Hound names again please!

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Got another pup to walk and need name suggestions beginging with H. He is extreeeemely helpfull (holds horses for us, mucks out etc...!) and at the moment is being called helpfull but we really cant let that one stick!!
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Henry, Hoover, Harvey, Harry.... Hound Number 311??? Harrison, Harley, Hector, Herbert, Heriberto (yes that is an actual name, it is spanish and it means Herbert Shining Warrior) :) Good suggestions?? :)
 
i like hoover!!!! :D someone suggested Hovis which i really like but OH not keen on :(
the photos dont really show just howsmall and round he is, im sure the otheres weve had have been bigger. He has got to be the cutest though!
 
I like Helpful!

But there's also Hubert, Horatio, Hue, Hercules, Heraldo, Hackett, Hadley, Halcyon, Hamish, Hamilton, Hamlet, Hardy, Harrison, Heathcliffe, Hobson, Homer, Holmes, Hugo, Humphrey...
 
How about Handsome, as in "is as does"? That's a rather smart puppy.

Alec.

Ets. Silly perhaps, but how about H-upatea, as a distortion of your user name? a.
 
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I would stick with Helpful. They say you should never name a hound something you don't want it to be (we had one called Vanish and she invariably did, Warrior was killed in a kennel fight etc. etc.) so if the opposite is the case he may turn out to be 'Helpful' in the field :-)
 
burge said:
I would stick with Helpful. They say you should never name a hound something you don't want it to be (we had one called Vanish and she invariably did, Warrior was killed in a kennel fight etc. etc.) so if the opposite is the case he may turn out to be 'Helpful' in the field :-)
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Ditto this!

we had one called Fireman - he inevitably pee'd on everything!

Countess and Princess wouldn't go across bogs or streams, Truthful was always right and never rioted.... I'm trying to think of other examples but mind is fixed on Burghley....
 
burge said:
I would stick with Helpful. They say you should never name a hound something you don't want it to be (we had one called Vanish and she invariably did, Warrior was killed in a kennel fight etc. etc.) so if the opposite is the case he may turn out to be 'Helpful' in the field :-)
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hmmm.....the last 2 we've had were Crafty and Gulliver...god knows what crafty is going to get up to but gulliver is obviously going to go travelling....!
 
I had a lurcher called Merlin (but called after the hound name).

He was certainly very good at magicking food away... he was also exceptionally intelligent - looks like the naming rule works!
 
I was brought up, correctly I believe, to consider that there were 3 separate classes of names for living creatures, human names, hound names & those used for cur dogs & other living creatures & that they should never be mixed. On those grounds I would therefore not have countenanced many of the names put forward by others.
Traditionally, doghounds tend to be given names that are nouns, whereas bitches tend to be given names that are adjectives or adverbs - however there are plenty of exceptions to that particular "rule".
Lastly as a matter of practicality any hound name should ideally be two syllables with a consonant in-between – as apparently hounds find these easier to distinguish.
Daphne Moore in her Book of the Foxhound has a list of over 150 names beginning with “H” for doghounds, a list which is too long to repeat here. Also the list of hound names at the end of Letter V of Beckford contains 19 such names for doghounds. Beckford’s list is as follows: - Hannibal, Harbinger, Hardiman, Hardy, Harlequin, Harasser, Havoc, Hazard, Headstrong, Hearty, Hector, Heedful, Hercules, Hero, Highflyer, Hopeful, Hotspur, Humbler & Hurtful.
Both lists include some names of which I would not approve on one or other of the above grounds.
Of those put forward by others, my own preference would be for Helpful.
 
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