Talking to the animals
I realized while listening to one of my children the other day……That the tone and language we use to talk to our animals can be interesting if not insane. We have two dogs named Clem and Annie and a cat named Lucy. Within days of their arrivals, they quickly became Noony, Nanners and B. Who is who you say? Lucy the cat’s name morphed into Noony early in the game and is usually spoken in the highest note you can muster. Annie=Nanners or Anner bananers and Clem is simply “B”….He is a “B”oy after all.
Now, I know our family isn’t alone in all this crazy talk to our animals. The whole episode made me look more closely at my childhood and the names our pets had to put up with. Licorice and Peanut, the poor saps, became licki and Pean and were only spoken to in nearly unintelligible, high pitched sounds. We must have thought cats could only hear high notes. There was Yawthy Kitty (no one knows why) and Barney the dog. Barney had such a dull wit, we left his name alone.
What strange creations have you made of your pet’s names?
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 am
Harley, our Chihuahua, became Harlan (after Harlan Douglas somehow…) - spoken in a high-pitched voice of course. Then our first daugther called him Ya Ya when she was little. My son went with Ra Ra when he could talk. A few years ago Harley was bitten by another dog and lost an eye. He went by Winkie for quite some time. Sometimes Pirate. He’s slightly chubby now, so as of late it’s Fatty!
Question about a song that was on the radio tonite. Something like “doesn’t say the word attention in certain….” Does that help at all? Love the song and I totally spaced on the lyrics by the time I got in from my car to look it up online!!
Thanks,
Kelly