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[PamNY]

Winding Road, beautiful kitty -- surely not too evil!

Owlie, good luck -- so exciting to add a new family member.

Wahine, Fosco looks like lots of energetic fun. And I love the name -- is there a story to go with it?

Lovelygamer, Skittles is gorgeous. Calico cats are great!

[Wahine]

Wahine, Fosco looks like lots of energetic fun. And I love the name -- is there a story to go with it?

I just saw this! I love nothing more than to talk about Fosco, so I jumped at the chance.

When we adopted Fosco, his shelter name was Hooch. He didn't respond to that at all but would come running if you made clucking sounds or other hardish sounds. So when we brought him home, I told my BF (who had never had a dog) that he should name him but that the name had to have a hard sound in it. BF is a HUGE Tolkien fan, so he picked up a copy of one of the Lord of the Rings series that has a family tree in the back of it. That's where he found Fosco. Fosco was the grandfather of Frodo, Uncle to Bilbo.

He learned his new name very quickly.

And that is the story of how Hooch became Fosco.