What's the story behind your dog's name?

Naming our dogs can be pretty fun but stressful. For me, I wouldn't want my dog to have a generic name like Brownie or Whitey or something like that. I guess that's why I come up with pretty weird names for our pets sometimes that make pet groomers or vets ask twice for the spelling. Well, fortunately, I no longer pick very weird names.

Our poodle is named Sid. We gave that name to him because we truly love Sid the Sloth in the ice age movies. Just like the character, our poodle is very energetic even when he was still a puppy. He would chase us around, and jump on the bed when being called.

On the other hand, my brother chose the name Bruce for our Labrador Retriever because he is a big fan of Bruce Wayne/Batman. This year is also Batman's 75th, so to honor him we chose Bruce. He is also a very big and intimidating dog.

What's the story behind your dog's name?

Most of our dogs have had fairly commonplace names, not just Whitey or Brownie, but things like Bruno (Doberman) , Casey (Aussie/Samoyed). My little Chipper was about the size of a chipmunk when he was a tiny puppy, so we named him Chipmunk; which naturally was shortened down to Chipper.
Maybe the most unusually named dog was our little Teacup Pomeranian. She was all white with black on her face, and a little bit of black mixed in her coat here and there. Right from the time that she was a tiny puppy, she carried herself like royalty. We tried out several different names for her, but none of them seemed just right. Then, my husband said we should give her a Biblical name, and call her "The Queen of Sheba" He explained that the actual Queen of Sheba was an Ethiopian, so she would have been very dark-skinned, which went with Sheba's black face, and her long flowing coat was like a queenly ermine robe.
The name suited her perfectly, and from then on the was the Queen. She strutted around the house, and always had to lie on the pillow when she was on the bed, not just the bedspread. A Queen had to lie on a pillow !
She was a wonderful dog, and when we lost her, it was heartbreaking. There will never be another like our little Queen of Sheba.

My French Bulldog puppy name is Ocean and I have named her because she is a beautiful blue pied fawn female with stunning blue eyes. She has mellow temperament and a very nice structure.

Well.... once I tell you our dogs name you will totally know the reason behind it !! Our dogs name is Jeter!!! Yes, we picked it because we LOVE the NY Yankees and Derek Jeter is our favorite player.

We live in Florida now but were born and raised in NY so we have been fans for many years. It just seemed like the right thing to do... you know name our dog Jeter! Most people get a kick out of it!

Just seems perfect to us!!

Danyel

My sister and I wanted to name my pug something that would be funny. Our line of thinking was that we wanted to give him a name that was so ridiculous, people would laugh when we introduced him. I remember watching a pop culture program where they mentioned celebrities who named their kids something odd, thus came the name Jermajesty after Jermaine Jackson's son pronounced (JER-MAJESTY). Every time I take him to get groomed or I walk him down the street and someone asks what his name is, people laugh. Mission accomplished.

When we first got our puppy we asked our three children to look up names. This turned into a long list! I narrowed it down choosing the names I preferred. After all, I would be calling her name more often than they would. We decided on Piper. The strange thing is I have people who think I say "Hyper". I don't think anyone would name their dog Hyper.

I have a poodle mix who I found out later is considered a designer dog. a Pom-A-Poo. His mother is the Pom, registered, named Squeeky Toy and his sire is the Poodle called Tater Tot.
Well, I tho't to name my dog with the tee sound to honor his parents and his official name is Tigger Toy.
HOWEVER, Whenever someone would talk to me about him and I said Tigger, They all tho't I said Digger. and Yes, he "digs" on the carpet to nest a place to nap.
So now he's called Digger full time.

I actually had 5 dogs, and 2 already with names (adopted as adults).

The white Aussie you see posted as my avatar is named Sasha. She was my first puppy that I adopted after starting life in my own home. I know there is not really a story, but looking at her reminded me of the wild west. Sasha seemed like an appropriate name for her.

The other female Aussie's were named Emma and Sassy. Even though I had nothing to do with names they were named well for their personalities. Emma was sweet and brave, she had some great motherly instincts toward kids. Sassy, she was sassy. Kinda mean at first, she nipped/bit lot but we fixed it. She definitely liked to make a mess out of things and cause a stir among the dogs.

Buster was the name of our male Blue Heeler. He was a Craigslist adoption. We named him Buster after a week of having him because he was a ladies man pup and loved attention.

Then we had Googles, our female Blue Heeler. We adopted her from a farm at 6 weeks of age (claimed at 3). We named her Googles for the same reason the farmers named her Goggles--she had two small black rings, one around each eye that made her look like a racoon. She was so adorable and shy!