The Happy Pod: From rescue to romance
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How did a plea to fly a dog lead to marriage?
I'm Bernadette Keogh and in this edition... I'm going to try to get through this without crying too much. Please watch this whole video.
How a cry for help on social media led to love and marriage. I got a man who's completely obsessed with me. I love it.
And a wife who's the same way.
Yes. Yes. Also saving your dad's life twice.
I want to live now, having my dad around. Life is not promised, so I'm not going to worry about what could or couldn't happen. I need to live for now.
Joshua gave stem cells when he was 12 and has now donated a kidney. How learning to cook at home is saving people money and improving their health... and a chance encounter that led to a project using tennis to help homeless people.
He kind of said to me, hey, I've seen you on telly, would you play tennis with me? He played like Ken Rosewill and Rod Laver, he was amazing.
As couples around the world have just been celebrating Valentine's Day, we're starting with a truly modern transatlantic love story. It has everything. An American with a broken heart, an elderly dog, a German pilot in shining armour and a happily ever after in Switzerland. And as Nicky Cardwell reports, it all began with a tearful plea for help on social media.
I'm going to try to get through this without crying too much. Please watch this whole video. In November 2023, in utter desperation, Adri Pendleton went on TikTok to ask for help. Originally from California, she'd been living in the Netherlands with her boyfriend for six years, but they'd broken up. All I want is to go back home. But my dog is now 15 years old and she has had epilepsy for a few years. So I will not even consider putting her in the cargo hold of an airplane. And I'm not leaving her behind. I have had her since I was 15 years old. Her border collie was too sick to fly in the cargo hold, but according to the airlines, too big for the cabin. This is how Adri Pendleton met Niklas Druteval.
I did not think that I had any options. So I thought maybe someone on TikTok would have ideas. Maybe an airline would make an exception for us, something. I certainly was not expecting to end up on a private jet. Good chance that I saw that video. Yeah. I was just scrolling on TikTok, to be honest, and I came across the video. I guess the algorithm was saying, oh, there's something with airplanes in it. You must like that. And dogs. You have a lot of dogs on your feed. Airplanes and dogs. So... Yeah, the video came up on my page and just left a comment. Yeah, like message me on Instagram. You know, maybe we can make something happen there, even though it was not to California, but at least it was, you know, across the Atlantic.
Over the ocean. Yeah, which is arguably the... most difficult part of that journey, I think. Yeah. I was getting so many messages. I almost missed it. I didn't see it until like a day after he had left the comment. And at first I thought it was something worth looking into. I didn't get my hopes up because, you know, a lot of people have a lot of ideas and I was just pursuing any avenue that I could. Once it started to seem more like it was actually going to be a real thing that could work out, I was I was slightly nervous, but, uh, we, you know, we, we checked him out. We looked him up. I was sleuth. Yeah. You were very thoroughly investigated by both myself and my friends and family.
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