May 15, 2025

The world's tallest dog meets the world's shortest dog

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The world's tallest dog, Reggie, meets the world's shortest dog, Pearl, showcasing gentle and loving behavior. A breakthrough antidote effectively neutralizing the venom from 19 deadly snakes is introduced, thanks to a donor with hyper immunity. In Florida, a monkey sighting causes a stir. Researchers at a Nova Scotia museum create a Lego mobility aid for an injured turtle named Root. Lastly, Cooper wins his second consecutive title at the European Seagull Screeching Championship.

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Callaroga Shark Media. It is a great time to be

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alive and Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.

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Why is it such a great time? John Well, the

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world's tallest dog got to meet the world's shortest dog.

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Reginald is a great Deane and the Guinness World Record

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holder as the tallest dog three feet three inches tall,

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and Reggie towered over a four year old Pearl, the

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shortest dog in the world, who stands nine point one

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four centimeters. That's three point six inches. Now, if you're like,

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are they gonna get along? They did, Reggie's owner Sam says, obviously,

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bringing the smallest dog in the world with the tallest

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dog in the world, there was a little bit of anxiety.

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I know, Reggie's very gentle and very very kind of

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Pearl as best as he could be. And then when

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he was done, he was done. Vanessa is Pearl's owner,

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and said, when Pearl meets bigger dog, she's really friendly.

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I think she has no idea she's a small dog.

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I think Reggie he was trying to be careful around here,

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so I think that might be the main reason he

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wanted to stay awake, because he was really you know,

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gentle with her. That's an amazing quality that talks a

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lot about how caring and loving he is. I think

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you could see through the photos and videos of the

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love we have for our pets. They're part of the family. Now,

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what's really interesting is Vanessa owned the previous shortest dog,

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Miracle Millie, who was nine point sixty five centimeters tall. Oh,

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Millie passed away in twenty twenty. But we also learned

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of Pearl that Pearl likes to bark in front of

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the various cafes until they give her some cream. She's intelligent,

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knows how to get noticed and get what she wants.

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She has a very busy schedule and is a true

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diva character. Pearl hates sharing toys and food. Okay, why

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did it have to be snakes? We don't worry about that,

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Indiana Jones because a revolutionary new antidote neutralizes the venom

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of nineteen of the world's deadliest snakes, including the black mamba,

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the king cobra, and tiger snakes. Researchers used antibodies from

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a human donor with hyper immunity to develop the most

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broad effective anti venom to date. That's a real thing.

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I thought that only happened on Star Trek. Johnny Mack

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has learned how anti venom is made is not changed

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much over the previous hundred years. It usually involves immunizing

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horses or sheep with venom from a single snake species

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and collecting the antibodies. But then American researchers came across

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Tim Tim had self induced a hyperimmunity in himself. Doctor

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Jacob Glanville is one of the study authors and says

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that donor, for a period of nearly eighteen years, had

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undertaken hundreds of bites and self immunizations with escalating doses

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from sixteen species of very letal snakes that normally would

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kill a horse. Meanwhile, in Florida, be on the lookout.

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There's a monkey on the loose. The Sullivan Ranch Neighborhood

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Homeowners' Association set to warning to area residents, reporting that

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some locals have seen a monkey. One local captured video

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of a monkey. Now I'm reading the article here and

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it tells us one resident quote captured video of a

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monkey while he was picking up his daughter. I assume

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that's the person with the camera and the monkey was

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not picking up the daughter. But the sentence is written

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a little unclear. We've also learned that monkeys are not

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native to Florida, but a population of Reese's monkeys have

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lived in the wild in the state for decades. Most

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of the monkeys live in and around Silver Spring State Park,

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love early dinners and love that there's no state tax.

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Workers at the Museum of Natural History in Nova Scotia

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have helped a turtle walk more comfortably by building a

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customability aid out of Lego pieces. Root. The turtle has

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been at the museum since September. Staff noticed that the

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turtle's missing front right foot was causing his shell to

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drag when he walked. Heather is the museum's animal care specialist.

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She told CBC, because one leg is essentially shorter than

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the other one, we found that he was kind of

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clunking a shell down. There was somewhere on the shell.

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We didn't want it to get worse, so he needed

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something to lift him up. Tessa works at the museum

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and was inspired by a Lego exhibit at the facility

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and came up with a homemade solution. Tessa used a

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small dog harness, a Lego platform, and some Lego wheels

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to come up with some extra support for root the

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turtle's right side. Tess explains, we thought it'd be great

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because we know it's non toxic. We know we could

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replace the parts as we need, and should his shell

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change or grow, we can change the shape and size

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of that. It's very modular. When I snapped his harness on,

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it's like he hears that snap and he's ready to go.

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And congratulations to Cooper. He is seagull boy. He has

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won his second consecutive title at the European Championship Goal

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Screeching Contest. That's right. Cooper, whose seagull screeching career began

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when he was bitten by a seagull, beat out seventy

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participants from thirteen countries. The judges analyze each contestant by

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criteria including your seagull call, your seagull garb, and your

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ability to emulate seagull behavior. Anna won the adult category

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donning white and yellow face paint, and an Italian group

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known as Gabiani Patrogiani or the Partisan Seagulls, they came

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in first in the colony category. You gotta love it

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and those are your five great news stories for today.

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Have an awesome day,