The Pet Shop
Here's to Lemieux
Maybe it was my imagination, but my cat LeMew seemed sprightly last night after the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
I was living outside Pittsburgh 13 years ago when I adopted LeMew from a shelter. I had trouble deciding on a name for him until one of the sports writers at the paper where I worked showed me an ad from the Toronto Star. The ad for a hockey game was poking fun at Mario Lemieux who was one of the Penguins’ star players at the time. It showed a kitten named Mario LeMew sitting behind an oversized food bowl. It seemed a perfect homage to I city I love.
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Photo Caption: LeMew
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