June Pet of the Month

I'D had an elephant for ages hoping one of the older pets would be POTM, so I was pretty happy about the choice of the elephant.

What I didn't know was what to name it—I either didn't like some of the choices, like Bimbo or Kala Nag or Two Tails, or thought they were a little cliché, like Babar, Trunks, Peanuts, Dumbo, etc. It couldn't be Modoc or Maya because it was an African elephant and a male to boot.

I finally settled on a literary elephant, just not the usual one: Cornelius, one of the wise old elephants in the Babar stories.