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Old 03-22-2002, 09:58 PM   #12
Aelia Jusa
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Join Date: August 23, 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
Age: 44
Posts: 4,867
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Originally posted by Moni:
Well get this...she answers to Sugar!!!

Wow! Guess I was right, she does look like a Sugar

I know what you mean about being sensitive about names. Names are so personal, and pets, for some people at least, are members of the family, when you lose them it's so devastating and having another animal sharing the name is tough, it's like I've lost my Sugar, but there you go with yours. One of my friends lost their corgie called Kaiser, and they drove to all the way down the coast that very night to get an identical dog, which they called... Kaiser. I don't know if it made them feel better, but to me it seemed a strange, and rather insensitive (to the dogs, both old and new) thing to do. And of course it backfired, the new dog was a puppy, and did naughty puppy things, which was nothing like the old Kaiser who was old and feeble, so they got cross with him for not being the old Kaiser. I have the feeling if they'd given their new dog its own name and identity they would have loved it more
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