Dingo (who is 14 and fading faster & faster now) started out life by escaping her frankly mean owners as a few-months-old puppy & hiding under an air conditioning exhaust fan. She was terrified of everything so we took her in & gave her a strong name out of Homer: Hekate. The name is hard to spell hard to pronounce & requires too much explanation so we took to calling her Katie. As she grew older tho she stayed small & timid so I figured she needed a nickname with some power to it. Clancy wrote about a tough sniper recruited into CIA named Domingo Chavez; he was barely over 5 feet tall & a very competent killer, never at a loss. Since he went by “Dingo” to his friends, I called Katie Dingo. The name took & nobody ever called her Katie again. She never became brave but she never ran from a fight either. Lost every one of them but never ran.
Her bad days are longer every time. It won’t be long now; I’m glad to have had her.
The underbite became endearing
Ecbatan 