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Yogi The Pug Visits Classroom |
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Original article by Jesse Yeatman from the Southern Maryland News. All rights held by them.
 A famous dog and his tongue stopped by for a visit at Greenview Knolls Elementary School last week.
Yogi the Pug, made famous by an always-visible long tongue, and his owner, Kevin Donahue, joined a holiday party last week at Lori Ennis' second-grade class at Greenview Knolls Elementary School. Yogi has become an Internet phenomenon thanks to hundreds of thousands of views of a short video clip posted on YouTube showing the dog waking up with his tongue lazily hanging out.
"With the presence of reconnecting Web sites like Facebook and Classmates.com, etc, I stumbled upon a boy I had a huge crush on 20 years ago in high school," Ennis said. As it happened, Donahue still lives in the Washington, D.C., region and, to her surprise, is owner to the celebrity Yogi the Pug.
"I've met so many people, even my best friend from age 5," Ennis said. She said it was great reconnecting with Donahue.
Although she said she is now happily married to a Marine Corps major who is a pilot, Ennis said reconnecting with the crush from 20 years ago opened up a nice opportunity for her students to see the famous dog.
After contacting Donahue via the Internet, he offered to bring Yogi for a visit to her second-grade class at Greenview Knolls Elementary School, Ennis said.
Donahue uses Yogi to give inspirational messages about overcoming adversity and accepting others for who they are despite their differences. He adopted Yogi when the dog was 3, and believes a slight stroke may account for the state of the dog's tongue.
"Yogi transcends ages, races, everything. Everyone loves him," Donahue said. "I get fan mail from all over the world. It's really amazing."
Students were riveted by the little pug during the classroom visit, wondering how he gets along in day-to-day life. "He's cute. I like when his tongue sticks out," said second-grader Ansleigh Bryer as she tried to feed the pug a pretzel. Another student asked how he can eat when his tongue is permanently hanging out.
"He actually makes a big mess," Donahue said. "Animals are very resilient and if there's food around he'll find a way to eat it."
The pug also had 17 teeth removed when he was younger because they weren't being used and began to rot, he said.
"He snores very loud at night," Donahue told the giggling group of second-graders. "He likes to howl at fire trucks and other sirens," he said. He also likes to chase birds, "but he never caught any."
Each child received a small Yogi stuffed doll and Donahue also passed out greeting cards with pictures of Yogi posed as a soldier, jogger, doctor and in other costumes.
Donahue has a Web site for the dog where he posts updates, video clips and photos and sells Yogi merchandise. He said he donates profits from the site to nonprofit animal groups.
Earlier this year Donahue and his dog made a guest appearance on Rachael Ray's daytime talk show. "It was funny. Valerie Bertinelli and Rachael Ray came in the green room and were petting him," he recalled from his moment of television stardom. After the appearance on the show visits to his Web site and the YouTube videos of Yogi spiked.
Yogi appeared on the show along with YouTube stars Emma, a 3-year-old who tries to feed her dog while talking to her father on a cell phone, and a man who painted a portrait of Bruce Lee by dipping his hands in paint and then karate chopping a wall-sized canvas.
The video of Yogi waking up had close to 400,000 views earlier this week. About two dozen other videos of Yogi posted over the last two years have thousands and even tens of thousands of views each, including one of Yogi attacking a pile of bubble wrap and one of the pug walking along a beach, tongue in tow.
Donahue said the video had been getting a few hundred hits a day, but after the television appearance it jumped to 30,000 hits.
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Posted on Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:30 am by PugNews |
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