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Famous Fridays: Dug the Dog

November 20th, 2009
dugthedog

Cone of Shame!

Dug, from Pixar’s 2009 animated film Up, is everyone’s newest and favorite talking dog.  Dug is the odd duck out of a pack with special collars giving them the ability to speak their minds.  He helps to aid Carl Fredericksen and boy scout Russell in their adventures at Paradise Falls.

With such memorable lines as “”I have just met you, and I love you”, “My master is good and smart”, “I do not like the cone of shame”, and “I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, ‘I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead.’ Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead”, Dug speaks what most of us dogs think about the world.

The DVD was released earlier this month (November 10, 2009) and includes “Dug’s Special Mission”, an all new original short film that follows the misadventures of Dug.  He previously appeared briefly in Pixar’s 2007 film, Ratatouille, as a shadow on a wall that barks at Remy.

Dug's cameo

Famous Fridays: Balto

October 9th, 2009
The real Balto

The real Balto

No, not the Disney version. The real Balto is a Siberian husky “who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska to Nenana, Alaska by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.” Pretty impressive for a dog who wasn’t considered to be a particularly good lead dog by his owner!

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