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Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Frances144 on March 14, 2007, 03:02:35 AM
This is my new dog - arrives soon.

No name, found wandering the streets.  Now rehomed with me, hopefully.

Any suggestions for names?



Groucho, Grumble, Gristle?

Thanks
Fx
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: dolphin on March 14, 2007, 03:27:25 AM
No particular reason Frances...but as soon as I saw the pic I thought of Westminster.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jcarter on March 14, 2007, 07:26:43 AM
I second that, Westie would be a cute name.
He looks like a dog who will have a humorous personality, a peppy and fun dog.
Just by looking at him, I feel that he is going to be fun!  We had a dog who would 'smile' and looks like he is smiling too.
Congrats on your new family member.
Jane
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Epaminondas on March 14, 2007, 07:45:47 AM
Bruno.

Zeus.

Aesculapius.

Ulysses.

Hephaestus.

Agamemnon.

Kelly.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: kelly on March 14, 2007, 08:00:34 AM
Epaminondas. wink.gif

Enjoy, Frances. smile.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: gunug on March 14, 2007, 08:06:24 AM
Looks like a "Buddy" to me!
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jcarter on March 14, 2007, 08:16:38 AM
Oh, yes, Buddy is good!
I also thought of Charley, as I had an uncle who was skinny and strong and had some white whiskers.  And had a great sense of humor.
Jane
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: snuffysbluff on March 14, 2007, 08:42:55 AM
Seems to me "Lucky" would be appropriate. smile.gif

Looks exactly like Albert, a puppy I found stranded on a picnic table in the middle of winter.
Only he was brown. Wirey hair? Best dog I ever had, bar none. Bit of a tramp/free spirit though.

Good on ya for taking in the homeless. thumbup.gif

Gary B
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jwboyd on March 14, 2007, 09:12:40 AM
How about  smile.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: RobW on March 14, 2007, 10:23:03 AM
Don't know why, but my first thought was "Moe." dntknw.gif Other than that, I was thinking of borrowing from the movie Dances With Wolves and naming him "Two Socks."
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: gunug on March 14, 2007, 11:00:28 AM
If I ever get a dog again it's going to be named "Herkimer" because I used to have a "mudpuppy" (type of indigenious salamander in Kansas) and it was named Herkimer Mudpuppy in honor of my bosses (at the time) husband.  So this will be Herkimer Puppy or Herk for short.  Probably not likely to get a dog anytime soon!
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jcarter on March 14, 2007, 11:15:19 AM
Every time we see a Yellow Lab, we weaken a bit more.  Ours has been in doggie heaven for 13 months now, so we have begun to keep an eye on the newcomers in our dog pound.
http://www.friendsoffalmouthdogs.org/
Ours is #2 in the alumni gallery, Muffin.

The freedom of not having a dog for a while is nice too, kayaking with a dog is impossible, and we are doing a lot of biking and traveling when the weather is good.
But we are weakening!  Its not anywhere as much fun to be dog-less.
Jane
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Frances144 on March 14, 2007, 11:19:53 AM
I could not imagine being without a dog.  I have two and I reckon if you are feeding two, you could feed three and my theory is that two terriers equal one larger dog.  I always had two large dogs so really three is nothing!!!!!

Funnily enough, my partner does not agree with this theory but what does he know!!

Two Shetland ponies equals one horse too!!!!

Anyway, I am tempted to call him Cholmondely Warner (Chumley Warner!).  Not sure, his name will come.

We have one pony called WInnie because she fell in the septic tank as a foal - Winnie the Poo!!!! It stuck.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: krissel on March 14, 2007, 10:19:29 PM
Tuffy.



Though kelly's suggestion bears consideration.   smile.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: gunug on March 15, 2007, 01:26:54 AM
Frances - My being without a dog for 22 years wasn't a choice; the townhouse I live in is supposed to be dog and cat free (although a bunch of people are sliding by).  If I could have afforded to live elsewhere I would have.   sad.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: sew on March 15, 2007, 01:34:48 AM
( Buddy The Dog ) is a winner.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: MamaMoose on March 15, 2007, 02:11:07 AM
I don't know why, but I thought of Ishmael when I saw him. Remeber, the narrator of Moby Dick?

MamaMoose
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: dboh on March 15, 2007, 07:11:33 AM
Years ago, I had a friend with a dog who looked exactly like that (white front feet, speckly face). Her name was Gonzo because of her reaction to people she knew. She'd go crazy with joy.

The dog's face looks like a Buddy.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Gregg on March 15, 2007, 07:37:01 AM
Spot, of course.

