cujo

• Question:-Cujo..........................?
  Does any team (NHL or Euro) own Cujo's rights? I would think a team like TB or LA might be interested if they could sign him on as a FA. Thoughts?
  I was thinking he could possibly be free to sign after the Spengler tournament (which I am not familiar with). If this is true Haley, I wouldnt be surprised if TB would take a shot at him.
  Also, has anyone noticed Conklin and Sabourin have been doing a good job for the Pens since Fleury's injury? After all the put downs they've recieved by the Pens fans on this board, its due justice.
  
  Answer:-He's an unrestricted agent currently, but wants too much money.
  
  I don't see anybody picking him up though
  a) He has no desire to be a back-up, that is why he spurned the Coyotes and Pittsburgh over the summer
  b) He was looking for at least $2MM a year
  c) He wants to play for a contender
• Question:-How different is the movie Cujo from the book?
  I'm doing a book report on cujo and i just rented the movie instead, is there any difference from the movie cujo and the book? If so, what are the differences?
  
  Answer:-Vastly different.
  
  This movie in particular angered me because they changed who lived and died in the end.
  
  That was only the most glaring difference, there were many more.
  
  Read the book. Or hope that your teacher isn't a King fan. Or choose a book with a script closer to the original.
• Question:-Is Cujo going to start the first preseason game tomorrow against the sabres?
  I've always been a fan of Curtis, especially when he was first on the leafs. I wonder will he start the first preseason game for them?
  
  Answer:-Ron Wilson hinted this morning that Pogge will start and Toskala will end the game.
• Question:-How do you think detriot will be damaged by losing Cujo?
  How do you think Redwings attendance and support plus record will go this year? since this is Yzermans last year probably plus they lost Cujo How will this affect the team?
  
  Answer:-No one is as good without a big mean dog.
• Question:-What do you think about naming a dog Cujo?
  My mom wants to get a nice saint bernard pup. I was thinking of the name Cujo...
  It'll have all it's shots when we get her.
  
  Answer:-How many times are you going to ask this?
  
  It's NOT a good name because it gives the wrong idea, plus it's about as original as nameing a Collie Lassie or a German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin.
• Question:-Is the stephen king novel Cujo appropriate for a 13 year old?
  If you do not think it is please tell why.
  
  Answer:-Cujo is special. This was my introduction to Stephen King; oh, I'd read that story of his about toy soldiers (in seventh grade English class, no less), but this was my first real Stephen King experience. It was also my first truly adult novel; there's some pretty racy stuff in here, especially when you're an innocent twelve-year-old kid. Steve Kemp, Donna Trenton's jilted lover, is a cretin. That's part of the reason why Cujo has always been my least favorite Stephen King novel - until now, that is. Having finally reread this book, I am quite bowled over by the experience. This is King at his most visceral, his most unrelenting, his most vicious. Dark doesn't begin to describe this novel. The ending was and is controversial (so controversial that it was changed - quite cowardly - in the film adaptation). Speaking of the film, it's important not to judge this novel by that adaptation - in the movie, young Tad is almost impossible to like because Danny Pintauro was just such an annoying child actor, and Cujo himself is little more than a monster because we don't get inside his increasingly disturbed head the way we do in the novel. The real Cujo is a good dog.
  
  King has said he does not remember writing very much of this novel, that it was written in an almost perpetual drunken haze. It's ironic because Cujo is an amazingly sober read. Maybe the booze explains the brutality of the story, but I think not - like any great writer, King lets the story tell itself. What happens at the end of this novel just happens; King doesn't make it happen. That ending - actually, the whole book - opens up all kinds of questions about Fate and justice. I have a hard time liking Donna Trenton, and a part of me thinks there is a certain amount of justice in her fate (although the punishment grossly outweighs the crime in this case). How do you explain what happens here, though - all these coincidences that seal our characters' - especially the child's - fates? Why and how does such a horrible tragedy happen? As the reader, you ask these questions, and they echo the questions we sometimes ask in real life. King taps directly in to your worst nightmares with this seemingly simple story.
  
  The basic foundation of this novel is a pretty simple one: man vs. nature. In one corner, you have a mother fighting for the life of her son as well as herself; in the other corner, you have Cujo, a two hundred pound St. Bernard, a gentle, loving dog who has gone rabid - very rabid, insanely murderous rabid. It's essential to realize that there are no villains here, though, only victims. Curiosity killed the cat, but it gave Cujo rabies, and we experience his own canine mental breakdown as the disease lays waste to his central nervous system. Cujo would never dream of hurting anyone; the rabies eventually kills the real Cujo, though, and turns his huge canine body into a horrible killing machine, a very fiend from hell itself, the personification of the terrible monster in the closet that frightens young Tad so much every night in his room. King conjures this malevolent connection in a wonderfully tangible way, going even farther to tie "the monster" in to the murderous deeds of Frank Dodd - King directly cites events chronicled in The Dead Zone, already building the aura of the doom-shrouded town of Castle Rock.
  
  So it's a simple story - yet it's not simple at all. You have marital discord between the Trentons, the result of a stupid affair between Donna and the aforementioned cretin Steve Kemp. Vic is trying to save his business at the same time that he is hammered with the news of his wife's infidelity. You have Tad's fear of the monster in his closet and his trust in his father to keep him safe. You have the wife of country mechanic Joe Camber and her fears that her son will turn out just like his father. You basically have all manner of compelling subplots going on at the same time, somehow coming together to conjure an unimaginably horrible series of events. In other words, this is real life taken to extremes - and there are monsters in real life, oh yes.
• Question:-What movie was that that a genetically engineered dog similar to Cujo climbed a tree and devoured a cat?
  
  
  Answer:-MANS BEST FRIEND
• Question:-What viscious breed of dog played CUJO?
  Just testing what people find aggressive, and seeing if they know what was used for Cujo, or if they just pick an "aggressive dog".
  Westwood1227 is exactly why I asked the question. Obviously I know that Cujo had rabies, but if you read my details, you would see what I was getting at.
  
  Answer:-Cujo was a St. Bernard whose real name was Daddy.
  
  Daddy was trained by Karl Lewis Miller, who trained the dogs in Babe, Beethoven and K-9.
  
  ADD:
  
  The foam around Cujo's mouth was made of a concoction of egg whites and sugar. The dogs caused problems on the set by constantly licking the tasty stuff
• Question:-Do you think Cujo is a good name for my Newfoundland puppy?
  
  "Cujo" actually means "unstoppable force."
  (It is also the name of a werewolf in an old folk tale.)
  
  Answer:-Lovely name, different, but easy for the dog to understand when training. Well done on your choice as this is a very important decision. One you have to live with for many years (and your dog has to live with too) A name must live with the dog not just when he is a puppy but also when he is all grown up. Cujo works for me. Good luck with your puppy.
• Question:-Does the ezydog cujo shock absorbing leash really work?
  I live in the city and have to take my dog out and walk her everyday. I have a retrackable leash so she doesn't walk out in the street. I want to get one so she doesn't pull me but I don't want her to walk out in the street and get hit. So what I need to know is would I be able to achieve this with this kinda of leash and not get pulled around and does the leash work? Please help?
  
  Answer:-Funny, but everyone would like to have a bigger and better mouse trap. i started out 50 some years ago training dogs with a normal flat buckle collar. Went through the choke chains, prong collars, eletric collars, British slip lead, gentle leaders, you name it. Now I do 99.99 % of my training with that normal flat buckle collar that I started out with.
  What I am trying to point out is that it is not the collar/lead that does or does not do the job, it is the hand at the other end of the lead.