[miketheprof]

I've been to services to bless the critters - had our dog and rabbit blessed, as a matter of fact. I never heard any "brother wolf and sister squid" bilge, but beyond that, I don't know what the big deal is. We have our houses blessed; in Galveston, they used to have an annual blessing of the shrimp fleet; if our buildings and our vehicles, why not our pets? BTW, I don't know if all German Shepherds are Catholic, but the current head of the Catholic Church is certainly a German Shepherd.

[tet68]

I think I went to a "Blessing of Trolls" once.
Baba Streisand was sprinkleing French Sparkling
Holy water at $17.98 a bottle, god would that stuff
sizzle when it hit them! I left about the time they
were branding themselves with DU and chanting "MOve on,
Move ON!"

[dangus]

>> I never heard any "brother wolf and sister squid" bilge <<

I'm guessing the reference, which was actually "brother wolf, sister loon" is a sarcastic takeoff of "Brother son, Sister moon." A lot of wierdos, mistaking the meaning of that, (or purposely disregarding it) have tried to work that into all sorts of pagan dreck. Poor St. Francis; if only the people who supposedly love him would read more than a bumper stickers' worth of his writing!

I believe it was merely St. Francis' way of describing his chaste relationship with St. Claire.