This is a pet peeve of mine, I really become annoyed when people deliberately pick out a name for thier dog that seems preordained to cause issues.
This is supposed to be your companion, you are supposed to look out for them and not make life any tougher than it already may be. A few years ago I met a couple with a sweet but basically brain dead mastiff pup. They REGISTERED him as the Kennel name then NO NO Bad Dog. Later they bought another and it was The Kennel name then Rut Ro ..... there are lovely dogs out there who's owners seemed driven to give them names like Chaos or Killer, yet they are the first to complain when neighbors do not enjoy the dog as much as the family does. A friend had a behaviorist tell her the reason their RR was difficult to train was he did not like his name.... it was another Chaos , so they renamed hime Chase and supposedly he mellowed out and life became more complacent for every one. I co own with good friends who are movie buffs, they wanted to name the dog Coyote Ugly and call him Odie..... Not happening to a dog that will share my kennel name in respect for their moive theme we went with Nat'l Treasure and called him Zion. They will try to get him to respond to the puppy name of Odie and I Have made it plain this will be a problem between us.
I do not like cutesy names for regal dogs. If you have a noble dog why would you forever stain him with an idiotic name?? I have been scolded before for mentioning a gorgeous boy who championed easily and went on to stand at stud.... I would never have used him based off of his name! He is lovely , wonderful temperament and the lines actually would have complimented my own but I could not bear having Snookie Wookie Pookums in my pedigree. I am not crazy about Ethinic names either, it is difficult enough to have your dog's name read over a mike at the National but it becomes downright painful to have the speaker stumble over trying to twist his tounge around a Swahili or Massai name. My favorite boy of the moment has a Hawaiian Name , I simply call him Ike..... it is beyond my ability to twist all of the vowels into something that makes sense. I know there are folks who do not like dogs to have "human" names.
I won't call a dog rover, spot or fifi either, fluffy is out and franly if the best I could manage is Lucky then I really did not need a dog. I like names that have honor and a sense of pride. I know many puppy folk are hell bent to name the dog Leo, Simba or Rhodie.... I will not lamblast them but it does make me feel badly for the pup that while holding him / her in their lap they were unable to find that name hiding just behind the twinkle in their eyes or the pride of the genetic engineering that produced them. Many of my favorite names have come from pop culture, a Phenom of a Ridgeback that thrilled me many times in the agility and obedience rings was Rare Earth's Quantum Leap for the Tv show and his call was Beckett. This was an awesome fellow. Dogs with a name that projects a level of style Like Kimani's Blue Chip Image , a friend named a half sister to my girls Paris, her registered name is Above the Law.... This is unique enough to be fun and will stick in my mind for a long time. There are several Fergies and they just roll into a muddle for me. I realize each of us has a name or type of name that has meaning to us but seems lame or lacking in effort.
Last note about my little name rant, I hate it when a Kennel uses 20 0f the 28 letters , if your kennel is a very long word you are forcing your owners towards a mediocre registered name. I kept our kennel name brief but it was as a tribute to our first boy a Ridgeless Ridgeback whom my husband named Bwana, Swahili for Boss and Friend. The 5 letters are bestowed as a gift to our pups with the freverant prayer they are half the dog that Bwana had been. I sign my name with his included to always remind myself to never shame him, the love he had given us was so pure and correct I could never stain it by being snarky and small , or being untrue to the lessons learned from his great heart.
Anyone else become annoyed by cutesy names , or the poor Pitties named Chomper or Destroyer ? With names like that how can the public be expected to see them with an open mind?
Bonita of Bwana