The Name Game - join the fun (before I go crazy!)

[Jennifer Tramell]

Okay, so we are getting ANOTHER goldendoodle.  I never thought I would have 3 big dogs, but with 4 kids who all want to participate in 4H Dog projects, Charlotte's recent health scare, 2 recently adopted kids (a new pup will be as much theirs as everyones - not one more thing they just inherited), and a few other factors, well...here comes another pup.

I will be picking the pup up next week at 9 weeks old.  She is a beautiful chocolate with blue eyes.

We have a bunch of names not available due to numerous extended family dogs, rescued dogs, alpacas, and horses.  We like names with a southern or literary feel to them.  Our current dogs are Charlotte and Webster (Webster's dictionary, Charlotte's Web). 

Our short list is: Tessa, Ellie, Ivy, Shelby, Sophie, and Georgia.  My husband and oldest (and newest) son are the picky ones - ugh.  Hubby likes Magnolia (Maggie). 

Any suggestions? What do you think about the names I mentioned?  We have 6 people who need to agree and I'm going nuts not knowing her name!!!

[Traci -Bexter & Maggie]

Oh, this is so fun.  I love Savannah, Magnolia, and I LOVE Petunia!  Such unique & pretty names!  I also like Belle (as in Southern Belle).  If you want a nickname for Savannah, what about Savy?  Maggie for Magnolia, Petty for Petunia.  You have GREAT choices to choose from...I think you'll love any of them you choose.  I do also like Wheezer - I also loved her character in Steel Magnolias.  HAVE FUN.

[Traci -Bexter & Maggie]

Oh, and just for the record...I already think you're crazy with all those kids and dogs!  LOL

[Jennifer Tramell]

Shhh!!! I'm trying not to let myself know that I'm already crazy!  The defining moment came when I realized that we could be a reality show: 4 kids adopted from 3 countries, inlaws are missionaries in Peru, sisters family living in finished downstairs, 4 dogs and a chicken who thinks she's a dog and wants in the house.  I keep chanting "I AM normal, I'm NOT crazy, I AM normal, I'm NOT crazy".  :-)

[Bonnie and Kona]

You may not be normal, but I admire you greatly! I do not want a chicken though and our adult daughter who is disabled and lives with us keeps asking.

[Jennifer Tramell]

Thank you and I return the admiration :-)  My husband found our chicken wandering around a Costco parking lot ???? (no, we don't live in the boonies!) and brought her home.  He went to buy me roses and came home with a Rhode Island Red we named Rosie.  We don't have a chicken coop so she sleeps in a dog crate in the house at night.  The dogs love her and she leaves us a lovely brown egg every day.  I don't recommend chickens but our Rosie is the exception

[Bonnie and Kona]

If we could find the Rosie clone I might consider it. ;o)

[Bonnie and Kona]

I will consider this more carefully. Our new neighbors have chickens. I may be out numbered.

[Cathy, Fozzie & Shaggy]

I love having chickens, they are so funny! I have Rhode Island Reds and Isa Browns. Both are hearty breeds, are great egg layers, and are not super flighty. Of the two, I think the Isa's are more friendly and social. Mine follow me like a dog and some times come when called better than my dogs :-/ They will eat out of my hand and peck at shiny objects on my clothes/shoes :-). Bonnie, they can make nice pets and you get fresh eggs!
Jennifer, I've never had a chicken who sleeps in the house after they feather out. It's a good thing she's not a rooster!!

[Cathy, Fozzie & Shaggy]

Jennifer you need to send your story to a TV producer!  My cousin has 8 children 6 natural and 2 adopted, home schools them all, trains puppies for service work, has chickens, dogs, birds, and on and on....  You are both amazing!

As for names, I didn't see Bell as in a "Southern Bell" on anyone's list.  My mom's name is Beatrice and goes by Bea, but I remember reading mystery books as a kid where the main character was named Beatrix and was called Trixie.  They were the Trixie Belden books.  Trixie has always been high on my list of girl names if I ever get a girl pup.  

[Jennifer Tramell]

Thank your for your kind words.  Bell is a great name but my parents had a Bell.  I too am a Trixie Belden fan (I still have a bunch of her books and am trying to get my 13 yr old daughter interested) but hubby nixed the name Trixie.

[Heidi and Fonzie]

I like Roxy or Lola.

 

 

[Bonnie and Kona]

If we do get a chicken, I'm definitely stealing the name Petunia!