March 15, 2004
March Madness
Its been a hellova month. Put our beloved Chelsea to sleep, moved across town and then adopted a puppy. I did a lot of online searching for a dog at Petfinders.com. You can do a broad or detailed search there for breed, size, age and location of available animals from the pounds or rescue agencies. I mostly looked for terrier breeds from small to large and from baby to adult. My searches continued to show a little guy named Scooby at the Pet Adoption Fund in Canoga Park. A couple Sundays ago, I got in the car intending to go to a mobile adoption in Santa Monica but the traffic was awful so I just kept driving away from the congestion and towards Canoga Park. Needless to say, after passing all the kennels at the PAF and finally coming across Scooby, I wasn't leaving without him.
The Jack Russell pup is only five months old and still going through house breaking, teething and getting over a kennel cough. However, he's been a riot and has already learned to "shake" his paw for a treat and he LOVES people. The Pet Adoption Fund rescued him from the South Central pound so when he acts out or desires a treat we can only imagine him wandering the streets with the gangs, scrawny and hungry.
Well, the thing we can't live with is the name "Scooby". During the hiatus of this blog I sent out an email to friends and family for suggestions and got many great ones and some silly. Frazier, Spalding, Albert, Fred, Milt, Papa, Bezbo, Patch, Mr. Lee, Wolfy, Hoot, Dex and Daddio... We thought of literary and artist references - Ernie, Andy, Claude, Hieronymous, Sherlock, Shizzle McDizzle... We tried a couple things on for size. We went to a party the other night and nearly the entire evening was spent tossing out names for the little guy. We had almost settled on Oscar - full name Oscar Madison Wilde. But then as we played with him on Sunday morning, we called him Rocky as he danced on his hind legs and punched at our open hands. It's been a week and the poor guy hasn't got a solid name! So I ask you - which do you like better? Oscar? Or Rocky? David made a solid point yesterday when he said that there is a reason why dogs continue to have the same 20 or 30 names over history. When you try to give them a unique or arty name, it just doesn't sound right -save Alyosha.
So we've narrowed it down. Please vote for Rocky or Oscar!
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