“My new mommy decided that Ollie is such common name, for doggies anyway– but she says I am special and needs a new name!”
“I really liked the nice lady Elaine too when she calls me over. She is my first mommy who has a nice big yard, gave me a bed, a toy and loved me so much as long as I could remember. Maybe I will do something to the odd man and woman who insisted to keep me in their apartment and not letting me go with Elaine mommy…. Here I found a nice big bed, perfect for me to go wee wee and poo poo today. Woo~~ ”
“I guess I don’t really like them. The place they live is small and they don’t have any other children, two legged nor four that I can play with, boring! Who are these two humans anyway? I had some memory of the odd man, hereafter would be my new papa I guess, he held my rope and walked with me the day at that big shiny place– it was frightening! All the other dogs were so loud! Some of them wore a little vest saying something I don’t read… oh, I guess I did have one too. All these humans walking around, the place is filled with all kinds of smells, mainly frighten doggy smell, like me. But the man kept me by his side while I went and explore and met all the other dogs there: Keyla the Cockerpoo– such a nice lady and what’s-that-name-the-guy-who-keeps-on-barking and the big black Labrador (so brave and so handsome– I want to look up to him!)”
“But I don’t remember the odd woman? Where did she come from? Well, she seems nice~ has very warm body and gentle hands when she tries to hold me. Hmmm~ The man held me too– we sat in a blue-and-white striped sofa the whole night and then the woman came home with my own bed! I immediately jumped into my bed and curled up with my toy. I need to sleep so I can plan for the escape plan tomorrow. Yes, first of all, after I wake up tomorrrrooooow moooooorniin, i aaam going to….”
“What? Did they mistake me as some dog else? My name is NOT RAFI! My name is Ollie! Uh, no… Charlie?”
I'm finally in my new bed
So the name Rafi turns out to be (excuse me wikipedia):
1) a most popular Indian singer — most recorded singer. gotta find him on you-tube.
2) short for Rafael — what we really wanted was to name him after Rafa Nadal except not really because that might be offensive to Rafa. Can’t do that…
3) a male name used by Muslims and Jews. The word Rafi is of Arabic origin, and its meaning is “holding high” or “servant of the exalted one”. Common variants include “Rafik”, “Rafee”, “Raffi”, Rafiq and “Raffy”…. duh, I guess it is a good name then.
what it really is that I randomly thought of this and decided that this is a good one for a puppy. it has a nice click to it. just don’t know if our dog is really adapted to his new name~
oh, well, he is still my darling baby!– CH
Rafi the Schnoodle 