Faye Fox
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What is behind your picking names for your pets or any animal? I have grown lazy in my old age and didn't bother to inquire and find out the real names of the neighborhood cats that patrol my place every day and in a timely fashion. There are three, Orangie, Blackie, and Stripe. I have always used a name that describes the animal. Colors are an easy out. 
I kept a pup for a friends daughter until she could get moved in a place that allowed pets. She called it Alexandria but that didn't fit. It loved to dig in my garden area where nothing was planted. I named it Prospector since it found some interesting old bones. I had two roosters, Pepper and Rojo. One was white and black speckled and the other red. Notable barn cats were Whinner, Red Fox, Panther, and Midnight. Horses were Paint and Pinto.
My folks being scientist, named cats and dogs, names like Nostradamus, Archimedes, Newton, Voltaire, and Tesla.
One of my grandpas named and renamed all his mules, horses, and dogs with Biblical names. His old mule was Ebenezer after the Pharisee. The mare always breaking out was Jezebel, and one dog was Moreover. Yes, that is Biblical from the story of Lazarus, "Moreover , the dog, licked his sores." Meshack, Shadrack, and Abednego were rescues from a barn fire, but my favorite is the story behind John the Baptist, his favorite horse. His name was Moses before my Grandpa was bucked off crossing the river. Had he been down stream where the red clay banks tinted the water red, no name change would have been necessary.
I kept a pup for a friends daughter until she could get moved in a place that allowed pets. She called it Alexandria but that didn't fit. It loved to dig in my garden area where nothing was planted. I named it Prospector since it found some interesting old bones. I had two roosters, Pepper and Rojo. One was white and black speckled and the other red. Notable barn cats were Whinner, Red Fox, Panther, and Midnight. Horses were Paint and Pinto.
My folks being scientist, named cats and dogs, names like Nostradamus, Archimedes, Newton, Voltaire, and Tesla.
One of my grandpas named and renamed all his mules, horses, and dogs with Biblical names. His old mule was Ebenezer after the Pharisee. The mare always breaking out was Jezebel, and one dog was Moreover. Yes, that is Biblical from the story of Lazarus, "Moreover , the dog, licked his sores." Meshack, Shadrack, and Abednego were rescues from a barn fire, but my favorite is the story behind John the Baptist, his favorite horse. His name was Moses before my Grandpa was bucked off crossing the river. Had he been down stream where the red clay banks tinted the water red, no name change would have been necessary.
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