'Almost' dog names

[AussieAshley]

I love Radars name and I think it suits him well but there are some days where he has been sleeping beside the heat vent and wakes up with a hairdo that makes him a dead ringer for Woodstock, Snoopy's friend from Peanuts and I kind of wish I had named him that. Harrison (after scruffy but handsome Harrison Ford) was another name we almost named him. So I was wondering what y'all almost named your dogs or what you would re-name your pups (theoretically)

 

[Paige]

I don't think my dog's name matches him at all. He's much more soft than his name implies. Whisper would match him much better but he came with his name once upon a time ago and I'm not one to change a name.

 

[smkie]

I named neither of mine. IT took me a while to get use to both of them. I can't imagine Sancho the cat being anyone else but Sancho. I could see Pepper being many names. Victor however has grown into his and wears it well. My Mom saw something that I did not when he was a puppy. She said he needed a noble name.

Mary couldn't have been anyone else.

 

[Southpaw]

Juno was almost Magic... Me and my brother liked Cajun but no one else was on board with it.

Lucy was always Lucy. I didn't like the name at all but somehow it just seemed to fit her and I couldn't think of anything else.

I couldn't think of renaming them... Their names fit.

 

[AdrianneIsabel]

My second choice name for Backup was Jude. I still love the name and sometimes wish I chose it. I'll probably use it in the future though.

My second choice name for Arnold was Noah, I was talked out of it, I think Arnold suits him well.

Shamoo was named Taboo, I hated it. I wanted to rename her and because she was obese, black and white and loved water she was nicknamed Shamu, we blended the two and it stuck.

Sloan was Sloan from the beginning, it means fighter and it suits her well.

 

[HayleyMarie]

Teagan was almost Emme, which would not suit her at all.

 

[Beanie]

Auggie's name is perfect and always has been... from the moment I met him, it was the right name. I don't think I've ever thought there would be a better different name.

Absolutely nothing else suited Payton... I know because I tried, LOL.

I don't love Pepper's name, but I can't change it, so I've never really spent time thinking about what would suit her better. I think "Willow" would be really pretty for her. Thought my instincts tell me if I had gotten her as a baby, I probably would have named her something like Joan (couldn't do Jett, already know one) or Stevie or even just straight up Roxie. =P

 

[~WelshStump~]

Before I got both my dogs, I tried to pick out names ahead of time. Jinjo was almost Duo, and when we got to the breeders she had already named him "Wishbone", out of personal disagreement that I didn't see the resemblance to my all time favorite TV Jack Russel, I picked him up and said "You look more like a Jinjo!", and it stuck. I'm still saving Duo aside.

I went through MANY pre-names with Enda, but it first starts with the fact that most breeders with Beaucerons still use the French naming system of letter/years (2005 was an "A" year, 2006 was a "B" year, etc), I originally thought I was possibly getting a puppy in a "D" year, but when that didn't work out (the first breeder) I knew I needed to come up with something else, for eventually an "E" name (her breeder actually does, first litter was "A", second "B" etc, but this litter fell on the same year letter! lol). I ended up deciding to take her call name from what I chose to be her show name, and it wasn't until the day after I brought her home that I found out Enda is a real name! Someone pointed it out to me, so I looked it up, yep, "Bird-like" REALLY fits her! Just as much as Endless Waltz, although my parents have not forgiven me for that, and have banished me from ever naming another dog in a similar tone... she is, Endless! LOL

Noods, we didn't name. We inherited him. His first owner named him "Oscar", one I outright disagree with, for the shear over use of it. Yeah, har-har-har, Oscar the wiener dog, very...NOT CLEVER! Ugh. So, when my grandmother got a hold of him, she already had her "dream dog" name picked out for him...Noodle. Well, he comes when you call "Noody-Noody-Noody!", so we just haven't felt to really change it. But, somehow the variations that come from it, do IMO suite him better, including "The Noodman" (he practically has no hair! Well, when you grew up with a Collie), "Newt", "Neuters" (he is, thankfully, but he also likes to "neuter" his toys), and the one that gets sung to him every time my brother comes to visit "Wiener!", well, that was bound to happen. I personally like to refer to him as "Mushroom", he lives like one.

 

[ravennr]

out of curiosity, how easy is it to change a dog's name when older? say, if we rescued a Greyhound, would it take a while for it to learn or is it pretty easy?

 

[Red.Apricot]

Elsie came very close to being Sawyer--that was the name I had picked out.

