Petite Grise, Bessie & Gabrielle - Safely home

[SQ]

I took my 3 fosters in to be spayed today.
The two young girls (Bessie & Gabe) were spayed and are not feeling great but are ok.
Little Gabrielle has already pulled out one of her 3 stiches but is well glued so everything is ok. :thumbup:

Ti-gris wasn't spayed as her breathing still isn't good enough.
But her breathing has improved greatly so this combo of meds seem to be working :joy:
She goes back in for a check up in two weeks, and then, hopefully, I can schedule a spay.

All 3 are presently very quiet, glad to be home, and cuddled up together with the snuggle safe in the carrier.

 

[lilspaz68]

Glad to hear the ladies are home and resting. Those pesky URI's can be so nasty, but as long as she is improving :thumbup:

 

[jorats]

Good to hear they are home and feeling better.

 

[mamarat]

It is good to know they are back home with you.

 

[Godmother]

Glad to hear that all went well.

I bet that "Ti Gris" would recover faster if she got a girl's name, though! LOL Grisette?

 

[SQ]

Hmmm .... it is what her owner called her, it is suposed to mean little grey, and she knows her name so that is her name ...
unless of course someone adopts her and decides to change it.

 

[*Rebel_Angel*]

Ti-gris is a girls name lol

 

[Godmother]

Ti-gris is a girls name lol

Is it really? I'm sorry then. I had been thinking that the ratty's original owner was odd for calling a girl Gris instead of Grise.

 

[SQ]

Well .... I could be spelling it wrong ....

 

[Maple]

Glad to hear the girlies are doing well. :thumbup:

 

[*Rebel_Angel*]

Well in my book it's a girls name, well its a unisex name really.

 

[temblabamomo]

Glad they are home safe and sound. Scritches and kissies to all of them.

 

[SQ]

The two girls have healed. I removed Bessie's stiches and Gabe's staples Tuesday night.

Bessie has a large white lump on her tail near some scratches - I'm thinking ... an abscess?

 

[jorats]

I'm glad the rats are healing well. That lump could very well be an abscess if you see scratches.

 

[kscanuck785]

Ti-gris is a girls name lol

Is it really? I'm sorry then. I had been thinking that the ratty's original owner was odd for calling a girl Gris instead of Grise.

all right, I'm going to set the record straight on that...LOL
now, without any offense to anyone, unless your 1st language is french or you are really REALLY fluent with all the nuances of French Canadian slang, you are just gonna have to take my word for it

Ti-Gris, meaning little grey, IS a masculine name...
Tite-Grise (or Petite-Grise) meaning little grey again, would be the feminine version of it...
althought I can't see anyone using it...just wouldn't make much sense for a french person to use it that way...

Grisou could be used for both, although it tends to be a little bit more masculine and Grisette would be for a girl

so I agree with godmother 100% on this...



or maybe une puce can chime in and confirm this :stickpoke:

 

[SQ]

Hmmm ..... which French?
Quebec, Parisian, or NB Acadian?
Or is it that way for all three?
.... not that it matters to me because her name is Ti-gris
(because that is what her owner had named her and she knows her name)

 

[victoria]

Ti-gris is a girls name lol

Is it really? I'm sorry then. I had been thinking that the ratty's original owner was odd for calling a girl Gris instead of Grise.

all right, I'm going to set the record straight on that...LOL
now, without any offense to anyone, unless your 1st language is french or you are really REALLY fluent with all the nuances of French Canadian slang, you are just gonna have to take my word for it

Ti-Gris, meaning little grey, IS a masculine name...
Tite-Grise (or Petite-Grise) meaning little grey again, would be the feminine version of it...
althought I can't see anyone using it...just wouldn't make much sense for a french person to use it that way...

Grisou could be used for both, although it tends to be a little bit more masculine and Grisette would be for a girl

so I agree with godmother 100% on this...



or maybe une puce can chime in and confirm this :stickpoke:

Makes sense to me! Then again, my French is choppy at best.

 

[kscanuck785]

SQ, I'm sorry, I did not mean to tell you it was a bad name for her...LOL

and I don't know about Acadian french or Louisiana French, but all of the "different" french do have their own little slang and way of twisting little words around that only makes sense to those who speak the language
but as far as I know, gris is a masculine adjective all across the board


the fact the the previous owner called her Ti-Gris, maybe she did not know the right way of using the name...?
two examples that comes to mind of English people using french in the wrong way:
we very often hear :
Bon Appétit...and they pronounce the T at the end...wrong...it's a silent T...but yet, you will still hear, pronounced wrong in movies....
as well as CUL-DE-SAC...the L is silent...and most people do pronounce it...

so my point: it's not because something is commonly accepted that it's the right way of using it


I did find this definition for Tigris:
Tigris: one of the main rivers in Mesopotamia.
Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word that can be translated as "fast" or "arrow-like". The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna, and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylonia and Assyria, its name was Idiqlat.

and then:
French
Adjective
gris m (f grise, m plural gris, f plural grises)
grey, gray

ok...end of the french lesson

 

[SQ]

LOL its ok

The guy may have thought she was a boy when he named her "little gray"
and therefore used the masculine

 

[SQ]

Bessie's tail has an abscess on it and she has a huge lump on her side
- abscess or tumour?
Vet apt for all 3 girls tomorrow