Puppies names:

The two males, the ones who look almost exactly like Huskies, face masks and
all are Bear & Wolf.

The two light colored ones are Caramel & Dancer.

The white one is Tundra and the black one is Pinga.

The larger ones have gained two pounds since their last check up two weeks
ago and weigh in at about 5 1/2 pounds, give or take between all five of
them. And the little one weighed in at 4 1/2 pounds. All had gained
approximately 2 pounds since their previous check-up two weeks ago. All
are well and
healthy.

They are now eating some puppy food along with nursing. The white one sits
up and howls like a wolf. She is just the cutest thing when she throws her
head back to howl. The two lighter brown colored ones are the sweetest.
They are very sweet-natured, cuddle in when you hold them, purr with
petting, etc. The two males and the black one are much more rough & tumble.
And the white one makes her wishes be known, vocally. If we kind of 'get
her', we'll kind of grab her back a bit and play with her, she turns around
and gives us this tinny little growling sound, as if to say '**** off,
already'. She has an *attitude*.

As soon as we open the door to enter the garage area where their pen is,
they will all come running to the side of the pen where we are entering,
tails wagging, jumping up on the side of the pen area, yipping. Oh and they
all have the cutest little teeth now.

So that's my update.

td

"tiny dancer" wrote in message
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Puppies names:

The two males, the ones who look almost exactly like Huskies, face masks
and
all are Bear & Wolf.

The two light colored ones are Caramel & Dancer.

The white one is Tundra and the black one is Pinga.

The larger ones have gained two pounds since their last check up two weeks
ago and weigh in at about 5 1/2 pounds, give or take between all five of
them. And the little one weighed in at 4 1/2 pounds. All had gained
approximately 2 pounds since their previous check-up two weeks ago. All
are well and
healthy.

They are now eating some puppy food along with nursing. The white one
sits
up and howls like a wolf. She is just the cutest thing when she throws
her
head back to howl. The two lighter brown colored ones are the sweetest.
They are very sweet-natured, cuddle in when you hold them, purr with
petting, etc. The two males and the black one are much more rough &
tumble.
And the white one makes her wishes be known, vocally. If we kind of 'get
her', we'll kind of grab her back a bit and play with her, she turns
around
and gives us this tinny little growling sound, as if to say '**** off,
already'. She has an *attitude*.

As soon as we open the door to enter the garage area where their pen is,
they will all come running to the side of the pen where we are entering,
tails wagging, jumping up on the side of the pen area, yipping. Oh and
they
all have the cutest little teeth now.

So that's my update.

td

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They sound like good names to me.

"tiny dancer" wrote in message
...
Puppies names:

The two males, the ones who look almost exactly like Huskies, face masks
and
all are Bear & Wolf.

The two light colored ones are Caramel & Dancer.

The white one is Tundra and the black one is Pinga.


I think I love the name Pinga for my puppy.

The larger ones have gained two pounds since their last check up two weeks
ago and weigh in at about 5 1/2 pounds, give or take between all five of
them. And the little one weighed in at 4 1/2 pounds. All had gained
approximately 2 pounds since their previous check-up two weeks ago. All
are well and
healthy.

Thats fabulous.

They are now eating some puppy food along with nursing. The white one
sits
up and howls like a wolf. She is just the cutest thing when she throws
her
head back to howl. The two lighter brown colored ones are the sweetest.
They are very sweet-natured, cuddle in when you hold them, purr with
petting, etc. The two males and the black one are much more rough &
tumble.
And the white one makes her wishes be known, vocally. If we kind of 'get
her', we'll kind of grab her back a bit and play with her, she turns
around
and gives us this tinny little growling sound, as if to say '**** off,
already'. She has an *attitude*.

HAH. Maybe she needs a special home with an experienced family.

As soon as we open the door to enter the garage area where their pen is,
they will all come running to the side of the pen where we are entering,
tails wagging, jumping up on the side of the pen area, yipping. Oh and
they
all have the cutest little teeth now.


owchie little puppy teeth!!!

In article ,
Beth In Alaska wrote:
I think I love the name Pinga for my puppy.

???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"
--
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Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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In article ,
Beth In Alaska wrote:
I think I love the name Pinga for my puppy.

???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"


In what?
That not nice.
I guess I'll have to skip pinga.

