Happy birthday, Asker Garip

Happy birthday...!
Bon Weekend.

nice potrait!

Cute dog, well captured.
Happy and healthy weekend.

Happy birthday and a big hug to Asker Garip, Ronald !!!!

Happy Birthday to Asker Garip.

Thank you all very much, Malik, Annemarie, Jaap, Marie-claire & Maurice. Garip is having a nap in the sunshine right now.

Happy Birthday also from us in Michigan. I saw his photo on our calendar and thought about you and the family of four. Question: How did you ever come up with that name for him and what does it mean. I read that Asker is Norwegian for Ash tree. And Garip is family name.

Here's the story:
A friend of mine, Heather, had a collie named Jessie. She had several puppies. I have a photo of Jessie's puppies in the back of Heather's pickup. She was trying to find them homes. I wasn't in the market for a puppy, I thought. A few weeks later, I was at Heather's farm to buy milk. Someone had returned a puppy because they thought it was unmanageable. Heather put the puppy in my arms, and said I could bring him back in the morning if he didn't work out. Well, it worked out. So, I needed a name for this nameless puppy. I asked my Panoramio friend Suzen Ivanova for her ideas. Suzen was Bulgarian, but her mother was from Turkey, and Suzen preferred her Turkish heritage. There was a Turkish folk character who was a fun-loving, incompetent soldier with the rank of asker - a bumbling entry-level soldier. His name was Garip, so here is Asker Garip.

So, no Norwegians and no ash trees.

Oh, what a lovely story. Thank you, Ron. Everything about Asker Garip is so attractive, his colors, his beautiful face and sleek body. Is he calmer than Bronco?

Happy birthday handsome boy

Woof-woof, Marja.

Who's a good boy?

Garip is of course. (Branco isn't bad, either.)

Thank you very much, Betty.

C'est un très beau chien et j'ai bien aimée vous lire....très intéressant son histoire !