A Great Taco Feast
Ever since I saw my hero Jacoby Ellsbury steal a base, I have been waiting for today between 2 and 5PM so that I could feast on my free taco. Since Taco Bell is not yet dog-friendly, I had to send my human out to our local downtown Chicago Taco Bell to pick me up my taco. He had to walk 2 miles to get said taco and when he came back my taco was cold, wet, and delicious. The taco was everything I dreamed it would be- meat and cheese together at last:
After the feast, I celebrated like Papelbon on a Duck Boat. I was disappointed I didn't get to attend the Rolling Rally today, but the taco made up for it. My grandpa told me that the Dropkick Murphys played with Papelbon. Even though my brother Stanislaw is Polish, the Dropkick Murphys are his favorite band. He is one party animal. He doesn't really care about the games, just the post-party. If he ever saw the Murphys live, he would pee out of excitement. Me too probably.
I'm drooling just looking at you - did you know that Jacoby stopped by the Boston Taco Bell after the rally for his free taco? See story and video -
http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_303130025.html
Emmet
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Wow, Big Pupi, that taco must have been great.
I hope your human didn't take any huge risks in getting it for you, walking around there in downtown Chicago. We were watching a movie last week about downtown Chicago and there was this guy named Al Capone and his men were driving these old-fashioned cars around downtown Chicago - and they were shooting guns at some of the people.
Make sure if you're out walking and you see this Capone character, you hide behind the nearest fire hydrant.
Are you near the railroad station? I heard it's a really nice one.
Eleanor
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Well, this has nothing to do with the Red Sox, Pupi, nor is it about tacos. But it is something that happened near your former house in Texas. It's actually from my human's hometown in San Antonio.
"Woman gets new car after giving hers as reward for lost dog
Web Posted: 10/31/2007 12:25 AM CDT
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
How far would you go to get your dog back? One San Antonio woman gave away one of her most prized possessions, and Tuesday night, she got the surprise of her life. Latasha Armendariz was surprised with a new Ford Mustang convertible when she returned home from work.
Armendariz had given her 1996 convertible to the man who found Porkchop, her missing 2-year-old English Bulldog, earlier this month.
"I just wanted Porkchop back, you know. He's my baby. So, to have this and him, I'm just, like, on top of the world," she said. The new car came from the Armor All company, who saw the story on the news, and teamed up with Red McCombs Ford West to make it all happen. Armendariz also got some new toys for Porkchop."
Eleanor
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Hi Pupi
On the theme of missing animals, do you know about Parlay, the bullpen parrot? He was at the rally yesterday on Mike Timlin's shoulder. Here is the story of how he was stolen from the bullpen after Game 7 of the ACLS, but returned by students who "found him in their freezer" (they don't know how he got there!) after Mike Timlin made an appeal -
http://www.outincenterfield.com/blog/2007/10/parrot.html
Emmet
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I read about these awards to a dog and a cat, so I thought maybe some of you would be interested.
"NEW YORK — When Debbie Parkhurst choked on a piece of apple at her Maryland home, her dog jumped in, landing hard on her chest and forcing the morsel to pop out of her throat. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be overcome by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at wife Cathy's hair until she woke up and called for help.
For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2 1/2-year-old golden retriever, and Winnie, a gray-eyed American shorthair, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Neither Parkhurst nor Keesling could explain their pets' timely heroics, though Parkhurst suggested her pooch's Heimlich maneuver might have been guided by divine intervention.
"That's what our veterinarian said," she said. "He wasn't making a joke; he's very spiritual, and now I have to agree with him."
Both pets were themselves rescued in infancy — Toby as a 4-week-old puppy tossed into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Keesling's husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.
As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used to remove flood waters from their basement in New Castle, Ind., last March malfunctioned, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie the cat moved into rescue mode, the couple's 14-year-old son, Michael, was already unconscious.
"Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry meow," Cathy Keesling said. "When I woke up I felt like a T-bar had hit me across the head."
State police and sheriff's officers responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.
Debbie Parkhurst's husband, Kevin, was at his job at a Wilmington, Del., chemical firm when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple.
"Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that's what caused me to choke," she recalled.
"I couldn't breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life."
Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon at Manhattan's posh Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center."
Eleanor
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Big Pupi and Emmet, and all the other animals out there,
Here is a video about a cat, and if you have patience, it even has a baseball connection near the end.
Eleanor
http://www2.whidbey.net/ken/wake-up.wmv
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Eleanor - Thank you for sharing those stories, and especially that video. That is an excellent self-help video on how to wake up your human to get fed. I have tried all that stuff, except the baseball bat part, so now I know what I need to do. Right now, whenever I am hungry in the middle of the night - like 3 or 4 am - my human locks me in the computer room if I claw her head or bed to get her attention. Maybe the bat will get better results. I would much prefer a bowl of food to a computer keyboard - except of course when she is trying to use it. That is the perfect time for sitting on it. Why doesn't she understand this? Thanks for this advice.
I think Pupi has the opportunity for an off-season column, "Ask Pupi" when there is no hot stove news. We need all the advice we can get.
Emmet
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Pats rule, Colts drool!
Emmet
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Hi Pupi,
I heard some crazy guy on our television say everybody was supposed to get an extra hour of sleep this weekend because of something that happens with the clocks, whatever those are. I don't have any idea what he was talking about, because I get several extra hours of sleep every day of every week, and they never announce it on television.
In fact, that very morning when we were supposed to be getting that extra hour, I got up extra early. I thought it would be nice to poke my paw through the venetian blinds in our bedroom and see if there were any birds or squirrels up and about yet.
I was making so much noise it was actually a lot of fun poking my paw through the blinds. But then, for some reason, I wound up in the living room with the bedrooom door closed.
Eleanor
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