3/18/2005: Chihuahua adopts chick

Undertoad • Mar 18, 2005 10:42 am
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It's all about the Friday, in this one sent by another reader whose real name doesn't match up to a username. Thanks to you folks, you know who you are!

Anyhoo, what we have here is not a dog eating a chick, but a dog ADOPTING a chick. The entire story:

A pet chihuahua dog has adopted a baby chick in China. Huahua took charge of the chick as soon as owner Liu Bangyang's daughter brought it home. She regards the chick as her baby and stands guard to make sure it comes to no harm, reports the Chongqing Morning News. And, whenever the chick strays too far, Huahua picks it up gently in her mouth and puts it back in its cot. Liu, from Guiyang city, Guizhou province, said: "We'll try our best to raise the little chicken, if that's what Huahua wants."

Outstanding. Happy Friday.
lookout123 • Mar 18, 2005 10:43 am
a mexican dog in china, raising a chicken. who woulda thunk?
BigV • Mar 18, 2005 10:52 am
Clearly the dog is just compensating for the embarassing truncation of his name. "Huahua", shamed by the missing "Chi" knew a good thing when he saw it, and clearly he's not gonna let The Man keep him down no more.
wolf • Mar 18, 2005 11:41 am
I think the little dog is very upset at the loss of his life-energy (chi) and is using the chick as a comfort object to help it mourn it's loss ...

Do you think it's name is pronounced "Wa-Wa" or "Hooah Hooah"?

Does either mean anything in Chinese?
Undertoad • Mar 18, 2005 11:47 am
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hampor • Mar 18, 2005 12:24 pm
I googled up this from a dictionary:

huahua (象 声 ) 哗哗 onomatopoeia for sound of flowing water; splish-splash

Unless the name is really hau-hau and they have Polish ancestry.
(see http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/animals/dog.html)
Elspode • Mar 18, 2005 1:02 pm
Obviously, the pooch has an incontinence problem...
wolf • Mar 18, 2005 2:17 pm
Not an unusual condition for small, neurotic canin ... oh. I get it. Giggle.
Kitsune • Mar 18, 2005 2:22 pm
Wawawawaaaa...

UT, what the hell is Wawa's, anyway? I've only heard they have good coffee.
wolf • Mar 18, 2005 2:32 pm
It's Southeastern Pennsylvania's version of 7-11, only they make fresh sandwiches in the stores, and they do have awesome coffee, now available in many different varieties, including a variety flavors, and the new Kenya AA premium coffee. They're starting to expand, but for many years you could only find them in Phila, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks Counties. They are now in the states of Delaware and New Jersey and are expanding even farther afield.
Leus • Mar 18, 2005 2:36 pm
I can't figure which way is she looking at.
wolf • Mar 18, 2005 2:40 pm
Neither can she.
Beestie • Mar 18, 2005 3:02 pm
Wa-Wa is Hindi for swan (or something close to that).

xia xuan Taco Bell?
Elspode • Mar 18, 2005 4:08 pm
Ah, that would explain the flying bird logo, then.

For a minute there, I thought it had something to do with Helen Keller.
n3v3r • Mar 18, 2005 5:07 pm
We have had Wawa's in Maryland for a while now. They are like 7-11 or Sheetz and the ones around me actually have pretty great "real" food for a minimart. The calzones and meatball subs are not half bad.
xoxoxoBruce • Mar 18, 2005 5:14 pm
The locals called it WA-WA until the white savages came along and called it the Canadian Goose. The stores took the name from the dairy that took the name from the village that took the name from the natives. Clear? :rollanim:

btw, maybe the dog thinks the chick is a "Peep" and is waiting for Easter to eat it.
chrisinhouston • Mar 18, 2005 6:55 pm
Isn't the little doggie sweater cute? :biggrin:
ashke • Mar 18, 2005 11:00 pm
Actually, wa-wa in Chinese means doll.
404Error • Mar 18, 2005 11:02 pm
"Yo quiero chicken taco"

That chick doesn't look all too happy with the arrangements. :scream:
Griff • Mar 19, 2005 7:06 am
We're back to the lioness fattening up the calf...
capnhowdy • Mar 19, 2005 7:58 pm
.......Probably just a matter of time before the young fowl becomes kibbles & chicks...................
BrianR • Mar 19, 2005 9:52 pm
I used to work at WaWa in HS.

If my memory serves, it's something to do with the calls of the Snow Geese, either navigating or mating, I forget which.

They have decent quickie sandwiches and are head and shoulders above 7-11. The oveall appearance of their stores is better too. And when you add in the no-fee ATMs I'm a repeat customer. Now I need one here in Hazleton. Anywhere in Hazleton.

Brian
Griff • Mar 20, 2005 6:22 am
BrianR wrote:
Now I need one here in Hazleton. Anywhere in Hazleton.

Brian

Gee, I figured they'd migrated that far North by now. ducks