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Greg Pike visits with his Booger — who happens to be toting Kitty, where Mousie is hanging around — on the west end of Pearl Street Mall in 2004. Pike was one of Boulder's best-known buskers, but the act is over now that his beloved Rottweiler-Labrador mix has died. Booger was 13 years old.
Greg Pike visits with his Booger — who happens to be toting Kitty, where Mousie is hanging around — on the west end of Pearl Street Mall in 2004. Pike was one of Boulder’s best-known buskers, but the act is over now that his beloved Rottweiler-Labrador mix has died. Booger was 13 years old.
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For those who encountered them on the west end of Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, Greg Pike and his animals — dog Booger, cat Kitty and rat Mousie — are hard to forget.

The creatures bucked stereotypes of animal behavior — and even their basic nature — in banding together and forming a one-of-a-kind animal pyramid: rat on top of cat on top of dog.

Pike was one of Boulder’s best-known buskers, but the act is over.

Booger, 13, died Monday night from kidney and liver failure at a veterinary clinic in his hometown of Telluride, Pike said. He had raised the Rottweiler-Labrador mix from a puppy.

Read more of the article at DailyCamera.com.

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