Re: Canine Zooey
Renee Zuckerbrot (renee@dachshund.com)
Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:26:06 -0400
>Camille wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine thought the same thing and also loving Salinger, named
>> their household's dog Zooey. Unfortunately he lost Zooey in a custody
>> battle when the house split up but it was a very appropriate name for a
>> bull terrier (:
>>
>Get Out!! MY dog is named Zooey!! I thought we were the only Salinger-
>obsessed psychos who were goofy enough to immortalize one of our fave
>characters into canine form (but she's not a bull terrier; she's a
>shepherd/chow mix)(yes, she's female--I told you we were goofy).
My husband (you all know him as Tim O'Connor) and I have two
dachshunds--Zoe and Fred. I can't tell you how many people have asked us
if we named them after the Salinger book "Franny and Zooey," which they
always pronounce as Zoe. We usually smile and say, "No," and explain that
we named Fred after E.B. White's dachshund, who was named Fred. As for
Zoe, it means life in Greek, and Zoe was just the most curious puppy.
Hence the name.
--renee zuckerbrot