Eye Brows

Well I have to say our little pup is so much I had to write about him again. Actually he is fun most the time. At 5am when he needs to go out… not so much but I am sure that can’t last forever. Anyway were still figuring things out. We are taking him to vets, buying toys, trying to wean him off wet food to dry food etc. All that fun stuff. As he is a puppy there are limited ways to play with him to. Run around the house and let him case you or pseudo wrestle with him. Well wrestling is really him against your hand but he likes it. Of course you have to watch out because he loves to chew on you while you’re doing it. We are also trying to take him on walks but only down the block and back. He doesn’t quite understand the leash but he is trying really hard.

I thought it would be fun to name this post “Eye Brows” because that is the literal translation of the pup’s name. Brovi is Russian for eye brows. I came up with this name because of his coloring. As I mentioned last week he has tan spots on his face. Well they are perfect tan spots resembling Groucho Marx’s eye brows. They are really bushy and even kind of stick out a bit from his head, very similar in pattern to a Doberman pincher but a Doberman with a ton of hair, like a shaggy dog. So I thought it would be a good name for the little guy and it does sound like a dog’s name.

One of the funny consequences of this name is my in-laws reaction. They have no idea why anyone would ever name their dog such a thing. It would be like meeting some Russians that call their dog literally in English “Eye Brows” or “Nose” or “Hair”. It doesn’t make any sense. But of course sense I don’t speak Russia (at least not enough to count) and RG loves the name we’re sticking to it. But every once in a while RG’s mom will ask again why would you name a dog such a name. She is completely dumbfounded. I think the sister in law gets the joke and nature of the name so we have a little support. That’s ok I am sure they will understand when they meet him, and if they don’t they probably won’t care anyway because he is pretty adorable – of course there are no guarantees he will stay that way.