When people ask me about the names of The Worthless Ones, I have to admit that they have none.
Always expecting that one day they might leave for a better home, I have refused to name them, making that the right of the new master or mistress.
Till now.
They are soon to be 5 years old, and chances of finding homes for them have dwindled to less than zero, so, I thought the other day, maybe now I ought to give them names.
The mother is named Priscilla, a pretty name for a mangy mutt, which gave me the idea to use the names of Jane Austen heroines for the names of the bunch.
I checked and I blanched.
We are talking names such as Eleanor, Marianne, Lizzie, Fanny, Emma, Catherine and Anne.
None of them in the least suitable for either of the mangy mutts.
I think I shall stick to : You...Hey You...You there...yeah you.
They don't listen anyhow.