Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Sun & The Moon
After much debate we finally chose a name for our new foster. We decided to call her Sol.
Picking a name was much harder than I anticipated. We would look at her, shout out a suggestion, look at her again, then give a nay. Nothing really seemed to fit her. We eventually narrowed down a list of names that we liked and one evening just before bed we decided on the name Molly. She was named Molly for about 30 minutes while we were awake that night and for about the 7 hours we were asleep. However, when we woke up we soon realized that our friend’s parents have a dog name Molly. We didn’t want to “copy” so we set out to find a new name for our sweet, little foster.
After going through a dozen more name choices we finally chose Sol. Why Sol you ask? Well, the obvious reason is that Sol in Spanish means sun, and the new little girl certainly is a ray of sunshine, but Luna in Spanish means moon. So, if we named her Sol, we would have the sun and the moon.
While that reasoning is all well and good, it was the main reason we weren’t going to name her Sol. Sol was a name that was thrown into the hat almost immediately. But, we always dismissed it because we shouldn’t give her a name that pairs her up with Luna if we really intended to live up to our foster parent duties and send her to a forever home one day.
But, we just couldn’t help it. The name Sol just kept coming up and no other name really seemed to fit. You can look at her and tell she has many years of pug wisdom under her belt and I think the name Sol helps convey that. She is most definitely an “Old Soul”.
So for now, at least, we have the moon and the sun all resting easy at our house.
Louise
01/07/2009
you can tell that she’s already fully integrated!
you guys are doing a good job.
I think I would be a terrible fosterparent. I would want to keep every fosterpug!
I would end up with a whole pugfarm!