People Sounding Pets

Perhaps of people's deep affection with pets, pet owner's often use people's names as pet names. Are their names exclusively for pets? Albeit the circumstances, I can only find it seemingly funny.

My dearly beloved baby is nicknamed Buchok while Belle, my officamate's dog, is Buchi. My former TL's name is Chikki while, again, Belle's demised dog, was Chiqui. A grade school classmate named Cutie Pie and a neighbor's cat named Cutie. My best friend's baby girl's nicknamed Angel while Nanay, our neighborhood vendor's shit-tzu's, named Angel.

Or people name their pets after famous people. Rain, my supervisor's chihuhua is named Garnett. My late grandfather's goats' were Quezon, Osmeña, Roxas, Magsaysay and Marcos. All of them have rested in peace before I turned twenty. My grade school schoolmates were Apple, Grapes, Orange and Strawberry Lim. (Why would you name your children after fruit-bearing trees?) I bet somewhere, somehow in this planet have named their pets with fruit-bearing trees.

Sometimes people's names reflect who they are -- mere animals. The notorious playboy, Bogart, is no different from Bogart, the bone-snatching rottweiler. Macho, a kantoboy in our neighborhood, acts the same way as Anton's askal, Macho, who literally is a dog.

And so what's in a name? A rose by any other name is still a rose. Well I guess it isn't much as long as your household help doesn't have same name as your pet. Just like ours. Both are named Bart.


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Once, I overheard a conversation. A lady said, "I think you are barking at the wrong tree."
The lady retorted, "But trees don't bark. Only dogs do."