Black dogs

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tracy" <neonsister at a...> 
wrote:
> This is semi-on-topic, though it originated on an unrelated 
> discussion group I belong to.  I am involved in greyhound adoption, 
> and we were talking about superstitions and folklore regarding 
black 
> dogs (black greyhounds are often the last to be adopted; people 
want 
> other colors).  I did some net-surfing and found a good web site on 
> the subject, and thought it might be of interest to all the Sirius 
> fans here.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/pe3m
> 
> Looking down the list of names, I am glad JKR went with "Padfoot" 
for 
> Sirius' nickname instead of "Hooter" or "Shag Dog", lol!
> 
> Tracy  
> *though I bet Sirius was quite the shag dog in his day...*

You may be interested (or not - though I never let that bother me 
anyway (!)...)  to know that Winston Churchill was a sufferer of 
bouts of very debilitating depression.  He always referred to these 
episodes as "Black Dogs".

June