Name-Calling the Js

I finally got to visit ML's two dogs after seeing them as puppies at Christmas. Pebbles, a Shihtzu and Forrest, a Minisature Shnauzer are both so pretty, adorable and bubbly. I was especially taken by Forrest's beauty. In comparison, Jelly is an ugly ducking!!

While Forrest has soft, smooth silky jet-black hair at the top (she is a `black and silver' while Jelly is `salt and pepper') Jelly's fur is wiry and slightly rough, and the pepper-grey colour is rather dull and uneven.

Forrest, at only about eight months old, is in an ideal size and shape, and the body in perfect proportion. Jelly however, is not only over-sized (remember how the vet called her a giant!), but she also has a big round tummy - looks a bit pregnat or the shape of a plump auntie!

Perhaps due to regular bathing (at least twice a week) by her `little mom', Forrest looks clean and neat although she also had not been shaved for quite a while. I don't mind having her in my bed! Jelly on the other hand, always looks dirty and messy, saved for the few hours after her bath. The fur around her mouth and on her feet are often wet and smelly even. This is because he gets to roam in and out of the house.. and also my fault for not brushing her fur daily.

Having said all this, I still wouldn't exchange Jelly for anything. Just that I realise now I don't have a beautiful (in the conventional sense) Jelly.

And suddenly I came out with an even longer nick-name for Jelly!

Two days ago, I nicknamed her `Stalker-Jelly'. Yes, she follows at my heel every step I walk around the house. Even when in my room and I move from a few steps from my study table to my dressing, she would trail along. And if I go into the bathroom, she would follow me in and wait for me to finish what I need to do there!

She just couldn't let her mommy out of her sight at all! Just like a stalker! ;)

Now, bearing in mind her image, I have added more adjectives to her name. She is now `Little Fatty Messy Ugly Stalker Jelly'.

I know, you probably think I am mean. But to me this is a term of endearment. No insult and offence intended.

By the way, my darling `LFMUSJ' (in short) is resting just three metres away from where I am as I type this.

After I named her, I also thought of giving Jojo a nickname (to be fair). Hmmm.. So how about `Big Handsome Naughty Monster Jojo'?

Well, my `BHNMJ' has been behaving a bit better these few days - at least for the last three nights when I came home, he didn't dash out of the gate but rather waited to greet me from my car. But to his `por por', it is another story.

Yesterday morning, he ate up the newspaper in fron to her and refused to get out of the house when my mom asked him to. Yes, no doubt Jojo is `Naughty Moster' to her.

Oh well, they could be LFMUSJ and BHNMJ, but they're still my two kids, my two Js...