How did you name your dog?

[wolfie]

Daphne was named after Daphne on Frasier, because we liked the name.

Cocoa came with her name, and she was 2, so we didn't want to change it. If we got to name her she'd be "Muffin."

[tomkatzid]

Lucee was such a little devil dog when we found her, chewing things up, rolling in anything and everything, etc., that we thought lucee-fur(aka lucifer) was appropriate, lucee for short....
Ashlee was asher when we got her, we changed it to ashlee, but we still call her asher sometimes.....
Nina was already nina when she came from the humane society..... we started calling her nina beana, now she gets called bean quite a bit, and also ninny ........tom

[Corinna]

Well Merlin's name does come with a story. I got him at 10 weeks and we were house breaking him in the biggest snow i have ever seen. Being a puppy who had been in a garage , we took him out side every 2 hours so as not to have an acceident. My son(my tactful) said that dog sure whizzes a lot.so he became the wizard. My daughter had just watched disneys King arthur (cartoon) started calling him Merlin . It stuck,so I had to make his AKC reg name sound dignified. So he is Montanas mystical merlin. Named just cuz he pees a lot.
Lady came with her name. Ebony was to be Blackie but I (as always ) said it needed to be more excotic, so Ebony. Plus she was so little and black but huge eyes and the song Ebony eye came on and Ben thought it was "cool"
Winky was named after the kids(5&6at the time) were hooked on Disneys Escape to witch mountain. The cats name was Winky .
I have no clue as to why or how Moose got the name the kids cave him It some norse God I guess. mostflices I called him mostly fleas when he came the first time . Now hes just moose couse hes so big.(16lbs)

[swimma253]

Meeka was named after Meeko from Pochahontas.... but she is a girl... so we decided on Meek-a

and rodney is from doctor doolittle. "Rodney! Whats happenin?!?"

[heinz57_79]

I changed Chloe's name from the one she came with, Fauna, which totally didn't suit her! I always liked the name chloe, so there we go.

We debated over Charlie's name for quite a while. We were thinking about Hercules, but ended up with Charlie Brown.

Arthur was a toss up between Arthur and Hector. I told Bella she could choose, so we went with Arthur. (and named one of the kittens Hector).

Anna, well I think most of you already know how that came to be, but for those who don't... She came to us as Roxxy. I didn't like the name and it didn't fit with the rest of our brood. So we figured Roxxy - Roxanna - Anna. Anna and Arthur sound better together anyhoo.

[Toller 42]

Echo got her name because when she was a puppy we used to talk to her all the time and she would always howl and bark at us so she was like an echo.

Tango got her name beause she was a really hyper, fun puppy and still is, we just thought Tango suited her really well and I used to know a really happy dog who I loved and her name was Tango so thats how she got her name.

the other 2 came with their names.

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Sadie just seemed to fit her, so that's what we named her. It was also a name we liked. Kay, I love the name Ebony, it's so pretty!

[cocker_luva]

It was my choice to name her Jesse. after my friend, Jessica. But it was my mom who made up her AKC registered name; Jessica James Bond.

[sirrahved]

We already had a major food theme, so we went through food names till we found one we liked.

[DogLover9501]

Wiggles's name went from alot of things, but we decided to just name her personality wise, she wiggled ALOT, so thats pretty self-explanitory.

Piddle's name was actually MICKEY, and my mom kept calling him Piddle because he kept peeing on the floor and it sounded really cute and he started responging to it and it stuck!

Jasper's name was a toss up between Sampson and Jasper, I liked Jasper better for him because it seemed to go with his personality, the high-energy thing, and also with Sampson, I only like the WHOLE name, I didn't like the idea of the Sam, Sammy nicknames.

[lovemyshiba]

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.

[Tonya]

Dusty was Ajax when I got him. The name Dusty was just a random decision.

Roxy was ChaCha, her name was random also.

Sarah, Jaden named. He had a girl in his kindergarten class named Sarah. I think he had a crush on her.

[dukedogsmom]

My horrible ex had a female shepherd named Duchess so I thought it would be cute to have more royalty in the family and that's how Duke got his name.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

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.

[Samantha Puppy]

We first called Samantha Lady, but it didn't fit. So my husband and I each concocted a list of names we liked and Samantha was the only one on both of them.