By Jim Hagarty
We have a 13-pound, eight-year-old poodle named Toby. We got him when he was three months old and the breeder had simply named him Baby Dog, knowing his new owners would give him a new name. So Toby it was and is.
But Toby belongs to a family of creative writers and musicians and thinkers so he has been subjected to an avalanche of nicknames, many of them somewhat preposterous. He doesn’t seem to mind them but who are we to know.
Here is a partial list of Toby’s 27 other names and I use the word partial because I can’t remember them all.
Tiffany Silkstockings
Arfnee Doodle (The World’s Worst Poodle)
Agnes the Wagness
Dinkus Farrinkus
Farmer Bill
Chubbly S. Winterborne the Fourth (Chubbles, for short)
Diggidy Doggedy
Tito Burrito
Ding Dong
Dum Dum Farrumbum
Goofer Hoppy
Harley Dooley
Little Biddy Buddy
Barkey McClarkey
T-Bone Caffriggidy
Funny Bunny
Skinny Minnie
Ooftee Pooftee Wiggle Dee Dooftee
Mr. Goo
Mr. Woof Woof
Dogga Logga
Mr. Blister
My McFlustery Guy
Brownson Brownboy
Duken Dukenberry (Little Duke, for short)
Mister Blister
Little Mister
