The World's Ugliest Dog and the World's Oldest Mouse

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello Chunny Mack with five good news stories. Good news for Diego, the rescued bear. He's a brown bear and he recently moved from Sweden to the UK and he's settling in with the help of Honey, Peanut Butter and his neighboring bears. He was moved to the Wildwood Trust in November after his being saved from being put down. His keeper James said, I think Diego's definitely adjusting near the UK climate was a lot colder in Sweden. Diego was found when he was five months old. He was originally found abandoned and very skinny back in twenty eleven. James tells us the fact that he's got two other bears in a similar area, it's caused a lot of interest and he has a lot of enrichment and we're monitoring him with cameras.

0:47 Congratulations to Scooter. Scooter is a seven year old Chinese crested dog and is the world's ugliest dog. His body is hairless, but he's a thin mane of spiky white hair in his head, his rear legs face backward, his tongue out of his mouth constantly. He won the twenty twenty three World's Ugliest Dog Contest. It's been held for almost fifty years. It's not meant to make fun of dogs. It's to celebrate unusual dogs. It's also meant to encourage people to adopt dogs that need a loving home. One of the judges described Scooter as in the keenest way possible. He reminds me of a hairy hippopotamus, which is an interesting description because I just told you the dog is no hair. When poor Scooter was a puppy, his life was at risk because of his rear legs. They face backward so he can't walk. But a volunteer from a group that works to protect animals thought Scooter might make it.

1:32 The volunteers right before too long, Scooter learned an incredible trick. He learned to walk by balancing on his two front legs. Even jump up a curb or climb steps. That's awesome. Recently, Scooter was giving a special cart with wheels that attaches to his rear end. That way you can get it around quickly. Linda adopted Scooter and said Scooter has no idea that he's different from other dogs. The world's tallest wooden wind turbine has started turning. There's even a riddle. What's made from the same wood as a Chriss tree, held together by glue and manufactured in a Swedish factory. No, it's nothing at ikea. It's a wind turbine. It's four hundred and ninety two feet to the tip of the highest blade. The two megawatt generator on top has started supplying electricity to the Swedish grid, providing power for about four hundred homes. And good news if you tend to lose things like money, Tokyo is not a bad place to lose things. Last year, people turned in twenty nine point six million dollars in cash that they found. In Japan, people are expected to turn in any loss money they find. It's actually the law, but Japan also has a reward system for people who turned in money.

2:37 If someone claims the money it's been turned in, the finder gets a reward up to twenty percent after three months. If no one has claimed the money, you get to keep it all. The Tokyo Police report that people turned in roughly three point four million items in twenty twenty two. The most commonly lost items or driver's licenses or other ID cards. Police say they also handled about three hundred and twenty thousand pieces of clothing, including of a lot of gloves. Congratulations to Pat the mouse setting the world record for oldest known living mouse. The mouse set the record at nine years, two hundred nine days and counting. Pat is a Pacific pocket mouse, the smallest kind of mouse in North America. He weighs about as much as three pennies. Pocket mice are endangered. Starting in the early nineteen thirties, humans began taking up more and more of the area where the mice normally lived, which is within two miles of the Pacific. By the nineteen seventies, scientists believed the Pacific pocket mouse had become extinct, but nineteen ninety four scientists found a small group of Pacific pocket mice in Orange County. Starting in twenty twelve, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance began working to help the mice by raising them in captivity.

3:46 Pat was born July fourteenth, twenty thirteen. In the wild, Pacific pocket mice usually only lived three to five years. Even when being cared for humans, they don't usually live much longer than seven and a half years. I did a Google search before I read the story, and I don't see any updates, so I guess Pat is doing well in almost ten I hope you're doing okay, Pat the Pocket Mouse, And those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. If you're just sampling today, once you hit that follow button, I'm here three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you have an awesome day.