![]() ![]() The two cruise the city in Trip’s “Blue Mobile,” a white Ford Transit covered in decals of Trip’s face that sports a “Blue 3” license plate. Kaltenmark and Trip head to elementary school classrooms to read Blue’s children’s book, Good Boy, Blue!, and stop by Gleaners Food Bank, where they help sort donations.īut Trip-and Kaltenmark’s-favorite community initiative might be the Butler acceptance letters the duo deliver to admitted students’ doors. ![]() In addition to raising the spirits of hospital residents, Kaltenmark says Trip receives numerous requests for charity event appearances at schools and businesses - “none of which we really turn down,” he says. “He acts like he was raised as a therapy dog.” “He’s gentle and patient,” Kaltenmark says. It isn’t hard to imagine the utility of a floppy-eared, doe-eyed, Pikachu costume-clad bulldog skidding down a hospital hallway for cheering up a patient.Īs a member of the Eskenazi Hospital pet therapy team, Trip visits patients at the downtown Indianapolis campus once a month. “Vomiting on the court at Madison Square Garden might be the best thing he ever did publicity-wise,” Kaltenmark said. “He goes hard,” Kaltenmark says, “which sometimes equates to him getting overheated and overexcited.”īut, tongue lolling and tail wagging, Trip quickly recovered-and shot Butler into the national spotlight. Kaltenmark says the 65-pound bulldog, who typically paces the Butler sidelines during most men’s football and basketball games, lapping up popcorn, head pats, and praise, was overwhelmed by the moment. #GoDawgs,” Michael Kaltenmark, Trip’s caretaker and Butler’s Director of External Relations, tweeted on his behalf. Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, and The Washington Post all poked fun at the pint-sized puker, but Blue III, also known as Trip, took to Twitter to rally the troops. When Butler University’s then 3-year-old bulldog mascot threw up on the court at Madison Square Garden before a 2015 Big East men’s basketball tournament loss to Xavier, it brought him national notoriety. Butler Blue III’s best moment was also his worst. ![]()
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