The Great Cow Escape, Mouse Utopia and The Accidental Divorce

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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Hey, good news those escape cows
They turned themselves in. Apparently some cows

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on Guernsey Island had escaped. A
local manager of the Society for Prevention of

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Cruelty to Animals said the cows left
their form yep, but luckily it made

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their way to the gspca's office.
Steve Burns said, we're very blessed to

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have very clever animals here in Guernsey. This weekend a local herd of Guernsey

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cows got through their fencing and decided
to visit the team at the GSPCA on

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Sunday. It was a very entertaining
day for the team, but we like

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a challenge and it wasn't long before
we got hold of the farmer who owned

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them and off they went. Steve
says, in recent years we've had a

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stray horse walk into the car park
and even two goats walk right in to

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have themselves in when they escape from
their field. These are very well trained

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animals. Good news. Use if
you're either a time traveler from the twenty

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third century or you just wanted to
talk to a humpback whale. You either

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got that or you didn't. Marine
biologists say they were able to have a

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conversation of sorts with a humpback whale
without resorting to mind melds. An adult

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female humpback whale, Twain was located
with a group of whales and called with

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a recording of another humpback's whoop throp
a call. The recording was made by

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whales of the same group the day
before, but the team didn't know if

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recorded calls would work or not.
It turned out that whatever the whale had

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been saying the day before made Twain
interested. After the team broadcasted the playback,

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Twain drifted away from her group and
participated both physically and acoustically in three

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phases of interaction with the crew.
First, Twain called back, then circled

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the boat, surfaced, and dived
again. After the interaction, she kind

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of left. Brenda McCowan told the
BBC after playing the contact call three times,

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we got a huge response. Then, to keep the animal engaged,

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I started trying to match the late
her calls to our calls. So if

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she waited ten seconds, I waited
ten seconds, we ended up matching each

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other. We did this thirty six
times over a twenty minute period. Meanwhile,

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a British man has built a mouse
village. Simon Dell began creating the

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mouse village six years ago in his
garden. He wanted to protect the mouse

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from neighborhood cats. The mouse village
has attracted more mice to the luxury mouse

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town. Yeah, it sounds like
a nice place to live. The mousetown

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constructed from recycled materials and repurposed trash. Simon documents the daily mouse activities across

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his social media channels. You might
want to look up at George of the

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Mouse. Simon had piled some small
logs around a box as a home for

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the original mouse and covered it with
moss and straw to give the mouse little

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shelter. Added wire fencing to keep
the cats away. Within a few days,

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some more mice found out about the
mouse gentrification. They moved into the

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neighborhood. So what did Simon do? He kept adding to mouse village.

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He made some dining tables. He
gave the mice some props for hobbies like

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painting, boating, gardening, and
photography. Now there's about twenty mice.

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Simon says the only eliminated is my
own imagination and skills at making the new

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buildings, and everything is made by
hand from recycled bits of wood. Old

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logs are just about anything I can
find in skips or the trash. They

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could be given a new life.
They have two of my old boots converted

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into mouse homes, lots of other
types of homes scattered around the village.

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In fact, they have everything you
would want in a village or even a

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town. He has plans to add
a train station, a cafe, and

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a theater. He says, that
has been my goal to make others smile,

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along with keeping my mind and body
active. Check out George the Mouse

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on social media. In Alaska,
they've rolled out a four legged robotic guard

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animal that can be disguised as a
fox or a coyote. The goal to

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deter animals from crossing or loitering on
the runways. The dot says they've tried

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all kinds of things. They've tried
bringing pigs onto the airport grounds to eat

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bird eggs. They've mounted speakers to
produce loud noises. They've fired at the

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animals with paintball guns. They've even
used drones that spray grape juice. So

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if none of that works, Johnny
Max wondering why don't you guys just get

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a like well trained dog, But
nope, Robotic Predator. The robotic Predator

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will prowl all the runways at Fairbanks
Airport. The robotic Predator can move through

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snow and ice while being controlled at
a console inside panels of imitation, fur

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print can be attached to the Robotic
Predator to make it appear like a fox

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or coyote. Again, I'm not
sure why we don't just get a dog,

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but I'm not an expert in this. The Robotic Predator cost seventy thousand

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dollars and good news if you kind
of wanted to get divorced anyway. A

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couple was accidentally divorced after a lawyer
clicked the wrong button. Mister and Missus

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Williams were at the lawyer the lawyer
clicked the wrong button in an online portal.

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The error was made after the lawyers
intended to complete a divorce for another

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client, but inadvertently opened the electronic
case file in Williams v. Williams.

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The lawyers realized the mistake two days
later and appealed to the High Court to

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repeal the divorce. However, the
judge was like, Nope, there is

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a strong public policy interest in respecting
the certainty and finality that flows from a

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final divorce order. But if I
understand the story correctly, missus Williams kind

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of wanted a divorce anyway, so
they were like, Eh, let's leave

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it be. I don't know,
asked the Williamses. And those are your

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