How did you name your pet?

[p911dad]

Madison Avenue at 6 weeks. Other name choice was London Fog.

[gordner]

I have always adopted, the closest I came to naming one was standing in the yard with a 4 yr old mix calling him by a list of names until I perceived some reaction. He reacted to Jack, so that became his name, and was probably the only time in the first couple of years he reacted to Jack lol. Tricky bugger.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by 70SATMan

I named my first dog "Bullet" as a kid because that dog was fast and he could turn on a dime. He was a Shepard, Husky, Wolf mix. Loved that damn dog.. I visit him every time I go back home to visit the Folks.

After I married, our first two Black Labs were litter mates. We brought them both home because we couldn't choose between the two... Portia and Hamlet. Portia was smart as a whip and would have been an excellent 'only' dog and she was very much Deb's. Hamlet was my big guy, 114 lbs so, he was often referred to as Hammy or The Hambone.



Portia passed first and Hammy was getting on in years so, we got our third Black Lab mix, "Hudson". He was originally named after a San Francisco Giant baseball player, "Hudson" being one of eight black labs in a litter and they were all named after Giants. Being a life long Cubs fan, that wasn't going down in my abode.. After we decided to rename him, my oldest daughter took one look at him and "Loki", the Trickster, it was.



He has certainly lived up to THAT name.. He and Hammy were best buds until Hammy passed and I sometimes swear at least half of Hammy's spirit set up shop in Loki.. Cause he has some of the same stubborn, big doofus traits that Hamlet did.






And lastly, my fierce little girl.. She was brought home while I was working a site in Ottawa. Came home for Christmas and she greeted me at the door.. Had never met me before then but, we instantly bonded and she's been 'my dog' since. Again, my girls named her,,, "Arya" and she's a 'Stark' alright... She's a Rottie, Rhodie, Statfordshire mix. She's literally all muscle and takes no shytes but, super gentle and loving once she's met you.

My wife is jealous of our relationship.

Her and Loki been my office mates for the last two years now..

Beautiful stories and pups, they really steal your heart, don't they. I miss Portia quite a lot though she's been gone for 10 years now. Can't get another.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

I still miss my 1st dog Duchess, we were best buddies and she was very protective of me



Once my granddad grabbed me as he thought I was running out on to the road, she grabbed his arm in her mouth just hard enough for him to let me go but not hard enough to hurt him

[Steve Carlton]

That's pretty cool! Did she grab his arm that was grabbing you?

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

That's pretty cool! Did she grab his arm that was grabbing you?

Yes

She was an awesome dog

All our dogs have been special in their own individual ways

[asphaltgambler]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

I still miss my 1st dog Duchess, we were best buddies and she was very protective of me



Once my granddad grabbed me as he thought I was running out on to the road, she grabbed his arm in her mouth just hard enough for him to let me go but not hard enough to hurt him

What a beautiful pic!

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

What a beautiful pic!

Agree. The original (negative if you have it) should be taken to a photo restoration shop, touched up, enhanced, and printed! This is just some color and contrast adjustment, and healing tool on a couple of spots, but the potential is so much greater.

[Scott R]

Well Lucy Lu is somehow magicallyis houstrained as of today. Her tell is to go to the back door, on either level and raise a paw. We have to be quick because a 5 month old pup can't hold it long. But our nanny is happy.

[porsche tech]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

Captain, looks like you’ve had masonry (stone work) in your blood from an early age!

[KevinTodd]

Stanley was given his name at the rescue that pulled him out of the kill shelter, Saving Death Row Dogs.

I drove to Topeka to get him a couple of years back, and he makes a damn fine addition to our family.

Number 4 in a series of JRTs that we've had since '95, and I still cannot figure out how so much personality is crammed into such a little package.

In the above pic I caught him right before one of his massive sneezes.

He's a good boy.

[bob deluke]

Opal and Jade, current residents. Our dogs are named after gems, such as Diamond, and Ruby, our beloved American bulldog and Ruby our old English bulldog, both gone but not forgotten. Jade on the left, another old English bulldog and Opal, an English staffordshire terrier.

[targa911S]

It was Christmas when we got him. He had digestive problems and crapped all over the house. So we called him Mr Hankey. Howdy Ho!

[70SATMan]

Originally Posted by bob deluke

Opal and Jade, current residents. Jade on the left, another old English bulldog and Opal, an English staffordshire terrier.

My 'colleagues' approve.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by targa911S

It was Christmas when we got him. He had digestive problems and crapped all over the house. So we called him Mr Hankey. Howdy Ho!

hey Tbird !

[Otter74]

Came here for the dog photos, was not disappointed. I haven't had a pet as an adult - all pets were during childhood, so named the way you'd expect a kid to name a dog. First one was Benji because it was the '70s and that movie had come out and he was a mutt. Second one was called Sambo maybe because he was a black poodle, which feels cringy in retrospect but, again, it was the '70s in Latin America. Third one was Kerry and I have no idea how my sister and I came up with that one. Benji was stolen (by a police officer!), we had to give Sambo away when we moved (change of countries), Kerry died of old age.

[gacook]

I don't have a particular formula for naming pets--just kinda what feels like it fits, usually. But there is one that will never be forgotten in our family.

Many years ago, we got a black lab as a rescue. This was maybe a year or two after my wife and I got married, and we both had young children (3 for me, 2 for her) that were learning to be a family. I figured the only "fair" way to let the kids name the dog was to put their desired name on a piece of paper, put the papers in the hat, and what came out would be the new dog's name. My youngest was about 4 at the time, and the name he chose was "Chuffy,"--a horrible name, of course! And...of course the name that I pulled out of the hat. So, we tried again, and again it was the name I pulled out of the hat. Applying "parental wisdom," I decided to just go with the next pull, which was Clover.

Fast forward many years, and most of the kids are adults now. My wife's younger son was the first to marry and he and his wife got a dog...and named it Chuffy. Come to find out, all the kids had made a pact that their first animal on their own, they would all name Chuffy. It is an act of rebellion that truly warms my heart.

[Bill Douglas]

I was on the beach with my dogs and a little Dachshund (Sausage dog) came up to say hello to them. I asked the lady what the dogs name is. She said "Maple syrup." I thought I had misheard her, then she said with a smile it was named by a five year old.

So now I know dogs called Pickle, Chutney and Maple syrup.

[Scott R]

When we got Lucy she was named "tugboat" by her first family.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

Yes

She was an awesome dog

All our dogs have been special in their own individual ways

Our first dog, T-bone, was from the pound, 20 pound female terrier/chow mix, very protective. She would keep us in the yard, sort of nipped at us if we got off the grass and onto the sidewalk. People down the street had a German Shepard that was about 100 pounds. He was on our side of the street one time when we were out front, stepped a foot on the grass. She was on him like a Tasmanian devil, the cartoon one. She was all over that big dog, little brown blur, under him, on top of him. He tried to stand up to her for a few seconds, then ran. That GSD would cross the street after that, even if we were not out there.

I will see if I can find a picture, we named her after a toy dog my older brother had that talked when you pulled the string

Toy looked like this