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I want to change Charlie's name. I find it wierd as it was my old ponies name and he died and I find it really hard as they are so similar anyway.
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I was going to have it changed to Zodiac Lad and his stable name of Leo.It really suits him and I have alsways loved the names. My parents don't want me to change it as she said he knows his name. I agree but surely he'll pick up his new name
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i don't know what to do.
 
I wouldn't think twice about changing it - I wanted to change my horses name but couldnt think of anything better. He comes to whatever I call him, as long as I use the same tone of voice.
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its meant to be unlucky to change there names, i changed my first horses name though, she was called nellie so i changed it to breeze, she picked it up easily enough but she was young, it probably depends on how long charlie has been charlie as too how quick he'l pick up on a new name!
 
he's a bit of a rescue case so i'm not sure how long he's been called Charlie. my parents really don't want me to, and i know everyone knows him as Charlie now. Oh i don't know
 
Stitch was called Shadow when I went to see him, but I lost my Shadow just days earlier.
I didn't think twice about changing his name. I've kept it kind of as his registered name is "Shadow Too".

Jo
 
well, i have a horse called rusty, think he sounds like a guinea pig so i call him tigger, or bob, comes to all names. or if he is being a pig i call him Blob, doesnt really seem to matter!

Stephen.
 
My TB was called 'Harvey' when we bought him but someone at the yard had their horse Harvey pts the week before so I didn't want to call him that. He's now Jesper. He was 4yrs old when I changed it but I don't know when he was named as he had only been off the field a few months.
My pony Tally is never called Tally anymore. She's affectionately known as Piggley or Piggles and answers to all three names!
I wouldn't stress. If you don't feel comfortable then change it. It's your tone of voice he'll recognise not the name.
 
My NF mare didn't have a name when I bought her, the YO had been calling her 'Dolly' but there was no way I was going to call her that so I changed it to Molly! She's soon picked it up but I do wish we knew her previous name. If anyone recognises her(the middle of my sig) please let me know.
 
I also thought it was bad luck to change a name, and then bought a god awful ugly mare called, ironically, Vanity! Couldn't bear it so on the way home with her for the very first time, changed it to Valerie which may well be dreadful but it sounds the same and she recognises it as her name so that is that. She is the sort of horse who if turned out to be a person would probably be Pat Butcher's twin sister who is married to Ronnie Biggs and runs a scrap metal yard, whilst smoking roll-ups, so the long and short of it is that "Val" suits her to a tee, and we're all happy! (Actually she's the bay in my siggie and she's so much prettier now, still a touch of 'dyke' about her but she's a good honest genuine bird!)

So how about something like Farley for your boy? Or Harley? something will roll off your tongue over the next few weeks and you'll be stuck with it....sometimes names just choose themselves.
 
I heard it was bad luck to change names, however my ned is a failed police horse and his police name was Islington ! he even had a a number, he was aslo known as CID, I re named him Finn,
 
How about changing his name to something very similar to Charlie - such as Farley or Barley and then perphaps your parents wouldn't mind so much. You may also escape the bad luck by pretending you have a speech impediment
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I agree with Ravenwood. You could maybe call him Charlie-Farley. I seem to remember that name in connection with Ronnie Barker?
 
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