How did you choose your dogs name

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Just musing cos there have been a few threads asking for help choosing names. Before we collected Chloe we had half decided on Izzy, then we half changed our minds to Molly. When we did pick her up she just did not look like an Izzy or a Molly and we faffed about all day before we decided on Chloe. Now we have had her a couple of months, she is so definitely a Chloe. Rosie was always gonna be Rosie (born on Feb 14th) and Murphy (IWS) whose dad was Beamish was gonna be a Sam, again when I collected him he just didnt look like a Sam somehow. So how do you all decide, is it just me who thinks that sometimes names just dont feel right (I know Im a bit batty) or do you all go through the faffing about bit? Incidentally, the lady who bred Smurph names all her pups after NH racehorses so he is officially Mweenish Samuel Wilderspin!!
 
Most of mine came with names and the others i can't remember how we chose.

With Abe my OH said he looked regal so wanted to call him Charles after prince Charles (that's monarchy obsessed Americans for you.) i quickly vetoed that idea and so he moved onto American presidents and because Abe is a peace maker and came across on a boat to Seattle he chose Abraham Lincoln shortened to Abe unless he is in trouble.
 
Three of my dogs were called: Murphy, Corki and Myles after TV characters from the show Murphy Brown. Chester is named after the place where my hubs and me got married (Chesterwood). And Merlin? He came with that name. :D
 
Badger was born next door and we used to watch him snuffling around like a badger before we got him.

Toby was a name my son came up with.

Flyn is a shortened version of Flint which was one of my son's favourite action men at the time :)

And Rosie - hmm not sure how my son picked that one - he just suddenly said it when we chose her.

Hmmmm - there seems to be a recurring theme going on here!!

But, its a good job my daughter hasn't had the last word on names.........she called her first kitten "Sunflower Lovely" and the second one "Starry"!
 
Mr Bear.........when he was a puppy he kept stealing and taking 'treasures' to his basket - we watching a programme about brown bears in the wilderness demonstrating the same traits...

Badger..........he was named before we found him ( just loved the name!)

Roo............most recent addition, jumps around like a kangaroo.........
 
last collie Slate as she comes from snowdonia which is full of slate, bess was aleady named beth just a nice name, ruby as she is red, star as she has a star shape on head, oakley after hunt, diamond after local footy club, never call a dog after another one,way we are going run out of names sometime!
 
Otto - he was going to be Arnold at first, but he wasn't an Arnold when he arrived, so we ran through names until my Mum came up with Otto. He just 'is' an Otto! Afterwards I realised Otto Mann is a character from The Simpsons and we have already decided on Quimby (as in Mayor Quimby) for our next one :D I also want two cats called Lenny and Carl! :D

Mac - our first Lab, full name 'The Bloody Mackenzie' after a character in a Robert Louis Stevenson novel (I think!)

Midge - because he bit like crazy as a pup, hence Midge (wee bitey creatures!), ironically he grew into the softest dog ever!

Dubh - means black in gaelic, fairly self-explanitory!

Jek - we were stuck for a name, until I suggest Jek, comes from the first letters of my Dad's, my Mum's and my names. It just suited him, however the number of people that think he is called Jack or Jake is amazing! :D

Pye - short for Pyro, my Mum's Grandfather had a black cocker called Pyro and she always wanted to call one of hers that. Pye was bred by us, so it seemed like the best dog to be called that!

Ruirach - means seeker/hunter in gaelic, appropriate for a Working Cocker! He does tend to get cally Roopoo/Roobear though :D (it's pronouced Rury)

Taghan - means pine martin in gaelic, I have no idea why my Dad chose that, but it suits him so well! He often gets called The Flying Ferret! :D
 
Last three came with theirs none would have been my choice (NAAANCYYYY!...what an affront), although Bella suits hers :)

Others were all from history or pop culture, Dexy, Enya, Sweeney etc!
 
Nuggett - named after chicken nuggets because shes a wheaten colour and shes a nutter lol and an extra 't' 2 be original :P hehe
 
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That there is Diefenbaker, of Due South fame. That being a stupid name for a dog, despite OH's protestations, I agreed on Dax as a contraction of it and as a generally all-round sensible name, being one-syllable and thus easy to shout at a dog winging it into the next county. :p

That it is also the name of a female Star Trek character has nothing to do with it. ;) :D Oh, and the German stock exchange, a brand of hair wax and ironically a brand of dog scooter...

She came to us as Meika which I hated from the start, I don't like many of the classic sled dog type names anyway.
 
Sam's name was drawn out of a hat. Literally :D He came to us from the rescue as Doozer :eek: Hideous name for him!

So the whole family wrote down their name for him and my choice got drawn out. He just 'is' a Sam.

Harley is Harley because he's my mum's dog and she chose the name.
 
**faints again**

What ever happened to him?

It was one of the very, very few shows me and my Nan could watch together and we both drooled over him...we could just about manage Father Ted but Game On was a bridge too far, always had to switch back to Gardener's World when the swearing started :p

And the dog rocked!
 
**Also swoons**

The perfect man! Polite, kind, hot, likes the outdoors, dogs and horses! Why haven't I met him yet?
 
Beezle - a spelling mistake in one of my students' English Renaissance literature exam papers (instead of writing Belzebub he/she wrote Beezlebub and it had me in stitches and I thought it'd just be perfect for a dog)

Peanuts - named after Escapado's stable name!

Florimell - I definitely wanted a Spenserian name - the Faerie Queene is an amazing source of pets' names, lol

I really liked the name Florimell and when we got her it just suited her perfectly (Italian greyhound so...fleeing all the time etc, just what the 'real', literary Florimell did).

If I ever have a male dog he'll be called Artegall :)
 
Stevie was named by my daughter after her favourite footballer Stevie Gerrard. Before we went to get him we had all picked a name each, but because we out-voted her on which dog to get we let her name him.....

I wantedto call him Paddy but Stevie does suit him!
 
Had a name in my head of Moss (Mosschops) and when I went to get him, his mum was called Fern so thought it was fate. However, when I looked at him, he just looked like a Paddington - so it stuck.

Hector was already named as I rehomed him at 15 months old. Love the name and it really suits him - a lot of people comment on it.
 
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