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"We knew on day one. As soon as I opened my mouth, he started
singing," she describes.
"We thought we could train him not to, but it soon became clear
that wasn't going to happen."
Since then, Pikelet has accompanied Ms. Dodsworth on her daily singing
sessions, whether she likes it or not.
"He's not bad. He's pretty loud and pretty high," she
says.
The singer also says that she plans on taking Pikelet on the road to
her next performance in Canberra. However, the precocious pooch
won't be invited to sing with the troupe this time.
Says Ms. Dodsworth: "There's no way I could I take him to
rehearsals, he'd drown everybody out."
So until the musical world is ready to receive the canine crooning of
Pikelet, the undiscovered star will have to confine himself to his own
living room, singing the blues.
But what is Pikelet's musical preference? There are those
who believe that he, being an Italian Greyhound, has a penchant for
Italian composers (like Pooch-ini, I suppose).
But, according to Ms. Dodsworth, any good Italian aria will do; for
example, one of his favorites is Don Giovanni. Ah, that
figures... Muttzart.
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Pikelet is certainly not the
only pooch to aspire toward musical greatness. Why, our own senior
editor Wags isn't all that bad at carrying a tune (but he's much better at
carrying a tuna fish sandwich). But for the benefit of all those
lyrically-inclined mutts who haven't made a career choice in journalism,
we at The Scoop have compiled this month's Top 8 List (as always, we
do top "8" lists so not to discriminate against dogs who have
had their dew claws removed and can only count to 8). We now present...
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The Top 8 Signs Your Dog Wants to Pursue a Career in Singing |
- Requests that you put Earl Grey tea in the toilet
bowl, because it's better for the vocal cords.
- Refuses to bark at intruders without first doing a few warm-up
scales.
- Someone left the karaoke machine on last night,
and the microphone smells suspiciously like dogbreath.
- Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors, keeps
leaving phone messages saying, "Hey, Koko, let's
jam!"
- Whenever the cat breaks into the "Meow Mix" song,
the dog starts yelling, "Tempo!
Tempo! Like this..."
- Relinquishes favorite spot on the sofa.
Instead, lounges around on top of the piano all day muttering,
"Give me a C. ...a bouncy C."
- Insists that dogs are the biggest money-makers in
the music industry these days ...you'll be rich!
(Wait, that's for a different list: "Top 8 Signs Your Dog
Wants to Be an Accountant for Worldcom".)
and the #1 Sign Your
Dog Wants to Pursue a Career in Singing is...
- His Bach is worse than his bite. (Thanks,
Herald Sun!)
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