In article ,
Beth In Alaska wrote:
"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"
In what?

In Spanish. You're one of the few people living in a place
where someone might recognize something from Inuit culture,
but for the rest of us I'd guess the likelihood approaches
0. On the other hand Spanish is quite widely spoken in the
US.

"This is my puppy, Tallywhacker. Tallywhacker, sit!"
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis -

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community

Melinda Shore wrote:

???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"

Bad Melinda! Telling her ruins all the fun!

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

"Beth In Alaska" wrote in message
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"Melinda Shore" wrote in message
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In article ,
Beth In Alaska wrote:
I think I love the name Pinga for my puppy.

???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"


In what?
That not nice.
I guess I'll have to skip pinga.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingu

The main character is the son, Pingu, though some episodes feature Pingu's
parents and (after her hatching) his baby sister Pinga, his friend Robby the
Seal, and other minor characters.[1]

Check out the site, it has a very cute picture of Pingu.

So I'm guessing the monk isn't a Pingu fan?? Jake and I used to watch it
when he was very little, everyday when I kept him while Robin worked. It
came on in the morning when he had his breakfast and was a great distracting
tool to give him more incentive to eat his breakfast. It's a very sweet
little cartoon series focussed on teaching *family unit* values in a way
much like Calliou. Rather than a *people* family, it is a penguin family.
Jake has loved penguins every since. March of the Penguins was the first
movie Robin took him to see in a movie theater. He was barely two, but he
sat through the whole movie, fascinated by the huge screen of penguins.

td

Shelly wrote:
Melinda Shore wrote:

???? You'd really name your dog "penis?"

Bad Melinda! Telling her ruins all the fun!

If Melinda had not told her, I would have mentioned that Pinga
is a term widely used in Latin America that means penis. And the
name of a rock group.

And the name of a stuffed toy penguin. Who is the baby sister of
Pingu ("man with a large penis").
http://www.1stfortoys.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=P3956A

And software that apparently is used to calibrate some sort of
chip, out of Fermi Labs.
http://www-ese.fnal.gov/Phenix/PingaHelp/tests.html

And an poorly-rated Mexican restaurant in the Ozarks (now that's
a surprise!)
http://web.umr.edu/~ff/Restaurants/Pinga.html

Who knew!!!!

FurPaw

--
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

To reply, unleash the dog.

I asked a Spanish speaking friend if "Pinga" or "Pingu" would make her
think of penis right away. She learned Spanish as a second language in
high school, has lived and studied in Spain, and lives in an area with a
sizeable Mexican immigrant population now where she speaks Spanish often.


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My question:


Pinga or pingu is Spanish for penis or dick? Medical term or slang? In
common use or not something someone would think of right away? Like if
you asked me out of context what a screw was, I'd probably first think
of an item related to a nail, not a synonym for ****. Would a Spanish
speaker immediately think of the sexual conotation? Or for a better
example, the word "piece." It can be used in the phrase "getting a
piece on the side" to mean somewhat illicit or inappropriate sex, but
I'm more likely to think of piece of pie or piece of paper.


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Her answer:


The equivalent of penis is "pene." I'm not familiar with pinga - a "u"
on the end doesn't make much sense in Spanish, so I doubt it's that.
Chinga would be a rude way to say ****, as in "Chinga tu madre." And
I've heard an expression that I take to be "pinche cabrón," which is
something like saying ****ing *******. So pinga would fit right in, but
if I've ever heard it, I didn't distinguish it clearly.

My old dictionary says pinga is a yoke for carrying loads in the
Philippines, and pingar is to drip or fall in drops. A pingo is a rag,
in the plural worthless clothes.


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So I think you're safe with the puppy's name-- unless the pinga/penis
connection is common in Caribbean or Latin American Spanish that my
friend is less familiar with.


I'm reminded of the story, possibly urban legend, of how Exxon got its
name. The way I heard it, nearly every combination of sounds and
syllables has a negative or sexual connotation somewhere in some
language. What might be a nonsense word like prizlu in English could
mean weird sex with your twin brother in Fredonian. So when the
executives needed to name their multi-national corporation, something
that would be seen and heard all over the world, they were at a loss for
something universal. "Exxon" was returned as being meaningless
everywhere and therefore a good name for the company.


--Lia