How to Confuse Your Dog 101

Do you ever think about all the random names that you call your animals? I was talking to Riggs yesterday, about eating bird seeds in the yard…and about how that makes him sick…and about how I’m not going to clean it up, and addressed him as, “Mr. Bot”.  Absolutely no relation to his real name.

We started calling him “Bot” as a baby because he kind of moved around like a robot.  That’s turned into Bot Man, Mr. Riggs Bot, Bot Face, and so on.  Andrea started calling him “Rigatoni”. Like the pasta. That stuck too.  I call him Brown Dog a lot too.  Just in case he isn’t confused enough with all the other titles.

Elvis is known as “Black Dog”.  Or L-Face.  Or Mr. Elvis (he’s very distinguished).  Or my favorite, “Punk”.  He really is a punk.  The funny thing about the whole thing is that they really do answer to most all of these names.