March 23, 2025

Scotland is NOT banning cats!

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories. First, the Scottish government reassures the public that there are no plans to ban cats despite concerns over their impact on wildlife. Next, Krakow's fire-spitting dragon sculpture takes a break due to high gas consumption. In New York, a zoo auctions artwork created by its animals. An opossum in Nebraska eats an entire Costco chocolate mousse cake and requires rehabilitation. Finally, thousands of chopsticks spill onto a California highway, creating a humorous traffic hazard. Enjoy these feel-good stories and share the joy with friends!

00:11 Scottish Government Clarifies Cat Ban Rumors
01:28 Krakow's Fire-Spitting Dragon Takes a Break
02:23 New York Zoo's Animal Art Auction
02:52 Nebraska Opossum's Chocolate Mousse Cake Adventure
04:17 California Highway Patrol's Chopstick Cleanup

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Calaruga shark Media. Hi the Aaron Chunny Mack with five

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good news stories. Good news. The Scottish government wants you

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to know it's not going to ban cats. I was

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worried about that one. First Minister John Swinney was forced

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to issue the statement after a report by experts branded

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felines a threat to Scotland's wildlife and suggested containment measures

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be considered. The Scottish Animal Welfare Commission said cats kill

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at least seven hundred million birds and other animals each

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year in the UK. It advised the government to consider

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a range of measures, including keeping domestic cats indoors or

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on leashes to protect a danger species such as Scottish wildcats.

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The report said cat containment measures could also include restrictions

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on introducing cats to households in vulnerable areas, interpreted by

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some as effectively a man. The Daily Mail reported fury

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as households in Scotland could be banned from getting a

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pet cat. The First Minister said, let me just clear

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this up. The Government's not going to be banning cats

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or restricting cats. We have no intention of doing so

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and we will not be doing it. Alice Palumbo works

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for cats Protection, the UK's biggest cat charity. Alice said

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Scotland is a nation of cat lovers. Cats are great

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pets for all sorts of reasons, whether it's providing companionship

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for elderly people or those living alone, comfort for people

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with health conditions, or helping children learn important lessons and

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caring for others. Meanwhile, in Crackou, the fire spitting dragon

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sculpture is taking a break. Experts are trying to determine

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why the fire spitting dragon sculpture has been consuming too

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much gas. It's an iconic metal sculpture of a dragon

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that spits real fire that's on a break for a month.

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Experts wanted to check the gas feeds for the nineteen

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foot sculpture to find ways of reducing the dragon's energy bills.

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It's a major tourist attraction. Millions of visitors come each

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year to watch the flames jutting from its snout every

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three minutes. These sculptures from the nineteen sixties, but refers

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to a century's old legend in Crackou's history. According to

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the story, Krakau was harassed by a bloodthirsty dragon that

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fed on the locals cattle and sometimes even on young maidens.

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A resourceful young shoemaker offered the beast a sheepskin stuffed

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with sulfur that gave the dragon a burning feeling inside.

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Then the dragon drank so much water from the nearby

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river that it burst. In New York Zoo had an auction.

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It was artwork created by animals. Penguins, diraft, slots, capabaras

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and others created some artwork. The Animal Adventure Park and

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Preserve in Harpersville announced the auction as silent auction for

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works of art created by several of the species that

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call a zoo home. Zookeeper michaela explained, with our penguins,

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the easiest way for me to get them to paint

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is with food. They're very food motivated, and if some

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days they don't feel like using food, they'll chase around

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a cat laser. Meanwhile, in a Nebraska animal hospital, and

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a posum was treated after wandering into a family's backyard

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and gorging itself on an tire chocolate moose cake from Costco.

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The magic of this show are the details. It's not

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just a chocolate moose cake. It's a chocolate moose cake

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from Costco. Kim said the cake had been placed on

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a table in her backyard because she was at a

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rubin or fridge. She explained, I always have a house

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full and we cook a lot. When you run out

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of room in the fridge, you just sit in on

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the table outside in the winter, She said, her son

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took some fresh made peanut butter balls outside to cool

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down and discovered an opossum curled up on the outdoor

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furniture covered in chocolate paup prints. Kime says the cake

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had been knocked off the table and was sitting on

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the floor in front of where she was. The cover

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was off and was almost gone. The apostum looked a

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little distressed. We thought we'd better call the Humane Society

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and get the guy checked out. A Nebraska Humane Society

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animal control officer took the apossum to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab,

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which posted a photo of the animal to social media

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with a note saying a possum was brought in due

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to having eaten an entire Costco chocolate cake. As I said,

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the details or what makes these things fun. You know

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how the story goes. I don't do jerky stories. The

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apossum is gonna be okay, The rehab facility tells us,

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with some time and rehab and a dietaryset, this chocoholic

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should be stabilized enough to return to the wild. But

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until then, she's definitely a little cranky about our strict

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zero chocolate policy. And for our final story today, California,

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I don't know what is going on out there. I

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think you guys just don't want to get to work

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and you just make stuff up so you could tell

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the boss and then everybody just goes, yeah, I guess

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that happened. The California Highway Patrol reported that officers responded

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to a report of a traffic hazard on I five

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to eighty near Redwood Road, and they showed up and

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found that thousands of chopsticks had spilled onto the highway.

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Their social media post says, turns out somebody turned the

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freeway into a giant game of pickup sticks. Unfortunately, this

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means a local restaurant might be short on utensils tonight.

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The California Highway Patrol reminds you make sure your loads

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are properly secured. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. Fun with Today if you enjoy the program,

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tell a friend about it. They might like it too,

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and I'll see you next time. Every an awesome day,