Name Suggestions Please?

This is DJ, our current foster. He is a merlequin Great Dane about 10 months old. He has just gotten his cast off. He will be with us until he is 100%. We need your help in getting him a new name, to start his new life. He follows me everywhere, I can hardly go out of the room without being followed. His name will not be "Shadow" or "Spot", so please think of other names.


Here is a full body picture with the cast.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...3/fcdc7647.jpg


And here he is without the cast.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...e/fcd5be3e.jpg

I will post back when a name is picked.

Thank you all in advance. :)

aww, what a cutie. i would suggest the name shadow for a dog like that, who follows you. i've always liked that name. sorry, no other suggestions. good luck :)

Normally, I like your basic "Bob", "Harry", etc....but in this case...how about Camouflage ??? He looks like he is wearing it!

What a gorgeous dog!!

I really like Edwina's suggestion. Really fits him. And you could
call him Cammie for short. Or maybe GI Joe. :)

Don't think this fits him, but I recently saw a name for a Collie
that I really liked... Banda...

Par...

He has such an usual face marking, how about Face?
A friend of mine named his puppy that b/c he had a cute face.
I like the suggestion of Camoflage (sp) but Cammie sounds too feminine, how about calling him Camo.
Are there any other traits of his that would clue us in on more appropriate names? :)

My name suggestion is Merlin, don`t know why. :D

My gosh, that is a beautiful dog! I've never seen a Dane that color before. Lovely!

I know what you mean about Spot and Shadow .... I own a grooming shop and boarding kennel and I get SO sick and tired of the same old names, year after year. Most of my dogs have common names, because they were already named when I rescued them. :rolleyes:

I like mythological names, so:

Achilles (whose only weakness was his heel)
Adonis (handsome)
Apollo
Aquilo
Arachne
Ares (God of the war)
Argo
Baldur (Norse god of light and joy)
Bast
Centaur
Cerebus (Three headed dog that guards the gates of hell.)
Galahad
Loki (Norse god of mischief, trickery, and thieves (nemesis of Thor))
Nike (messenger of the Gods, with wings on his feet)
Niobe
Odin (The central Viking God, big and powerful)
Raiden (god of lighting)
Thor (God of Thunder)
Zeus

I like "Joe" as in "GI Joe"'!!

I have a friend who has a harlequin Great Dane and his name is Harely! It fits him perfectly! I like Joe too!

For some reason Danny popped in my head...how 'bout Danny Joe (DJ :) )

how about Velcro? Hehe.

I don't really have any sugestions, but beautiful dog!! I love his colors!

Wow!! He is so beautiful! :D I don't think I'd be able to let him go! I can't think of any name's, but I really like Edwina's Secretary's suggestion, Camouflage, or Camo for short. I think it suits him. Boy, he is darling. I can't get over him! :)

Beautiful! Poor baby! What happened to him???


I like Camo.
Grande
Guapo
NELLY
Tristan [or tris for short]

He looks like a Jeffery to me.

He looks like melted ice cream -

Mudpie?
Chip? (Chocolate chip or chip off the old block)

or like

Granite - Grant - Stoney?
Clement (kinda like cement)
Or just plain old George the Granite Great Dane?

he's a beauty!

For some odd reason Ringo comes to mind when I look at the pic

I like the name "Camo" alot!

or

Captain
Sargent
General

Those are great suggestions !! We haven't decided yet, so keep them coming :)

RubyMutt - He will be hard to let go, especially since we were told we would not have to pay his adoption fee (like we need more incouragement to keep him :eek: we were using that as one of the reasons not to keep him)

Kfamr - He got out of his yard somehow, and was hit by a car. Leg broken in 2 places, broken rib, punctured lung. His owner then didn't want to pay for getting well, so took him to vet to be put down :( , but the vet refused, and had him surrendered to a rescue group.

