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What's The Most Creative Dog Name?
Companies are getting too good at marketing ploys! Veterinary Pet Insurance recently (and smartly) released a list of the top 10 dog names and cat names using its database of 450,000 clients. The #1 name for both dogs and cats is ... drum roll, please ... Max! That's a safe, solid choice, and the other names follow suit, from Buddy to Rocky. Well, what do you expect from a group of people who bought health insurance for their pets? I imagine they're not gonna take many chances!
If you want to see some truly intriguing dog names, go to an agility trial. Some blazing fast dogs have obvious names like Bounce, Blur, Quick and Spree. Other dogs answer to Mayhem, Rebel and Riot -- perhaps a clue to their um ... exuberant personalities. But would you name your dog Rage? Or Chewbacca? Does your dog have a particularly creative or unusual name?
Julia Kamysz Lane
November 20, 2007 in Cool stuff, Current Affairs, Recreation | Permalink
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Dog is a man’s best friend. That’s why some of us are very fond of dog. We may have different ways of calling them or we may give them different and unique names. It depends on us on how are we going to call them. Dogs can really be our best friends. It guards our house every night. It wags its tail whenever we call them as a response. They are very cute and very lovable. We must take care of them for it will also take care of us.
Posted by: Payday Loan Advocate | Sep 12, 2008 9:29:44 PM
My dog's name is Talking Leaf. She is a 9 year old Jack Russell Terrier. That's the name the breeder had named her but the name gets shortened to Leaf or Beef.
Posted by: Robyn | Jul 7, 2008 2:18:11 PM
I have a ityy bittyy teacup yorkie!! His name is Deogi!! pronounced (D as the letter O as the letter and G as the letter)
Posted by: Jessica A. | Feb 13, 2008 12:07:50 AM
My dog's name is Engus with a soft j sound for the g. We had planned to name him Angus, then the breeder wanted all the names to begin with an E. We changed the A to E thinking it would essentially be pronounced the same way. Then found our Swiss breeder used the soft sound for the g.
Posted by: Sherry Tolle | Dec 20, 2007 10:04:21 AM
My new pup is "Catcher", named after the title of Salinger's classic novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
She is a soft-coated wheaten terrier and deserving of an Irish influence, thus she is called from the protagonist's misquote of the famous poem written by Ireland's beloved poet Robert Burns.
As of yet, she shows no particular love of great literature, but she is so fast on her paws, it is helpful to have a name which can be shouted in the neighborhood in hopes that someone will "catch her" coming through the rye.
Posted by: Annette | Dec 18, 2007 9:46:44 PM
One of my English setters bred by me took his name from a combination of his dam--Jo--and his sire--Jiggs--thus JoJi. It fit him very well since he was indeed a perfect amalgum of his parents.
I think dogs'names should be more creative, as long as they're kept short and crisp.
Posted by: John (dogs are Grrr...eat!) Falk | Dec 16, 2007 8:48:41 AM
My husband came home with a beautiful aussie. I took the D and N off Duran. Ura is her name. Ura darn good dog! We rescued a kitten and he became Itsa!
Posted by: sandy duran | Dec 13, 2007 10:51:16 AM
Within my family we have had two really neat dogs; Brutus was the name of our English Mastiff and Squiggy was the name of my boxer! Everyone always got a kick out of both names (and dogs!!)
Posted by: erin | Dec 10, 2007 12:27:00 PM
My 6-year-old Aussie is named Taggart after Dagny Taggart, heroine of "Atlas Shrugged." Of course, many people--especially guys--think I named her after Sgt. Taggart from the Beverly Hills Cop movies!
Posted by: Robin Barton | Dec 10, 2007 6:13:16 AM
My dog's name is Sempai (pronounced Sem-pie). In Japanese Sempai literally means "big brother" but it is used in martial arts to signify a senior student. The black belts are the Sempai and the lower ranking (or under belts) are the Kohai. My dog is a Chow/Golden Retriever mix and his name suits his regal bearing and dominant personality.
Posted by: Howard Turoff | Dec 8, 2007 9:59:39 AM
My 11 year old Pointer mix is named Deoji. Spelled fancy but just stands for the spelling of dog, pronounced D.O.G. Many many people think it is an exotic name and hours later go Ohhhh, I get it now, that spells dog.
