Woof Three Times if You're Fond of Auden

On my walk this morning, I got talking to a woman. With the woman was a dog. The woman said the dog's name was Sappho. Was the woman's choice of name an attempt to tell me something, I wondered. If so, was it related to her taste in poetry or to her preference for women? A grinning golden retriever seemed an odd medium for either message. What would Marshall McLuhan think?