where did your dog get it's name?

Question

I found out in like 5 and a half months I might get a dog how should I name it I will probibly get a chiwawa (cant spell) and if it is a girl I am thinking of the name babe 'cause thats what I call all girl dogs cats or even kids what do you think

I know, I can not spell

i am not adopting my friends dog is having puppies in 4 1/2 months

Answer 1

I named my doggie-Ayana(it means wild flower)after the daughter of an Romanian athlete(I'm Romanian too)

Answer 2

My dog, a St. Bernard by the name of Dewd, got his name from an incident that happened when he was a puppy. You see, Dewd liked the taste of wet paint, and less than two weeks after we got him, we were painting my brother's bedroom. Well, after we were done, somehow Dewd got into the room, and began sampling the white primer. By the time we'd found him, he'd licked all the paint off the bottom eighteen inches of each of the four walls. Naturally, we panicked and called the poison control center and the vet and various other places so we could find out what to do.

Amazingly, they said we didn't have to rush him to the hospital to pump his stomach or anything. All we had to do was get him to drink hydrogen peroxide. It was one of those things that was easier said than done. Sure, peroxide is all bubbly like soda water, but would you believe Dewd just wouldn't drink this champagne?

Our first solution was to put the peroxide in a water bottle from a bike and try squirting the peroxide into his mouth. It didn't work; he just spit out it out. He didn't hurl, he just kind of opened his mouth and the peroxide rolled out.

In a flash of ingenuity, my brother dashed into the kitchen, and blended Mountain Dew with peroxide in the water bottle, and managed to get Dewd to link the nozzle on the bottle. About a half hour later, Dewd was doing the hunky-chunky and spewed a reasonably revolting pile of Mountain Dew, peroxide, white paint, and various other digestive juices.

And so, Dewd was named after Mountain Dew. Indeed, he might've died if it hadn't been for the translucent green Pepsi product. Now, whenever we have company over, they are always the most entertained by inventing new and creative ways to say his name (though none of them realize there are only so many ways to say "Hey dude!"). In a nutshell, that's how my fluffy furball found his identity.

Answer 3

Dog names are VERY personal. Sometimes personal to the owner, or where they came from. I think a name should be VERY relative to the animal themself.

We have a Confirmation Black Labrador Retreiver called BEAR. He IS big but only a pup when we named him so no chance his eventual size was instrumental in his name choice.

He was named BEAR because as a pup (still does actually) when he walked his butt would swing ONE way while his frontend appeared to go the other way. Sorta creating a pivot point at the middle of his belly. This motion is precisely that of a full grown bear walking in the woods. Hence the name.

But at 100lbs and an eye level to see ON the kitchen table, I wonder if he is attempting to grow INTO his name or just live up to it. Scary.

Answer 4

How you name a dog really depends on your taste in names, and the dogs looks, gender and personality.

I tend to favor unusual names, and I base some of my names on the time of the year that I got my animal in. If it were around Christmas for example, I'd go for names like Holly, Tinsel, or Frost.

Lets see, my Chihuahua/Australian Terrier mix's name is Ty, short for Typhon. He was about the size of a coffee mug when I first got him, so I thought he needed a big name to make up for his size. I finally decided on a monster from Greek mythology; which definitely fits him. Although thanks to the efforts of my best friend's brother, Ty rarely answers to anything but Doom. Yes, I'm serious. ;)

My other dog is a Dachshund/Miniature Pinscher/Toy Fox Terrier/Chihuahua/Sheltie mix named Sirius, after Canis major (the dog star). From the time he was born, he has always been a very outgoing, center of attention type of dog, so I thought that naming him after the brightest star in the sky would suit him quite well. I wasn't wrong. :)

I also have four cats and three snakes, named Requiem, Diesel, Frost, Grim, Apophis, Chloe, and Binx. See what I meant when I said I liked odd names? :-p


Good luck with your future puppy; I hope that helps!

Answer 5

We named our pup Toby because it was the one choice out of the other favorites that my 2 year old grandson could say easily. Those two are now inseparable and they're both hyper so they keep each other busy. He's a jack russell/fox terrier mix, & we've since discovered we should've gone with the name Tigger - you should see this dog jump!

Answer 6

Chihuahua's usually have pedigrees that are as long as my arm, so you could see if there is anything remotely connected to her every day name and her pedigree back ground.

Every animal has characteristics that are unique to themselves or indeed bring a specific life gift of value to you, like joy or hope and even new life or 2nd chance. There are names in the realm of this category.

Alternatively, you may want a matching name to your own. My favourite name was when a client of mine decided to name their pug 'Darwin'. This was her first dog and he brought so much unexpected new life experiences to her, that 'evolution' was the way to go forward with them.

Think of your dog as a 'child' and how you would like to address this fluffy or in the case of a Chihuahua, short haired and regal with big ears, usually highly articulate when it comes to reporting to you who passes by the house or knocks on the door. They are fun dogs and high spirited. Possibly because they are so small.

I did meet a Chihuahua the other day, long haired, lovely dog. Another Princess, but this one was either very sick or had no interest in her environment. Unless she was terrified and in shock. A dog like this I guess could carry the name of the day you adopt her.

Much depends on your own artistic nature of course.

Answer 7

LUCKY!
Well, I named my border collie mix, Princess, cause i was like 4 when I got her...
But if you want a unique name, I suggest going on line, and looking at like the baby names and meaning, and find a name and meaning that you like... OR you could wait until you get the dog and base its name off of its personality.
Good Luck!

Answer 8

I got a dog and I named it after I movie that I loved to watch it was my favorite when I was younger(Fox and the Hound) so I named her Copper. I like to name them after movies or I just make it up like all my cats named began with f and end in ard so yeah Hope I helped

Answer 9

my 2 rotties are rescue dogs, that I thought would find a home, 1 I got on Monday, so she's Monday honey bunny, and then came another on a Tuesday, hence Tuesday monkey love, another rescue is named Dice after Andrew Dice clay, because he's always talking and it's usually nasty. So you name yours what ever makes you both happy. Congrats on your new friend.

Answer 10

Both of my dogs came from the shelter...and one already had a name. Once they were home, it took us a while to see their true colors come out. We named them both for their personalities. The one with a previous name became King (because he acts like he is one,) and the other got the name of a cartoon character, Brock, because he is one tough cookie...just like the character.

Answer 11

Probably naming a dog with a word you use all the time is going to either confuse it or it will never learn its name at all.