Nanook: I had the name picked out well before the dog. I knew it ment polar bear in Inuit so between that & the fact that I already wanted some sort of artic type breed I searched for one who fit & liked the name Nanook and of course one with an exceptional personality.

Raustyk: I knew I wanted her for months yet could not for the life of me think of a name that I liked, she liked & one that would suit her. The name issue was really starting to bother us both as we have already had her for a number of days yet she still did not have a name so our brains were working overtime. My b/f at the time was working in an apartment complex named Rustic Village. Not sure what promted it but he came home one day saying we should name her rustic and that he thought of it from the apartments. When he said the name surprisngly enough I loved it yet I was not sure about the spelling or meaning behind it (the apartment complex was a dumb meaning when it had no significant relations to either of us & it was not that nice of a place either) so I revised it, spelling it different & thinking of some other meaning that was a little more sentimental, she is more like the older (rustic) rotts, a little more stocky & shorter and her rust colored points were just that color.

Kaige: I needed to think of both a kennel & call name for him and I wanted them to be connected in some way yet a little unique as well. Tons of call names came to mind, many that I adored much more than "Kaige" yet for some reason the kennel names that went with them didn't fit him or the call name or just the call name didn't fit Kaige. One of my favorite kennel names that seemed to fit him best was RisingStar's Bustin' Loose, so I worked off of that in search of a call name. My neice actually thought of "Cage" but that was way to simple for me yet I became really attracted to the name. So I changed the spelling to Kaige.