While Fiona had Kenya, the mother for five years now, the puppies, Grungie and Azalea, came along two and a half years later.  What made the actress choose terriers?  "My mother had a Yorkshire terrier and I've always loved them.  They're very intelligent dogs."

When Fiona first got Kenya, she didn't know the dig would eventually replace her husband at the time.  "I was married to Sean and he was taking off to Kenya to do a film.  I got the puppy to keep me company for two months while he was gone.  As it turns out, the puppy stayed and he Sean left," laughs Fiona.

With Kenya an obvious choice for the first puppy's name, Fiona also wanted significant names for the others."  Azalea is a very beautiful mountain villiage in Morocco.  It's a religious retreat that's only been open to the public for about 50 years.  Everything is painted in pastels and all of the houses are carved into the mountains.  It's a wonderful place, not on many maps.  I went there and always remembered the name.

"Grungie was a name that John (Viscardi, Fiona's beau) and I played around with.  She always looked so scruffy and wasn't able to clean herself properly, so Grungie was something that just stuck.  I wanted to name her Violet, but Grungie fits her personality.  It's a very postive name for her even though it has negative connotations.  It was an endearing name and it stuck."