Sheepdog sells for $38,893!

Guinness World Records announced a border collie, named Kim, sold for $38,893 at an auction, breaking the record for the world’s most expensive sheepdog.

Kim was auctioned online by Farmers Marts in Dolgellau, Wales, breaking the record previously set when a sheepdog named Henna sold for $26,088 at an October 2020 auction. Kim’s high price is especially notable given that the auction occurred one day before the canine’s first birthday.

Dewi Jenkins, the farmer and competitive sheepdog trainer who raised Kim, said she already has the intelligence of a three-year-old sheepdog.

Twenty-foot bear made from roses!

A decoration at a wedding vow renewal ceremony for 108 couples in China broke a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest rose bear — a 20-foot-2-inch bear made from roses.

China Regenerative Medicine International Limited, which hosted the socially distanced ceremony for 108 couples in Wanning City, Hainan Province, said the giant rose bear was constructed from 48,000 real roses attached to a metal wire frame.

The bear measured 15 feet and 10 inches long, 12 feet and 10 inches wide, and 20 feet and 2 inches tall.

Crocodile has surgery to remove shoe from stomach

The University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine said the 11-foot crocodile was brought to the facility February 5, after ingesting a shoe that fell from a zipliner’s foot at the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park.

The croc had originally thrown up the shoe but ate it a second time. Vets attempted to get the crocodile to vomit again, but without success. The 341-pound crocodile had a gastronomy surgical procedure to remove the shoe from its stomach. The crocodile, named Anuket, was kept overnight for supervision and is now recovering in its enclosure at the zoo.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 6th, 2021