We spent hours on our daily walks tossing about names for the dog we were going to get once I was off school for the summer. I liked Q after the Star Trek character, and then I could call him Q-T. I also liked literary names like Little Darcy, Lizzie, Emma, Pip. I kept trying to think of a Shakespeare character name that would fit. I wanted something clever or sophisticated. Oh, I even looked up words from Yorkshire dialect. I think one was Spoggy-it means a sweet thing, I think.
Instead...
we ended up calling him a name that fits in with family tradition. DH's family likes toy poodles and gives them names that end in a kee sound: Ricki, Jacqui. When we got the dog, my husband started calling him Dinky, almost immediately, and then I did too.
Now, I love his silly name. It's just who he is. Sometimes we sing to him to the tune of "Maria" from West Side Story: Din-kee! I just met a dog named Dinky, and everytime I walk, he likes to me talk and say- Dinkee,eee,ee, ee ....Oh dinky, dinky, dinky, DINKEEEEE!" Yes, we sing this outside on our walk, in public! |