. Amy works for the Nature Conservacy's Little Sue Project and says the cows catch on so fast they hear the tone. They don't even stop grazing, They just change direction and go a different way. So it's really really easy on them, and it's easy on the former two. Nick is a rancher in South Dakota and says the system is ninety five percent effective, but any rancher could tell you physical fence isn't one hundred percent either. Sounds like it was a lot of fun at the twenty twenty five West Coast giant pumpkin rig he gotta. Heidi Marx coordinates the event and told The Washington Post it's kind of a ridiculous idea, which is why it's so popular. What do you do? You hollow out a pumpkin and you paddle it across a lake while wearing an elaborate costume. Of course, Heidi says, how often do you say they've watched people in costumes paddling thousand pound pumpkins on a lake. Parker dressed up as the very Hunger caterpillar. It was his first time of the race. He said, I was just chatting with my family in the car, like breinstorming things to do, and my dad thought up the idea of a caterpillar eating its way up out of the pumpkin.

3:30 I thought that's fun and I went with it. It's a quarter mile race, multiple heats, one for growers, one for event sponsors, one for local officials, and two for the public. Gary won his heat. He was dressed as Buddy the Elf and he's been working on this. His growing process presses pumpkin plants against boards, so the resulting pumpkins have a more narrow kayak like shape. Boy he's putting work into this. However, this year he had to borrow pumpkin from a friend as his own plants fell victim to a fungal infection. Yes, she could have used a regular pumpkin anyway. Other heat winners included racers dressed as Ted Lasso, a top gun pilot, and a pickle. And those are your fine good news stories for today. I have a good one.