{"id":8590,"date":"2024-06-27T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2024-06-27T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:26:38","slug":"the-etiquette-of-remembering-your-friends-pets-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=8590","title":{"rendered":"The Etiquette of Remembering Your Friend\u2019s Pet\u2019s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kiyomi Lowe regularly hears people mispronounce her name or sometimes forget it altogether. \u201cI get Naomi, Kaiomi, sometimes Kimmy,\u201d she said. It doesn\u2019t bother her: \u201cI\u2019ll respond to anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

She is less forgiving when friends and acquaintances forget the name of her dog, a shar-pei. \u201cI get Bruno a lot,\u201d she said. To which she responds: \u201c\u2018No, it\u2019s Brutus!\u2019 The dog doesn\u2019t care. But I care for the dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. Lowe is a stylist at Al\u2019s Barber Shop, a popular six-chair salon in Boulder near the campus of the University of Colorado. On a recent morning, she fell into a spirited conversation with her fellow stylists and several customers over a delicate question: Should you be responsible for remembering the name of a friend\u2019s pet? What\u2019s the etiquette?<\/p>\n

\u201cA big question,\u201d said Jen Himes, a stylist, who conceded that she sometimes made a naming mistake, which pained her. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten a lot of pet names wrong. I\u2019m, like, \u2018How\u2019s Pookie?\u2019 And they\u2019re, like, \u2018It\u2019s Rufus!\u2019 or whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMost people laugh,\u201d she said. \u201cBut some people are, like, \u2018That\u2019s offensive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kiyomi Lowe with Brutus, her shar-pei. \u201cThe funnier the name is, the easier it is to remember,\u201d Ms. Lowe said. \u201cLike Derek.\u201d<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tilly, left, and Frida. Does the burden of recollection lie with the friend? Or is it the pet owner\u2019s responsibility to pick a memorable name?<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kiyomi Lowe regularly hears people mispronounce her name or sometimes forget it altogether. \u201cI get Naomi, Kaiomi, sometimes Kimmy,\u201d she said. It doesn\u2019t bother her: \u201cI\u2019ll respond to anything.\u201dShe is less forgiving when friends and acquaintances forget the name of her dog, a shar-pei. \u201cI get Bruno a lot,\u201d she said. To which she responds: \u201c\u2018No, it\u2019s Brutus!\u2019 The dog doesn\u2019t care. But I care for the dog.\u201dMs. Lowe is a stylist at Al\u2019s Barber Shop, a popular six-chair salon in Boulder near the campus of the University of Colorado. On a recent morning, she fell into a spirited conversation with her fellow stylists and several customers over a delicate question: Should you be responsible for remembering the name of a friend\u2019s pet? What\u2019s the etiquette?\u201cA big question,\u201d said Jen Himes, a stylist, who conceded that she sometimes made a naming mistake, which pained her. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten a lot of pet names wrong. I\u2019m, like, \u2018How\u2019s Pookie?\u2019 And they\u2019re, like, \u2018It\u2019s Rufus!\u2019 or whatever.\u201d\u201cMost people laugh,\u201d she said. \u201cBut some people are, like, \u2018That\u2019s offensive.\u2019\u201dKiyomi Lowe with Brutus, her shar-pei. \u201cThe funnier the name is, the easier it is to remember,\u201d Ms. Lowe said. \u201cLike Derek.\u201dTilly, left, and Frida. Does the burden of recollection lie with the friend? Or is it the pet owner\u2019s responsibility to pick a memorable name?We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8592,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8593,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/8593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}