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Avoid Nala and Luna, already know about 3 of each!
Colin and Dave are comedy, but daft.
Trickster is what we chose as she was originally a Sophie, then the foster couple started calling her Trixie, but I thought that sounded like a vintage showgirl, so the Trickster god it was.
Rescues here too, never changed their names. It would need to be rotten before we would consider it!
I didn't get any choice the kids basically picked them
Gemma - RSPCA rescue already named
Ruby - another rescue with no name
Eric - GSP
Welly (Wellington) - rescue lab (he answered more to Wally as Eric and Wally sounded like two old boys down the pub
Margot - WHFT
Mr Bingley - Parsons arriving soon to keep Margot entertained
I have tried and will try to get both terriers recalling to a whistle (easier said then done) saves shouting
At 12 weeks old Henry seems to be Mild Mannered.
Hong Kong Phooey? After years of thinking his name was Henry, it was recently pointed out to me on Twitter, that the mild mannered janitor was actually called Penrod Pooch, or Penry for short.
WRT dog names, ours was named Riley, after a character on an American programme my daughter was watching at the time.
When I was in charge of naming pets we had a Marlon, Kylie and Tinkerbell.
Since my daughter became old enough to decide, they've all ended with an 'ee'. Robbie, Bobby, Toby and now the only dog on that list, Henry.
Anyway, that dog is definitely a Jarvis.
Epic response, thanks all so far...
We do have a shortlist of names (no kids in our future) and it's a boy; our current 'best' are Finn (Finnegan), Tucker, Huxley or Boyd. I think they all sound a bit pretentious?
FWIW, our old dog passed earlier this year. He was (and this as-yet-untitled pup is) a cocker Spaniel, so we know what we're getting into!
My grandad served in India during the war and since then all the bitches he owned where called Jaldi, which is Hindi for soon/haste/hurry. My mother carried on the tradition and in turn I have too.
I've had two male dogs, one called socks as he was a boxer with four white socks and the current boxer is called dash after his puppy habit of dashing clumsily around the place.
I'm not keen on people names for animals.
Our family rescues were:
Brock - we figured out the kennel named all black and white spanniels Brock 😂
Toby
Toby (why is that a popular name?)
Our short-lived rescue was called Teddy. Do not name a big dog something that fluffy 😂 He was a 42kg Akira/Rotty cross!
Friends have Dexter. For the opposite reason. He's a Cavapoochon and needs a tough name to avoid being bullied.
Another friend has:
Fidget
Trouble
Dave
Fidget apparently fidgeted.
Trouble apparently looked like trouble.
Dave apparently looked like a Dave.
Ours already had a name, was Hope, which being bike related worked for me. 2 syllables are better though, as someone already said. She ended up being called Hopey. Or Hopeless. or Lolo (from Harry Enfield’s “poor lulu”, Yeah, I know)
Bum, now I’m sad again.
Dave is great. Or Katherine.
My local farmer has a dog called 'YA FKN AAARGH GET BACK HERE', this is not it's real name but it's the one he uses most.
Boomer.
Cheslin
With my wife and I being massive MotoGP fans we’ve named our two dogs and the kennel names (we get on really well with the breeder so she gave us permission) with a rider theme. We’ve got Jimanns ‘The Doctor’ and called him Rossi (as in Valentino Rossi)
And we’ve just taken delivery of this little munchkin last Friday 🤗
Jimanns Jackass aka Miller
https://flic.kr/p/2mg5Pqd
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We settled on Brooke, after her big sister River
Cover your eyes and step outside. Uncover your eyes and name the dog after the first thing you see.
Cover your eyes and step outside. Uncover your eyes and name the dog after the first thing you see.
"Two scallies humping" a name that works on a council estate or at cruft's.
Have a look at a map of Scotland and pick a name from one of the islands
Cute... not sure why but I'm getting a Jerry or a Carl for your pooch.
Two rescues Dotty is now Mollie and Duke is now Dave. Previous Tyson became Terry.
A cocker you say? A very good choice! Ralph is a cocker and, as much as I loved Ted, Springers are a less convenient size of dog. Ted was 25kg in his prime and he was significantly more difficult to manage when he was covered in filth and needed washing, or needed picking up for whatever reason. Ralph is smaller, 12kg and a lot easier to handle. A lot less scary to kids as well, although the same probability to steal food from them.
