Puppy Power!!!
Posted: Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
We are getting a puppy!!!!
This announcement is both fortunate and timely; the emergence of the disturbingly named C.R.A.P. (Cat Revolution Against Puppies) is most unsettling.
The new addition to our family means that there will be plenty of Puppy Pictures coming your way to address the issue of balance within IB; which is currently overpopulated with cats.
Anyway, the wee cuties are only 2 weeks old today, so I have no pics yet. However, I am seriously need of help to find a suitable name for our new arrival.
He is a Yellow Labrador Retriever born on 16th October 2007.
Here is our Top Ten so far (in no particular order):
1. Jeffrey
2. Dougal
3. Forrest
4. Ramsay
5. Finley
6. Murphy
7. Cooper
8. Travis
9. Munro
10. Corrie
11. George
12. Toby
Ok..so that's 12...you can see why I'm having trouble...just can't decide...nothing feels "right" and family can't agree on any of these!
If anybody out there can come up with something better I'd be very grateful...
Answers on a postcard please....the winner will receive a signed hardback copy of Squidy the Otters new release "A Lost Soul from England".
Clsoing Date for entries: asap before my brain bursts please...
This announcement is both fortunate and timely; the emergence of the disturbingly named C.R.A.P. (Cat Revolution Against Puppies) is most unsettling.
The new addition to our family means that there will be plenty of Puppy Pictures coming your way to address the issue of balance within IB; which is currently overpopulated with cats.
Anyway, the wee cuties are only 2 weeks old today, so I have no pics yet. However, I am seriously need of help to find a suitable name for our new arrival.
He is a Yellow Labrador Retriever born on 16th October 2007.
Here is our Top Ten so far (in no particular order):
1. Jeffrey
2. Dougal
3. Forrest
4. Ramsay
5. Finley
6. Murphy
7. Cooper
8. Travis
9. Munro
10. Corrie
11. George
12. Toby
Ok..so that's 12...you can see why I'm having trouble...just can't decide...nothing feels "right" and family can't agree on any of these!
If anybody out there can come up with something better I'd be very grateful...
Answers on a postcard please....the winner will receive a signed hardback copy of Squidy the Otters new release "A Lost Soul from England".
Clsoing Date for entries: asap before my brain bursts please...
Comments
Whilst I can't possibly agree with the assertion that there are too many cats on ib - it's not a viable concept! - if you google norse gods and go to wikpedia's list, there are some nice ones there. I especially liked Fenrir son of Loki...Fen for short? I also had friends who had a golden retriever called Fennel, so there are all the herbs to go through...I don't mind waiting over winter for my prize.
Flying Cat from can't believe I'm trying help name a dug!
Oh my word, I have only typed 15 pages so far of my book and I am needing help from other islanders. By sheer conicidence once again, I have had two dogs named Toby and George, both Jack Russell Terriers. Some names evoke (conjures - tee hee) images of the dog breed, like Lassie a rough collie, Foofoo, a poodle or pekinese, etc. I like names of islands for dogs, or should islands always be a SHE? mmmmm Anyway, Max is a good solid, simple name. Oh what if I win, I will win 15 pages of my book, arrgg !!
Squidgy the Otter from Coll
senior staff used to have a Golden Retriever named Kluay, which i have been informed is Thai for banana - he lived up to his name ...*purry snicker*
mia from times past
How about Goldie or, if you want an island name Rhum (suits either sex) and imagine the comments when you announce you're taking Rhum for a walk. And don't most dogs think they are called Get off the Bxxxdy furniture? Enjoy looking after the bundle of fun and mischief, whatever name you decide on. Rob
robmac from Leics
This is the type of blogging that IB has been needing, and now a name the dog competition too? Right forget aboot that FC ( Fenrir son of Loki, aye in yer dreams pal. Snip, snip, clunk, no veg there) he's only gonna cause trouble. Name for a dog? The ones on your list are a bit, well, no offence like, but they don't impress. How about a Gaelic name? How about Breagh, pronounced Bria, meaning handsome/beautiful. It'll endear you to your neighbours too. Happy to be of assistance, as ever. Cheery
Tws from Lewis ( the island not the pub)
You can't have Breagh, she's a smelly wee spaniel in Port Ellen...
Flying Cat from ...there's only wan Eff-Cee, wan Eff-Ce-ee, there'
my choice must be corrie--ok i'm boring you all makes me think of corremandel---rings etc etc!
carol from the usual place
HEA can have Breagh if she wants FC, so keep your nose out of it. And thank goodness there is only one Eff-Cee, I'm sure we must give thanks to your fpu for doing the sensible thing and giving you the snip. Snippidy Doo-Dah, Snippidy Snippidy Day, Isn't it a wonderful day? Was it painful FC? Did you suffer much? Apart from the obvious.
Tws from I'm Lost Again
Well, thank you for the suggestions thus far...don't want to give anything away yet..hopefully we'll have a few more inspired additions before I have to make a decision. I really like the idea of a Gaelic name...more ideas please...I need the fonetik pronunseeayshun though; I haven't mange to get past the intro on my "Teach Yourself Gaelic" CD and book yet...oh and Carol, who or what is corremandel??
Happily Ever After from Eating cucumber sandwiches...mmm...
Right, how about- cubair ( coober), meaning Cooper, so it's on your list, and it's Gaelic, 2 birds with 1 stone? I would just like to make it clear that I do NOT throw stones at birds, or indeed kill them, I'm not a c*t...
Tws from No.7
Not a c**t eh? Well well well... I'm sure Carol will tell you herself, but just in case she is too busy, it is an antipodean peninsula, possibly named after somewhere in India, but my Oracle is unsure...
