It's been a heckuva week. Chin up, readers. We found some good news.

Happy Friday. What a year this week has been.

For what started with the Super Bowl (February party opportunity 1) and ends with the Oscars (February party opportunity 2), there sure was a lot of news that happened to our country and the world this week. But I'm not here to recap the Super Bowl or the Iowa brouhaha or the impeachment acquittal or the coronavirus. (That's what your Daily Briefing newsletter is for.) It's time to pull a Pelosi and rip up that script.

Here's some good news from the past couple days you might have gotten lost in the shuffle this week. Let's take it out on a high note. 

If humans fail us, there are always animals

I dare you not to smile at Finley, the 6-year-old golden retriever who can carry up to six tennis balls in his mouth at one time, more than the Guinness World Record.

Step 1: Say "good boy" to that photo of Finley. Step 2: adopt your own pup. Step 3: Drink a Coors Light? The beer brand is giving out $100 to the first 1,000 dogs adopted between Feb. 4 and Feb. 21. Cheers to that.

Just going to give you four words here: Feel-good koala content. (Yes, please.)

Mommy and baby koala healed and released back into the wild

What this tough mama koala and her baby did when they were released back into the wild is every rescuers' dream come true.

Animalkind, Paste BN

So yeah, rats are gross. But anyone grasping to 2020 healthy resolutions will find this viral video of a rat in the New York Subway dragging a take-out salad along the tracks (#tbt to intrepid predecessors Pizza Rat and Bagel Pigeon) oddly inspiring. Salad Rat can do it. And so can we.

People did some cool things, too

The scene: A woman was robbed about 600 miles from her home in Texas, leaving her and her dog, Lady, stranded. To get the dog back, a local animal care center gathered pledges and volunteers on social media to help her get home.

In what's being called a "miracle rescue," a kayaker was found alive and floating after he'd gone missing in the Everglades in late January.

It's not every day a bartender gets a 488% tip. Enter retired car dealership owner Greg Howe, who added a $5,000 tip to his $10.43 bill during a lucky lunch rush this week in Massachusetts.

If it can't be an adopted dog, I guess a grand gesture by air will do. This week, a Kentucky man made local news when he proposed to his biology teacher girlfriend outside her school after arriving via helicopter. The plan involves a fake fire drill and yearbook photos, too.