New Addition - Aeryn

May 13th, 2007

Yesterday we got a new puppy, yet another Ridgeview aussie, yet another black tri, yet another girl. Her registered name will be Ridgeview’s Peacekeeper, and her call name will be “Aeryn” after the _Farscape’s _Aeryn Sun, the cranky but ultimately good former Peacekeeper soldier. (if you’re not hopeless Sci-Fi geeks, you may need to refer to the link to have any clue what I’m talking about)

We had kicked around some other ideas, but nothing stuck. I’d always wanted to name a dog “Outlaw Belle Star” and call her Belle, but someone pointed out to me the irony of naming an obedience dog “Outlaw”. If we were getting a red, I would have been happy to call her “I Love Lucy”, if for no other reason than I could do a Desi Arnaz impression and say ” Lucy, you got some ’splaining to do…” Fortunately for the dog training world, there were no reds in the this litter, so you all will be spared that joy.

Finally I hit on the Aeryn idea. Her namesake is tough, smart, brave, cranky, sometimes hard to live with, but basically moving in the right direction. If my Aeryn turns out the same way, I think I’ll take it.