catseye
Old lady trouser-smell with yesterday's knickers
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Much like with children, I've always had a theory that animals 'choose' their own names.
I was recently reminded about an event at school...I'd arrived early, and, wandering the carpark was a lurcher-type dog (the school was rural and near fields/woods etc). I caught her and took her in to the school, where the Bursar looked after her until her owner was contacted and she was gratefully collected.
Now, the weird bit. As soon as I found the dog, I had the feeling her name was Poppy. I'd never met her before, or even seen her from a distance (I live a long way from where I then worked). She had a collar with the owner's phone number but (very sensibly) no dog's name. But, in my head, she was called Poppy.
We received a 'thank you' card from the owner, plus a box of Maltesers, to say thanks for finding her and taking her in. Signed from her owner and 'from Polly'.
So did she just look like a Poppy/Polly? Or did she somehow, in extremis, 'tell' me her name was Poppy/Polly? The two names are near enough, especially as heard yelled over a field by an inattentive dog, for me to claim it as practically the same thing...
I was recently reminded about an event at school...I'd arrived early, and, wandering the carpark was a lurcher-type dog (the school was rural and near fields/woods etc). I caught her and took her in to the school, where the Bursar looked after her until her owner was contacted and she was gratefully collected.
Now, the weird bit. As soon as I found the dog, I had the feeling her name was Poppy. I'd never met her before, or even seen her from a distance (I live a long way from where I then worked). She had a collar with the owner's phone number but (very sensibly) no dog's name. But, in my head, she was called Poppy.
We received a 'thank you' card from the owner, plus a box of Maltesers, to say thanks for finding her and taking her in. Signed from her owner and 'from Polly'.
So did she just look like a Poppy/Polly? Or did she somehow, in extremis, 'tell' me her name was Poppy/Polly? The two names are near enough, especially as heard yelled over a field by an inattentive dog, for me to claim it as practically the same thing...