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[Paladin]

Hi Laurie! So sad to hear about Palmer. Did you name him after the good general or the town? Tucker sounds like a handful, as much as I love puppies, I'm often glad we just have cats. Susan and I can take off for a weekend and they are glad of the temporary solitude

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by Paladin

Hi Laurie! So sad to hear about Palmer. Did you name him after the good general or the town? Tucker sounds like a handful, as much as I love puppies, I'm often glad we just have cats. Susan and I can take off for a weekend and they are glad of the temporary solitude

Thank you for the condolences. Actually he came as a puppy already with a name. We raised him to be a guiding eye dog and the Guiding Eye breeders named all the pups. Each litter gets assigned a letter of the alphabet, the first litter is "A" and all the puppies have names that start with A, the next is B. Palmer was in the second P litter (they go through the alphabet more than once per year). We liked the name because we like golf...Arnold Palmer.

Our neighbor here named their dog Arnie...after Arnold Palmer...so that was an interesting coincidence.

I thought Tucker would be a good name for a labrador, distinctive when you call him, suits a big dog. Plus he tuckers us out.

Hope you are well. You should ride those bikes up my way some day!