I discovered yesterday that our dear tortoise Natasha is actually a boy. No not what your thinking....I was reading about them and one of the main ways to tell their sex is that the boys have a long tail that is always curved to the side. Yup her tail is ALWAYS curved to the side. There were a few other ways to tell and yes they were all correct with her. So I had to break the news to the family last night. They did not take it well.
We then had to call Norma, that really did not go well. She was very sad, as are we.
Then came the task of renaming him!!! We all really like the name Natasha! Its fitting and sounds good.
We looked up Russian names online - he is a Russian Tortoise. We did not like any of them. We could not agree. At all. At one point we had decided on Chuck Norris.....funny, but we did not really want to spend the rest of our days calling him Chuck.
At one point we wrote out the names on three separate papers, laid them out one the floor and had Moka walk over them and the first paper he stepped on was going to be the name. It ended up being Greco. Like Greco Roman wrestling. Its a cool name. But we are still not totally decided.
My latest idea is Nat.
Any suggestions?
2 comments:
I say keep the first name and pretend you don't know any better. Unless you're worried that the tortoise might become gender confused and start wearing lipstick or something. Cross gender tortoise, now that's something new!
BORIS! I love russian names and Boris makes me smile. Just a trying to help
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