What’s In A Name?

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In the fine tradition of dog tales on Have Sippy…. Today we will tell the rousing adventure of how our newest fur-ball, Leela (full name- Turanga Leela Cooper) received her name. This story involves intrigue, mystery and most of all- Katey Segal.

The names of our animals have always been a creative process. We want something that fits the animal, but also is fun and interesting. Also- as we do animal rescue and rehab, we go through a lot of names. 🙂
For a little while, we had a theme of gods from other cultures. We had Chaac Mool (the Wonder Dog) named after the Mexican thunder god. We also had Cleopatra and Nefertiti- the guinea pig sisters named after the Egyptian gods on Earth. We had the Flemish Giant Rabbit, Loki, who tried to eat our bathroom wall….oy, Loki.

We did animals named after cookies, then cakes, the Star Wars. Themes are nice, but difficult to keep going. This time we needed to go with something that was very specific to our new ball of fluff. She is a runner and a gorgeous dog. Smart as anything which makes her an escape artist at heart. She has gotten out of our fenced in yard three times. As of now, she is micro chipped, name tagged and has a tether to keep her within a certain radius of the middle of the yard. There is very little chance of her escaping…. We hope.

Our main road block at this point in time was we had just lost a very important part of our family and thinking in any manner was quite scarce to be honest. The creative juices were not flowing in the slightest. So we based her current name off of her previous one, Peggy. This name had to go, it was just not “her”- but what name is related to Peggy? The first thing we thought of when we heard Peggy was Leela. Why- you ask? Because she is the character who Katey Segal played after playing Peggy Bundy on Married With Children- and one of our favorite shows.

Turanga Leela from Futurama. Since Leela is a ‘looker’ and is voiced by her, and has a “mind of her own”, we decided to go with Leela as her name. Get it? Anyway that is the tale of Leela’s dog tag name. OH- and Little made us add on the “Cooper” because that is the name of his favorite stuffed dog. Can this get more complicated? Wait- it can!

It didn’t take time for her personality came out- and thus got our creative juices flowing, and came up with her nick name: J.J. Houdini. J.J. is short for Jackie Joyner-Kersee who is one of the most famous female runners in American history. Houdini is after Harry Houdini, the greatest of American magician/escape artists. Think it is odd to have a dog with so many names? Not around here….So- this is the tale (tail?) of how Leela got 6 names- 7 if you count the original Peggy.

I wrote this dog tale as a part of the “What’s in a Name?” Campaign sponsored by DogFenceDiy, the invisible fence alternative. No matter the name, DogFenceDiy cares about the safety of your pets.