Posted by: Kari | Dec 3, 2007 9:07:48 AM
I've always been partial to "Trover," the name given to my first great dog, a shep/lab foundling (as a pun and a legal term having to do with lost property).
Posted by: dogfather | Nov 30, 2007 11:12:20 AM
Our basset is Dubble Dees (DD)... helps when Dees is your last name :) But, everyone who meets her thinks its really for double trouble! Our other rescued basset already had the name Ginger, not as fun but we love her just the same!
Posted by: Jennifer | Nov 29, 2007 8:51:16 AM
I had a black pug named Mr. Meaty. Everyone thought his name was pretty cool, and now I have a fawn pug named Chublet.
Posted by: Laura | Nov 26, 2007 10:29:07 PM
I'm an early Boomer who is approaching dementia, so I named all my dogs with names beginning with the letter P. (Puff, Peggy Sue, Patrick). That gives me a little more time to remember which name to use!
Posted by: mad sparks | Nov 26, 2007 1:50:25 PM
Our first dog has a common name with a different spelling, Baily.
We adopted our second dog, Mesa, with her name already and since we had never met another Mesa we decided to keep it.
Posted by: Kari | Nov 25, 2007 10:25:43 PM
Mine is called Crea. It's the first 4 letters of Creative Creation.(My pup is a mini doxie)
Pronounciation; Crayon - yon + ah = Crea.
Posted by: MyStory | Nov 25, 2007 4:45:34 AM
We went with a sports theme
Daytona (golden)
Bristol (english shep)
Talladega (english shep)
The first question we get is "Do you like Nascar?"
And for thoses who dont understand they are the names of Nascar race tracks.
Posted by: Kath | Nov 24, 2007 4:14:20 PM
All of our pets are named after characters in Grateful Dead songs:
Stella Blue (gray tabby cat)
Jack-A-Roe (Rhodesian/Boxer mix)
Rubin & Cherise (brown tabby & chihuahua mix)
Posted by: Liz | Nov 23, 2007 11:21:26 AM
Well, I'm a little staid, but for my first Adult dog *(not a childhood dog) was Falstaff, then Puck (well it fit, but I wouldn't do that again) Then Titania (to replace Falstaff, and whom else to partner with Puck?)
But then it all fell apart with the replacement for Puck. A Springer/Cattle dog mix, White Merle, HAD to be named Spot. I comfort myself in keeping to the Shakespeareian line, for "Out Out DAMNED Spot".
What can you do. He is a Maniac, but just now 1 year old.... He'll become worthy of a better name when he grows into a Dog.
Greg
Posted by: watershed | Nov 22, 2007 9:46:03 PM
I actually met a dog named Rage at a service dog organization fundraiser in Roanoke, Va.
He was a pit bull rescue and the owner told me he came with that name. He was the sweetest, most docile 80 lb. dog you could ever want to meet (I am guessing the weight; he was just huge and all muscle.)
I think if he was mine, I would have changed the name. Perhaps his family enjoyed the irony of such a big sweetie with such a fierce name. You couldn't help but love him.
Posted by: Nona Nelson | Nov 21, 2007 6:51:37 PM
I love my dog's name, though I can't take credit for naming her. Jitterbug is a Tibetan spaniel whose tail is always wagging (well, 90 percent of the time), whose face nearly always has a grin, and whose size -- 14 pounds -- fits the notion of a jitterbug just perfectly. She's not highly active, as the name might imply, but she's the cutest dang dog -- and wouldn't a jitterbug have to be just adorable?
Posted by: Maryanne | Nov 21, 2007 2:13:01 PM
My dogs are
Hanna Banana, Hannah Pyrannah because while she is only wonderful, she is not always good.
Leloo (the fifth element-love) for the Rottweiler
Mocho for the RottX--meant cropped in the Spanish dictionary, did not know until recently it is Spanish slang for bugger.
Inchworm for the ancient Doxie with the crooked back.
MacLeod for the miniature Doxie
Joplin an Aussie/Rott cross. For Janice of course
Dharma Dog who is in the process of discovering herself. She is the underlying order of nature.
Posted by: Eliza Wingate | Nov 21, 2007 1:12:56 PM
