Naming pets can also be a recreational exercise or perhaps a personal vocabulary test. Recently, I met a long lost friend of mine in a hyper-excited state. His Labrador was now a proud mother of 2 pups. Name of the family? Well, since the father was ‘Chai’ and the mother ‘Coffee’, the pups, both male, were aptly named ‘Cutting’ and ‘Cup’! Chai, Coffee, Cutting and Cup! A canine family of beverages, replete with the necessary vessel! What can we say? Creative? : )
Another friend’s saintly but greedy dogs, ‘Morsel’ and ‘Nibbles’ (: ), great names, I know and very apt, let me tell you!) had a not-so-saintly male pup and they called him ‘BITE’! Cool na!
My Totto does not have a very creative name, hence I try and make up by calling him names! ; ). So, totto becomes topsy, tinkles, dinkles, tupsy, lappu, dodo, dump and so on…and he responds to all of them! (That’s because mostly dogs understand the tone of your voice. They can make out when one is referring to them). Once, when he did not respond, I cried out a series of his rhyming names…Lump (no response)…Stump (a raised eyebrow), dump (a stir). And suddenly, it all fit. He was a plump, lump of a dump! : )). We burst out laughing, but a bewildered Totto was not amused! : )
