Nicknames

Sailor here.

My registered name is too long to remember, but my call name is Sailor. This is what Mom usually calls me, but not always. She has a variety of other names for me that tell me just what she is thinking or what I am doing.

�Rugger hugger� is when I have been to obedience class and am a rug and Mom is overcome with love and rolls on the floor and hugs me.

�Splash� is when I step in a puddle and then shake the water off my feet all over Mom�s pant legs.

�Snoopy� is when I give her a good nose poke on her bare skin in the morning to get her moving a little faster. She always appreciates this since, if left to her own devices, she would be late in giving me breakfast and taking me for our morning walk

�Fluffy� is when I have just had my weekly brushing.

�Floofy� is when I have just had a bath and a brush-up.

�Hork Monster� is when I hack up Zoe furballs or threaten to protest, in my own inimitable way, the phenomenon known as a Half Fast Day.

�Branch Man� is when I have run through the redwood grove on our property and come back to Mom with redwood branches stuck to my feathers and trousers and tail.

�HPSG� is when I am greedy and boop Mom in the armpit or her butt for more treats. It usually doesn�t work, though. HPSG stands for �hoggledy piggo squealy gruntems.�

�Drooly Gus� is when I take a drink of water. Mom says I drool it all across the kitchen floor. Me, drool?

�Big Boy� is just because.

Sailor, all of the above