What's your dog's name and how did you name it?

sixdogs · May 12, 2014

What's your dog's name and how did you happen to name it?

Our current dogs are named based on behavior as puppies except for our two rescues that came with their own human like names. Prior to that we named after tractors or relatives. Not everyone was thrilled.

One of my favorite dogs was named "Cubby" after my M8950 Kubota. Gone now, Cubby was memorable because we came up with the name on a road trip to look at the tractor. Frieda (a friend) and Weezie (wheezed at birth) are current favorites but all are special.

Lot's of tractors could inspire dog names. Casey for Case, JD or Johnny for Deere; Dutch, Holly, Edsel (legacy) Rollo or Tyne(Rolobar rake) for New Holland, etc. There's Kee and Coy for Kioti, Yanni for Yanmar, Izzy or Ices for Iseki, etc. Ever name a dog after a tractor?

What's your dog's name? :dog:

Travelover · May 12, 2014

Current dog's name is "Girlfriend". She is a retired greyhound racer and that was her racing name. Previous dog was named "PTO". Named by my niece, a farm kid.

rsallen · May 12, 2014

Strider.
Named after the nickname for a folding combat knife.

Jstpssng · May 12, 2014

My last dog was named "Musquash"; an indian name for muskrat, which I felt was appropriate for a Lab.

My current lab's name is "Ruger". Not very original but I needed something for the vet (before I even had the dog) and that was the first thing which popped into my head. In hindsight I should have called him Hansel as in "Hansel must be fed; He's too thin" ... because when I took him in he weighed only 63 pounds and you could see every rib, feel every vertebrae in his backbone. (His original name was "Harley"... the owner loaded his bike one day and headed south, leaving his girlfriend with a dog and 4 kids to feed.)

Depmandog · May 12, 2014

We have a mostly white border collie that has black patches here and there whose name is Oreo. Looking at her face it's black, white, black. She was easy to name.

The golden retriever is Sam.

My father-in-law has had a bunch of dogs (low caliper bird dogs) over the years. Most just get named Dog. If he happens to find one that he could hunt over - suddenly it gets a real name.

rsallen · May 12, 2014

My older dog is named Cassandra (Cassie) after the seeress from Troy.
My previous dog was Sadie named after the main character in 'Rain'. Though she adored people, unlike our character in the story she never misread anyone in her life.

MacLawn · May 12, 2014

Rover. I wanted a name I had never seen used for a dog.

Tollster · May 12, 2014

D A M N I T was the coolest dog I ever had, he earned that name when he was young, jumping on people with muddy paws, tracking in the house, and just about any bad thing that boy would do, got a ****** outa someone.. pretty soon he began to answer to it, so it stuck for his 16 years...

He was a beer drinker, a jeeper, and fishing dog, a Frisbee dog, and could find a winged grouse in the dead of night... not bad for a house dog... he remains the standard by which all other dogs are judged.

Little kids loved to watch him soar catching Frisbee's, and when they found out his name was ******, they all ran to tell their mom...LOL

here are a couple shots of him...many years ago.

Jstpssng · May 12, 2014

Tollster said:
D A M N I T was the coolest dog I ever had, he earned that name when he was young, jumping on people with muddy paws, tracking in the house, and just about any bad thing that boy would do, got a ****** outa someone.. pretty soon he began to answer to it, so it stuck for his 16 years...

He was a beer drinker, a jeeper, and fishing dog, a Frisbee dog, and could find a winged grouse in the dead of night... not bad for a house dog... he remains the standard by which all other dogs are judged.

Little kids loved to watch him soar catching Frisbee's, and when they found out his name was ******, they all ran to tell their mom...LOL

here are a couple shots of him...many years ago.
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OK, now share the story of the fawn.

phiferpharm · May 12, 2014

My bloodhound is named Phancy cause she lives on the pharm with the rest of the Phifers, along with Phred the Basset Hound..

2LaneCruzer · May 12, 2014

Our current Boston Terrier is "Lucy". She was supposed to get a mate, to be named "Ricky". So far, Ricky hasn't materialized. Our little Shiz su (sp?) was named "Annie", because her original owner rejected her, ergo "little orphan Annie". She was a sweetheart beyond expectations.

sseelhoff · May 12, 2014

Our JRT named herself. When we were at the breeder deciding on which puppy to take home, she was "hopping" through the grass, rather than running like the other pups. Hence the name Cricket. Our previous JRT was Dickens, a double entendre for both the writer and his attitude. He was the best of dogs, he was the worst of dogs... Both great dogs.

Looking4new · May 12, 2014

The Border Collie Golden Retriever cross that lives here my step son (his dog) named 'Katie'. I call her 'Sooner'. She used to go downstairs to the basement and one day I found a mountain of DooDoo on the floor. Another day she peed a lake upstairs. I might add she was 8 weeks old at the time. I call her Sooner, she answers to it, all is good. The stepson cringes when I call her.

smstonypoint · May 12, 2014

My current Lab is Pearly Blue, but she answers to Pearly.

I'm a bluegrass fan and one of my favorite songs is "Down the Road" by Flatt and Scruggs.

Now down the road just a mile or two
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue
About so high and her hair is brown
The prettiest thing boys in this town

Although she's not a Chocolate, she's still the prettiest thing in this town.

Here she is at four months of age.

Steve

JMER817 · May 12, 2014

Hank

Jstpssng · May 12, 2014

smstonypoint said:
My current Lab is Pearly Blue, but she answers to Pearly.

I'm a bluegrass fan and one of my favorite songs is "Down the Road" by Flatt and Scruggs.

