I have two Chow chows, Roarie Huxley Growler and Rooth Anne Mongrowlian. I have a few names picked out for when they have puppies:

Ruffus, Ruffner, Rickshaw, Ruby (for a girl)

I kinda got stuck on the “R” name thing…

Seeing the picture with you and Paw Paw was heart breaking. I feel your pain. My family recently made the decision to have our Chow Chow (China)put down. She was to be 16 years old on Halloween. We are still having a hard time dealing, especially my children. Maybe an Asian name for the baby Chows?

oh dear… are you sure that was taken BEFORE paw paw died? he’s not looking very much alive there on the counter.

How about Guilty Perjury and Jailbird?

I like 260Oakley’s suggestion… Parsely, Sage, Rosemary.
I knew a cat called Basil once – he was rather mental – he’d crawl up the wall and hang there for hrs – just hang there doing nothing, the nutter.
I do like the names of herbs for pets which reminds me – miss you Poppy.

darkshines – I didn’t remember the verse in particular, not being a heavy regular of CO comments, but I did a search and came up with this poem. It doesn’t mention heaven, but it does have leaves, and is a rather nice couple of lines, even if it’s not the one you were thinking of:

“Eyes that promise you will always be there…
Colors of the autumn leaves…Go run and make
them dance…
Eyes that dance in firelight…resting by my
side…
Be my friend… be the promise…be the blessing..
be the reason for joy.

Totalee Puppy | Apr 21, 2008 at 10:55 PM”

I had seen the other CO post about Martha picking a new pup but I just now read her blog post and booo it made me sniffle. I think Martha seems like a pretty cool person even if she did make some unwise decisions in the past.. Haven’t we all?

Thanks, I’ll keep looking and trying to remember.

Well, I did that and didn’t find it (scanning quickly, as there were lots of commentroversies with ‘leave’ in them).

But I have used the sizzearch function often to find things, you just have to remember a better (more specific, less common) word.