It's been over a decade and I fell upon my blog posts and accounts from WAAAAY back. Jake is now 12, and life is a LOT different.
To catch up, we'll start with the first installment, the
chronicles of our Brace of Beagles, Nissa, Sabrina, and
Kaita.
Nissa is our OG beagle of the pack, coming to us 12 years ago
as a puppy of 10-weeks, roughly 6 months after the birth of our son Jake. Nissa is a great pack leader and teacher of
the ways of our house. Sabrina came to
us by way of NorCal Beagle rescue and after the acclimation from stray-walker
to house dog, is quite the love. And our
latest addition is puppy Kaita (nee Kaity) who joined our brace 9 Jan this year
as a 3-month old and by way of Lawrence KS.
What’s in a name?
I
frequently am asked about Nissa and why that name.
I decided to include definitions for all three
and come to find out how appropriate each are, and here is what I’ve
discerned.
The name “Nissa” has two distinct
and in her case equally appropriate meanings for our OG: in Norwegian it means “mischievous
elf” in Hebrew it means “to test”. Anyone with beagle knows exactly how fitting
this might be!
“Sabrina” traces back from
Celtic, English, Latin and Italian roots and has may mean “from the border” and
“legendary princess”.
Again, very
appropriate for Sabrina as she was documented to have traveled from the East
Coast and on the border of surviving a flood, and she is certainly a princess –
won’t go out in the rain to pee!
Lastly, our Kaita, aka Kaita-Bear.
Originally Kaity, somehow that just didn’t fit
(sounded too much like “kitty”?) and even my daughter asked me “are you sure
you’re good with Kaity?”
In thinking
about options, and the names of our brace all end in the soft ‘a’ sound, I
looked up “Kaita”.
Low and behold, Kaita
does have meaning in several languages, and again they’re all seemingly
appropriate for our little addition.
In
Lithuanian, Kaita is “change” and in Tamil she’s “arrested”, and Sudanese th
e translation
is “hook”; she has us hooked, stops us in our tracks and has brought a great and
positive change to our pack.
Hope this is entertaining and if you enjoy the antics of dogs,
you’ll find more pics and stories here soon.
#braceofbeagles, #norcalbeagle, #beagles
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