The world's oldest dog, Bobi, dies at age 31 (Bonus episode)

0:02 The Shark Deck. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with a bonus episode of five good News Stories. Just want to warn you in case you didn't read the episode title, the first story is actually sad, So if you're listening with kids, you might want to hit pause. I give you a second here. I'll just babble for a second. I was out for a run and then I got an alert on my phone and I saw the story and I'm like, oh, I'm going to do a bonus episode. It is a follow up to a story I told you about earlier in this year. The Sad News. The world's oldest dog, Bobi has passed away age thirty one and one hundred and sixty five days. Bobie passed away at his home in Portugal on Saturday. His death announced on social media by a local veterinarian, doctor Karen Becker, wrote, despite outliving every dog in history, his four hundred and seventy eight days on earth would never be enough for those who loved him. Bobie became both the world's oldest living dog and the oldest dog ever back in February. The previous oldest dog was Bluey, who passed away in Australia in nineteen thirty nine, at the age of twenty nine years and five months. If you are skeptical, Bobi's age had been validated by the Portuguese government's pet database. Bobi lived his entire life with the Costa family in a village on Portugal's west coast. He was born with three siblings. His owner, Linal was eight at the time. He said his parents had too many animals and had put the other siblings to sleep, but Bobi escaped. Costa and his brothers kept the dog's existence a secret from their parents until the dog was eventually discovered and became part of the family. Wow. They had a scare in twenty eighteen when Bobi was hospitalized after suddenly collapsing due to breathing difficulty.

1:34 Back in February, cost revealed that Bobi had enjoyed a relatively trouble free life. I thought the secret to his longevity was the calm, peaceful environment he lived in. He had experienced trouble walking and poor eyesight. Bobi's mother had lived to the age of eighteen. Another family dog lived to the age of twenty two. If you want to hear the original story on this It is the February sixteenth, twenty twenty three, episode of five Good News Stories, and it is unclear at this time who is the old dog in the world. I will follow up with that when I hear it. All right, let's do some good news. The cuddly champion of the twenty twenty three People's World's Cutest Rescue Dog contest is Hobi. Hobi is a one eyed terrier.

2:14 Kristin is Hobi's human and says Hobi looks like a teddy bear and is very sweet. They were looking for another dog to join the family. Looking for rescue pets online, they came across Hoby was available for adoption at the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter. Kristin, the human, said, we fell in love with him, and so did the voters. In the twenty twenty three People's World's Cutest Rescue Dog contest, thousands of voters chose the five year old terrier mix to win the annual composition Hoby spunk in Charm helps him triumph over eight thousand other furry contestants. Hoby's prizes include some dog food from the sponsor and a one thousand donation to the Animal rescue of his choice. They have chosen the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter, Hoby's former home. Kristin the Human says, we have this ritual on weekend mornings. I have coffee, He crawls up my laugh and I hold him like a baby. He could do this for hours. He's a very sweet, wild mannered little boy. Normally I try and keep the podcast varied and don't do a bunch of pet stories all in one episode. But today feels a little different, So let me tell you about a unique cat with two noses. The cat is named Nanny McPhee and was given to Cats Protection Adoption Center in Warrington, Cheshire after the owner got sick and could no longer care for the cat. Staff at first thought Nanny McFee just had a big nose, but a checkup by veterinarians revealed the four year old cat actually has two noses. Vet officer Fiona Brockbank said a cat with two noses is a first for us. This is a real rarity and thankfully it isn't causing her any problems at all. Like all our cats, Nanny McFee will be neutered before rehoming, so any concerns about inherited problems are resolved as she won't have kittens. We've all fallen in love with our one of a kind nanny McFee. We can't stop looking at her two noses.

3:46 She's proven to be a gentle lady who adores a fuss and a cuddle, and we're hopeful her newfound fame means there'll be no shortage of potential adopters. Congratulations to Walter Decker. He turned to ninety nine last week. Well over the weekend, he climbed oney seven hundred and seventy six steps to the top of Toronto's Cend Tower. Oh, it's not the first time he did this. He did this back in twenty fifteen at age ninety one. That year, he raised sixteen hundred dollars money that goes toward addressing poverty and housing issues in the Greater Toronto area. At age ninety one, he did it in just over forty seven minutes. He had told CBC Toronto prior to this year, it's going to take a little longer. I've slowed down for sure. This year, he did it in an hour ten and he says I'm bad for a ninety nine year old. Next year, when he's one hundred, he won't be doing it. Why his granddaughter's getting married in San Francisco on the same weekend as the climb, so that he'll be out of town.

4:39 And what do you do when you're on the Eiffel Tower and the police close it down because somebody's climbing it. This happened to somebody. I'll tell you what you do, you get married. Police arrested a man climbing in the Eiffel Tower last week. That meant some visitors were stuck up at the top. I've been to the top of the Eiffel Tower. Not the worst place to be stuck anyway. Amir Kahn was there, and he had been planning to propose to Ca Warren later in the day in a Paris garden away from the crowds. Later, plans were for romantic dinner on the River's he Inn, but because of the climber, the elevators were shut down, stranding the couple and some others at the top, and con said, Eh, let me go for it. He told a reporter. I figured we might be here longer than I imagined. I didn't want to miss dinner, and she always wanted to be proposed to honor under the Eiffel Tower, so I figured this is the moment. What did she say yes? Cat Warren said he had a pretty good chance of be saying yes all along. And that's your five good news stories for today. Rest in peace, Boby