there is a story behind his name. when my son was a toddler, this little dog with short stumpy legs showed up at my parents’ house. Because the dog was my son’s size, he fell in love and called the dog, “stumpy, my good friend”. well, around the time that we acquired the current stumpy, my parents adopted two great dane puppies who dwarfed their unusually large boxer. we started calling the boxer stumpy and it reminded us for the stumpy from a long time ago. with that rolling around in my mouth at the time of current stumpy’s adoption, i just kept calling our new dog stumpy (plus he has a botched tail docking, so he has this weird stump of a tail). my son would correct me and call his casper (but that reminded me too much of my mother’s toy poodle, which wasn’t very flattering in my mind). But finally, my son relented and slowly began calling him ‘stumpy’ too. now, he is ‘stump wump gump’ and stumpy for short.

thanks for this suggestion! i picked up something like this last night and it worked amazingly. he is wearing it happily right now. of course, now i have to deal with the other one. she freaks out when she sees other dogs on our walks and today bit my knee. argh!