Do You Still Like Your Dog's Name?

[Moth]

Watson came from his breeder with that call name and we loved it immediately so we kept it. I do not think that I will ever not like his name

Autumn the kitty came with her name from the shelter we adopted her from. I liked it so much we kept it as well.

Menchi we named ourselves and I still love the name for her

 

[Shai]

I like all my dogs' names. They just...fit. And the cat's too, for that matter.

I've met one other Webster and one other Mira, though I know of a couple Miras (didn't know of any back when I named her, though both Mira I know now are older than she is...one's a Golden, one's a Sheltie...). I've never met another dog named Kim but it does tend to cause confusion with people from time to time...

 

[Samsonyte!]

I don't really like the name Samson or Sam, but he came with the name and responded to it, and since I didn't think of anything at the time to change it to it just kind of stuck. Now I've thought of other things but I'm used to calling him Sam already and it suits him so

 

[Cali Mae]

Well, she's only a year old, but as of now, I still love Cali's name. It really suits her, I think. I have yet to meet another dog named Cali, but I've seen a few on forums.

As for Moses, he was named after the biblical Moses. I was five, and at the time, I thought he had the greatest name ever. Although now, I get some weird looks when I yell "Moses! Come here ya old man!" So maybe if I could change it, I would.. but I can't imagine him as anything but. It suits him and it's definitely unique.

 

[maxfox426]

As much as I love all my pets' names, I have fallen out of love with the name of one of my cornsnakes, Tael, just a tiny bit. Nothing wrong with the name itself, really, but he was a matched set with his sister, Tatl (RIP). So now his name just kinda reminds me that she is gone.

 

[SizzleDog]

Kaylee - I like it for her, but I wish I would have called her Vera instead. She's not as sweet and wholesome as her namesake.

Jayne - Yep, still love his name! Only time I don't like it is when our training director intentionally calls him a SHE.

Revy - still love the name!

Tallahassee - I'm beginning to sound like a broken record... still love the name! Though I don't like how my husband pronounces it. He says "Tolla" instead of "TAlla." It's not TOLLA-hassee, moron!

 

[Laurelin]

I like my dogs' names. Summer came to me named but it is the PERFECT name for her.

Mia is common but it still just fits her. I can't imagine her being anything else. Short, feminine but not too feminine, easy to call.

The only dog I really did not like the name of was Trey.

 

[Blue_Dog]

For those that don't like their dog's name... why not change it?

My family would never go for it, they'd laugh at me and then get mad if he started listening to any other name.

 

[sassafras]

Oh heck yea, I love them all. Their names all suit them perfectly as far as I'm concerned.

 

[misfitz]

This thread makes me feel better about not liking Sienna's name very much.

I liked it when I named her - she came to me as "Mimi" which was too sweet and shy sounding for my taste. She was sweet and shy, so I wanted a more outgoing sounding name she could live up to! It worked, and it definitely fits her. But it's a bit too long when saying "Sienna, heel" etc., it's too much S sound, and I didn't realize when I named her but it's too similar to my name (Shannon) so I kind of feel silly saying it. Also I have to repeat it usually for people we've just met - they say "Santa? Senna?" Sigh. Nope, Sienna. Like the color. Or the actress. Or the minivan.

She didn't even know her name for the longest time, since I just called her Pup. I tried to change it but it's too hard once all my family and friends know it...and she really is a Sienna anyway. I've been making an effort to use her name more, especially since she knows it now - I left her with my parents over the holidays and they taught her her name.

The funny thing is that I've met two other Sienna's and they both look JUST like her, which is so weird since she's a pretty unusual looking dog. (Or so I thought LOL.)

I love my cat's name, Georgette. She's named after the fabric, her kitten fur was so pale and wispy she looked like she might blow away with the next breeze. She's George for short, which I think is cute for a girl and it's fun to confuse people. <evil grin> Until I got Sienna, all of the pets in my family were girls with boys' names - George, Sidney (Australian cattle dog), and cats Frankie, Mo and Sasha (don't they sound like a bunch of old timey mobsters? LOL)

 

[Bailey08]

I'm annoyed that apparently my male dog has what is generally considered a girl's name now... I thought it was "different" when I named him, lol. Actually, though, I quite like Bailey's name for him, as well as the thousand and one nicknames that have come from it.

I picked puppy's name largely because of its related registered name. It's a name I like but I'm not sure the call name itself would have been my first choice. It's a classic, though, so I don't think I'll regret it.

My very first choice for a girl sounded too much like B's name, anyway.

 

[Shai]

Oh heck yea, I love them all. Their names all suit them perfectly as far as I'm concerned.

Squash still got the BEST name of that litter. So perfect.

 

[skKi]

I suppose I like Pit's name. I like that no one else has it. It does get old how the most common assumption is that I named him after Brad Pitt, or that I need to repeat and spell his name out a lot as many don't seem to hear "Pit" when I say it - maybe I have a speech impediment.

While I'd never dream of changing it officially, I've noticed that I rarely use his real name when talking to or about him in person. Online and on paper he's always Pit, though.

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

I always loved Traveler's name--it suited her her whole life. Baxter--I named him, and I still love it--it really just suited him. Wilson came to us with his name--and I really felt it suited him. So yeah--I'm still happy with their names.....but I must confess to calling them by OTHER (not so nice) names on occasion.

 

[Ulteed]

I've always seemed to pick the perfect names for my animals. They always just have ended up fitting them so well. So, I so far have always liked their names for life.

 

[PWCorgi]

Uh, YEAH!

I can't imagine Frodo as anything else. He was almost George. He is so NOT a George.

 

[Saeleofu]

I love Gavroche's name, it fits him very well. I would like if it was easier for other people to pronounce, but meh.

Logan's name I wasn't too fond of at first, but it was TOTALLY grown on me and it suits him so very well.

I do come up with nicknames though, all the time. Gavorche got a new nickname today, Meerkat, after he stoop up on his back legs to see over the couch when he was looking out the window :rofl1: He's been doing it more and more lately.

 

[Finkie_Mom]

I wasn't fond of Kimma's name to begin with (she is named after the Flyer's player Kimmo Timonen, who is Finnish - DH suggested it and we just made it feminine LOL). But now, I think it's perfect for her. It loosely means, "little girl," or, "little chick" in Finnish (we had no idea that it actually meant something haha). Plus it goes with Pentti's name.

Pentti came named, but it totally suits him. It is the Finnish form of Benedict, and means, "old man." So we have little girl, and old man LOL. And while he can be silly, he does act like an old man sometimes

Bubbles also came named, and she totally is a Bubbles. Her name is just perfect for her. No one ever calls her by her reg name of Kupla, though, which means "bubble."

 

[JessLough]

I love Gavroche's name, it fits him very well. I would like if it was easier for other people to pronounce, but meh.

Alright... how do you say his name? :rofl1: Now I'm worried I'm not saying it right

ETA: I totally pronounce it like gav-roach-A.... but I roll the r for some reason

 

[Grab]

Julian: Love the name. Would have named a kid that if it weren't for the dog having had it first, lol

Ginger: I would not name a dog this, but she had the name for ten years before I got her, so we thought it mean to change it. And, really, she was an old lady's dog and that's what little old ladies name their little red dogs, lol. We call her The Elf or Elfles though.

Newt: love the name, though everyone assumes she's named for the wee little creature, which she's not.

Aesop: Can't think of a more fitting name for him

Goose: love it, although everyone assumes she's a boy...

Nog: he is so a Nog And, it's much, much better than Mac Daddy, which was his former name...

And, although he's gone, we loved Grimm's name too