[Ashley V]

The night we brought Chip home we went through hundreds of names for him but nothing really hit us. We had some favorites, but nothing that really stood out, although DH was partial to Chip. We left it as undetermined and that something will come to mind eventually and went to bed. Well, the next day Chip ended up super sick - like almost dead sick (I will spare you the long story) - so DH rushed him to the vet. The vet needed a name for him to register him in the system and DH just told them his name was Chip. When he told me, he said we could change it if we wanted, they just need a name for him for their system. It stuck and we love his name... it suits him well! I can't explain it, but he is such a little Chip! We have several nicknames for him as well.

Smokey came to us with the name and we decided to keep it. I know everyone says that dogs will adjust to new names easily, but he had already been through one name change (previous name was Coby) and he had been through so much in his short 6 months and had so many anxiety issues that we didn't want to change anything else and we wanted to focus on the more important things, like making him feel safe, secure, and loved. Smokey seems to suit him too, although we usually shorten it to Moke or Mokey.