Was messing about with my fathers lab and got to thinking about names. Seems like most of us name our dogs with strong traditional names. I was wondering what the rest name their dogs and why?

I have had dogs with the name: Rudy(golden retriever), Max, Maxine(both brittanys), Jinx([bleep] Zoo), Missy(Britany).

My father owned(s) an: Chip (English setter - sadly killed in a hit and run when Chip was a pup - dog had mucho charecter and the only time I ever saw my Dad cry), Kattie (English Setter) and Digweed (yellow lab - Diggs for short and an awesome pheasant dog)

So what and or why have you?

I was scratching my head trying to figure out what's a [bleep] Zoo. I know the romanized Chinese is hard to make sense of, but it's actually pronounced something like Sher Dzuh, rhymes with Duh! per Homer Simpson.

Paul

However, if you pronounce shih (sher) with a dip in your voice, falling then rising, it does mean sh-t in Chinese. Don't know what the dog name actually means though.

Paul

Since I'm intellectually superior to y'all and only buy started dogs, all of them come pre-named <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Lots of breeders aren't very inventive and half suspect the new owner to rename the dog anyway - which doesn't add to the breeder's incentive either. So far I haven't renamed one - I consider it part of the fun. Man, I've had dogs with bad names. My current dog "Biff" had littermates named "Boaz" and "Bitter". It musta been a "B" day.

My brother wimped out on a german shorthair named "Alan" from the same breeder, and renamed him "Jet". I still call the dog Alan.

Trust me the way I spell the dog's breed more acuratly describes this dog <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> as in good fer [bleep]!

Nice dog and member of the family but once my father went to hunting labs and I got to spend some time with a good hunting dog round the house - I can not imagine buying a non hunting dog. My son really does not care at this point a dog is a dog to him.

My next dog will be either a lab or german short hair - beautiful, smart and hunters.

I got my first dog in my 48 years to hunt quail here in Arizona. She is a German Wirehair Pointer. With the beard and eyebrows, she looks like a "Friedrich", but being female, had to go with Rica, short for Friedrica.

Doug/RedRabbit

They don't care what you call 'em, as long as it sounds different from every other dog or human in the household. That way ya can get "Pepper" and "Nip" to stay while only calling "Smoke" to come.

Besides their name, all my dogs answer to a hissing "psssht!" sound, it being the universal "stop whatever you are doing and come here right now or get whupped" sound. It comes in right useful for discretely calling your dog, plus it doesn't spook game or broadcast your whereabouts nearly as much as a spoken command would.

Birdwatcher

I`ve kept Beagles for 48 years, along with bird dogs and coon hounds. Last spring when my daughters and their families came for a visit, one of them got the bright idea, to try and remember all the names of my dogs. We keep an on going list. When one pops into my head, I`ll add their name. I think I`m up to 104. Present residents include Willie, Duck Butt, Sally, Sunflower, Rosie, Bear, Glory Bee, Chricket, and Aspen. If a hound makes it to three years old and is still here, it`s pretty much has life rights. I usually sell a dog at 18 months if it doesn`t fit in the pack. This only applies to the kennel. The Labs we keep in the house, are family.

Here's my list. I started out with a GSP and named him Beauregard, Bow for short. Then a Springer named Nick after a good friend that let me down, that one still gives me a chuckle. Then Katie the flakey English Setter. Snip the arrogant English Pointer that tolerated me but never loved me. Nikki my first GWP, Umber my second GWP, and Berlin my current GWP. You may notice a trend in my breed selection. Some may say I'm stuck in a rut but I prefer to think it took me that long to figure out what works best for me.

We used to kid my Dad that the reason he named the dog Chip was it was the only way he got birds in trap "a little chip" and didn't want to change his ways for the field. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


His current lab - Diggs is named after the English sporting clays star George Digweed.

3 GSP's currently
Male-Gunner
Female-Belle
Female-Baily

OK, I'll confess. I use other names for my dog that she identifies with just as well as her real name, Berlin. I use Stinky or Scruffy and I think she likes the name better. I know consistency is very important in a dog's life but how many of your dogs have more than one name?

My dogs can go by many different names depending on the situation. Most of which I can't put on the board. How is it that some days I think I have the smartest dogs in the world and others I just ask myself "why me"?

Boomer, feel free to use my excuses. "The wind was to her back" this works well when they bust a covey. Or another favorite, "The thin air up here must have got her oxygen starved and she lost her mind." And the one I use most often, "Anyone seen my dog? She must be on point somewhere." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />