We’ve had all kinds of pets and critters around - even when we were on the road, living in the homemade “RV” we had three dogs. I’ve always named the animals based on their personalities and have have some great dog names. According to the Registrar of Dogs (Animal licensing departments) in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, the top 20 most popular names for dogs in northern California are:

I’ve got way too many cats running around here! Lets see now, in the neutered male division we have a large red, (from whence he got his name, “Red”), and a rather large and imposing solid black, who goes by the name of “Rocky”. In the spayed female ranks we have “Wild Thing”, sometimes referred to as “Momma Cat”, and a big fluffy grey we call “Jayda”. Newest of the bunch is a small striped grey that looks a lot like ”Wild Thing”, in coloring, yet to be spayed. They all eat way too much and to top it all off they are all save the kitten bigger than my dog, a small female purebred shizu. The dog is nuttier then a fruitcake and twice as dumb! But ya gotta love her, she’s just so durn cute! Anyways, I keep telling the girls they just gotta stop bringing home critters that just eat and crap and lay around…heck, that’s my job!