Name Calling – Part 1 Conversations with the Pack

I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Sweetie: Lady Human, Roo-Roo the Rooster was yelling at me!

Me: Maybe he was only saying hello very loudly.

Sweetie: Nobody says hello that loud! He was calling me an ugly name!

Me: And what ugly name, pray tell, was that?

Sweetie: BULLDOG!

Doodlebug: How rude!

MoonCat: How accurate.

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Doggone! – Conversations with the Pack

I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.

Me: Doggone it! Sorry, y’all! I got frustrated there when that thing wouldn’t come loose.

Sweetie: You barked, Lady Human! You barked out loud!

Me : Yeah. I let loose what my father used to call a fake cussword. Sorry.

Doodlebug: That’s okay. We get upset and bark, too. So where has that dog gone?

Me: What?

Sweetie: Yeah, where has the dog gone? I didn’t see it.

Me: No, there’s no other dog. That’s the fake cussword. It’s made up.

MoonCat: Uh-oh. I think we’ve entered one of those human arenas we should have left well enough alone.

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