How did you name your dog?

Simba's is pretty obvious lol. He's a Rhodesian Ridgeback, which are known for hunting lions. Therefore Simba only seems necessary for a name. lol

He came with the name Lefty, and it fit, so it stayed. :)

Penny got all different names for the first few days as she was born on December 25th we wanted somthing Christmassy, we thought Tinsel, Holly, Misty (Mistletoe) but none suited her then Mum was saying she was as tiny as a penny coin so Penny it was.

Clover was named after the little black Poodle in the VC Andrews books Flowers in the attic series. Her registered name is "Four Legged Clover"

Theodore was named after a Police officer in our local newspaper, there was a story about a senior sargent Theodore (Something??) i mtntioned the name and it was perfect.

Mum named Elvis after you know who ;) I didnt and still dont like the name :( Grrr. I wanted to call him one of the following names Astro, AJ (Astro Junior), Turbo, TJ (Turbo Junoir), Zippy, Flash, Zephyr, Buddy. I still call Elvis AJ as a nick name and he seems to know it. :)

I am sending off Elvies registration forms in the next month (Associate register only so we can compete in Agility and Obedience) i am thinking of what name to use, i wanted it to be "Flyin Elvis the king" ,anyone got any better ideas???

Gosh we had such a hard time naming both of the pups.

Katie's name has always stuck with me because that is the first name that my son was going to call our RB Chloe. I wanted a stronger name for Katie and I tried others but I was just stuck on Katie. So to give it a stronger punch, her full name is Lady Katherine Lee.

Tori was so hard to name. I posted here on pet talk about it. We just could not agree on a name. I don't know why we had such a hard time. I finally saw the name Tori on a website that Anna had posted in that thread and mentioned it and everyone at home seemed to like it. Sooo....we had to give her a full name also and her name is Lady Victoria Rose. I love that name!

Robin :)

Anna, that's funny how Buddy and Huney got their names the same way!!!

Dale was named after Dale Earnhart Jr. (my hubby's fave NASCAR driver) :) He has Dale Earnhart toys, leashes, collars...you name it :) And it fits him :)


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Dandylion , i just thought sounded pretty and I liked Dandy for short.

Guinness was adopted near St. Patty's day, and he is black (and Guinness is a dark colored, irish beer)...

i was gonna start the exact same thread... i always wondered about a lot of the PT dogs, especially Di's doggies. MacSeshy is one of my favorites :D

Gonzo had already been named when we got him from his breeder at 5 months, and he had gotten used to the name. i'm pretty sure he was named after his daddy, Fozzy, after the muppet lol. i *hated* the name Gonzo and tried changing it, first to Archie for a couple months, then to Rocco for a long time... but my family would always call him Gonzo and he responds to it well, so i just gave in. he is also registered under Gonzo and his flyball people know him that way. ive gotten used to it, and i guess it suits him cos he can be pretty insane sometimes! -g-

I named my mastiff Sampson because my sister named her basset Delilah and the names just fit.

Sampson
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Delilah
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Jane from a drama women in a show
Maggie from a dog in a great old show
Ella: Entellegent Loving Lovely Ant-licker
Ann: Anti-lover Naughty Not horror

LOL. That's my dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

This thread makes me sad. I mean reading it from the beginning and reliving dogs that are gone. :(

Cody got his name because when I read that Kathy Lee Griffith name her son Cody, I thought that sounded like a good name for a dog.
Our Logan from PT was one of the first people I met and started a friendship with and I admired all she does, so I always said my next dog, in her honor, would be named "Logan". It fits her too..she's just as wonderful, smart and sweet.

We had a Disney theme going for awhile with my parents pets, but they all passed on. :(

But our more current pets... I don't like "pet pet" names, I like thinking of my pets as family members, not just pets, so I give them "human" names. Hence Jamie, Charlie, Molly, Nicole, Allie, etc.

Mackenzie- who knows, I guess we just liked the name... =P

Muffin- Once we decided to adopt her and she wasn't responding to the name "Lolly", we were just calling out random names to her... and when we shouted, "Muffin," she immediately turned and ran to us.

Zeus- I wanted a name that would match his I'm-tough-even-though-I'm-the-littlest-dog-in-the-family attitude. =P (He's the alpha of our dogs... hah)

I've done one of these before :p

Jillian is because my ex and I wanted another J name, when we lived in germany with our last dal Joyce. the way the J is pronounced in german made it funny and something to talk about at the bar, most people meeting Joyce the first time though it was "Yeorge?.... Ggeorge?...." since Jillian's is my favorite bar in america, I named Jillian - Jillian. ((promise shes not an alocholic doggie, just a hoggie doggie, and a wee bit psycho))

Frankie was already named by his last owners, but it does match him very well.

I just love this thread, no matter how many times it goes around.

Maggy was named after a player on the Chicago White Sox, Magglio Ordonez aka Mags. She was very good at catching pop flies with her ball at a very young age, around 9-10 weeks. My hubby's cousin saw her catch the ball once and said "she's as good as Mags!" Hence Maggy.

I named Bella Bella because she was sooo beautiful

Omar was named after Omar Epps haha

The two dogs I have now....

