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!!
This story is from the January - February 2023 edition of dogs & more.
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