That would be quite a major purchase for sure. I don't know about the future of department stores. Pretty risky. Yet I'll bet a pretty good bargain purchase. I should hope they have a sound plan for what to do going forward.

Just a couple days ago we drove to 'the city' to pick up printer ink for my sister. She normally gets it on line, but was in a hurry. Went to the Staples she had gone to for years. Closed. Permanently. And this was the only office supply store in Utica.

When I was four, my family had a dachshund named Penny. She was not a good dog for a family with young children, or perhaps a family with young children should have monitored them better around dogs. Anyway, she ended up rehomed with another family. But Penny for a dog with reddish bits seems reasonable.

Whoa, askye, that's interesting. I will be sad if JCP disappears completely, I am sentimentally fond of that particular department store, but I hope the acquisition goes well for you. Belk isn't really nationwide, is it? That could be a big expansion.

I suppose Sparky is a quintessential dog's name, but I always imagine it being shrieked by a really annoying precocious TV kid.

For a reddish dog, how about Peppermint Patty?

I thought about naming my orange kitten Kumquat so I could say "Come, Quat!" But she ended up as Coconut the Cheesy Peuf.

I suppose Sparky is a quintessential dog's name, but I always imagine it being shrieked by a really annoying precocious TV kid.

I did grow up with a dog named Sparky but I was not a television kid. Not so shrieky, somewhat precocious.

My sister names her cats after the vegetation they were found in: Juniper, Rhubarb, Cody (buffalo grass), etc.

Dr. Moxie Chompers!

(My friends have toddler twins named Moxie & Hugo!)

Bronze or Copper

Roobarb was the name of a British cartoon dog, who put out a Glam Rock single, as one did in 1970s Britain.