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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Three “little Siegfrieds”

 
Siegfried Dean as a pup
12 years later
all still beloved


By Moristotle

[Originally published on December 18, 2009.]

[The woman] who sold us our beloved Siegfried back in March [2009] has announced the availability of three more “beautiful Cream/White puppies.”
    My daughter said, “Aw, don’t you want another? Just ask DeAnn how much more fun it is with two! I copied her so she could see the photos. She sent a picture of their two in her Christmas card.”
DeAnn’s Wolfie and Beauregard as pups
    I replied, “They are sooooo cute, and we love the grown-up, 60-pound version also, but two big Siegfrieds? You’ve got to be kidding!”
    Then DeAnn suggested that we purchase one of the little “beautiful Cream/White” Siegfrieds just announced and name him Roy.
    That wasn’t the first time that my wife and I had heard that one. She decided she had to set the record straight: “ ‘Siegfried’ is a reference to Wagner, not to Las Vegas. We’d have to name the dog ‘Wotan’ or ‘Siegmund’; for a female, ‘Brünnhilde’ or ‘Sieglinde’.” She even got out her set of DVDs of Der Ring des Nibelungen to check the spellings.
    This might be a good time of year to watch those DVDs....


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