How Asha got the nickname Chicken

You would think it's because she's scared. However, while she is a bit apprehensive about new experiences, this isn't the reason.

Since she grew big enough to do so, she has shown a fondness for licking the kitchen counter. And this is with no specific purpose, such as licking up food remnants. In fact, I could have just wiped the counter and she would come into the kitchen and start licking.

She has some sort of fascination with just licking the counters. Of course, this would result in me asking: "What are you licking?", which progressed into "What are you licken, chicken?" taken from the fast food restaurant: Chicken Licken. And so, Asha also became known as Chicken.

Needless to say, I very quickly got into the habit of wiping down the counters before preparing food.

Titan, on the other hand, is so lazy that he doesn't do anything without a purpose. So his favourite thing to do, is lick the dirty dishes that are lying in the sink, to lick up all the yummy flavours. And there is no way of stopping him, given his height and because the kitchen forms part of the open plan side of the house.

So if Titan has disappeared, and it happens to be just after dinner time, you know exactly where to look for him.

And I believe that these days you can't leave any food lying around unattended, even on the shelf that happens to be eye level for me. Titan assumes you have left it there for him, and it takes very little effort for him to get to it.