April 17, 2025

Sunshine the 19 year old cat returns home after 16 years!

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Johnny Mac shares five good things from the recent news includingBoey, a brown bear, successfully recovering from brain surgery. At the Adventure Park in Green Bay, one of two escaped otters, Ophelia, has been safely returned. A remarkable friendship tradition sees two women exchanging the same birthday card for 81 years. In Georgia, a new record is set for the longest continuous basketball game played to support an anti-trafficking organization. Finally, a Bengal cat named Sunshine is reunited with its owner after being missing for 16 years. These heartwarming stories promise to bring a smile to your face.

00:10 Boey the Bear's Remarkable Recovery
01:00 Otter Escapades at Green Bay Zoo
01:53 81-Year Birthday Card Tradition
02:35 Record-Breaking Basketball Game
03:29 Reunion with a Long-Lost Bengal Cat

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Caalarokas shock media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Good news for a brown bear. The

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brown bear Bokey is said to be the first brown

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bear to undergo brain surgery. Bochy the Bear underwent brain

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surgery for fluid in the brain back in October, just

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before going into hibernation for the winter. Vets said at

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the time they wouldn't be sure if the surgery worked

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or not until the spring well spring is here. Now

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boke woke up seems to have made a full recovery.

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A zookeeper posted to social media and told us what

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a remarkable transformation we have seen in this young bear.

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He's active, he's playful, he's exactly the same bear that

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he started last year out as so a real achievement

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in terms of the operation's success so far. It's like

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he's forgotten that he's had the operation. I don't think

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anyone's told him, and he's charging around being the young,

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lovable bear that everybody knows and loves. And it's fantastic

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to see. Congratulations of bok the Bear and to the

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bear surgeons and the medical team the zoo keepers. Meanwhile,

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at the New Zoo, in Adventure Park in Green Bay.

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They captured one of the two escaped otters. The otters

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had escaped during a snowstorm. They got a lot of snow.

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On March twentieth, Ophelia and Louis escaped. A local trap

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company has captured Ophelia. On social media, the zoo is

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said a full veterinary exam revealed that she's in perfect health.

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She's been returned to the regular otter habitat, but may

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not always be visible to guests. You see, Ophelia is

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a little shy and enjoys tucking to things to take

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naps throughout the day. So do I, boy, you put

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me in the comfy chair in front of the TV

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on the weekends before I get it. One hundred percent

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chance I nap. The zoo tells us this is otter

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breeding season. We expect that as a male otter, Louis

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is likely ranging a bit further from home than Ophelia did.

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That's code. I know what you're saying there, Zoo, but

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it's still likely that he's not all that far away.

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In Kentucky, a woman received mail from her lifelong friend

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on her birthday. She opened it, it was the same

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birthday card. The women have been sending to one another

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for eighty one years. Happy Birthday, Pat, who turned ninety five.

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The tradition began on Pat's fourteenth birthday in Indianapolis, when

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her friend Mary gave her a birthday card. Pat told

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the local TV. We never said we're gonna do this,

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at least I don't remember ever saying that. It just happened.

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They earned one of those Guinness records in their sixtieth

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year for the longest Greetings card exchanged. She says, I

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think my children came up with the idea that this

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card had been going back and forth for so many years.

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She explained, she plans to keep the tradition going by

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sending Mary the card in May. It's unclear to me

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how old Mary is. Happy birthday, everybody. Speaking of those

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Guinness records, a group of Georgia men broke the record

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for playing a continuous basketball game one hundred and twenty

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one hours, three minutes. The men represented the organization Men

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Opposing Sex Trafficking. They completed their game at ten am

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on a Friday. Twenty three players played ages seventeen to

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sixty four. The men were required to remain inside the

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gym for the duration of the attempt, even while taking breaks.

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Final score thirteen thousand, ninety six to twelve thousand, nine

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hundred and seventy two. On this program, I tend to

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do a fair amount of lost pet returns home stories.

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I could probably if I were like extra lazy about

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this show, I could fill two of the five spots

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with lost pet returns and Guinness World Record something. I

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do try to mix it up, but this one will

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be very tough to top in terms of longevity unless

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somebody's got a pet elephant or turtle or something. A

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man and his Bengal cat were reunited after sixteen years. Sunshine,

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the Bengal cat, disappeared from Carl's garden in two thousand

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and nine. Sunshine was three years old. Then Carl assumed

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the cat was stolen because the breed can be sold

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for many hundreds of dollars in England. The cat was

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never recovered, he explained, I always figured she'd be stolen.

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I put up posters pel to find her. She was microchip.

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It's a good thing I never changed my phone number

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in all these years. He got a call from a

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vet saying the cat had been handed in as a

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stray and was asked if you own a cat named Sunshine.

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Sunshine the cat is now nineteen, Carl says, I don't

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think she's been a stray all this time, maybe just

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the last few months. When I picked up with the vet,

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she was underweight, her claws hadn't been clipped, and she

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had bad kidneys. Since she's been home, Sunshine has some

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medication to perk up a little bit. She's looking a

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bit better. I was so surprised. I was overwhelmed, really,

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as I didn't expect to see her again, especially after

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all this time. She's nineteen and a half years old,

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which is ninety two in cat Ears. She might not

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be with us for very long, but at least she

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gets a nice retirement. Good luck to you. I hope

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she gets a nice long retirement. And what a nice

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story there. Those are five good news stories for today.

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You have an awesome day.