Do you wish your dog had a more creative name?

Kobi was named after a family vote. 4 males vs 1 female. He was named after Kobi Bryant. I almost renamed him after 'the scandle'. At the dog park he is known as Kobi #3. Who knew it was so popular?

Before we had a dog, my DH bought me a kitten. He insisited the cat be called Rover. He said he was too embarrassed to stick his head out the door and call "Here Fluffy, here Fluffy!" LOL

Gypsy was named after Gypsy Rose Lee, a stripper!  Her registered name is Rangler's Burlesque Queen, CGC. You can't get much more original than that! LOL

I actually like my dogs' names. They don't have cool registered names because i never send in the papers. I had to have a german name for Kaiser, and Otto was already a name in our family. Someone told me that Kaiser meant 'king' so i thought it was very appropriate for him. I have just always liked the name Wyatt, as in Wyatt Earp, and it fits him better than any other name. I seriously considered naming Kaiser Maverick instead. If i were to get a male dobe i would like to name him Jager. (pronounced Yay-ger, for all you non-drinkers...after jagermeister)

ORIGINAL: agilebasenji

I would have never thought to name a dog Digital, but it's been a great name, aside from the fact that everyone thinks it is a computer based name.  (He's really named after Digital Takawira)

Glad I know where it came from now. []  Of course, everyone thinks Sequoyah was named for a redwood tree or a Toyota SUV.  Wrong.  She was named for a Cherokee chief. []

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ORIGINAL: LoveMyDogCassidy

Nope, not really. I've yet to find another dog named Cassidy,

you should hang out with more hippes! I know alot of dog Cassidys because the grateful dead song. and neal cassady, a merry prankster!

I have seen where the wolf has slept by the silver stream.
I can tell by the mark he left you were in his dream.
Ah child of countless trees, ah child of boundless seas.

What are you, what are you meant to be?
Speaks his name for you were born to me,
Born to me, Cassidy.

Hmm, I've never heard that before. Actually, I did kind of name her after Hopalong Cassidy, the cowboy []

Gracie has a very common name, with a unique story that created the reason for naming her (which is dull to anyone but me and my friends who were present at the time. [])  Sometimes I wish I'd gotten more creative w/her call name.  But, aside from her story... if you only understood this bumbly, knock-kneed, but still ALL LEGS little puppy with the LONGEST ears and sweetest, pushiest attitude... it fit her at the time.  She was anything BUT graceful, yet has turned out very elegant in her finer moments. 
I got to be creative in her registered/working name, so that makes up for it.

We picked the name Aibo for our Pommie because she's small and cute like the Sony Robo dog. Than we name our Silky terrier Lilo because it rhymes with Aibo!

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I like my dog's name.
I don't mind naming a dog a human name.

But, if I'm going to name them a human name, it's going to be after someone famous or someone I like.
My son named Ella. Not only do I agree with him that Ella Fitzgerald is great, but I think the name Ella is pretty and beautiful just like my dog is.
I'm going to go with either a David Bowie related name for any male dog I get or possibly a book character name.

Nikki came with her name at the shelter.  It was spelled Nickie...but we changed the spelling.  She just got so excited at the mention of her name, we decided to keep it.  It's a common enough dog name though.

As someone whose worked in grooming, there are several dog names I could never bestow upon our future pup just because they are so common.

We don't have a dog now, but I'm thinking a Star Trek themed hehehe

When my son and I were adopted by those two wildly smart puppies of ours, we thought about it and it was easy. Athena and Sofia, both goddesses of wisdom.

So no, I'm happy with the dogs' names.

I love my guys names.  DH & I thought long & hard about Grady's name.  We had a list of names that seemed appropriate for him & decided that we'd wait to meet him before we named him.  Grady stuck.
 
Aspen was named ESPN in his former life.  I do like sports but not enough to name a Papillon after a sports chanel.  Aspen was pretty close & it seemed to fit him.

My dogs almost all have people names. I only got "creative" with Zhi, and I kind of regret it now. I wasn't in my right mind when I named her I'll name my next Crested something normal so people have slightly less reason to think she's Dog From the Planet X.

The BCs all have names that are highly traditional. Scots tend to keep first names in the family (the names in my father's branch of the Riddell family are Lawrence and Alexander, for instance. They do the same thing with the dogs. Dogs from Gilchrist Spot lines tend to be named Spot, until very recently. There's a couple lines of "Ben" dogs, one of which my own Ben hails from. Cord is from a new line, American in origin, but Lad is on the other side of the family, so if he had a pup I'd probably seriously consider "lad" as a name, or "Tweed", which is another name.

"Jen" is a name in Ted's family (Ted himself is an oddball, I've never even heard or a "Ted" before). Other names in Ted's line are Wisp, Spot again, Peg, and Craig.

There's no "registered" names in working BCs, and very few kennel names even, so most dogs are known by their owner names, their accomplishments, or most famous handler ("That Star dog that Alisdair McRae ran for a couple years").

Cord's sire's name is "Bill" but I have to say, "Bill that Judy Aycock owns that Alisdair won the finals with," to distinguish him from Edwards' Bill or Merion Jones' Bill, that are both famous dogs, or slightly less famous but more significant as a sire here in the US, "Kukendall's Bill that won Working Dog of the Year." I can also say, "Bill that is a son of Alisdair's Ben and Nan," as both these dogs won the National Finals here and Nan won the Supreme overseas, so even those in the UK will know Cord's grandma.

Cord has a kennel name on the other side - his mother is a daughter of "Burtersett Lad." Other famous kennel names, Dryden Joe and Wiston Cap (the most famous, arguably). There are amazingly few of these.

Some dogs are known by their number - Spot 24981, Don 108889

Well, Caleb is named for my husband's 4th great grandfather.  I wanted something to go with it, and my husband came up with Takoda.  Since naming Caleb, I've heard of two other dogs near where I work named Takoda, and there's a woman on a Lab board with a yellow Lab named Caleb.  I'm still happy with his name, tho-it really fits him (Caleb means Bold/Faithful/Devoted/Dog, and Takoda is Native American for Friend to Everyone).

I'm going to go with either a David Bowie related name for any male dog I get or possibly a book character name.

I love David Bowie...

I NEARLY named Arlo differently...David Bowie named his son Zowie Bowie, but the son changed his name to Duncan (which is the most boring British name imaginable) so i wanted to name Arlo DUNCAN instead in honor of that story...but my british friends talked me out of it.

Nope..I love all of our animals' names. We put a lot of thought into them, and I thionk they're pretty creative.
 
Loki was named after the Norse god of mischief in mythology. He was just a whirlwind in his "puppydom", so the name fit him perfectly...and still does!
 
Julius was named after Julius Caesar, since he came into our house all of 7 weeks old and 8" tall, and acting like he owned the place already.
 
Kleio, our cat was also named after a mythological wife. No real story behind the name - we just saw it and fell im love with it.