Almost as soon as she was born…
Rimrock Sadie Lady told me her name…
There was never any doubt…
The other eight pups have given me fits…
I discarded the theme idea like I did with my previous two litters…
though it was fun finding Wyoming names (with special help from “This God-forsaken Land” poem) and Centennial names…
But if this is Elsa’s last litter…
I was gonna be free and just pick what they revealed their names to be…
Kinda New Age-ish for me, some people say…
I prefer to think of it as a tad bit of the Choctaw heritage coming through…
naming them after events or ideas…
whatever…
This guy…
sturdy…
and forthright…
is gonna be a LOOKER!
Reminiscent of brother Raider…
and brother “D” from the 2007 litter…
He has a peculiar trait I believed his two older brothers were going to have…
but they didn’t…
It’s easy to spot on his left side…
that glorious blue…
The same blue I love on my Dodge Durango!
Dodge calls it Patriot Blue.
<Note: This is NOT my Durango… mine has a constant coat of dirt on it… this shows the REAL color!>
I’m going to do the same…
If his eye changes…
so be it…
but right now I’d like you to meet…
Rimrock’s Patriot Blue, aka “Pate”.
