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When I lived in NYC I bought him from a breeder in Charleston, SC...where I went to college (hence the screename "Citadel").

I was in NY, so I wanted a good Southern name for him, so I named him after Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, the Confederate Commander who ordered Citadel cadets to fire the first shots of the Civil War. Frankly, that name was too much to yell when he was peeing on the floor, so he became "Goose" or "Gus" as my Dad refers to him. :)
( Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 20:39, Reply)