Chico was named Chico just because I always wanted a dog named chico hehe

I named Guapo Guapo because he was soooo cute when he was a pup and I knew he was going to grow up to be very handsome (Guapo means handsome in spanish):D :D

Rocoe came with his name. We kept it because hubby and I really like it and are both Dukes of Hazzard fans :D He slready really knew his name too, so I probably wouldn't have changed it anyway.

from the other thread:
Niño's (pronounced Neenyo) "name" was Nino. (pronounced Neeno) We suspect that at the shelter they were asking the previous owners (an eldery hispanic lady and her adult daughter) what his name was and they thought they were asking them what gender, so they replied "little boy". I liked the name but changed it to Niño.
Clark is a "super dog" and Layla was named Lady at first. My mom had a golden named Lady before, so I wanted to change it to Delylah, and she said it was too long, so I said I would call her Dilly for short, my mom didn't like it so she suggested Liela, which I absolutly hate as a name, but I loved Layla. My stepdad used to sing her the song.

Well, I always liked the name Blaze, and "Blaze" was named for that reason mostly, but also because he has a blaze on his face, and is a blaze of energy!!:D:D

Tasha: I loved the name and I had planned, if I adopted a little girl, to name her Tasha if I thought the name would fit. When I found my little girl at the pound, I knew she was my Tasha! :D.

Tommy: Was named when we got him, but we left the name as he knew it and it seemed to fit him. The neighbor who helped convince his first family to give him up says the son told him he was named after the movie Tommy Boy (with Chris Farley).

I actually chose Bijou's name before we got Bijou! We were so excited to begin the process of adopting from a rescue or shelter and first sought an adorable beagle named Sully, but he found a home before we could meet him. We then pursued one of three black lab/coonhound mix siblings named Maggie, Ellie and Pearl, but realized that those sweet, teeny pups would grow to be much more than we could easily manage (they estimated the pups would grow to be 80 lbs of black lab/coonhound). By that time, we were feeling so emotionally involved with adopting that we couldn't wait to find "the right one" -- the next day, we found our little collie girl on Petfinder located 2-1/2 hours away at a rescue organization in a city I'd never even heard of! She was the only tri in a litter of sables and the last pup to be adopted from the litter. I had had her name in my head for weeks (I had wanted a feminine name and something that gave a nod to our French heritage), and so when I finally saw her little picture on Petfinder and then went to meet her and adopt her, I just knew that she was our Bijou. She'd never, ever been named, and she was already about 14 weeks when we met her! That seemed a little sad to me, but she'd been waiting for us to find her, I think. I'm so grateful we discovered our pretty little gem.

Gracie was so wobbly on her little puppy legs that she earned her name.

Beanie's name was picked out from a list of names we thought suited him.

Houston's name was the only large texas city name that i liked. his breeder wanted texas names because the sire's name was Texas.

Ginger's name was actually going to be Daisy. After we left the shelter, and on the four hour drive home I was thinking well maybe Crystal, so I kept switching between Daisy and Crystal. Before going home I stopped at PetsMart to pick up a crate. So, I put my puppy in the cart and we were walking around PetsMart, and of course people were coming up asking the puppy's name and I was telling them it was probably going to be Daisy or Crystal. Well, one of the times I was telling people that, Ginger looked up at me, and at that exact moment the name Ginger popped into my head. It was almost like she looked up and said it. So, as my nephew's wife says, if she picked the name Ginger there really isn't any need to think about it anymore. :)

Timber-- He has alot of wolf in him, and reminded me of a timber wolf. Also he has a T marking on his nose and I call that a "T" for Timber.:rolleyes: :)

Angel-- I named her after the tan dog on the move "lady & the tramp 2".

Patch-- He was already named from the musher I got him from.

Grizzly--(Timber's & Angel's pup) When he was born he was really dark, and he look like a little grizzly bear, so that is what I named him.

Arctic--(Timber's & Angel's pup) He is all white so I thought Arctic would fit him well. Also his dad (Timber) is my "timber wolf", and Arctic is my "arctic wolf". ;) :p

Cowboy Rex-- I was just going to call him Rex, but Aussies always make me think of western/horse kind of dogs:) . So I thought of Cowboy and added Rex with it.

Meeko-- He is named from the raccoon on the movie "Pocahontas".

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When we got Bitsy she was so small that Bitsy just fit. Of corse she's still small- 6lbs.

Charlie came with the name "shorty", we hated that name and had to change it. We wanted to pick something that sounded kind of simular and we liked the name Charlie. It fits him so well.

Buster came with his name and altho I wouldn't have picked that name, it really fits him to a tee. He is a buster.

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My first post in this thread was just a few days before I got Nacey. Nacey came with her name and we liked the name because it's so different. It fits her too. My friend wanted me to change her name to Lacey, but Lacey doesn't fit her at all.

We found Nova on Thanksgiving day, which of corse is in November. We gave her a name in remembrance of the day we found her. We never expected to keep her. We posted signs and when her owner finally called us a month later they didn't want her. We then decided to foster her until we found her a good home. We ended up falling in love with her and keeping her and had we given it more thought in the begining we probably would have chosen a different name. Nova really does fit her though.

I recall that my mother named Sadie.

alex the wonder dog is a bit complicated...alex means protector, when i hung the beware of dog on my newly bought fence, a close friend laughed, since she knows alex would give up everything in my house to a burgler for a dog cookie. the wonder dog part is from my sure belief that his first vet was on the way to killing alex by mismanaging his epilepsy. the "wonder and glory" of it is that he's survived that bad vet, and my stupidity to be a well loved 9 year old . with a great vet.
angel duke was named bert when i picked him up (his companion was ernie...yeah i know:rolleyes: ). duke had a lot of shoulder action, kind of a rolling gait like john wayne, a favorite actor,when he walked, hence the name duke