Brainless the dog
We once had a Ridgeback (great big sand coloured African dog) called Elsa. She was a bit lonely so we got her a friend. Another Ridgeback from a dogs home, and this dog was also called Elsa. (Its not a great surprise that they both had the same name. Ridgebacks used to be used for lion hunting and there was a lion in the film 'Born Free' called Elsa. Apparently). This new dog was a complete bimbo. She was beautiful but was completely stupid.

It got very complicated having two dogs with the same name. (It was quite efficient when taking them for walks but when you needed to scold one and the other looked very persecuted).

So we started to call them 'big' Elsa and 'little' Elsa. But that was a little silly as 'little' Elsa was still the size of a small horse.

So I called the new dog brainless. So often that she came whenever she heard that word. Brainless was her new name.

As an example of how stupid she was, when it was raining and time for her walk I used to stand at the top of the stairs. I then said in an enthuiastic voice 'Brainless, walkies' so she ran down the stairs and waited at the door. When she was at the bottom I shouted 'Brainless come here'. And she ran up. I then repeated the exercise for about 20 minutes. She was like the proverbial goldfish. No memory at all.

Thats it.
(woodchopper likes chopping wood, Tue 12 Jun 2007, 13:02, Reply)