Naming Domo

Photo by Esther.

Domo might not have been Domo at all had he not screamed and farted all the way home from the animal shelter in his happypet.com cardboard box.


Previously considered names:

Mochi (the dessert)

Dan Dan (eggs, testes, as in he had GIANT, dangly chocolate-colored balls when we first met him but since we paid for his surgery and adoption fee two days before picking him up, he no longer has any. Later on the vet explained that they made incisions and removed his balls from the now greatly diminished chocolate sacks. He still occasionally enjoys licking his glistening little pink dicky, though.)

Domo (I love Domo. I've slept with a small stuffed animal Domo every night for the past half year, ever since I bought it from Danshui in Taiwan, and since my youngest brother gave me a big Domo, I now awkwardly sleep with both. Domo has a permanent scream on his face and farts when he is upset.)

Although once we were home the new kitten Domo never screamed again and only farted one or two more times before the vet orally administered a deworming pill, the name stuck. Do-Mo!