Well it didn\u2019t take long for Dewdrop to be voted off the list. I\u2019m not really sure what you\u2019ve got against the name Dewdrop, but it isn\u2019t going to be given to any of the puppies from Shadow\u2019s litter. Shadow is all excited about going for another scan today. She says that once that is out of the way she will go through the list with me and try to split them between the names for the boys and the ones for the girls and start putting them in some sort of order. She always gives a very intelligent sounding name to at least one puppy. Aristotle was the one from our A litter, Beethoven (Basil) from the B litter and Chekov (Otto) in the C litter, although he should have had an \u2018h\u2019 in his name as he is named after the playwright, but our Mistress preferred it without. Oh there have been other fun ones like Casanova and ones from fairytales like Cinderella and from favourite books like Cosette (From Les Miserables), but there is always at least one that sounds intelligent. When it comes to our next litter there will be an Einstein, named after my real name Einstein van den Teindenschuur and of course after the famous scientist. Now which is it going to be for D? It would have been Dickens after our Mistress\u2019s favourite author, but that is out as Bumble is known as Dickens. That\u2019s why Disraeli, Dante, Dostoevsky, Defoe and Darwin are on the list \u2013 we\u2019ll just have to wait to see which she goes with. At this point, our Mistress has chipped in and asked me to say that when it comes to E there will have to be an Emmeline after Emmeline Pankhurst as well! It is going to be a bit of a problem if there are no girls or no boys in the litter.<\/p>\n
Bella is packed and ready to go to the stud dog in Germany today. I\u2019m torn between feeling very down at the thought of what my girlfriend is doing and being excited for her too as I know I can\u2019t give her puppies and she will make a great mum. It\u2019s a tough one. I\u2019m trying not to think about what\u2019s actually going to happen.<\/p>\n
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