Two incredible things happened this weekend: One, a man jumped out of a spaceship that was over 100,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, broke the sound barrier during his 10 minute descent, and landed safely on the ground as though he just hopped off of a step-ladder. And two, a television show called Dog With a Blog debuted on the Disney Channel. While the world seems to be making a bigger deal out of the former for some reason, Josh heroically covered the latter in sparkling detail on Saturday. I’m just glad someone gave it the attention it deserved. Looking at you, Blitzer.
Unfortunately, we have some sad news to report. It turns out that the star of Dog With a Blog, Kuma (pictured above, hard at work), has already been fired. From the show’s Wikipedia:
Kuma played the title role of Stan the Dog for five episodes (including the pilot) after being picked from a pool of thousands of talented canines.[citation needed] The agency who hired him, Good Dog Animals, suddenly fired Kuma’s owner over a small contractual dispute, after helping the GDA agency get awarded the show.[citation needed] The dog agency fired Kuma and replaced him with a look-alike named Mick, a much younger dog with no previous set experience and very little training.[citation needed]
Based on the obvious bias and all the “citation neededs” in that paragraph, I have chosen to believe that Kuma wrote it himself, possibly at 2 a.m., after drinking an entire bottle of wine. You will never convince me otherwise.
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I’m pretty certain that Kuma is now too busy sitting on the couch, watching French poodle videos, and licking himself to post on his blog.
Aren’t you supposed to wait until the reboot to recast the lead role with a younger actor?
Just like Hollywood. Always going with the younger bitch.
That dog’s name is Mick?! My name is Mick! I should get royalties or something. Hooray old-timey racism names!
It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and I WAS ALREADY ON MY OUT THANKS.
Showbiz can be ruff, especially for an old son of a bitch like Kuma. *Tips hat and follows Stinky Pete out*
Surprisingly, Kuma lost his taste for peanut butter after the first episode while Mick licked up a whole jar on the casting couch.
So, did Disney have to make a show to burn out the contracts of the people on “I’m With The Band” after it was cancelled?
By 10 minute decent, you mean 4, right?
Director: “Do you know the name Kuma?”
Mick the Dog: “No”
Director: “That’s ok Mick, the next one won’t know yours.”
Information from an “insider” from the Disney show.
Here are the facts kids! Disney is trying to trick the public by slowly replacing the hundreds of press images of Kuma and slipping in new images of Mick. Easiest way to tell the difference between the two dogs is that Kuma is about 15 lbs smaller and his left (brown ear) is raised and arched. Micks left ear (the brown one) lies all the way down flat. Mick also has a much darker nose.
Just a little FYI – Kuma and Mick both started out as light blond dogs and were both dyed the brown and black colors to portray “Stan.”
Disney does not want people to know that Kuma was fired in haste simply because the owner wanted to be able to chose her replacement if she fell ill. Disney wanted to force it’s own trainers to be able to take Kuma to the set (without the owner present at all). Basically Disney thought of Kuma as a live prop they wanted to rent!
Beware: A Disney rep patrols the Wikipedia pages on their show and added in all the ‘citation needed’ from the blurb above. But the information all 100% true and accurate.
The fact is, Kuma played the title role in every single scene of “Dog with a Blog” for the first five episodes of the show, starting with “Stan of the house” Episode #1″.
I read several articles that Kuma was chosen out of a large casting which looked at hundreds of Hollywood’s finest trained dogs. They chose Kuma because of his ability to do hundreds of tricks on cue and because of his years of set experience.
Have you seen Kuma in his role as ‘Marlowe’ on “Cop Dog?” I mean how could they not chose that dog? He’s pure talent!
It is said that Kuma’s owner felt the dog was really overworked on the set. The word is the owner was also grossly underpaid. The Disney producers made Kuma work 12 to 14 hours a day and expected him to perform like a robot.
I read that the owner was concerned for Kuma’s health and tried to put a few contractual stipulations (as noted above) in place to protect him. In the middle of episode 3 Kuma had suffered a violent seizure on the set because of all the stress the show was causing him.
Kuma’s owner said she need to pull him from the show for his safety or until there were new guidelines in place that would protect him. The animal company Disney hired responded to her by sending Kuma and his owner a termination letter.
From that point on they then started using Mick for the remainder of the show. The poor dog had never done a single job before and had hardly stepped foot on set. People will notice a BIG difference in the two dogs performance levels, as Kuma was one of the top dog in the industry and performed many of his tricks while on the show.
Everyone involved with the show knows what went on, but Disney being Disney is trying to maintain their squeaky clean, animal-friendly persona and doesn’t want anyone to know that the owner quit because her and Kuma were treated so poorly.
They have been brain washing the cast members to never ever make mention of Kuma in any of their press interviews. The poor kids are so coached on what to say they are practically little mindless robots.
So Parents…. I have seen first hand on how show biz corrupts. Do not try to get your kids or your dogs into show biz. It’s too much of a dog eat dog world. – Pun intended.
Sincerely,
Kuma’s Fan
Cop Dog? DANGER, PLEASE GET TO REVIEWING THIS
This sounds like a job for COP DOG!
Oh man, what if COP DOG HAS A BLOG?
Cop Dog takes the job… You can read about it at http://www.thenotsoshaggydetective.net
“The Case of Rich Mooch / Poor Pooch”
Dear. Readers. Its me. Stan. To be honest If Kuma was a girl playing boy not very good idear. Also Mick looks to. do just as good as an job as kuma Also who want a girl dog playing a boy dog anyway. Think of it this way would you want a girl human actress to play a male role. It would just look plane stupid. FYI some allredy made me on. The sims 3 You can dowlode me from the exchange. Now I half to go take pee in the backyard [www.thesims3.com]
I would like to know what kind of dog Mick is. He almost looks like an Austrailian Shepherd(sp?) but he still has a tail. Does anyone out there know? BTW, it was a cute show. Nothing that a mother of 21 years would dispute. Yes, Disney has definitely changed it shows over the last 44 years but they are keeping up with the times. I’ve seen worse on TV that has been considered shows for children.
I love to watch dog with a blog that’s the only show I watch
WHAT!!!!!!!!! He got fired?