> *chuckle* I grew up with a kind of similar situation. I wasn't
> adopted by any but grew up among my grandmother's dogs. When I
was
> very small I used to nap in a dog bed and my favorite toy was a
plastic
> pork chop squeak toy which I was very protective of. I used to
carry
> it around in my mouth. For me the Simpsons episode that
introduced
> Santa's Little Helper was totally freaky. Homer buys an identical
> squeak toy for Maggie as a cheap x-mas present.
>
> I don't know the experience influenced me either but I certainly
did
> grow up knowing a lot about dog 'language' and related better to
> animals than humans.
>
> Incidentally in my case the name would be Homer M., Homer the
guinea
> pig and Avenue M. I did know a girl in high school who would have
had
> Barbie Groo, as scary as that might be. A fashion fray? Where?!
> PS- You must be pretty young if the dog was named Madison.
I'm 20, for the record. And that thing about the Simpsons episode is
pretty freaky, haha. ^.^
Received on Mon Jul 05 2004 - 15:25:48 CDT