When we got Kito from the breeders, his papers came with him. His dad's name was Yuko's St. Elmo's Fire, and his mom's name was Featherstone Nikita. We liked the name Nikita, but decided to shorten it and make it sound masculine, so that's how that happened.

Abbey came to us through Nittany Beagle Rescue. When we went to see her, she had just a day or two before been transported from a shelter in Ohio, along with 2 littermates. They had been called A, B, and C. At the rescue they named them Abbey, Baxter, and I don't remember the C name. She seemed to know it, and we liked it, so we kept it.

When I picked Riley up from that woman in the SPCA parking lot, she told me his name was Dominic. She also told me he was a purebred lab, and 6 months old, both of which weren't true, but.....
He didn't even look at me when I said the name, so we tried to think of something else. He was "the little one" for a while. Finally I searched through the dogs of the days from the past year or so, and came down to 2 names. I posted a poll here on PT, and everyone picked Riley.

We got Jada from the SPCA, and they had no information on her. Someone had left her overnight, so they didn't have a name or anything, and our SPCA doesn't bother with stuff like that.
Since she was an anniversary present for my husband, I let him pick her name, and Jada was what he came up with.