July 30, 2006
My New Grease Monkey
Lookee here what the damned cat dragged in. I drove up to central Georgia today to fetch Skeeter, who'd spent the week with my sister in Atlanta. My sister beat me to the designated rendevous by five minutes, and wouldn't you know in that five minutes Skeeter and her cousin Katie had discovered this frightened, mewling little chocolate Lab abandoned behind a gas station, sandy, dirty, with grease spots on her head. No fleas, though.
I said when I planted Master Po "No more dogs!" I love them, but I live a carefree, lazy lifestyle now. Dogs are a pain in the ass. I took the fucking whelp in just to find it a home. But she shit in the back of the rental car, which was just the thing to win over my corrupt, stony heart. She's a bloody keeper.
I don't have a name for her yet, though. In time. She basically defecates to anything you call her, so it's not like it's a pressing issue.
UPDATE: And so she is Marigot. Pronounced "Merri-go". The capital of French St. Martin. Because my girls refused to clep to raising and training the beast, and so lost their vote. And were coming up with gay names anyhow.
Pretentious? Oh yeah. Yuppie? You might say so. Grasping? Hell no. It's just a frigging dog. And I am, after all, a creature of convenience, you know? She'll just be abbreviated to "Muh" to me.
Sweet pup. I guess your little Skeeter gets to name her, since she found her.
But how about "Halle"?
I proffered Mahalia and Chicken Melva, but they got shot down.
Posted by: Velociman at July 30, 2006 7:44 PMDog names are powerful things, choose wisely.
Monkey is a good name, though. Rolls off the tongue. Shorten to monk. Looks like she's got a 2cc bladder like mine, too.
Posted by: og at July 30, 2006 8:24 PMOhhhh. She is so fucking cute!
Posted by: sadie at July 30, 2006 9:08 PMShe is adorable - I'd love to have a little doggy again, if it wasn't like having another kid to look after. I love my kids, but three is enough at the moment.
Posted by: Lisa W. at July 30, 2006 9:34 PMA LAB?! Hahahaha - good luck! I'd name her what your landscaping will be this time next year - FUBAR.
Posted by: Dash at July 30, 2006 9:48 PMLabs are extraordinarily good dogs. I've had one for two (2) years and he has done only minor damage where he brakes upon catching the ball. He is good with children and just about anyone else. He has turned into a good watch dog. I think you're extremely lucky.
Posted by: Jack Straw at July 30, 2006 10:53 PMAll the beautifully named towns we have in central Georgia, and you named her after the capital of a yuppie French island?! You oughtta be ashamed. She coulda been Wenona or Chula.
Posted by: Key at July 30, 2006 11:08 PMBuy LOTS of chew toys. Labs are big chewers....
Posted by: Maeve at July 31, 2006 12:55 AMIf you raise a Lab with a big tame male baboon as a playmate they make excelent hunting and fighting dogs.
Just thought that this might be the only place in the USA where that thought might be entertained.
Nice pup.
I'm ashamed of a lot of things. Dog names? Non.
Posted by: Velociman at July 31, 2006 8:49 AMOk, I'm a chick, and I'm pregnant, so I will indulge myself: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
As for Marigot, it's lovely. But I'm sure she will wind up with 15 different nicknames, like all 3 of my dogs. Grease Monkey is a good'n.
Por ejemplo, my Lucy (black Lab mix) is AKA Goose, Stinkmonkey, Long Duck Dog, Darkness, and Negro Dog.
Posted by: Skwerly at July 31, 2006 11:19 AMFYI: a dog's name should contain exactly 2 syllables.
Posted by: Jack Straw at July 31, 2006 1:13 PMI'll bet two bits that this unbearably cute pup ends up being called "Dammit, Mo" because ya can't yell "Dammit, Muh" anywhere near loud enough.
Posted by: Gerry N. at July 31, 2006 5:10 PMJust think of the fun you both will have squating to pee together... Heart warming, that thought is...
Not that you give a shit 'bout what I think, but I think that name is... pretentious, but fitting for a canine belonging to you. I'd have named it "Turd Ball". It's brown, and it leaves 'em in the back of rental cars, and soon, your slippers.
There you go, just drop some kinda indian name on it. Put your "Injun thinkin' cap on" Vman. Say, "Shits in rentals"... I don't know. You get the idea though. You're smart.
I'd sooner name a dog "Newark" than name her after some bullshit French island.
Cute dog, though.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at July 31, 2006 9:16 PMThey were coming up with gay names, so you fixed that by naming her Marigot?
What, did you say,"You want a gay name? Well here's a gay name! MARIGOT!!"
Posted by: That 1 Guy at July 31, 2006 11:09 PMAaaaawwww! A puppy!
A puppy with the poofiest name heard in recent memory, but, neverthess, a puppy.
What a little sweetie...you, too!
I like the name.
You'll be a good human...I know...after all the harrassment you gave me about Kira!!!! Who is, BTW, doing marvelous...a bit muddy and wet today, as she and her doggie playmates destroyed a sprinkler dragging it around the back yard.
Love your new gay dog...
Posted by: rankin' rob at August 1, 2006 1:41 PMHow about Dip Stick....then you could slip and call the dog Dip Shit.
Posted by: LeeAnn at August 1, 2006 6:54 PMActually, I like the name Marigot, but it probably should be southernized as "Mare,go" in speech.
Posted by: Jack Straw at August 1, 2006 7:42 PMI thhink I understand now why you've bestowed a French name upon the wee lad.
Perhaps, it's the sideways glance accompanied by the raised and furrowed brow...
Posted by: jmflynny at August 1, 2006 9:16 PMAw, what a cutie. What kind of creep would abandon such a sweet puppy?
Posted by: Libby at August 2, 2006 12:56 AM