Gus is a hit in the neighborhood. Our neighbors, having the good sense to live in Avery anyway, naturally recognize beauty and that certain joire de vivre some folks have. (And yes, I withdrew failing from French in college, so if the spelling is off, too bad.)
Anyway, Gus does endear himself to most of our neighbors by playing with their dogs, wagging and wiggling when they walk by and stuff like that.
Except for the people directly across the street. Young couple with a 14-month old kid named Ziggy. For whatever reason, he just barks at those folks. (They're not out often and are often gone, so maybe he's just not used to people being there.) Anyway, he is kind of a jackass to them, Bark! Bark! Barking! every time he's out and they come home. We always apologise.
Turns out, Gus is kind of a hit at that house, too, with at least one of the residents. Ziggy and his mom were out the other day, and Ziggy stood at the edge of the driveway and Bark! Bark! Barked! at Gus. Not quite sure if they were his first words, but they might have been.
Gus was well and thoroughly flummoxed.
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I think Gus just has the good sense to dislike people who would name their poor child Ziggy. I think I'd bark at them too.
That really cracked us up! I side with Sonnjea's assessment of the name Ziggy!
To make it worse, they spell it Zigy.
Seriously, did they think it would be fun to watch their kid get the snot beat out of him at school? Kids can be cruel and don't need much prompting to pick on someone. But, the kid name Zigy that barks like a dog sure seems like an obvious target!
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