I decided to let Samantha tell me her name. It took us about a week to figure it out. We considered Maggie but there was already one in the family. Then Lucy was tried on for size but no one liked it. Finally, we tried Samantha, although it is not a name I particularly like, and it just fit. I tried calling her Sam and then Sammie, but she responded only to Samantha. People used to say it was a big name for a small dog but her personality grew up to it and we don't hear that any more. The only little problem is that it is a difficult name for Arabic speakers so she gets called a number of variations by her Egyptian friends. She doesn't care, she loves them all anyway! |