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    How did you name your dog?

    Yes, we've had these threads before, but there's alot of new members and such... so here we go again.





    All three of mine were named from The Lion King.

    Simba was our first dog... Then came Nala.

    Kiara was going to be either Kiara or Sarabi, But since Kiara is Simba & Nala's daughter in The Lion King 2, I chose it.

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    I don't have dogs now but was raised with a poodle and chihuahuas. My parents gave the chihuahuas Mexican names - Pepe' and two different Pedros. Our poodle was Pierre - French of course. When I was newly married, we had a black lab that was named Ebony - for obvious reasons

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    Lauren suggested that we name Kiara, Ebony.

    ~Kay, Athena, Ace, Kiara, Mufasa, & Alice!
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    I didn't name Max. He came from the shelter pre-named and I didn't have the heart to change the name! I kind of wanted to name him Diesel.

    I wanted to name Jake "Lance" but my husband and kids thought that was a dumb name, so we all threw some names around until we found one which we all lliked. It fit him well.

    My husband named Toby after a character on a movie.


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    Molly-- After I found her, and we decided that we were going to keep her, we were trying to come up with different names that we all liked. I suggested Molly, and my mom liked it too, so it just stuck.

    Annie-- She already had her name when I got her, and I was going to change it to Andie, since it was kinda similiar, but she knew her name well, and it fits her, so I'm glad I didn't change it.

    Bailee-- When I was naming Bailee, we went through several different names.... a few of them were Maggie, Cassie, Sammi (or Sam), Greta, and of course Bailee. We finally decided that Bailee fit her the best.

    Felony-- I just like the name, and I wanted a unique name for him that you don't hear too often. It doesn't really fit him all that well, but I usually just call him Felly..

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    Molly's was pretty much picked out when we got her..as soon as my family and I saw her, we thought "She looks like a Molly." We also thought a cute nickname for her would be "Molly the Collie".

    Daisy was either going to be Mandy, Brandy, or Daisy. You obviously know which one we picked.

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    -Happy was Happers litter name, it suited her so I kept it.

    -Misty is short for "mistletoe mischief" because I got her for christmas and she is very very mischievious lol her name was upposed to be "mistletoe christmas" but as soon as she was in the van christmas was very quickley replaced with mischeif lol

    -Perky, I really dont know, it jsut suits her, at the shelter her name was biscuit we hated it and it did not suit her one single bit, so then it was changed to Roxy because of her speckles, and she is short(my parents had a friend named Roxy who was really really short lol) we kept that for a few days, but it did not suit her so we changed it to Perky.

    -Ripley, well he came with the name "Roscoe" but it did not suit him for 1, and for another he hated it, ran full speed the opposite direction if you called him Roscoe, and we had been watching Ripleys believe it or not the night we got him lol so he became "Ripleys believe it or not we got another dog" lol and now that I think about it his name also fits with "the talented Mr. Ripley" because Ripley is an escape artist, he is Talented lol I cant think of a better name that suits that dog.

    -Blair, again, his litter name, we kept it because its an inside joke lol basicly my mom used to have a boyfriend named Blair, and my mom was given a dog named..Blair.. right after my mom and dad seperated, so its a little joke, his Reg'd name is "Weskys My Boyfriend Blair"
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    We just picked names we liked. I've always liked the name Lacey, but didn't really think it fit her until I'd called her that thousands of times. Mandy we were throwing around names the night we got her and Candy came up and then Mandy and we liked it and I think she looks like a Mandy!
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    When we got Katie she first was going to be Kate, but then we decided on Katie.

    When I saw Elvis, I just new he was an Elvis, you know? My dad liked the name, but it took my mom awhile to like it. she does now!

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    Kai was named after a camp leader I had a teeny crush on. I just got back from a camping/rock climbing trip with the Mini school program at my school. One of our leaders' names was Kai-tech. I thought Kai sounded nice and I've always had a thing for uncommon names so I picked that. It was between Kai, Blaze (the white blaze on his head), Chip (as in, chocolate chip) and Zeke.

    Kaedyn was Milo when we adopted him. He didn't respond to it at all so I wanted to change it since I didn't like the name. I was just putting random words together in my head one night. It went from Cajun to Kaydin. Then I just fiddled with the spelling.

    Kai [Sheltie], Kaedyn [Sheltie], Keeva [Malinois], Kwik [Malinois]

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    Mickey was pretty much the only name that all of us agreed on. When we saw pictures of him on the breeders' site, we decided to go with the name since it just seemed to suit him. He even has the black-tipped ears that can resemble Mickey Mouse.

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    Madison was named after the mermaid in the movie "Splash".

    McMurphy was named after the fiesty irish nurse in the TV series, "China Beach".

    Whizzer of Oz was named after the movie, "Wizard of Oz", as a connection to my two lil' Toto Dogs.

    Gulliver was named after "Gulliver's Travels", to connect him to Oz. Sort of a travel theme. It's amazing how many young people have never heard of Gulliver's Travels. I get tons of blank stares.

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    I've always liked names that are a little more unusual. I'm also very interested in the Indian culture and there are so many beautiful names that I fell in love with the name Priya. It means "beloved" or "love".

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    I wanted to name Major Simba or Jessie. (or Shadow, but not really)

    He was originally "Snoopy" (the little kids named him) but then when we got him he was Shadow. I thought the name was ok, but everyone called him Major. I think some of them were doing that just to annoy me. I really didn't like the name. I guess the reason is he is a 'major' change, and we farm. Our name thing is Major Farms. I guess he's a major cutie too!

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    If I remember correctly I was having hard time coming up with something. I was going to call her Frosty at first and my husband hated that name. One night a commerical for Disney World came on the tv and I had been wanting to go so I picked Disney.

    I think that is how but my memory really stinks.

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