Tatum was actually a name I wanted to use for our second daughter but chickened out because it was "different" and I didn't know if I would like it forever. After a few years, I realized I wished I would have used it. I told myself my next dog would get the name. When we got her, we were trying to choose between Tessa and Tatum and as you can see, Tatum won! And then one of our cats got named Tessa.
It was harder choosing our Australian Shepherd's name. She's a blue merle so she has black, gray and white colors. My husband wanted to originally name her Bandit because she has a solid black band around one leg but I convinced him to go with something else. After a bunch of ideas, I said her coloring looked like storm clouds.... hence her name Stormie.
It's always neat to hear how people chose their animals names. And by the way, I loved Charmed! I've already said if we get another animal, her name will be Piper! That was actually another name I thought about while pregnant but it didn't flow as well with our other daughter's name, Skylar. I didn't really want to "er" names.... go figure, who knows where those thought processes come from!
