interspecies communicaiton at its best

In my house we have been commenting on how the English speaking media has not ventured pronouncing the name of the Icelandic volcano wreaking havoc in Europe. This morning we were sitting on the couch and Saskia had been banned to the armchair for excessive licking and tail wagging while we were having coffee. CNN flashed the name on the bottom of the screen and my mother made a brave attempt at reading it. She got to an F sound in the middle of the name and it disappeared from the screen. She turned to me and repeated the "FFFFT" sound as if jokingly asking if that was right. I" FFFFT" back at her as if agreeing, we both "FFFFFT" to close the subjected of the unpronounceable name. At this Saskia jumped off the chair uttered a "FFFFT" of her own by blowing air out her nose and hopped on the couch between us, wagging her tail and looking from one to the other, completely delighted that she could join in the conversation.