Now that we very much feel we are among friends it is perhaps time to reveal the story (or dark secret) of Io’s kennel name.
Before going on with this tail I feel I should explain a little about my good wife, Mitch. She has a love of most things gothic,celtic and mediavel and this was probably one of the things that drew “us” to wanting Irish Wolfhounds as they do tend to appear quite regulary in this kind of artwork, films etc.
On the day we went to collect Io, we arrived and met with the breeders who gave us a chart of the line that Io is desended from, this was a long line of wonderful classic names based on Irish, Celtic and Lord of the Rings kind of names, all bringing a warm smile to Mitch’s face.
The breeder then passed Io’s offical papers over to Mitch, I looked at her to say “well ?” but she simply looked back at me in the style of what is now known as OMG Cat and seemed to be rendered speechless (a highly unusual occurrence). I left it for the moment and we left the house and got Io comfortable in the car and then we got in ourselves. “So what was his name then ?” – still no answer from the stunned looking lady.
I took his papers “it can’t be that bad ” I said scornfully. Perhaps it was – looking at his papers I discovered our bold, magninificent Irish Wolfhound, from a long line of regal names and son of Hannikins Hellish and Hannikins Hoax has an official kennel name of Text Me Friendly
No way! OMG that is funny!
I definitely like Io better.
us too!! I feel quite guilty at being so horrified by it, maybe it’s because he’s such a handsome boy they were worried he’d be too vain if they gave him a name to match?!?
P.S. He did ‘eat’ two mobile phones when he was a puppy and we did blame that on his kennel name-he was only trying to live up to it!
wtf omg lol 🙂
Ditto with the OMG! LOL! What WAS the breeder thinking of? Surely ALL the names from Lord of the Rings couldn’t have been taken?
Funny you should mention Lord of the Rings, by the way – because we chose, for Catie’s lofty ‘official’ registration name, Lady Caitlin Galadriel :).
excellent, I approve heartily 🙂 I’m no expert but I thought the line name usually came into it (in UK) so I think he was short changed all round, poor baby! It would have been drastically different if we’d got to pick it. Cobwebs litter were all ‘c’s so her breeder kindly changed what she was going to be regisitered as so she’s officially ‘Chlannworthy Cobweb’-much more dignified 🙂
LMAO!! Poor Guy! Maybe you could just keep it from him until he’s older and can handle the embarrassment. LOL. Thanks for the laugh today!!
Luvs,
Rosie