Help! Struggling to name our puppy!

toniq

hethmar wrote: »

Dont go for Fanny, it is murder calling that across a park I can tell you.

There goes my coffee across the screen and hubby tutting at me like i'm a demented woman as i'm laughing so hard x:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:xxxxxx

Abbafan1972

I would wait until you get your dog home and wait for the personality to come out before deciding on a name.

hethmar

Actually Toto isnt a bad name for a poodle. I seem to remember my first french reader had a kid called Toto. (Pronounced Toetoe)

ailuro2

I think something that sounds funny when you say it - so old blokes names, like Bert or Terry, or maybe Jimmy...

He will have black fuzzy hair/fur so maybe you should call him "Huggy Bear" or 118.;)

it will end up having a nickname anyway - our cat is Smudge, but ends up getting called Smugga wugga.... or is it just us that gives everyone "pet names"

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

ailuro2 wrote: »

I think something that sounds funny when you say it - so old blokes names, like Bert or Terry, or maybe Jimmy...

Sigh - my granddad's, brother's and father's names respectively.

Worked with someone who called her cat Colin.

And BIL called his cat Eric. (Clapton, apparently - but I always reckoned it was as in Idle)

ailuro2 wrote: »

is it just us that gives everyone "pet names"

Nope - we have Meep, Oggbot and 'get out from under my feet, you stupid fluffy muppet' here.





Mind you, I want some form of mutt with a black coat rather like a labradoodle that I can name Elwood.

julie2710

Thank you all for the suggestions. Still no further on and I'm thinking we will see when he gets here. My first ever dog as a child was a Toby. We also had a springer Spaniel called Humphrey as he used to drink loads of milk. (giving my age away there as the Humphrey advert was the one with all the red and white stripy straws!) A Min Poodle called Benji (after the dog in the film) and another one called Shadow because he used to chase shadows!

Oh and we did have a cat called Scruff and another one called Cat - the receptionist at the vets was very confused when we told her that one!!

Some of the suggestions have really made me laugh! Only a few days to go now and we are all very excited. Thanks again

elsien

On the subject of daft names, when I was looking for mutt there was a bruiser of a male bull terrier in the rescue place that some idiot had named Tinkerbell. He was hastily changed to Harry prior to re-adoption.

You can always play around with a few names when he comes - bet you can't wait.

dormouse_2

when we went to pick r jack russel we wanted a female to call mika, we came out with a male called ozzy, the name just came to me when i saw him, i did want amir after the boxer but standin in a field shoutin amir ( im ere ) i think i wud ave been carted off lol

Rebob

My dog is a mutt called Poppy as while on the way home from collecting her we passed the remembrance ceromony in town. My first dog was a white toy poodle when I was 5 and I called it Sooty as in sooty and sweep. Also had 2 shelties called Whiskey and Rebel.

sarah*a

ailuro2 wrote: »

it will end up having a nickname anyway - our cat is Smudge, but ends up getting called Smugga wugga.... or is it just us that gives everyone "pet names"

:rotfl:

Our Annie gets called Moo, Boom, Boomer, and Scarf (she likes to sit on my shoulders - she is NOT a small dog :rotfl:) and our Tik-Tok gets called Tickles,Tix, Tixy and Snufflebum

Tix we (re)named after we got him as it just fitted and Annie was named after we saw her at the dogs home - they both suit their name so I would definately recommend waiting until you see their personalities come out