Doggie Names

July 20, 2005

This morning I sat outside and sketched the new puppy, but she moves around so much it’s difficult. She’s really happy outside — the family we got her from kept all their dogs outside, so that’s all she knew before coming home with us. Yesterday Russ fixed all the questional areas of our fence, so now it’s easier to let her play outside all she wants.

Our last dog was a blue heeler mix, so she was super smart, but didn’t have the typical coloring of a blue heeler. She looked like a minature german shepard, except with big deer-like ears. Her name was Mocha, and it makes me sad just posting this photo because I still miss her. She lived to about 15, and since she died a couple of years ago, we’ve been looking for another dog.

Russ would read all the ads for blue heeler mixed puppies, but we didn’t find one we liked until last Sunday. Our new puppy came from a litter of ten, and she was the only dark one. Her mother was a heeler, a good dog, and our little puppy seems to be learning very fast.

Melody must be psychic, because right after she proposed the name Petunia, the puppy started chewing up my petunias! I love all the comments and names every one posted, but Gerrie was closest when she said we’d probably try to find a Japanese name.

We tried Aki which means autumn, but now we’re pretty set on Mochi. I hope Myra doesn’t mind — it was actually Russ who thought of it, and he doesn’t read My Little Mochi. Mochi means Japanese rice cake (sometimes sweet and mostly sticky). I know the puppy isn’t white, but she seems to like the name best of all the ones we’ve tried on her. Maybe she has a fondness for little rice cakes!

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