Comments on: Which Puppy Will Pick Us? …

By: rabi

rabi — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:10:48 +0000

oh good grief. as long as you give an animal a safe and loving home and make sure that animal isn’t out spawning unwanted babies, you are a good pet-parent. that’s like saying you’re a bad person if you decide to have your own children instead of adopting a starving baby from colombia or something.

plus (I say this as the owner of a shelter dog that I love to death), rescued dogs are not the best option for everyone, and many of those dogs would be better off if people & their societies would stop pretending otherwise.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:42:23 +0000

It is irresponsible buying a pet from a breeder when there are dogs being killed by humane societies because they don’t have anybody to adopt them. Purebread dogs are just overbread status symbols. Imagine the awesome home you chould have given some poor dog confined to a tiny cage at the humane society waiting to be put to sleep.

By: april

april — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:10:38 +0000

oh.my.god! way too cute! i’m super excited for you both!!!!!

By: Yuriko

Yuriko — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:38:05 +0000

OT a bit but Cayce from Patern Recognition was also pronounced “case”. (^_^)

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:24:00 +0000

Molly isn’t that unusual a name for a dog… a friend of ours in Calgary has a dog named Molly.

We named our dog Cayce after two of William Gibson’s characters: It’s spelled Cayce, like the protagonist of Pattern Recognition, but pronounced “Case”, like the protagonist from Neuromancer.

My partner Kirsten has a habit of naming animals and objects after literary figures; our first cat is named Zelda, after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s crazy wife, and our second cat is named Heidegger, after the German existentialist philosopher.

Funnily enough, we almost got a second dog, who was already named Dixie (a secondary character in Neuromancer was named Dixie Flatline)

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:28:22 +0000

Puppiiieeeeees!!!!

By: John Tischer

John Tischer — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:10:02 +0000

Molly……very unusual name for a dog, but……if the dog picks you……
might be perfect…..

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:42:40 +0000

Gotta like 2-syllable names. Don’t know which one Molly is, but I’m sure she’s the cuter one.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:32:20 +0000

…and, in all honesty, we prefer 2-syllable British-sounding names.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:23:52 +0000

Like Sarah said, we haven't made the final decision yet, and probably won't until we meet the dog in a few weeks. I'd like to say there is some clever reason we came up with the name Molly, but honestly, we just like the name. However, after we came up with the name, I decided that it was cool because the dog would share the name of a favourite political columnist, Molly Ivins.