Tucker... Maybe as a surname with Malcolm as a first name. Or, for comedy value "Meold", as in "Me old cocker".
🤷♂️ a duck flew past the car on the way home after collecting ours so we named her Ducky...
Hi Simian
I think your short list is great, preferred the first 3 over Boyd though. Can I add in Quinn and Cooper....
Gorgeous looking pup
Google translate, type in the word "dog" scroll through the languages till you find one you like.
My last dog was Perra. Next will be Kuta.
I'm a bloody genius at this
Anyway, that dog is definitely a Jarvis.
And an hour later,
... and this as-yet-untitled pup is) a cocker Spaniel,
How could it be anything else but Jarvis Cocker? 🤷♂️
I've had
Sparky - Wire haired Jack Russel shaped thingy
Race-car*- rescue-dog; shaggy haired lab/retriever
Paddy - World's stupidest Patterdale
* It's a stupid name, what can I say...so we called him Grinner mostly.
mrs upsidedown is a pet doctor, apparently there's a load of mutts out there called variations upon Dfor, Difa, D'for, etc. 'D for Dog' is the logic, apparently.
This is Ada
https://flic.kr/p/2mfP6sp
One of her Brothers is called Riot
Don't forget the name you give your dog may not be the one it actually gets called by.
Chloe was Bot
Poppy was The Oaf, Floppy or Flop
Skye is now Skye Boo or more often just Boo
Mabel is Mabel Moo and more often just Moo
So we have Moo and Boo
etc
etc
That said for the purposes of recall etc we always use their actual names...
Sindrum.
.
Then when he jumps up at people you can shout 'Down Sindrum!' very loudly.
Agree with the two syllables thing. Our labs have been Murphy, Amber and Lola. Or Smurf, fishy and bonkers as they are known inside the house 😉
There's someone in the dog walking group who named their spaniel 'Brexit'. Without - apparently - a hint of irony. So don't do that 😉
Had a Judah, Toad and Xena.
Definitely look for something that isn't a common human name.
Luna, Zeus, Merlin, Ryzen, Inca, Ferengi, Tanto, Jello, Banzai...
Sabre for our German Shepherd or often just Dog, after a shop we happened to drive past on the way to pick him up.
Vexorg, Destryoyer of cats and Devourer of Chickens?
Get the kids to do it.
Met a Bull Terrier called Goose last night ?!?
Getting an Aussie Labradoodle I wanted Cobber or Shelia.... but after much discussion around the diner table, many times, our 13 year old daughter came up with Oakley which stuck a chord with all of us.
So just keep discussing it, something will come up that you both like.
Maybe ask friends or family for their ideas, so that it isn't one or the other of you that has thought/chosen the name.
Good luck
Bit lame but we always had roughly descriptive colour names for our dogs growing up (Amber for the Golden Retriever and Dusty & Misty for harlequin Great Danes), def pick something you're happy shouting in public though :p
Kay9 or just K for short.
Mate of mine named his dog Wordsworth. His painfully middle-class partner wholly approved of naming him after a romantic poet.
She to this day, some 20 years on, remains oblivious to the fact that he was in fact named after the dog in Jamie and the Magic Torch.
How could it be anything else but Jarvis Cocker? 🤷♂️
That is glorious.
How could it be anything else but Jarvis Cocker? 🤷♂️
For this forum, I'd have thought Joe would be more appropriate. Wonder how he's doing these days?
Past childhood dogs were,
Kim - Black Lab
Pete - Cocker Spaniel
Misty - English Setter
Brie - English Pointer
As an adult I've had
Toby - Border Collie (I'm sticking with gundogs after that mad bugger lol)
Leo - GSP (although he was rehomed and came with the name)
Bruar - GWPxGSP
Definitely a Bruar 🙂
Both our two are Cockers; Idris after the dragon in Ivor the Engine, and Merlin after the RR engine. Both full of energy and so loving it’s daft.
Definitely not enough appreciation on here for your pup photo though, that is one lovely puppy.
Get the kids to do it.
Why one of our wider family has a Cavapoo bitch called Billy.