HEART BEAT AT MY FEET What's In a Name?

What’s in a name?, you may as well ask. Plenty, is what I reply.

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Naming your pet is not the easiest thing to do. You want the best name in the world for your dog, or cat, I might add, now that we have started to feature cats too, in dogs & more.

I remember when I got my first dog. It was a necessity. Many of my dog-loving friends insisted I consider getting one home. I had lost my husband three years before that and I was still grieving deeply. To the extent that my friends and doctor friends warned me that I could succumb to some serious ailment. “Let go,” I was advised.

Easier said than done. So I did the next best thing I could. I wrote a full column on the subject. Those days I used to write a column every Saturday, in our newspaper, The Afternoon Despatch and Courier. It was called A Few Stray Thoughts, (borrowed from Busybee’s opening lines of his Round and About column on Saturdays).

My column concluded with, ‘So, should I get a dog home?’ You cannot imagine the response. My readers went crazy with their advice and suggestions. In short, the answer was, Yes! Yes! Yes! And yes!!