There were two of them dogs, but Lena played too rougly with the female, which then left, and this one stayed.
It was a common mongrel of the local kind, part dachhund part everything else. Short legged, brown with black back, flapping ears. It was very friendly to everyone except Vlasta - when he was there, I had to step on its chain to hold it. No explanation.
The name means a priest; the word is actually pop, but here in Banat this variant is more common. The guy who gave the dogs to our girls was some Popov, Popović or some such.
When granma once put aside the bones after lunch for him, she said „he, too, is ours“. The expression we later used for other animals we had, even hedgehogs, and sometimes persons as well.