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14928. Magoseph - 5/12/2005 9:16:31 AM I'm taking notes, Mac, since Flexy's getting a dog for his birthday in July. He never had one before, but I did while my kids were growing up--never a puppy, though. 14929. judithathome - 5/12/2005 11:49:49 AM My sister once had a cat she named Pervert. She was embarrassed when it got loose outside and she had the call "Pervert! Pervert!" 14930. Macnas - 5/12/2005 11:54:59 AM At my home place, there have always been cats. Sometimes 5 or 6, some times just 2, but the place is never without cats.
The thing is, we never named them. To this day they are not named. I was up there the other day, having a smoke outside with a brother, and we were watching the 3 current cats playing in the garden. There is "the black one", and "the black one with the bit of white on her chest", and "the mother cat". 14931. judithathome - 5/12/2005 12:02:27 PM Keoni had two cats when I met him...TC and OT. The Cat and Other Cat. 14932. judithathome - 5/12/2005 12:02:56 PM TC and OC, rather....it's very early for me. 14933. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 2:06:27 PM Our old cat emily picked her own name...i had a dictionary that listed names of famous people and I kept calling out various names and when I hit Emily, the cat came over so that was it.
But I find we're prone to nicknames any way. So our current cat Casimir, has been known as Cas and Cazzy and Catamir and Catickle (cat' ickle) and Catickle (ca 'tickle) and Put (as in putty-tat) especially when he's at the door... then he's in-put or out-put.
We had a dog whose name was officially hobo according to my mother, but we all called him Opie. 14934. robertjayb - 5/12/2005 3:44:44 PM My Uncle Babe (actually a great uncle) was never named by the family. He was Babe. As a teenager he left the central Texas farm for a town job and met a storekeeper he admired name of James Asbury. He took the name and became James Asbury Smith. But in the family he was always Babe. 14935. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 3:46:36 PM Hobo? Isn't that a down and out character found where the freight trains stop? 14936. judithathome - 5/12/2005 4:04:31 PM Yes, it is.
I've always liked the name Taffy. Especially for caramel colored dogs. 14937. alistairconnor - 5/12/2005 4:16:43 PM I've got an American friend near us who has a dog named Taffy.
I saw my daughter write down the name as "Toughie". That was how she heard it.
Question of accent. 14938. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 4:17:58 PM Well, if you saw this dog, you'd realize hobo was pretty appropriate...he was an airedale terrier/sheep dog mix and looked pretty ratty most of the time. Though he was a very good dog, very affectionate and protective. 14939. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 4:19:38 PM friend spent a lot of time in the south and said he knew a man named general washington. His first name was general. 14940. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 4:25:06 PM I don't know where I picked up 'hobo'. Steinbeck perhaps.
Karo is a classical Swedish name for a dog which I like (the name, that is). It is probably derived in some obscure was from Charon, the chap who for a fee rows you across Styx to the realm of the dead.
Considering that the pup is a female I propose Carrie. 14941. thoughtful - 5/12/2005 6:19:33 PM Does a dachshund need a german name? Frau Bluecker?
friend had a little bichon....musta had a french name, right? wrong...they called him Murray.
We've always given our pets human names, like trixie, emily, george, thaddeus, travis, tanya. My FIL named their animals after their characteristics...dummy, knucklehead, fiddlefoot. But i've not been a fan of regular pet names like spunky and fido and blackie. We did get a hamster once when I was a kid on St Patrick's day. Named her Erin-go-Braughless. 14942. wabbit - 5/12/2005 7:38:53 PM Frau Bluecker! thoughtful beat me to it! 14943. arkymalarky - 5/12/2005 7:50:00 PM This stuff is great!
I'm at my parents' today until late tonight, so I don't have free rein of a computer, but y'all have given me quite a bit to think about wrt names. I love Frau Bleuker (neeeeiiighhh!).
You're right, Ulgine--no hurry. I've met the puppy once and it will be over two weeks before she gets here.
I thought about Vida today, as a scramble of Diva that means "life," but I don't think I should go there. This pup was born the day of my hysterectomy, so there may be some possibilities there.
"Pervert" cracked me up. We had a cat named Spot and I had a friend who had a cat named Dammit. So we said "out damned Spot!" and he said "out Dammit!"
Lots more good tips, Mac, especially on the bedding. I will definitely use them. She will sleep in her little carrier in our bedroom, but not by our bed. And she won't sleep in our room until she is used to being at our house and quits whining. We'll put her in the room next to us and keep it dark.
Mags, what kind of dog are you and Flexy looking at getting? 14944. PelleNilsson - 5/12/2005 8:02:18 PM Remember Nurse Diesel? Diesel is a fine German name. But what about a Russian name? Natasha? Kalinka? Olga? 14945. Magoseph - 5/12/2005 8:13:13 PM We don't know yet--I leave that decision to Flexy's daughter-in-law who runs a private animal shelter in Chicago.
She's having a party for him the 4th of July for his birthday. The dog will be given to Flexy then.
14946. judithathome - 5/12/2005 8:27:29 PM Arky, what about Kashi? It's very good, Bob loves it already, and it's good for you! 14947. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 5/12/2005 9:03:37 PM I like Schopenhauer or Nietzsche.
Here Nietzsche! Come and get it, Schopenhauer!
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