Then in the car on the way home, I said to my dad, "She's not a Sawyer, is she?" he said, "No." I said, "She's an Elsie." And he said, "Yep."

 

[~WelshStump~]

out of curiosity, how easy is it to change a dog's name when older? say, if we rescued a Greyhound, would it take a while for it to learn or is it pretty easy?

Get some cookies, it wont take long .
We really just didn't feel like changing Noods for any reason at all, I mean, I really couldn't come up with anything else for him anyway. Oh! But that did make me think, my mother also calls him "Sid Vicious". I guess, I do like Sid over Noods, but, whatever, he spends the entire day sleeping under a blanket like he doesn't exist, why should he care what his name is? As long as he can still hear the fridge open.

 

[AussieAshley]

out of curiosity, how easy is it to change a dog's name when older? say, if we rescued a Greyhound, would it take a while for it to learn or is it pretty easy?

Pretty easy. My sister renamed Duke who was initially named Dwayne at the shelter in just a couple of days. I have heard that saying both names (old and new together) at the same time then dropping the old one works. He was not really responding to his old name anyways so we flat out just started to call him Duke and he caught on quick enough. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed so if he can do it any dog should adjust pretty quickly

 

[Shai]

Kim's foster name was Cookie (that is such a horrible name for her lol). Her name was going to be Bailey but then we met her and that didn't fit at all. Kim is perfect for her.

Webster was Webster from the get-go. We were going to change it but...well after having him a day or two he was such a Webster...lol. We considered Gus, Dash, and a few others but they were all deemed awful for him.

Mira's puppy name was Winnie (short for Winning Colors...all the puppy call names were after racehorses) a.k.a. Whirlwind Winnie but I didn't want another "W" name and it just seemed too girly for her in a way. And Mira is after both a mentor of mine from my childhood and as a bonus is the imperative form of "Look!" in Spanish which was rather fitting really.

Brie was originally Britney but that wasn't going to fly. That we named her Kitty-Brie really has nothing to do with the similarity to her original name...we just like it and it has a rather obscure nerd reference lol. She was almost Princess Buttercup though...lol

 

[smkie]

out of curiosity, how easy is it to change a dog's name when older? say, if we rescued a Greyhound, would it take a while for it to learn or is it pretty easy?

When Victor was going through his classroom training he was suppose to learn his commands in Spanish as well. Our instructor said they just learn both, the don't forget the first one. So don't know if that is an answer or not, but I imagine it is the same kind of thing.

 

[Katem]

Bear was always Bear. I couldn't imagine ever calling him anything else.
Pig was just called Puppy or Foster for a while. Once I decided I was going to keep her I realized she needed a proper name. She was so **** tiny, Pixel just seemed to fit. My sister wanted to name her Roxie. Somewhere down the line I called her Pig and it just stuck. Her name is still technically Pixel, and she does respond to that, but I call her Pig more often than not.

Miss Kitty Fantastico used to be Tuesday. Her and her brother were taken in off the street as very young kittens, so I only had her one day before taking her to the vet. I needed to put a name down for the records, so I picked Tuesday because that's the day I picked her up. The name just didn't fit though, so she became Miss Kitty Fantastico within a week.

 

[MandyPug]

Izzie came to me as Dakotah which does not fit her at all. She was the lightest colour Pug in the house so i decided to call her Izzie after Izzie Stevens on Grey's because she's blonde. Plus Izzie is also bubbly and happy and fun loving, which is what izzie is.

 

[thehoundgirl]

out of curiosity, how easy is it to change a dog's name when older? say, if we rescued a Greyhound, would it take a while for it to learn or is it pretty easy?

It's fairly easy. Dogs are smart! All of my dog's names fit them. My cats, too...except Angel. LOL

 

[Dakotah]

Izzie came to me as Dakotah which does not fit her at all. She was the lightest colour Pug in the house so i decided to call her Izzie after Izzie Stevens on Grey's because she's blonde. Plus Izzie is also bubbly and happy and fun loving, which is what izzie is.

HEY I resent this!

 

[Catsi]

Abby was going to be Sophie, but as it turned out the name Abby suits her better. It's got a bit more spunk and attitude than Sophie, I can see that on a softer dog.

Grace is an awesome name for Grace. She is so unladylike it's not funny and it's such a classic, elegant name.

 

[oakash]

Suzie was gonna be named Gypsy by us kids, but my mom veteod it and told us her name was Suzie. It fits her I think