Please help out my 7th graders!

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by e of pi

Thanks. She says "Feed me!" And, while I can pronounce it, I cannot spell the name of the breed. And judging from the common usage of the abreviation, skip, not many other people can either.

"Skip" is actually pretty appropriate, since "schipperke" works out to "little skipper", coming from the breed's use as watchdogs on barges and canal boats in its native Belgium.