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Good morning and welcome to Kid News!

I'm Tori.

Today is Tuesday, April 12, 2022.

We're taking a few days of news R&R for spring break.

So we have some best of kid news podcasts for you instead, starting with a look back

at some of our most interesting animal stories from the past year.

And we begin with a rescue dog down under turning the tables and doing the rescuing.

Bear is an Australian coolly that not too long ago had trouble finding a forever home because

of his non-stop energy, but that negative turned into a positive for a nearby university

that needed dogs for its detection team.

The school took him in and taught him to find wild animals stranded by natural disasters.

Bear passed all his tests with flying colors and, with special shoes on his paws, went

on to sniff out more than a hundred koalas trapped by Australia's wildfires in 2019 and

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