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"‘Aldawin. And a small bit of trivia- my 13 year old, who had been home schooled, was taking German her first semester at UNLV and decided to give him a German name. We later discovered it means “old friend.”’ Sorry, I have to comment! (I know it’s irrelevent, but...I can’t help myself!) “Alt(e)” and its variants means old (never a D substitute), but friend is Freund(e). Doesn’t strike me as German at all. Never heard of such a name, either, in German itself or German dogs."

That's funny, because when we told our German neighbor what his name was, he lit up, looked delighted, said, "Aww!" and nodded knowingly towards us. That's when my daughter decided to researched it, so perhaps her research sources at the university were wrong. But thanks for not slamming me for being an evil person because I might not be able to find a home for my dog in time. Nit picking over name origins during a crisis is much kinder.

At this point, my husband is going to be euthanized. My daughter and I packed our most important things in a day. I was up till 4 am emailing Freepers, rescue groups, and others. As I said, we had a very stable life up until the last 2-3 years (thanks Bammy) when the economy turned to crap and my husband has had, I think, 4 different jobs. We had to cash out both our 401k's. We've been barely making it until he was blessed with this job. He flies a private jet. He gets one month off a year to come home from overseas...maybe. The plane moves on the owner's whim. He knew concretely he was coming to L.A. in 3 days, didn't know if the plane would even be back here in the next year because they don't come to L.A. very often, and wanted to move us while he was here because we can put most of our stuff on the plane, except our dog. Now, I think he feels terribly guilty for the turmoil because he emailed me that the plane will be full out of L.A., I'd have to sit in the back with "staff," and he thinks it might be back in July. And pigs might fly, too. So, at this point, I just don't know.... If we don't leave Tues., I'll be finding a professional trainer, which will probably not be in Vegas since the one here says he's full and has worse dogs he's working with. And I get to look forward to maybe seeing my husband, and my daughter seeing her father, next July, maybe. Regardless, my dog will need to be re-homed because he can't live in hotels with us until we figure out which house in which country the boss stays at most often.

How about the FReepers in posts 53-55? Each of them seemed ready to help!

I guess if a German person thought the name was German, it must be - although perhaps it’s a regional “dialect” thing, or the way the person heard it. I could ask my uncle and my cousin, both perfectly fluent in German (my cousin got a job in Germany starting last year, to teach English to Germans, and vice-versa for the Army people - she and her husband used to be in the Army stationed there many years).

Anyway, sorry for all this tumult in your lives and over the dog. I hope everything works out. Please check here as much as you can in case someone from the GS board actually responds positively to this!

I am relieved to hear you have a little reprieve from the frantic time frame you had initially been given. That kind of thing is also from the Lord. We think our choices are A, B or C and he says here's Z! I know you are STILL concerned about Aldawin’s ultimate destination, but, hopefully, he may be able to stay with your family after all. I know this would be the ideal for you because you love him so much and he obviously loves you too. I'll be praying for the best result - one that you AND Aldawin can live with.