What a great thread, Jackie'sdaisy!!

Malone got his name from a country music song by David Ball "Private Malone". One of the lines of the chorus is "You'll always be riding with Private Malone" and we thought that that would be very true, since we planned on taking him everywhere with us. Also, at the same time, we were reading a novel that took place in Malone, NY...we both were enjoying the book very much (I don't remember which one now lol) but that was part of it too.