Driveway Moments Vol. 5: All About Animals

Remember the one about the deer that ran middle school track? Or, the dog with the bad habit of sucking on hallucinogenic toads? NPR unleashes a zoo of batty stories in Driveway Moments 5: All About Animals, a two-CD set of the best animal stories heard on NPR programs -- hosted by Steve Inskeep of NPR’s Morning Edition.

These 21 selections are all quintessential “Driveway Moments” – NPR features so compelling, listeners sit in their idling cars, waiting for a story’s end after they’ve reached their destination. Stories range from the heartwarming – “My Mother, My Parrot,” about a parrot who imitates the voice of its owner’s deceased mother – to the bizarre – “Vacuuming Prairie Dogs,” a report on Dog Gone, a company that lives up to its name.

Track Listing:

CD One (Total Time 44:21)

1. The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads (5:54)
   All Things Considered, October 24, 2006
2. My Mother, My Parrot (3:36)
   All Things Considered, May 11, 2003
3. The Sad Story of Ziggy, the Too Perfect Parrot (3:11)
   Talk of the Nation, January 18, 2006
4. Pet Tricks -- and an Accidental Career (3:19)
   All Things Considered, August 12, 2005
5. A Dog Walker’s Dog Walker (1:56)
   All Things Considered, April 3, 2005
6. Search for Lost Pets Continues in Louisiana (7:35)
   Morning Edition, October 14, 2005
7. Turtle Holds On in Center of Vietnam’s Capital (4:02)
   Morning Edition, March 28, 2006
8. A Dog’s Life in Vietnam (3:17)
   Morning Edition, July 28, 2004
9. Precisionist Nears a New Pasture (4:30)
   All Things Considered, October 2, 2006
10. An Entrepreneurial Dog’s Private Life (3:33)
    Day To Day, August 2, 2006
11. The Dog Stays in the Picture (3:21)
    All Things Considered, February 20, 2006

CD Two (Total Time 40:22)

1. Cute and Fuzzy as the Nation’s Lead Story (3:49)
   Day to Day, May 2, 2005
2. The Wait Wait Petting Zoo (4:57)
   Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, November 25, 2006
3. No Chump Change for Chimp Art (3:40)
   All Things Considered, June 21, 2005
4. Miss Pudding: A Feline Farewell (4:52)
   Weekend Edition Saturday, November 11, 2006
5. Vacuuming Prairie Dogs (3:46)
   Morning Edition, July 9, 1992
6. When Hummingbirds Come Home (3:16)
   All Things Considered, December 28, 2005
7. Bird Clothes (4:13)
   All Things Considered, November 8, 2003
8. Drive-Up Boar Semen (3:56)
   All Things Considered, February 15, 1996
9. The Boy Who Ran Like a Deer (2:48)
   All Things Considered, October 19, 2006
10. The Soul of a Dog (4:58)
    All Things Considered, July 29, 1988