Male or female?

"Good Dog"?

Once had two poodles; Boy and Girl. Those were the names, as well as the genders.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jcarter on March 15, 2007, 08:24:33 AM
Years ago I found an abandoned yellow lab walking at the beach in the middle of winter(no collar, and had just been spayed), she followed us home, and after calling all the dog officers and vets within 50 miles around, we found that she was not from our area.  They think someone had brought her over the CCCanal bridge and dropped her off at a restaurant, as she had been seen in the parking lot. She must have followed one of the cooks home, as he lives near us, and he could have been feeding her.
We kept her for a couple of days, but our dog didn't get along with her.  So one of our neighbours had just had become dog-less, and we gave her to them, they were so happy to get her!  They still have her, she is probably about 15 years old.

They named her "D" "O" "G", pronounced DeeOhGee. I thought that was kind of cute.
Jane
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Gregg on March 15, 2007, 12:54:14 PM
QUOTE(Gregg @ Mar 15 2007, 07:37 AM) [snapback]121991[/snapback]
Male or female?


Er, blush-anim-cl.gif I'd call him for dinner.
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Mayo on March 15, 2007, 05:21:48 PM
QUOTE
kayaking with a dog is impossible


I don't know about kayaking (unless you have a kayak built for two...) but our dear departed dog would canoe with us. Sophie was a Rottweiler-mix that we lived with for 13 years.  She had her own life vest... folks would laugh when they saw the three of us in the canoe (especially the sheriff's lake patrols.)

The vest came in handy one day...  Sophie didn't like water and she wasn't a good swimmer.  When we were loading the boat she fell off the dock and sunk like a rock before the vest brought her back to the surface.  I reached down and grabbed the handle on the top of the vest and hauled her out one-handed (pretty good considering the size of the dog!)

'Course, Good Ol' Sophie would do anything for us.  Absolutely spoiled us rotten... she was easy to train, she didn't have even one bad doggie habit, loved everyone/everything and in all those years she never caused us to regret having her even once. She would travel with us or stay at the kennel for our European travels; it was all good to her because she was so even-tempered...  It's been over two years since she died and we have yet to meet a comparable replacement.

Seeing as how she picked us (wandered into our yard not once but twice...) that may be the best way to find a doggie buddy...
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Dreambird on March 15, 2007, 05:35:53 PM
Sophocles... for the same reason as MamaMoose. The name came to me looking at him, he has this "wisdom" about him... wink.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: jcarter on March 15, 2007, 07:01:01 PM
Hi Mayo,
This is sort of how we got Muffin, a friend of ours who owns a grooming business found her abandoned, and brought her into the local pound, This is the link,
http://www.friendsoffalmouthdogs.org/
hit Alumni and go to #2, Muffin.
She had 14 years of fun with us, I took her to work every single day, and after we retired, she ran the show, loved the canoe, hated the motorboat. That will be the attachment.  I also have pictures of her with her life jacket on, but they are on old photo upload sites, and I have so many of the doggone picture album sites, and Muffin has so many albums, that it would take me forever to search the URLs to find them.
And to quote you,
""It's been over two years since she died and we have yet to meet a comparable replacement.""
is one of the reasons we have not gotten another dog, she was amazing and people have told us this.  Never had to be leashed or scolded(well once when she attacked a sick raccoon in our yard and I was the one who got the worst of it.)
We would think that we might be comparing dogs, and be dissapointed.
But when we get old and cannot travel any more by plane, we will have MANY dogs.
Jane
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Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Highmac on March 16, 2007, 03:43:17 AM
Gipsy springs to mind... wandering the streets. Has that air of detachment from the "civilised(!)" world. Caroline also suggested Socks.

Our test when we had dogs was how it sounded when you were calling them. One neighbour called their cat Mummy.... and no, we never found out why smile.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: bellbram on March 16, 2007, 09:09:51 AM
Frances, if you can't decide on a suitable name for him (her?), just call him (her?) DEEFER.       Why?   D for Dog!  biggrin.gif  biggrin.gif
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Gregg on March 16, 2007, 12:10:06 PM
And the winner is....
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: Frances144 on March 16, 2007, 12:21:58 PM
......Don't know - haven't met him yet.

Just arranging transport from Hereford to ABerdeen and then I will come down on the ferry (14 hour night trip) and pick him up.

I quite like "Mummy's Special Soldier" or MESS for short!

Fx
Title: OT - What would you call him?
Post by: krissel on March 16, 2007, 10:57:28 PM
'Buster' popped into my head looking at him again.  smile.gif