Obsessing about puppy name!

[Wendy and Myla]

I get my new puppy in thirteen days and I'm trying to pick the perfect name for her!   Did all of you have a name picked out before you got your new puppy?  And if you did, did you keep that name or did you change your mind after living with the puppy for a few days?  Maybe I'm obsessing for nothing - maybe I should just stick with the two names I've picked and hope that the perfect name just comes to me when I hold her for the first time? 

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Daisy was Daisy Doodle (my pick) when we met her at 4 weeks by the time she came home at 9 weeks the name fit!

It will work out I promise, no regrets.

[Robyn, Greg and Snickers]

I wanted a name that fit his Irish Heritage so the name Riley was at the top of my list. DH just could not stand it, so one day I was making cookies and flipping through the cook book and saw Snickerdoodle cookies, their warm reddish brown color reminded me so much of the puppy pics the breeder sent us, so I said what about Snickerdoodle, and DH loved it-however it is too long so we call him Snickers or Snickerdo to make it shorter.  Your name choices are great (still a great fan of Riley) and if you think it is right, they will fit your puppy.

[Denise & Sophie]

I had my heart set on Sophie but wasn't sure until the day we went to pick her out if we had a chance to get our girl. There were only 2 females in the litter and we were #3 pick. The first 2 picks were males so we got our Sophie. I had Bronson and JOPAW (in honor of Joe Paterno, and that was before everything happened to him) picked out just incase males were left. . I am thrilled with Sophie so it all worked out well.I like both names you have picked.

[Wendy and Myla]

We've been thinking of the name "Sophie" too!  I love the way it rolls off of my tongue and DH likes it too!!!

[Denise & Sophie]

Wendy, my last female which was a toy terrier was Sadie. I will always love that name. I really love Sophie! I get lots of compliments saying she looks like a Sophie.. :)

[Mike Gruenke]

I named our two Doodles and my old Collie. This probably is evident to all you women as the two Doodles are named Porsche and Bentley. These names really fit them though, but I did not have thier names picked out before I got them. Bentley came with the name Cosmo, but I do not like nameing any dog with a name ending in the "o" sound because the comand "NO" needs to be engraved on the inside of thier eyelids and first inline on thier brains, especially when they are puppies. The "o" sound at the end of the name seems to confuse them. When I got Porsche we had her a couple of days while we tried a few different names on her. I finally decided I wanted a Porsche and it stuck.

Our Collie's name is Ishi. In 1911 a Californian Aboriginal man walked into a settlement, supposedly the last of the Yahi tribe. They kept him in a barn at first with animals and then locked him up in a cell, (for his own protection?). He knew absolutely no english and kept trying to tell people he was not an animal that he was human. The word for human in Yahi is Ishi. As he would point to himself and say Ishi they thought he was telling them his name. In the Yahi or Yani belief, one does not say thier own name. So actually, our Collie's name is "Human".

 

My wife calls Bentley, "Big Guy", and she calls Porsche, "idjit". Porsche is only 4 months old. 

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My son named his Doberman, Boxster after the Porsche.

[Charlotte and Bo]

My previous dog was a rescue named "BJ".  I thought it was cute so I kept the name.  I did wonder if the initials stood for anything and I guessed "Bo Jangles".  When I got my doodle from the DRC he came with the name "Stanley".  I decided to name him after my "BJ" and called him "Bo".  Just a note--  May not be a good idea to name a dog something that rhymes with NO .  Maybe should have named him Jangles. :-)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I love food and jewel names like Olive, Maisie (Maize), Cookie, Garnet, Aggie (Agate), Ruby, Crystal, Opal....

[Wendy and Myla]

I suggested to my DH that we name her  "D O G"  (pronounced  Dee- O- jee).  He didn't agree but I think it's because he didn't get it right away!  I still kind of like it!!!!

[Lori, Rooney & Zuzu]

Cute! If we'd gotten a girl dog I wanted to name her Good Girl and call her GiGi (as in G.G.). :)

[Bonnie and Kona]

We have friends with a sweet yellow lab named "Good Girl" G.G.! And she is!!!