Changing dogs names

wanted a nice girly name as my last dog was a sam for 2 days then we realised we picked a bitch nor a dog :o

so sam became samantha (poor dog...)

My current fluffball, is a Millie, was going to be pippa but she just didnt suit it :)
 
our little bundle of joy came to us as "Kimlaur Abarogwn Alfie". fair to say we were not intending on running through a field shouting that! would've been more intresting than the "FENTON!" video, mind. ;)
it soon changed to Alfie, but depending on what he's doing, it can change very quickly
 
Yes:D Our first lurcher that we got was called Lucky. Never has a name been more unsuitable for a dog:( She came to us riddled with fleas, earmites, tapeworm and underweight. On the other hand though, I suppose she was lucky in that we saved her from a life of hell:p Within 5 years, four littermates were dead:( We called her Ruby - she's a red fawn and an absolute gem!:D Our other lurcher came to us at 7 months and she was called Jess. Nothing wrong with the name, but it didn't suit her and we have a name theme for our lurchers. She became Ivy (green), along with Pearl (white) Ruby (red) and Olive (green), we just need to get a Teal, an Ebony, and a Mellow now!!!:D
 
I thought Oscar was called Oscar when I got him from the RSPCA but apparently he was Ollie :rolleyes: I prefer Oscar anyway!

Dash is a crappy and totally unoriginal name for a whippet but I kept it because he obviously responded to it really well (for a dog with no recall...) and I couldn't think of anything similar I could change it to.
 
clement82 said:
if you get a puppy with a name that doesnt suit it then you could change it, but if its a name that an older (not a puppy) has had and it isnt silly and it responds to it then there is no reason to change it
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I exactly;):)^^^^^^ I understand the puppy name change or the stupid name change or even the dog thats only had a name for a weeks weeks/months, but for a dog that had a perfectly good name for 4 years...then why:confused::rolleyes:
 
well. we got betty from my boyfriends brother as an 8 month old. i was told she was called "skye" which personally i HATE! i live on Skye, its an island.... every other dog seems to be called skye or cuillin. drives me mental.

aaaaaaanyway! she arrived and was actually called Betty. i nearly died! she was a fugly thing with a fugly name. But i don't agree with changing horses or dogs names (unless foals or proper puppies) so Betty she stayed... and it has grown on me! obviously if it was called something rude or whatever then it'd be changed! :D

(oh and a bit of useless info... Betty was sold as "tilly" when a pup and changed to Betty!)
 
When I had my dog his name was oz... which was quickly changed to ozwald :D But he comes to my boy, oz, ozzy, ozwald, and chocolate monster! Also if you say where is he? or i can see you he comes running!
 
I kept the name of our dog when we got him from the dogs trust.

Unfortunately they had called him rocky!! It has evolved into the rock! It is the most awful name for him really!! He is not tough, is not anywhere near a trophy type dog and the only thing remotely rocky about him are his bad hips!!

But I figured that he didn't seem to hate me because of my name and I love the dog inside not the name outside.

When we fostered we used to go through all the names we could think of in alphabetic order until the dog responded and that would be their name.

We had cody, millie, sid zak, bones, seren, chance and loads more.

The only one which was changed was a gsd called ollie by us and he was changed to duke.
 
I had a Tessie once, changed it from Jessie, as my next-door neighbour was called that!
Got her when she was 11 and it had a similar sound, she adapted straight away.
Also changed a Buster to Sumo, a pug who suited this so well! No problems with him adapting either.
 
I rescued my Bullmastiff girl as Corrina and changed it to Holly.

Corrina was / is a horrible name for a dog and funnily enough she answered to Holly straight away and yet never knew herself as Corrina.
 
Well. we've had Ron the rough-coated lurcher for 3 weeks now (from Rescue). He was one of a litter of 7, found abandoned and taken to rescue. Apparently the whole litter were given names from the Harry Potter characters. He answers to Ron so the name stays. I'm just glad that we ended up with Ron though - and not the one that must have inevitably been called Harry - because we've already got a cat called Harry - and that WOULD have caused confusion!

I did very briefly meet the new owner's of Ron's litter sister - Hermione - and they DID change her name. And to be honest, I don't blame them - it is pretty difficult to picture a black rough-coated scruffy lurcher called Hermione!

I've never changed any animal's name - horse, dog, cat, before, although diminutives and variations are quite acceptable (one of my horse's names is pretty awful, but we've managed to make a diminutive of it without actually changing it).
 
Daisy was already called Daisy when I got her and as she was nearly 2 I didn't change it.
Alice I got as a pup so she was called Alice from the beginning.
When I got George he was called Happy. The rescue centre gave him that name, he had only been there about a fortnight and he was the most miserable little thing so I changed his name.
 
I've changed names before, one 4 month old pup was called Jet and we changed it to Buster (Our dogs names have always begun with a 'B') Buster suited him much better.

Our latest dog had the same name as our son which got confusing, so he's been named Bryn.

The cat was called Red and that changed to Jaffa; everything else has been named by us as no original name.
 
I've kept the names they came with from the racing kennels, they knew them and were ok. It was only Throp we were unsure about, but all the names we came up with didn't really suit him and by then grew on us so stayed. They've all nicknames that they'll answer to so sure they'd have been fine with a new name.
 
We had 2 collies called Molly at the same time. We rescued the 2nd one who was very underweight so my daughter took to calling her skinny Molly and the other molly became fat molly, even tho she isn't :)
 
The dog I lost in October was called xena when I rescued her, it didn't suit her at all so I changed it to annie.

I've just found by best friend a new lurcher puppy and she's re-named her mouse.
 
got a cat from CP called Bonny Boy - changed his name to Fraser

didn't change my collie's name when she came - aged 18 months and from a nice place

would like a rescue collie and if I can I will call her Tess (I think it's a lovely name)

all depends how attached to their name I think the dog is
 
I changed to Alfie from Kemo ( I know it's not spelt the same but sounds the same as 'chemo'!) and to Dillon from something that I can't remember but it was one of those stupid- name all this months dogs beginning with a W- names. Pie was Pie when I got her, Lizzy and Jesse had no names and my next one's going to be an oldie called Gramps or Nana!
 
My 4 yr old rescue was called Snowy - I have a lisp so just had to change it :D - I did though deliberateley choose something very similar sounding though - Joey.
No problems at all - I dont think its fair to change an older dogs name drastically
 
Craven was originally called Bertie,he was renamed by foxhound welfare when he went to them after he was rescued from the dog pound.I liked the name so I kept it.

Flint was a stray with no tags and not chipped,he was given the name Gin at the rescue,but he was only there just over a week,so I renamed him.
 
Our rescue lurcher was originally called Cynthia! The interim owner called her Georgie and we have continued with that name. She does sometimes have a 'Cynthia' look about here though ...:)
 
Here she is
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