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Rise up sunshine. I'm Koi Wire here with

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your 10 minutes of news. Hope you are

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having an awesome, fantastic, phenomenal

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day. I have a question for you. What is

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your favorite breed of dog? My family is

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trying to convince me that we should get

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one. And I'm thinking some big old dog,

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but they keep showing me these pictures

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of these teeny tiny Pomeranians, and I

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do not know how I feel about that.

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Anyways, I was just thinking about this

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because our lead story today is about a

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breed of robot dogs. Now, we've shown

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you a lot of videos of robo dogs being

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introduced at tech shows or being tested

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in the lab, but today we're getting a

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look at a new fleet being put into

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action in the real world, working in

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forests. This pack is heading out into

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the wilderness using cameras and lasers

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to map trees in ways humans maybe never

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could. Here's how the Oxford Robotics

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Institute is giving forest management a

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whole new perspective.

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They do look and feel very much like

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robot dogs. When we go to the forest or

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to the park sometimes just to test the

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robots, um we do attract attention not

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only of the dog owners but the dogs

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themselves. So they they tend to come

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close and then sniff around uh the

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robot. Of course, our robots can't

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understand this yet.

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So my name is Nive Sholu and I'm a

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senior researcher here at the Oxford

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Robotics Institute.

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So this is the antibiotic quadripet.

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This is a robot platform that we've been

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using in order to do the the forestry

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mapping. There are about eight cameras

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on the device which are used for for for

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obstacle detection as well as other

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cameras which are more high resolution

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for for for understanding the uh the

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trees and the environment around us.

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Lasers, scanners as well as inertial

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measurement units.

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Once we have all this data as the robot

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is moving, we can stitch together to

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create a 3D map of the environment.

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So the goal of the DigiF Forest project

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was to build digital models of forests

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using cameras and lasers on a variety of

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different robot platforms. So with more

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detailed reconstructions of the forest,

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we're able to more quickly identify when

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there is maybe disease or whether a tree

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is damaged or could be helped or whether

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it could be harvested uh for for its

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wood.

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Forest management has used measuring

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tapes for over 100 years and this use of

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quadriped robots will transform the way

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it's carried out.

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>> With this as the robot is walking, you

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densely map the entire region. So you

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get a per tree inventory. So we're able

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to monitor it at a much higher

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resolution than what we we were able to

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do in the past.

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>> So I think we now have a kind of a fully

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functional system that's able to map a

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hectare maybe in 20 minutes. So when you

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have four points of contact, it's

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naturally stable compared to a humanoid

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kind of a robot which is two legs. So

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just energy wise, it's much more uh

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efficient to have a four-legged robot,

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especially in uneven terrain.

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>> The cost of these walking platforms is

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falling dramatically. They're with

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longer battery life with with different

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battery technology. It's an exploratory

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technology. It's not one you're likely

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to come across when you go down to the

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woods today, but uh you never know.

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Pop quiz hot shot. A giant panda's diet

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consists of almost exclusively hot tree

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bark, berries, bamboo, or insects.

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There is no bamboozling you if you said

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bamboo. Pandas spend up to 16 hours a

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day feasting on the woody grass. A

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full-grown panda can eat up to a 100

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pounds of bamboo per day. For the first

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time in decades, there are no giant

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pandas in Japan. The last pair were sent

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back to their ancestral home in China.

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The twin pandas were born in Tokyo, but

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under Beijing's long-running panda

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diplomacy program, they still belong to

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China, and the agreement to send them

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back reached its deadline. Crowds

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gathered at the Tokyo Zoo to bid

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farewell to a pair of four-year-old

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pandas last week. CNN's Hanako

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Montgomery reports.

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For the first time in half a century,

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Japan will be pandalless. As its last

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two cubs, Ziao Xiao and Lelay, are

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leaving for China.

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>> I'm really sad. We always said there's a

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panda here, so we'll get to see it

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sometime. And then this happened. I wish

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I'd come more often.

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News of the twins departure has drawn

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fans from across the country, some

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waiting hours for a final glimpse.