Now down the road just a mile or two
Lives a little girl named Pearly Blue
About so high and her hair is brown
The prettiest thing boys in this town

Although she's not a Chocolate, she's still the prettiest thing in this town.

Here she is at four months of age.

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Steve

Nice looking pup... and for what it's worth, not so long ago chocolate was considered an undesirable trait by breeders.
Personally I have no color preference so long as they're labs. (Although both of mine have been chocolate.

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Panik · May 12, 2014

Let's see here

Panik our Alaskan malamute got her name from my wife as she was our first pet together and it means "first daughter" in one of the northern languages.

Our golden retriever, Puzzle, was named such because he is a service dog for my autistic son and a puzzle piece is often used to represent folks with ASD.

Merlin, who is a Bernese mountain dog mix and Puzzle's play partner, got his name simply because my wife thought it fit him.

Finally little Roux, Puzzle's sister from another litter, was named because half my family is from Louisiana and we enjoy gumbo and the play on words. She isn't living with us yet, but will be joining us in about a month when she hits 8 wks old.

Eldubya · May 12, 2014

When we were picking out our Lab/Mastiff X, the kids said I needed a dog to go fishing with, so they named her "Fisher". Unusual name, especially for a female dog, but 'Fish' is just a great dog. Weird for a lab 'cause she hates water, is terrified of boats and won't fetch anything to save her life. The feeder-dog, (miniature Daschund), or mobile protein source as I call him is "Chum". As in friend, companion, or buddy. Very appropriate as he is usually about a foot behind me alllllll day long.

MossRoad · May 12, 2014

We got a dog named Skippy, from the pound, when I was 8 that was white with peanut butter colored blotches. Smartest dog I ever met. They said he was untrainable....yeah, about that...
Heel, come, sit, stay, lie down, roll over, roll over the other way, dead dog, dead dog's don't wag their tail (he'd stop wagging), dead dog's close their eyes (he'd close them), sit up, shake, other paw, speak, growl, count to one(one woof), two fingers go two woofs and three fingers got three woofs. Four fingers and he'd just go nuts! Jump through a hoop. Climb a ladder (couldn't get down from the roof, though). Fetch. Get the paper from the paper boy. Take it to anyone in the house by name. And if you'd snap your fingers and point at someone and yell "WARN 'EM" he'd become the most vicious, snarly, growling, slobbering beast you ever saw!!! YIKES!!! Untrainable indeed. NOPE! :laughing: He'd catch biscuits off his nose. And if it was raining out, he'd come in, you'd say "Wet feet" and he'd plop down on his back with his feet in the air, you'd dry dry his feet with a rag, hand him the rag and say "put it away" and he'd take it to the laundry room and drop it in front of the washer! Then, of course, he'd head straight to the kitchen for a treat. My mom taught him most of that stuff. Just a once in a lifetime dog to witness.

I had my first dog at about age 16-17 and named hime Dog, after the dog in the movie Big Jake.

. Very loyal dark collie mix. Great dog for a young man. Very mellow. My sisters thought 'Dog" was undignified, so they called him Mr. Dog.

Also, Dog could sneeze on command. And I mean a big, wind up, bounce your nose off the floor sneeze! I think he had allergies or something, because every time I told him to speak, he'd sneeze first, then start barking. So I just stopped saying speak and would say sneeze instead. He got too old to travel when Letterman was doing Stupid Pet Tricks or I'd have taken him. Overall, that was the best dog I ever had the pleasure of knowing.

We had another dog named Pooky after garfield's teddy bear. She was a border collie with a perfect black eye on the white side of her head. Sweatest dog you'd ever meet, but for a border collie, she was a loveable box-o-rocks. Dumber than a doorknob. Great pet though.

And finally, my wife and I got a Cairn Terrier when we got married named Max. He came with that name. What a fiesty little beast. Very smart, too. Many tricks. Typical terrier that thought he owned the place. We got him a kitten to keep him company. Kitten raised by a male terrier was too funny. The cat would walk on a leash with the dog. That got some looks. :laughing: (guess what I named the cat? Cat!).

Tollster · May 12, 2014

Jstpssng said:
OK, now share the story of the fawn.

I took D a m n i t for a walk, down a long lonesome dirt road nearby, when we heard the distant bleeps of a fawn, so we walked into a nearby swamp, we spooked a few doe as we drew closer to the bottomlands, and he continue to cry out. to our amazement there was this fawn stuck in mud over his chest, he was weak and somewhat dehydrated, so we freed her up, and took her home for a rinse, I grabbed a few shots and offered her water and waited about one hour, maybe a hour and half, then I left D a m n i t home and returned to the woods, only this time to a knob over looking the swamp in some dense hemlocks. My suspicions where right, I heard a deer snort as I got closer. I brushed away some of the foliage on the ground, and set up a tracking area, and left her near a fallen birch tree. As I left I grabbed a few more shots of my little friend and waited just before dark and went back to check on her. There was a mix of fresh deer tracks where i set up my tracking bed, and the fawn had appeared to find her way home.

this is as i left her on the knob.

D a m n i t grew up with a pet raccoon named Rocky, he was the most inquisitive and gentle dog I ever had, he would never harm anything. Once I caught him and a fawn playing romper room in the back field, the little deer would lower his head and they would go round and round, then her mother stomped her hoof, snorted once, and the little one went up the bank and joined her mother, while D a m n i t stared impatiently knowing the fun was over... I wish I had that one on tape...
He was a really special dog. I miss him to this day.