*brushes off dust and rises from the dead*

[dawn_felagund]

Yeah, it's me. That girl called "Dawn Felagund" (who also answers to "Felak"--pretty effed up, since that's one of her male characters--"the 'gund" or just plain "Dawn") who usually updates daily or so and has apparently fallen off of the face of the earth. Well, except for fannish things, but when I'm eighty, I doubt I'll look back at my journal

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[frenchpony]

Bobby's chem professor got arrested? Now, there's an academic excuse you don't see too often. (Says the Pony, whose freshman Spanish teacher in high school had a fairly lengthy rap sheet.) Did you get to run his warrant?

Farewell, Mack the Knife. Enjoy the Big Saltwater Tank In The Sky. I do like the idea of a fish hospice, though.

And. . . Alex Maitimo? Clearly, Bobby did not have quite so much control over this puppy's name as you led us to believe.

[dawn_felagund]

Yep. Bobby's chem professor got arrested for DWI. For the second time. *wince* I didn't get to run anything on him because he wasn't on parole, and we only handle parole violators. Now, if he gets a jail sentence and is then released on parole/mandatory release and violates his parole...then he's fair game for me

[frenchpony]

Geez, the way the AKC names run, you get dogs sounding like Jacobean lordlings. They're just dogs! "Alex" is such a better name. . . are there advantages to AKC registration, or is it a rule or something?

[dawn_felagund]

If you ever get a chance to see the Westminster Kennel Club dog show (it's sometimes on cable TV), watch it just long enough to check out some of the dogs' names. Though I think it must be true of "animal groups" other than AKC because my cousins had a quarterhorse named "Sparks Precious Moon" whose actual name was just "Precious."

The AKC is the organization for purebred dogs, so for Alex to compete in obedience or agility (and he will hopefully do both), he'd have to be registered with them. They also offer a pet-locator service for lost animals as well as pretty darn good pet health insurance at a reasonable cost. So it definitely benefits him to be a member.

[frenchpony]

Sparks Precious Moon? You're related to people who would do that to an innocent horse?

[dawn_felagund]

Oh, she came with the name. She was about four years old when they got her.

[frenchpony]

Oh, good. So your cousins have rescued a horse formerly owned by a Mary Sue, then?

[dawn_felagund]

Apparently!

The only sense that I can make of that name is that there is a town in northern Maryland called "Sparks" that is close to my cousin's hometown of Belair. Perhaps she hailed from Sparks? I dunno.

Or maybe her first owners did expect her to have purple eyes and sprout a horn and wings. o.O

[tarion_anarore]

I was going to ask why Alex had a middle name, but you've just answered my question.

And I would like to say that neither of my dogs' registered names have "Of anything" at the end, thank you! ;P

And there is nothing wrong with the registered name "Gondolin's Aran Turukano"! *sniff* *grin*

[dawn_felagund]

I told Bobby the same thing when discussing possible mother-names for Alex! ;)

Besides, as I also pointed out, "Maitimo" means something along the lines of "beautiful one," so that seems to fit Alex pretty well. He agreed, and we had the name!

[tarion_anarore]

Hehe, well you're not allowed to steal "Gondolin's Aran Turukano", because I already thought of it! ;P

The only flaw in justifying naming your dog Maitimo as meaning "beautiful one" is that you're biased, so you'd have to name all your dogs Maitimo! Personally, I'm saving the name until the day I get an Irish Setter. ;)