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Though they were born in Tokyo in 2021,

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the Cubs were always meant to return

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this year to their motherland, which

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loans the Bears as goodwill ambassadors

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and to strengthen trade ties.

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But as tensions between Japan and China

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deepen, prospects for another pandalone

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seem increasingly far-fetched.

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It feels like such a cute innocent

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animal is being used as a trump card or

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weapon.

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Relations between the two countries are

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at their lowest point in years after

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Japan's Prime Minister Sana Takichi said

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in Parliament that a Chinese invasion of

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Taiwan could trigger a Japanese military

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response. China, which claims Taiwan as

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its own, considers the issue a red line

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and has responded with a flurry of

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economic pressure tactics like cutting

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flights, warning citizens against

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traveling to Japan, and suspending

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seafood imports.

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Now, the panda's departure, though

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pre-planned, feels like yet another

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blow.

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>> Honestly, at the operational level, we

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don't know if we'll get more pandas, but

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we hope to continue working with China

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on conservation and breeding research in

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the future.

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>> Japan first welcomed pandas in 1972 to

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mark the normalization of ties with

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China. What followed was decades of

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panda fever with a zoo surrounding

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neighborhood transformed by tourism and

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panda themed merchandise.

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Tens of millions of dollars are

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generated each year from the panda

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economy, according to one economist's

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estimates. But with no new bare loan in

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sight, Japan's 50-year chapter of panda

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diplomacy comes to a close.

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It's time for a Did you know? Even

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though giant pandas eat a prolific

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amount of bamboo, they can only digest

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about 17% of it. That is because despite

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evolving to be herbivores, they've

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retained a short digestive tract

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normally seen in carnivores. This

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combined with a fiber-rich diet means

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pandas are prodigious producers of

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excrement. An adult panda can go number

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two up to 100 times a day, producing

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dozens of pounds of waste. Talk about

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kungpoo panda. And that's not their only

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bizarre bathroom habit. Get this. Pandas

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are also known to urinate while doing a

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handstand. Yes, this is true. Scientists

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say the unusual act is actually a

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technique to mark their territory. The

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higher the mark, the bigger the panda.

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Do not try this at home. Pause. Aibly

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enlightening stuff. and teachers. I am

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sorry for any pandemonium the potty talk

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have caused.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A

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farm dog you have to see to believe and

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you won't believe that the dog can't

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see. Goose arrived on a Pendleton

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County, Kentucky farm in 2013. And his

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owner, Miss Lindy Huffman, says he chose

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her. He was the very first puppy that

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came and ran up to me and he snatched

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the harness out of my hands and took off

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with it. And I think in that moment I

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knew that he was mine and I was his. So

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he kind of chose me in that moment.

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>> For more than a decade, Goose has done

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it all. Bringing in cattle, helping

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during planting season and keeping a

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close eye on the greenhouse. That

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dedication is now earning Goose national

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attention as one of three finalists for

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the People's Choice Pup Award.

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>> He's been getting a lot of traction.

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It's not going to his head too bad.

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>> Now, listen to this. In 2021, Goose was

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dealing with glaucoma, which began to

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take his eyesight, forcing Lindy and her

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husband to make a difficult decision to

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remove his eyes.

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>> We were worried, you know, is he still

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going to love the same? Is he still

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going to adventure the same? Is he still

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going to, you know, farm the same?

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>> We'll let Goose show you how it's done.

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The farm dog phenom still knows his way

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down the gravel path, knows the pasture,

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and how to get to the red barn, ready

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for another day of work. Goose is a

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living testimony that losing something

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doesn't mean losing your way. The

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important thing is to do your best to

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keep moving forward. All right,

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superstars, a couple shout outs for you

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before I send you on your way. First up,

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Mr. Washington at Riverdale High School

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in Riverdale, Georgia. Thank you for

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continuing your family's legacy of

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teaching and go Raiders. And this shout

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out goes to Mr. Lidle at Meadow Park

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Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon.

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Thank you for the kind emails from your

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students. Rise up. It is almost Friday,

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everyone. So go out, spread some joy. Be

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a spark of joy. Be a spark of kindness.

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And I'll see you right back here

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tomorrow. I'm Koi Wire and we are CNN

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