NaBloPoMo: Bonkey Moon
November 29, 2008emily 1 Comment »I was at the vet’s office not too long ago with our dog, Luke, and the vet tech was asking me if Luke had any nicknames. I hesitated, then hedged. “Um, yeah. Yeah, he has a few.” I hoped he would drop the question. If only I’d been so lucky. “Oh yeah? Well, what are they?” Oh, where to begin?
“Well, we call him Puppy, because he still acts like one. And, uh, we call him Poo and, uh, Poo Bear. And, well, then one day we decided that he looked like a donkey, so there’s that. But then that warped into Bonkey, and now we call him Bonkey Moon.” Needless to say, this precipitated a blank stare from the vet tech. I soldiered on: “You know, like the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon?”
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I get it. And love it. My dog Malcolm has many a nickname, including poupee which actually means doll in French but sounds cuter and closer to puppy than chiot – French for puppy – although "mon petit chiot" creeps out once in a while too. And puppy. Even though he is over 13 years old (which makes my heart ache). There is also Malcky and all of the variations on The Diggity, ie the digg, the diggit, the diggity dog. Didjeredoo was thrown in there once in a while but fell out of favor. There are more but these are my most favored.
But I think you win for linking your dog’s nickname to the UN. Very cool.