What's in a name?

Before I met Sophie, her first owners called her Muggs.  Why, I can't say.  Perhaps they thought she had the face only a mother could love, and played up that idea but calling it her mug shot.  Whatever the reason, when I met her, I couldn't possible continue to call her that.  It just didn't suit her.  I knew I had to come up with a name for her fast, because I didn't want to confuse her by calling her different things.  And I didn't want to have her associate her new life with the name Muggs, so calling her that, ever temperarily, was out of the question.

Since she was so thin, I joked that I'd call her Skeletor, He-Man's arch-enemy, from the Masters of the Universe franchise, but I knew I couldn't actually go through with that.

The real contenders were Sophie, Zsa Zsa, and Daisy.

My mom ixnayed Zsa Zsa and I wasn't too fond of Daisy, so Sophie it was.  And I have no regrets with this choice and Sophie learnt her name within a few days.  I officially dubbed her Miss Sophie-Loren, after the beautiful and talented actress Sophia Loren.  My Sophie can be such a diva and attention grabber, that is truely fits.  Plus, both are absolutely stunning!