Friday, June 1, 2012

Naming Dog Anatomy Parts

I name dog anatomy parts.  Why?  There's no real reason to do such a thing other than the fact that it is cute.  However, it is cute, so why not name dog anatomy parts?   It's obviously a common thing since picture of dog anatomy and cat anatomy can be found on the Internet.   There's a picture that has an arrow pointing to a cat's tail that calls it a "dandle."  It says that it is short for "da handle."  I think that works well for dogs, too.  At least, it works for Toggle and Woofles.

The dog anatomy that comes to mind today is a snout.  Woofles was the first dog to have special name for his snout.  I wrote about this earlier.  We decided that it was too cute to not have its own name so we called it a "Schnufle" or a "Schnoofle."   (It's said the same way, the spelling just sometimes changes.  The second one is obviously spelled closer to how it is said.)

Toggle doesn't have a special name for his snout.  We call it a snout.  However, sometimes, I called it a snoggle.  This could get him confused with his command, "no swoggling," though.

Niblet's snout is so little that the other day my mom decided that his also needed a special name.  Because of this,  his snout is a snoutette.

Do you call any of your dog's anatomy or cat's anatomy special things?  Let me know!

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