How did you name your dogs?

Since Ty's registered name started with T, I named him plain Ty. I quickly realised that a two syllable name worked better when calling him. So we tried Tyron. This lasted a day cause hi bit my ear when we were cuddling so Ty became Tyson. My old boy was Zulick which is 'little devil' in yiddish. Loved that name.

Rocky chose to come and live with us when we visited Woodgreen Animal Shelter. He was already named and we didn't want to add to the poor little fellas confusion so stayed with it.

I got my pup and put her on my lap and the house we got her from was at the end of a cul-de-sac and at the end of the road there was a Lexus car sales so i came up with Lexi!

Her KC name is Black Velvet Babe but Velvet didn't suit her at all.

well Jethro is named after Jethro Tull but with Winston we had a list of about 8 names we really liked..we thought we would give him a day or 2 and the name that suited him would stand out after that.. and it did!

I wanted mention Vanessa, we share a common taste in music. I dont know why I did not twig to the Jethro Tull reference. Love the 60's and early '70's music. The blues is my favourite and what we called heavy metal. Besides Jethro Tull, I love Uriah Heep,Black Sabbath, Van Halen,
Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

Lynne you have great taste in music!!

Moo was rescued as Missy, which became Missy Moo and now just Moo, it suits her perfectly

For Jack, we basically brainstormed and compiled a short list of names. Some of the contenders were Tonka, Vader, Jorel and Knuckles.

The next staffy we get I have a name already in mind.

Beau was a hard one to find a name for look at a few names that linked with blue. looked at American Indian names but to hard to pronounce

came up with beau

1. frequent and attentive male companion.
2. a male escort for a girl or woman.
3. a dandy; fop.

Some nice stories here

Stanlie is named after my dad it was my dads middle name. i was considering naming him blue.

Hooch was named after the dog in the film turner and hooch, it was between that and baloo from jungle book lol my oh said .

Tara was named this at the rescue and it suits her , we would have called her molly if not lol.

Vlad was named after Vlad The Impaler. We were told he was the nippy puppy in the litter and he is also black in colouring so wanted something a bit dark and gothic. We also have a name picked out for our next staffy (which won't be for a couple of years!) Dita (the cat) was named after Dita Von Teese LOL.

We wanted a name that was easy to pronounce in Japanese and English. In Japanese Suki means loving and Americans always think of Sookie from True Blood

lemmy was 8 weeks when we got him and when we got in the car to come home AC/DC started playing on the CD player so pete said we could call him angus (angus young the guitar player) i looked horrified and said [sarchasticaly that i would rather call him lemmy (motorhead) and it stuck. that will teach me to open my mouth.

Lottie already had her name from the shelter when we got her and after all she had been through we didnt like changing that as well so left her with it., she suits it and it soon grew on us.

My girls kennel name is "Darcie Dara" but it was christmas time when she came home I had a holly garland that she was obsesed with dragging around the house so named her "holly". Oh and my grandaughter is called Darcie but was never thought of when my daughter named her that.
My boys kennel name is "darklord" and is known as "The Lord" to those that know him my hubby named him "the duke" after his favourite footy player who he cant stand now but my secret name for him is "baby kong"

all my pets have always been named after startrek characters so at the moment there are 19 startrek beasts running or flapping about here.

Mine came with names but previous animals named for lord of the rings characters.

stiofan wrote: all my pets have always been named after startrek characters so at the moment there are 19 startrek beasts running or flapping about here.

My husband Tony is watching Star Trek Next Generation as we speak...he got the entire boxed set off EBay and feels like he has died and gone to heaven! hahahah. And there is a new member on here that has a staffy named Q !!

[quote="gem"]My girls kennel name is "Darcie Dara"

Vlad's pedigree name is Delatite Blue Bullet. The litter he is from are al name after the ski slopes that the breeders live near. The other litter they had they were named after James Bond characters.

One of the cats was called Seven of Nine and obviously our vet was a Star Trek fan, opened the door of his room and shouted "Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01" talk about funny looks in the waiting room.

vanessa wrote:

stiofan wrote: all my pets have always been named after startrek characters so at the moment there are 19 startrek beasts running or flapping about here.

My husband Tony is watching Star Trek Next Generation as we speak...he got the entire boxed set off EBay and feels like he has died and gone to heaven! hahahah. And there is a new member on here that has a staffy named Q !!

love it. so glad i never let gemma name ours now cos she's a right trekky