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Our New Puppies!
We brought our two dachshund puppies home on Saturday. The darker one is the female, the lighter one is the male. As you can see, they are adorable! They are spunky, cuddly, and too brave for their own good. ^_^ We have narrowed down our name choices to two options and we would love to hear your votes.
Option #1: Bowie (for the boy) and Lennox (for the girl) - taken from our favorite androgynous musicians from the UK David Bowie and Annie Lennox (not only are they great musicians, but they each have a "geek connection" David Bowie was in Labyrinth and Annie Lennox wrote an ending theme for one of the Lord of the Ring movies)
Option #2: Malcolm a/k/a Mal (for the boy) and Zoë (for the girl) - taken from the Firefly characters Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds and First Officer Zoe Washburne
We were also toying with the names Cnaiur and Esmi based on characters from the Prince of Nothing series, but it was our least favorite of the three options.
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Pictures and better video will follow tomorrow.
Option #1: Bowie (for the boy) and Lennox (for the girl) - taken from our favorite androgynous musicians from the UK David Bowie and Annie Lennox (not only are they great musicians, but they each have a "geek connection" David Bowie was in Labyrinth and Annie Lennox wrote an ending theme for one of the Lord of the Ring movies)
Option #2: Malcolm a/k/a Mal (for the boy) and Zoë (for the girl) - taken from the Firefly characters Captain Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds and First Officer Zoe Washburne
We were also toying with the names Cnaiur and Esmi based on characters from the Prince of Nothing series, but it was our least favorite of the three options.
AM-U2eojec8
Pictures and better video will follow tomorrow.
Comments
Good luck with the dogs. Personally I think keeping animals in the home is a bit medieval, but whatever floats your boat.
Oh, never mind, I read the rest of the post.
I'm still voting for Cnaiur, though.
I'll cast a vote for option 2 otherwise. They look so cute.
We need to name them A.S.A.P.
However, make sure to name them Mal & Zoe. ^_~
- Gone from being afraid of a step in our new place to taking flying leaps (and often foolishly dangerous ones) on and off our bed.
- Go racing through the house chasing each other and slamming into walls only to ricochet off and do it over and over again. It sort of sounds like skeeteryskeeteryskeereryskeeteryTHUD.
- Stand on their training pads and pee or poo off the edge. (They try so hard, but they're also long...)
- The boy has decided if it can go near his mouth, it must be chewed. If it can be chewed, it must be ragdolled. If it can be chewed and ragdolled, then it is obviously good to swallow. Said progression will also end in doggie-barf since said items are usually cardboard and fuzz from their doggie beds, but he still doesn't seem to realize this after bargling at least once.
- The girl has figured out that if she runs at the step up into our kitchen area ahead of her brother, leaps up on it, and whirls around to face him, he'll skid head-first into the step instead of jumping up resulting in a satisfying whump.
- If either one is in our lap, the other will climb over or under in order to be in the lap as well.
- While watching TV last night, both pups in my lap, they noticed our collective reflection in the window across from where were sitting. They then started growling and barking, even after I took them right up to it so they could see and then moved away where they couldn't see the window anymore.
- The boy will bark and be all tough if he sees a person-shaped shadow on a wall outside, but not at people.
- If the boy attempts to hump the girl, we'll stop him. Later, the girl will sneak attack and beat the hell out of him.
- They love to chase Kate and I around if we run in the house, but occasionally try to go between our legs when we're doing anything, resulting in an accidentally punted puppy. They don't seem to mind though.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the girl will pause mid-lick sometimes while she's licking our hands or faces. She'll sort of go *licklicklickli-* pause with tongue out and on my hand.....*icklicklick*.