Flying Cat from mother mochree
when my family got a new dog (about 13 years ago now) my dad let her choose her own name!! No really!!! He put a map of Harris on the floor and watched where she hit with her paw first. She ended up being called Gilsay which is a small island off harris! I thought that was quite an ingenious idea on my dad's part! Or you could go for someit like Siorra (sho-raa) like my bro did for his dog. It means primrose i'm told - if that what floats your boat!!
lynds from thinking back
Why not Douglas(s)? There's one here, a fine strapping hound indeed. But you can correct for the sex with the second s. And some knowledgeable GAel can translate it, if requried. Carol, FC, Coromandel was the spelling when I was last there 4 years ago. FC, is Tws always that abrasive, or perhaps one should say, cutting?
Barney from Swithiod of the Labradors
I think you should wait till you get the pup and see what he/she is like.
damadcoo from Unst
The Coro. peninsula is in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Have you been there Hyper-B.? I heard about it when I was growing up in the tropics and it sounded so romantic: now of course, it is a place of mayhem. Have you visted, Hyper-B.? I assume there is another Coromandel Peninsula in NZ, from what Carol writes.
mjc from NM,USA
I like dogs, but I firmly believe in moderation. Two dogs are ideal (and hopefully one of them will have sufficient brains for two, for one of the hounds is bound to be deficient).
mjc from NM,USA
Oy, FC I've just counted those asterix' and they just don't add up. Does anything add up? I'm watching you FC.
Tws from The Counting House
If that's moderation, I'll none of't!
Flying Cat from hieing me to a monkery
I'm not abrasive. I'm not cutting either, and Dugless is when you have no dog, like big Shoey Douglas, he takes a size 12, and doesn't have a dog.
Tws from Smoothing Things Over
Lynds, good idea but for the danger that the paw might just hit Finstoon. ...
mjc from NM,USA
Coromandel Coast in India down Madras way and Coromandel in NZ down Wellington way, to answer your query mjc I have never visited either. We do have a long standing invite to NZ and to that neck of the woods so may manage to visit one of them in retirement. My atlas tells me there is also a Coromandel in Brazil but not on any itinerary as yet. As for Coro in Sri Lanka, again no visit although I ( But not my spouse ) would love to go there. So far the nearest I have been to the Sub-continent is to stand in the doorway of a 747 during a refuelling stop at Calcutta (as was). We were not allowed to disembark.
Hyper-Borean from Captain Cook's cabin
Seychelles is a place I would really like to visit. NZ as well, particularly South Island: I had pen pals there in the days when letters needed stamps to go all the way to the other side of the world.
mjc from NM,USA
Gosh. What do you stick on the envelope now?
Flying Cat from no snails on this cat
Oh, I thought you had already retired H-B. I thought that I read it in a previous comment that you had retired, or was it just tired? I sometimes wonder how a weblog posting about naming a dog, eventually takes us on a world tour, I have noted that it occurs with great regularity ( a bit like myself in the morning) when a certain F***ing C*t posts comments. Just an observation as to how things get dragged down.
Tws from Far, Far, Away in a Land That Time Forgot.
I think you are confusing being retired with my naturally retiring personality tws. I do agree with your comment about dog naming becoming world tourism though. Isn't that just one of the joys of following a blog site? Another thought which occurs to me is how some blogs attract a stream of comment whilst others, which start just as promisungly, do not.
Hyper-Borean from In my small corner
Apologies for mistake re: Coromandel. I had it mixed up with Trincomalee. Thanks for pointing out the true location of Coromandel, Hyper-B. I would not mind seeing Pondicherry, but somehow I have wanted to visit the Trincomalee port, and Ceylon more generally.
mjc from NM,USA
"Chimborazo, Cotopaxi have stolen my heart away." Except in my case mjc it ws a different continent. Varanasi, Tiruchirupali ( Benares and Trichinopoli ) would be more appropriate for me. Too much Kipling as a child I suppose and of course I am of an age when school maps still had large areas of red on them. I think there was an element of spin though as the former dominions which were, at least nominally, independent were still seen as British and thus still red. To be precise I am one year younger than Pakistan. A country I would love to vist but, to be Augustinian, not yet.
Hyper-Borean from Serendip
Aha, H-B, so that means you're ( hang on there's a calculator here somewhere, right Pakistan was formed/founded in 1947, this is 20007, so that makes you about 59-ish) getting old H-B, but not quite as old as some were hinting.
Tws from A good deal younger than Pakistan
Goodness. Fifty-nine eh? That's OLD!!!
Flying Cat from young and frolicsome
All right, I shall grant you Hyper-B. is decrepit, but he is still around and kicking. Much more than can be said for the likes of Jinnah, Pandit, or the then Nizam of Hyderabad, not to mention Mountbatten and wife. So, hang on to your oysters, Hyper-B. You may be irremediably decrepit, Hyper-B., but take comfort that I am in much better shape [who says? I do, of course!!].
mjc from NM,USA
Decrepit mjc, decrepit! I may be a little obese and the bp is not quite what it might be but I can still go for a 10 mile walk and I can still pass the same medical as an airline pilot. Having said that medicine is so good nowadays that you can have a triple bypass and after a couple of years physical rehab you can be found fit enough to regain a commercial pilots licence.
Hyper-Borean from Mens sana
Americanism coming into H-B's comments, dropping his "U" , where will it all end?
Tws from The SAUNA
the coromandel i rave about is in nz,leave auckland,direction hamilton then turn left,along the highway to thames ,then voila your on the coromandel pennisula,straight up to coromandel township,up to colville,then down to need i go on , want to go back and i'm only just hame!
carol from over here
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