Camouflage...yeeks. "Camo"...Well...first few thoughts came: Meeko (it is! A friendly raccoon colored like yours in some disney movie)

Mera/Merra or Merrka (he's merrier to not be put down),

Cream (he have ice creams splats all over!)..Nuhh? Will help more after I'm under my eyelids! *ZZzzz*

How about "Tiny"?

Never had a "leg lifter" all squatters..hehehe. I've always liked the name Winston for a male dog. Like the name Morgan too..

Looks like a Murphy to me! :D

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Originally posted by Swoozie
Never had a "leg lifter" all squatters..hehehe. I've always liked the name Winston for a male dog. Like the name Morgan too..

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He is still young, with the cast on he had to squat. He may not have learned the other method. :D

Unfortunately, we had a cat for a short time (until she ran out the door and was gone) named Morgan.

Speckled in spanish- Moteado :MoTEEAyDo?

Sombra- shadow in spanish

Dad says you should name chance or lucky.

Thank you so much for all the suggestions! Fuzzy and I really appreciate it! Keep 'em coming. I've been reading them off to DJ looking for a reaction - something that catches HIS fancy and ours.

I like Loki, but he wasn't a very nice diety (everything EXCEPT the evil part - mischief, trickery, pranks, jokes - sums DJ up perfectly).

When we first started this I tried to sell "ScratchMaster DJ Spex" and call him Spex for short. With the way he would throw his cast over his other leg, he had that "looking for the scratchboard" hip-hop, hardscrabble look to him. And, aren't all dogs "Scratch Masters"? maybe a different kind of "scratch"... Fuzzy didn't buy it. :(

Oh well... I'll keep reading them to DJ and hope something perks his ears.

Again, THANK YOU so much!

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Originally posted by Fuzzy317


Kfamr - He got out of his yard somehow, and was hit by a car. Leg broken in 2 places, broken rib, punctured lung. His owner then didn't want to pay for getting well, so took him to vet to be put down :( , but the vet refused, and had him surrendered to a rescue group.

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Kudos to the vet!

Here are the suggestions so far:

Achilles, Adonis, Apollo, Aquilo, Arachne, Ares, Argo, Bailey, Baldur, Bast, Ben, Benjamin, Benny, Bones, Camouflage (Cammie or Camo for short), Captain, Centaur, Cerebus and DeeOGee was our first transport, Champ, Chance, Chip (as in Chocolate Chip or Chip off the old block), Chivez, Clement, Cream, Danny Joe (ie DJ), Elwood, Face, Fritz, Galahad, General, George the Granite Great Dane, GI Joe, Governor, Grande, Granite, Grant, Grub, Guapo, Hamilton, Harely, Harley, Jackson is our alpha cat, Jake is brother-in-laws dog, Jeffery, Loki is in the lead so far, Lucky, Max, Meeko, Mera/Merra, Merlin, Merrka, Milo, Morgan, Moteado (Spanish for Speckled), Mudpie, Murphy, Nelly, Nike, Niobe, Odin, Oliver, Otis, Ozzie, Raiden, Rembrandt (Remmie for short), Ringo, Sampson, Sargent, Shadow, Sombra (Spanish for Shadow), Stoney, Thor, Tiny, Travis, Tristan, Velcro, Winston, Zeus

We haven't picked a name yet, so let us know if you have others to suggest :)

You're in Georgia, isn't that Stonewall Jackson territory? And as you already have a Jackson, Stonewall/Stoney!

I like
G.I. Joe
Maximus
Romeo
Amor
Nike
I don't know, can't think of any others at the moment

George!!!!!

More ideas...

Avery
Bruno
Cha-Cha
Dagmar
DanLea
Deuce
Frey
Datera
T.J.
Dakota
Bayleigh
Macali
South
Hank
Harlequin
Onion???
Remington
Chantilly
Maclayne

Well, good luck!

My friend has a great dane named Dane. Or how about Snickers? Camere (come here!!!) ? Skyler (Skye for short) ?