Yeah, it's a quintessential dog name here. Lajka/Laika for female and
Rex for male dogs.
Her name doesn't mean Little Lemon (where did you get that?), it means Barker (in Croatian (similar to Russian) 'lajati' means 'to bark'). Her name was originally Kudryavka (little curly one).
More about her:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika
Sorry, for the tangent, but we had a wonderful dog Lajka for 16 years.
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