Buford is a cutie!!!
I know exactly what you mean about people knowing your doggie's name, yet not knowing you from a hole in the ground. Same thing happens to us all the time. At our last Canadian elections, when my hubby and I went to vote at the polling station in the school up the street, the guy who was handing out the ballots said to me "hey, where's Scully.....doesn't she get to vote?!". To this day, I am embarassed to say I have no bloody clue who this guy was! Never seen him before, but somehow, he's seen me with Scully and knows her name.