Answering the phone in dog land

If you speak Spanish, you answer the phone with "Alo", which is a hispanized (Is this even a word? It is now, I so declare it) way of the English "Hello". I like to be different, and so always answer with "Hola". In French, it is "Alo", of course with that distinctive beautiful French accent, that makes non-francophones believe you're choking or something. In Italian, you say "Pronto", and in German, you say "Hallo!", with a rude accent, that makes people think you've just sentenced them to death. I really don't know enough about other languages, to make a statement about phone courtesy.

However, if you call a certain Argentinian friend of mine, you may think it was her dog getting the phone. When I called a couple of hours ago, she answered "Guau", which in Spanish reads as "wow", and is the Spanish sound for dogs (yes, dogs also speak different languages).

So, maybe I'll start answering the phone these days with a very distinctive "Meowwww", followed by a 5-second purr.