[matese]

1980 My first yorkie.
I had a cousin that for some reason would not pronounce the would KILLER correctly, she pronounced it as Kia. When I bought my puppy I went directly to friends and family to show off my little baby, when they asked me what her name was I said she has no name yet, I wasn’t planning on buying a puppy. When I got to my cousins house to show her my lil baby, she laughed at this teeny tiny baby and she she looks like a littler Kia (KILLER) and that’s how my first yorkie got her name. She passed away in 1994, 6 months after her death the Kia car was being sold, I wanted to sue the Company for stealing the name of my dog, then I found out it was a Korean made car, used in Korean and recently came to the USA. Well my dogs name Kia was unique for the 14.5 that she was alive.

Yorkie # 2….I was reading a book, the story took place in New Orleans…Again another unplanned yorkie puppy, I bought her in the evening, the next evening I took her to my vet for the 48 hour store check up policy, the vet asked what her name was, I told him she didn’t have one, but I was reading this book and I like the ring of the Cajun food but was not going to name a dog after a type of food, so he said change the spelling to Kajon (pronounced as Kay John)…so Kajon it was.

Yorkie # 3…..again unplanned, At this time singer Sinéad O’Conner was popular I was not into her type of singing but she was bald headed, my new puppy was very furry and I thought it would be funny to give my hairy puppy her name. The day I got her I went to my friend that had 3 yorkies to show them lookie what I just got, they asked what I named her I said SCHNAE after the singer, they said her name is Sinead O’Conner NOT Schnae, I said GOOD because I don’t like giving my dogs ppl’s name, so that’s how Schnae got her name.

Yorkie #4… 1997…was nameless for 3 months, she answered to the name of noooooo. I was watching TV, they were talking about Phyllis Diller and her painting, compared it to the artist Matisse a “one of a kind” artist, well my new baby was “one of a kind” she was able to slide my bed room closet door open and chew my slippers, I had to buy 6 pairs slippers the first 7 weeks I had her until I found out how she was getting into the closet. She was “one of a kind” in all the years of owning dogs this was the only puppy that got into so much mischief I changed the spelling and that is how Matese got her name. (Matese remained a "one of a kind" mischievous little girl up to 7 weeks before she left me at age 17 y/o)


Yorkie #5…another unplanned dog, 6 weeks after Matese left me to join her sister at Rainbow bridge, my vet called me, they had just gotten in a rescue, she begged me to come to “just see the dog” long story short, I went, I saw and he was coming home with me, his name was Theodore, wayyyy to long of a name for me, when I had just Schnae & Matese when they were being naughty I would call out, “knock it off “Masha” (using part of both their names by accident in my excitement to get them calmed down lol) I knew I would never get the name of T-H-E-O-D-O-R-E out of my mouth. I wanted his name changed before I left the vets office, I wasn’t planning on another dog, he was prancing around the room like a little western stallion, The name Cody popped into my head, although I don’t like giving ppl names to my dogs, I had to come up with something fast, he looked like a little Cody, and that is how Cody got his name.