Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for December 26, 2018

Bet Handsome’s take is that the lil guy ought to be called “Lunch.”

We picked up a puppy at HS when our daughter turned 5. She said “He’s black, let’s call him Brownie”, so that stuck.

takes more than a passing thought to name a KID!

or better yet, have Tank name him!

I had one dog who for the first year of her life, thought her name was G#¡¡@%%¿t Blaze ! Fortunately, she outgrew that “puppy” stage and was with me for over 14 years. She was the daughter of a purebred, dry mouth St. Bernard and a tall, dark, and sneaky stranger.

Tank gives sound advice: One wouldn’t want to bosch things up with a hasty naming.

That sounds like Bosche to me.

I always thought that if called upon to name a doberman or pit bull, I would name it fluffy. Since both are short hair dogs, that would be perfect. A kitten is harder, since they do grow up. “Killer” or “Fangs” would be nice for a kitten, but might be appropriate for an adult cat.

We had a dog that had a bad habit involving human legs ( if you know what I mean) We finally re-named him STOPIT!

We resued a Russian Blue. It took a week to name him. After numberous names our grandkids came up with the perfect name, Bob, Bob the Cat.

One rule of thumb: don’t give a dog a name that you’d be embarrassed to use when calling him, outdoors. (I suspect Hieronymus would be in that category.)

Hieronymus isn’t so bad. He’d probably wind up calling him Harry for short.

Ex’s grandfather said all should be called “Sooner.” Sooner go on the carpet than go outside.

In junior high school, we got a dog and named him AD. Stood for A Dog. Claimed if we ever got a second dog we’d call it ND, Nother Dog. Didn’t happen.