clever names?

[rbonplaza]

Jerry, I echo kani-lehua's comment: great story! When are Ed and I going to meet you and Bear??

Our new puppy was named by Mella: she suggested Orchid, so Kika ('Okika) it is!

[kani-lehua]

went to the lamont ranch on sunday. got a lovely tour of the orchard and met tear drop and dot the cat. what a funny and playful kitty she is/was. renee fed the sheep and dot plopped herself on renee's back (renee was squatting at the time). saw the most humungo roosters there, too. big enough to scare the dog away. thanks for the limes! we shared them with some other friends.



"a great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

w. james

[maud gonne]

It's fun to think back on the animal pets of yore. My Jack Russell rescue dog when I was single in my twenties in Berkeley was Harpo - I always tell my husband that Harpo was my one deep meaningful relationship in life - we slept together, went to work together, spent every moment together. He lived to be 17. When we moved to the prune farm (called the Cadillac Prune Company - because in the lean years when the prunes didn't do it for us, we had to "eat" my husand's classic cars)I started with a flock of chickens and put my all into them (before I had kids). In that original flock I remember the following names: Henny-Penny, Fatty Dum-Dum, Chicken Little, & Mr. Peepers. We've had many Fatty Dum-Dums since then - always the big white variety (leghorn?) Then came the geese. My boys each got a gosling and named them: Racso and Fred. Unfortunately Racso got squashed by a cow who inadvertantly lay down on him, so now we had one goose for two boys to share. Their solution: they changed the name to Fracso. Our dog was Prunella and she also lived to be 17,and our cat was Trouse (Tree House Cat - where she was born). I saved a mocking bird baby from the prune harvester and named her Trini. She had two more close calls before succumbing to our cat. I had a hen who hatched all but one of her clutch of eggs and left a dud in the nest. I picked it up later on to toss it into the bushes when I heard a faint "peep!" from inside the egg. I took it in the house and hatched it out and that became our pet hen, Peeper. We'd let her in the house every day to make the rounds, picking up crumbs on the floor - saved me a lot of sweeping. When we moved to Oregon we adopted a beautiful sunshine colored cat we named Columbine - before that name took on a negative cast. We got another flock of chickens. The main hen, Martha, turned out to be a rooster so she/he became Dartha. When I decided to give up my flock, I actually surreptitiously interviewed the kindly woman who said she'd take them all. As if that weren't enough, no. I had to find out if they were going to be able to continue the lifestyle they were accustomed to. I posed hypothetical questions like, "If the rooster gets too aggressive with the hens (he seemed to be hurting them with his constant attentions) what would you do?" Her answer: "Oh, I have a timeout cage for naughty roosters - you'd be surprised how a day or two in there can improve their manners." Or, I asked seemingly casually, "
what would you do if we had a heat wave of over 100 degree temps?" Her answer, "Oh, I set up a box fan in the hen house and I also keep a fountain sprayer hose going in the coop." OMG, thought I'd hit the gold mine! I took them all up to her chicken palace the next day.
Now in Puna I have adopted a feral tortoise-colored cat whom I named Lulu. My son told me later he's already named her Tortuga. So it goes.

[jdirgo]

LOL, my family always had Weimeraners "Gray Ghost Dogs". They always had German names because the breed is from Germany.

Gerta, Greta, Hilda, Elka....and so on...

John Dirgo, R, BIC, EcoBroker, ABR, e-PRO
Aloha Coast Realty, LLC
808-987-9243 cell
http://www.alohacoastrealty.com

[jdirgo]

Its true, I had a pony named Bingo. B-I-N-G-O.

It did not help that my last name is Dirgo. D-I-R-G-O.

Oh God, the rhymes...

John Dirgo, R, BIC, EcoBroker, ABR, e-PRO
Aloha Coast Realty, LLC
808-987-9243 cell
http://www.alohacoastrealty.com

[Bullwinkle]

We carried a cat along on our cruising sailboat


Named "E-R" for emergency ration