Comments on: Gorby

By: morsa

morsa — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:40:45 +0000

Hi, Marina,

Hope Gorby is getting better. I wrote a little article about your dog in my blog: http://la-morsa.blogspot.com/2008/12/cuando-se-enferma-tu-perro.html

best wishes
Manuel

By: greatestpotential

greatestpotential — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:38:13 +0000

Gorby lives! yippie!!! Guess Gorby will be getting a lot of love and attention for awhile until he recovers. Bestest Christmas Present.

By: maxpappy

maxpappy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:10:21 +0000

Marina, as long and Kobe-now-Gorby has no confusion in the new name, you shouldn’t have a problem. The two words sound pretty similar, so I think your pup should be ok. Just keep an eye on him. My dog, Max, answers to several names: Max, Biff, Old Man, etc. Dogs don’t really identify themselves with a name… to them it could just as well mean “Your attention is needed over here.” They simply become trained to respond to the word.

By: greatestpotential

greatestpotential — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:57:56 +0000

Poor Gorby. So he has some kind of infection and needs a doctor. I sure hope he gets all better soon. We love da Gorb- plz send him get well cards from us to him.
signed,
student body

By: greatestpotential

greatestpotential — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:39:01 +0000

Perhaps an animal trainer would know about how to go about with the transition of a doggy name change. I figure a snack reward before calling Kobe by his new name Gorby. Some hints from Heloise perhaps. Just a suggestion.

By: greatestpotential

greatestpotential — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:31:32 +0000

Kobe went by that name all his life til it was suddendly switched to Gorby. Perhaps Kobe does indeed distinguish a difference in tonal qualities of the pronounciation of Kobe compared to that of Gorby and it may be bothering him. Remember that episode of Columbo where he takes his Basset Hound to the park to play with other dogs and later when Columbo tried to pat his dog on the head the dog bites him. Then Columbo takes his dog to the vet and the vet tells Columbo that his dog got jealous and bit him because he was not getting all the attention. Animals are very sensitive, even to any seemingly subtle changes that may occur in their lifetimes. The horse whipserer told me so.

By: enocnroll

enocnroll — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:44:56 +0000

It’s quite likely that Gorby does not distinguish his new name all that much from Kobe because the ending of the two names sound the same. Personally, I love pet names that end in the ‘by’ or ‘be’ sound and I think the pets like it also. Additionally, being that Gorby is a smart and very lucky dog, it is also possible that he just couldn’t resist running to you no matter what you decide to call him.

By: stokesjrj1

stokesjrj1 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:00:05 +0000

but thats not this meaning

By: CampKohler

CampKohler — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:44:31 +0000

Since it all goes onto memory cards now, maybe it should be called “making a video recarding.”.

By: mijj

mijj — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:01:05 +0000

“So, as of today, Kobe will now be known as Gorby! He likes it, as he comes running to me when I call it out. I like it! What do you think? Take the little poll below to let me know.”

i think you created an instant bias for the poll!! .. shame on you!