Tag: animals

We Interrupt Wordless Wednesday To Bring You The Saga Of The Possibly Rabid Skunk Part Deux

As you may recall, on Sunday we had about a two-hour daylight visit from a skunk that was mostly just lying there like a lump, but that occasionally stirred itself to stumble around a bit.  By the time we got someone to come out to collect it — or more accurately, to explain that he was not under contract to collect it — it had disappeared.  Monday we had torrential rain and howling wind all day, and the skunk did not put in a reappearance.  Yesterday it turned up again.  To quote Monty Python, “I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it — it’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it.”

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We Interrupt The Sunday Awards And Meme Show To Bring You The Saga Of The Possibly Rabid Skunk

So this morning, we woke up to find this guy on the hill behind our house:

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mama and dada went to the wild animal park and all i got wuz nothing

hello nice reederz its dennis the vizsla dog wel thru carefull investigashun and steeling dadas camra i hav discuvrd ware mama and dada went all day yesterday they went to the wild animal park in the mithical sitty of escondido with sum of dadas cuzzins and they didnt bring me bak ennything to eet or play with not evn wun of these:

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What’s In A (Nick) Name?

So the other day while I was talking with the vet about Trouble, I referred to her (the cat, not the vet) as “Trudy”. Momentarily confused, the vet said, “Oh … I thought her name was Trouble?” I told the vet that “Trudy” was one of Trouble’s nicknames, and we went on with our conversation. That got me thinking, though, about just how many nicknames our animals have, and whether or not other people’s pets have nicknames too.

Anyway, just to prevent any future confusion, here are all of the various names by which we might refer to our various pets, along with etymology (if both non-obvious and available) and use-case scenarios.

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