We actually had a hard time getting a puppy-looked for a few months and could only find pitbulls (too big for our yard) and chihuahuas (not a fan.) We found sheltie pups 45 minutes away but we were traveling to NC that weekend so we thought we'd pick one up on Monday.
Shelties are Scottish dogs, and my Sir is of Scottish ancestry, so I wanted the dog to have a Scottish name-Tartan if we got the boy, and Dacie or a few others if it was a girl. Well, when we came home, the pups were all spoken for.
We found Jaeger a week or so later-half daschund, half yorkie. I thought I'd continue the thought process. I didnt want to go English (as in England English) for the name (for the Yorkie heritage) because the dogs were under 5 lbs at the time and I didnt need a 200 lb name for a 5 lb dog, so I looked at German names instead. Most were terrible and guttural, but I liked the sound of Jaeger, and it means "hunter" in German-which both breeds our.
I kept his name a secret for several hours after we got him. i didn't want to admit that I had picked the name before the dog, and wanted to see if it suited him. It stuck, and he's totally lived up to his name-he brings me critters all the time!
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