The Cat With 29 Toes

0:07 I am here today to tell you about the cat with 29 toes. Hello, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories. Story number one in Wisconsin. A Maine coon cat named Erebus Anomaly has earned the Guinness World Record for With 29 toes, that's 11 more than the usual 18 found on a domestic cat. I would have gotten that wrong at trivia. I never pondered how many toes a cat had, but I don't know. I guess I would have guessed 20. What do I know? Well, I don't know how many toes a cat has. Anyway, Erebus has 29. That is the highest documented toe count for any cat. Extra toes result from a genetic trait called polydactyly, which is commonly found in Maine Coons. But even among cats with extra toes, Erebus stands out. The previous record belonged to Jake. Jake was a Canadian cat who had 28 toes. He set that record back in 2002. Earlier this year, a kitten named Toby was born and matched Jake's total. But now, Erebus has the record with 29.

1:08 A Dutch television host has set a record by putting his foot on the accelerator driving a giant motorized clog. Yes, a clog more than 70 miles an hour. Kloss reached 70.05 miles per hour in the shoe-shaped vehicle. That is another Guinness record for fastest motorized clog shoe. These guys have a record for everything. He hosts a TV show, Klaus can do everything, and decided to build a vehicle capable of setting a world record. They contacted someone familiar with making unlikely objects move very quickly, British inventor Kevin Nix, who set the fastest motorized garden shed record in 2025. The team chose a Dutch wooden clog as the inspiration.

1:49 Despite its appearance, the car was not carved from an enormous block of wood. It was made from polyester and fiberglass with the frame of an electric go-kart underneath. All right, so it's not really a clog, is it? No. Good news for a fisherman who was rescued after 15 days trapped in a dark cave. This sounds terrible. A fisherman in Mexico has been rescued alive, of course, after spending 15 days trapped in a cave with no food, no light. Erasto disappeared in July while fishing in a natural limestone sinkhole. After swimming into a submerged cave, he became disoriented in the darkness, couldn't find his way back out. An air chamber gave him a place to breathe, and he drank water from a spring inside the cave waiting for help. He lost track of time. He said the 15 days felt like three. Good news for him. Rescuers kept looking for him. He was taken to the hospital suffering from severe malnourishment and dehydration. Wow, that is lucky. Good news for a woman in New Jersey. They found her wedding ring after New Jersey Transit employees went well beyond a routine lost and found search to recover it from a train toilet. Ick. Julie realized the ring was missing after returning to her seat from using the bathroom on the train. Now, if you've ever been on a train in New Jersey, ick. Apparently, she had washed her hands and used toilet paper to dry her fingers, crumpled the paper, and flushed it somewhere and all that. Her wedding ring went with it. She reported the loss to New Jersey Transit. They took the train out of service so employees could search for the ring.

3:20 Workers had to raise the train on jacks, remove the toilet tank, and open it up. There, sitting on top of the contents, was the missing ring. It was returned to her. Hopefully she got it cleaned before putting it back on. There's more to this. She had purchased the ring from an antique store, and it's believed to date to 1905. After buying it, she noticed that the initials engraved inside it matched the nicknames she and her husband used for each other. And again, I hope she cleaned it. In Germany, a sheep escaped... and boarded a parked bus, and then wound up taking a ride through a car wash before heading home. I love this story. The sheep made its way onto the bus company's property, had found an unlocked bus, and climbed aboard. The driver came back and was checking the bus to see if there were garbage, you know, anything else, and found the sheep. The bus company contacted the local police. A plastic ID tag in the sheep's ear established that it belonged to Stefan. But wait, there is more. While waiting for Stefan to arrive, the sheep stayed aboard through the company's bus-sized car wash. According to company officials, the sheep remained calm and cooperative throughout the brief ride, apparently taking its unfamiliar surroundings in stride.

4:32 When Stefan arrived, he was able to move the sheep into a trailer and transport it safely home. Now, if you're a sheep, how do you even explain that to your fellow sheep, what you were doing all day? I don't know. And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, use the Apple Podcasts app. There's a banner. It says Uninterrupted Listening. You click that, it'll tell you what to do. The short version is five bucks a month. The commercials go away. No commercials on this. No commercials on Palace Intrigue, our daily show about the British royal family. And no commercials on the other show I host, Daily Comedy News, which comes out seven days a week. I hope you'll check that one out, and I hope you have an awesome day.