I was in my backyard the other day, and the neighbor’s dog, a big blockheaded yellow lab, starting barking at me.
He learned to bark from my dogs. Before the neighbors had a dog, my dogs would bark at them as they collected blackberries along the back fence. I’d hear the wife hiss, “Shush! Quiet! Go away! Git!”
Not particularly friendly, but then again, my dogs were barking at her.
Then one day they came home with a puppy. We’d hear them: “Bubba, no! Bubba, stop! Bubba, sit! Bubba, come!”
Bubba? Seriously, they named their dog Bubba?
My apologies to all you Bubbas out there – you are all undoubtedly great, smart people – but why would anyone name their dog Bubba?
It just seems… disrespectful to the dog, somehow.
No offense intended, of course.