All I can say is when I first got my little dog home after going 5 years without a dog and sat him down, looked into his tiny face, his name just came out of no where! Had never heard the name but the little fuzzy Yorkie looking back at me - who had never had a name and he was 9 mos. old - just seemed to be saying to me "I am Tibbe". No explanation - don't know where it came from but I do know somehow it fits him to a "T". I said the name and he began dancing around and jumping up on me as if to say that was his name!
Add every derivation to that name such as "Mr. Tibbs", "Tibbster", "Tibbo", etc., and you have his nicknames, but, oddly enough I call him "bobba" more than anything, a term I heard in an audio book set in Ireland. They used that word as a term of endearment when talking to a child and somehow that nickname stuck to him maybe more than other nicknames.
Tibbe is a special boy and just the love of my life!
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |