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MyPupJack · 02-04-2011, 09:17 PM

Since I am very new here I've decided to ask a question that hopefully everyone can answer!

The topic - your pets name. Do you have a story behind it? Does it match with your dogs personality/appearance? What was going through your mind when you decided to name your love THAT name?

I'll give my answer... My Yorkie was born on 6/6/06. To top it all off I brought him home on Friday the 13th in October, so he was like my little devil. But that name didn't fit him. So I named him Jack, like a jack-o-lantern

What about you?

2Morkies · 02-04-2011, 10:46 PM

My sister named Boomer. Muffin was originally going to be Lacey, but she never responded to it. I'd call her lil muffin just in a cutesy way. I noticed that whenever I did her ears perked up.

So...she chose her own name...Muffin

dispatcher · 02-04-2011, 10:59 PM

Bitsy was suppose to be Misty, but it just didn't seem to fit once she came home. I called her Little Bit and Bitsy came from that. Now I call her Bitsy Girl.

babbsiam44 · 02-04-2011, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MyPupJack

Since I am very new here I've decided to ask a question that hopefully everyone can answer!

The topic - your pets name. Do you have a story behind it? Does it match with your dogs personality/appearance? What was going through your mind when you decided to name your love THAT name?

I'll give my answer... My Yorkie was born on 6/6/06. To top it all off I brought him home on Friday the 13th in October, so he was like my little devil. But that name didn't fit him. So I named him Jack, like a jack-o-lantern

What about you?

WOW, I am glad you didn't name him Freddie or Kruger or Damian...LOL

My momma girl is named Elsa...like the lion on "Born Free" I just like the name.
My little baby is named Tia...again, just liked the name.

MyPupJack · 02-04-2011, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by babbsiam44

WOW, I am glad you didn't name him Freddie or Kruger or Damian...LOL.

Ahhh that's so funny! I had a brief weird moment where I thought of Damian but it freaked me out to think about the reason why he'd be named that. That is too funny that you said that... LOL

MyPupJack · 02-04-2011, 11:22 PM

Dispatcher and 2morkies - it's funny how you both had different names planned but neither of them ended up sticking! I'm sure it's strange to think of them with any other name than what they have now though.

J_is_my_initial · 02-05-2011, 12:25 AM

I have 4 babies: 1 yorkie: Gypsy. I always wanted a long hair dog with that name. It fits her because she is the Queen.
2 long hair chihuahuas: Puff was named by hubby. She was a little ball of puff when he got her. Harley was called Edgar when we got him last month. The previous owners sd he never answered to it. He picked up on Harley real quick.
And there is our Pom, Seymour. One the way home from getting him from the breeder we bounced names back and forth. We got him in a neighboring county: Seymour county. So we decided it would be a good name.

Lesyli · 02-05-2011, 12:36 AM

We got Sylvester on New Years Eve.
Szilveszter means New Year Eve in Magyar ( Hungarian)

dispatcher · 02-05-2011, 01:23 AM

Yeah, the Misty name only lasted like 2 days...just didn't suit her at all. Glad I changed it.

r2square · 02-05-2011, 04:21 AM

My daughter named Nala from the Lion King. Very appropriate name, as she hides and then pounces on Bailey. We were having a little Bailey's in our coffee the evening we brought Bailey home, and it just seemed to fit.

deonk1 · 02-05-2011, 05:11 AM

I'm a horse person by trade originally, and well any of you that know horse show goers know that we like crazy names.... Fro a good laugh here are a few of my horse names and where those came from (I'll get to Harley in a second):
Texas Dream (or Nightmare) - his real name was Tex, we actually brought two signs to shows and joked about flipping to the nightmare side when he was bad
Russel's Surprise - Missy, ex race horse, we never named her
Smooth Movin' Alley Cat - Alley
Demeter - De, she's named after the Greek goddess of fertility (shame if I ever bred her I was going to name the baby Persephone

OK so when I told the breeder I was a horse person and that I wanted to show Harley in Agility, she (also being a past horse person) agreed that I could pick his registration name too. So Matt and I started brainstorming... He was either going to be Harley or Chloe (as a girl name). Matt whinned and complained and well we got a boy!

So I was/am going to do agility with him, so I decided I needed a great name, plus he's hyper as hell. So we got Kelland's Rev'd Up Harley out of that. All that work and I come to find out that at Agility shows you don't actually use the registered name,

I would feel like a dummy having them say that on the speaker when all the other names are normal.

BettyJMac · 02-05-2011, 05:11 AM

George comes from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, I always would say to my grandchildren when they were toddlers "I going to take you home and I'm going to love you and hug you and call you George ". Not sure if it was Bugs or Daffy that the abominable snowman had and this is what he said he was going to do .....so when I told my oldest granddaughter I was getting a puppy I asked what would be a good name ...and the answer naturally was George ....

Alexi · 02-05-2011, 05:13 AM

Our 1st yorkie took me two days to name since I couldn't pick, finally ended with Sophie (I always liked the name) my daughter was 2 when we got her so she would call her Tophie and that got shortened to Tofu sometimes (the husband calls her Tofu)

When we got the first one my husband said we should have gotten a boy and named him Bowser since they are so small and Bowser(off of the video game) is a big guy. So when Sophie was 2 we got a boy and he was already Bowser when we got him.

Zoe is an old mutt we saved as a puppy many years ago, she came with the name. (she was our first dog and is 9)

Our Boxers name is Lily Miss Prime.... husband is a fan of transformers and so we kind of went with that. She goes by Lily or Lily Miss.

dinkyweil · 02-05-2011, 05:39 AM

We spent hours on our daily walks tossing about names for the dog we were going to get once I was off school for the summer. I liked Q after the Star Trek character, and then I could call him Q-T. I also liked literary names like Little Darcy, Lizzie, Emma, Pip. I kept trying to think of a Shakespeare character name that would fit. I wanted something clever or sophisticated. Oh, I even looked up words from Yorkshire dialect. I think one was Spoggy-it means a sweet thing, I think.
Instead...
we ended up calling him a name that fits in with family tradition. DH's family likes toy poodles and gives them names that end in a kee sound: Ricki, Jacqui. When we got the dog, my husband started calling him Dinky, almost immediately, and then I did too.
Now, I love his silly name. It's just who he is. Sometimes we sing to him to the tune of "Maria" from West Side Story: Din-kee! I just met a dog named Dinky, and everytime I walk, he likes to me talk and say- Dinkee,eee,ee, ee ....Oh dinky, dinky, dinky, DINKEEEEE!" Yes, we sing this outside on our walk, in public!

peachesmom1sc · 02-05-2011, 05:54 AM

we got porscha on Nov 16 09 she was born Aug. 16 09 had a vet appointment the next day she didn't have a name i wanted to call her
Patti ( always wanted a lil girl with that name ) but she just would not
respond to Patti even the vet said i needed to change it she was called every name we could think of no respond to any of them on her second trip to the vet still no name vet wanted to know if she could hear told his yes so he check her hearing she just would not respond to any name
third trip back to the vet still no name vet said you have got to get this lil one a name i knew i wanted it to start with a P so he said go home and sit at the pc and type in names that start with the P so that night we sit here at the pc and we went down the list nothing took a break from trying
so hubby and i got down in the floor with her and would call again ever name we could think of with a P hubby started calling her pineapple
told him no way so back to the pc we come went down the list some more and when we cot to Porscha she perked up told hubby to call out Porscha and he started calling here Porscha here Porscha boy she wanted down and went to her daddy with that lil tail just a waging so she picked her own name but everyone said she did a good job because she was so
EXPENSIVE who said money can'y buy LOVE

02-04-2011, 09:17 PM	#1
MyPupJack Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Mass Posts: 13	Your Yorkie's Name! Since I am very new here I've decided to ask a question that hopefully everyone can answer! The topic - your pets name. Do you have a story behind it? Does it match with your dogs personality/appearance? What was going through your mind when you decided to name your love THAT name? I'll give my answer... My Yorkie was born on 6/6/06. To top it all off I brought him home on Friday the 13th in October, so he was like my little devil. But that name didn't fit him. So I named him Jack, like a jack-o-lantern What about you?

02-04-2011, 10:46 PM	#2
2Morkies YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: USA Posts: 798	My sister named Boomer. Muffin was originally going to be Lacey, but she never responded to it. I'd call her lil muffin just in a cutesy way. I noticed that whenever I did her ears perked up. So...she chose her own name...Muffin __________________ MuffinBoomer

02-04-2011, 10:59 PM	#3
dispatcher Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: SC USA Posts: 672	Bitsy was suppose to be Misty, but it just didn't seem to fit once she came home. I called her Little Bit and Bitsy came from that. Now I call her Bitsy Girl. __________________ Beth, Bitsy Girl & Mookie

02-05-2011, 12:25 AM	#7
J_is_my_initial YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Knoxville,Tennessee Posts: 3,073	I have 4 babies: 1 yorkie: Gypsy. I always wanted a long hair dog with that name. It fits her because she is the Queen. 2 long hair chihuahuas: Puff was named by hubby. She was a little ball of puff when he got her. Harley was called Edgar when we got him last month. The previous owners sd he never answered to it. He picked up on Harley real quick. And there is our Pom, Seymour. One the way home from getting him from the breeder we bounced names back and forth. We got him in a neighboring county: Seymour county. So we decided it would be a good name. __________________ PAWPRINTS AND DOG HAIR ENHANCE MY PERSONAL STYLE.

02-05-2011, 01:23 AM	#9
dispatcher Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: SC USA Posts: 672	Yeah, the Misty name only lasted like 2 days...just didn't suit her at all. Glad I changed it. __________________ Beth, Bitsy Girl & Mookie

02-04-2011, 11:22 PM	#6
MyPupJack Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Mass Posts: 13	Dispatcher and 2morkies - it's funny how you both had different names planned but neither of them ended up sticking! I'm sure it's strange to think of them with any other name than what they have now though.

02-05-2011, 12:36 AM	#8
Lesyli Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hetes. Hungary Posts: 15	We got Sylvester on New Years Eve. Szilveszter means New Year Eve in Magyar ( Hungarian)

02-05-2011, 04:21 AM	#10
r2square Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Athens, TN Posts: 116	My daughter named Nala from the Lion King. Very appropriate name, as she hides and then pounces on Bailey. We were having a little Bailey's in our coffee the evening we brought Bailey home, and it just seemed to fit. __________________ Robin Nala

02-05-2011, 05:11 AM	#11
deonk1 YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada Posts: 1,795	I'm a horse person by trade originally, and well any of you that know horse show goers know that we like crazy names.... Fro a good laugh here are a few of my horse names and where those came from (I'll get to Harley in a second): Texas Dream (or Nightmare) - his real name was Tex, we actually brought two signs to shows and joked about flipping to the nightmare side when he was bad Russel's Surprise - Missy, ex race horse, we never named her Smooth Movin' Alley Cat - Alley Demeter - De, she's named after the Greek goddess of fertility (shame if I ever bred her I was going to name the baby Persephone OK so when I told the breeder I was a horse person and that I wanted to show Harley in Agility, she (also being a past horse person) agreed that I could pick his registration name too. So Matt and I started brainstorming... He was either going to be Harley or Chloe (as a girl name). Matt whinned and complained and well we got a boy! So I was/am going to do agility with him, so I decided I needed a great name, plus he's hyper as hell. So we got Kelland's Rev'd Up Harley out of that. All that work and I come to find out that at Agility shows you don't actually use the registered name, I would feel like a dummy having them say that on the speaker when all the other names are normal. __________________ Kendra Harley, you were the light in my life, rest peacefully my love!

02-05-2011, 05:11 AM	#12
BettyJMac Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Posts: 41	George comes from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, I always would say to my grandchildren when they were toddlers "I going to take you home and I'm going to love you and hug you and call you George ". Not sure if it was Bugs or Daffy that the abominable snowman had and this is what he said he was going to do .....so when I told my oldest granddaughter I was getting a puppy I asked what would be a good name ...and the answer naturally was George ....

02-05-2011, 05:13 AM	#13
Alexi Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Moore, Oklahoma Posts: 72	Our 1st yorkie took me two days to name since I couldn't pick, finally ended with Sophie (I always liked the name) my daughter was 2 when we got her so she would call her Tophie and that got shortened to Tofu sometimes (the husband calls her Tofu) When we got the first one my husband said we should have gotten a boy and named him Bowser since they are so small and Bowser(off of the video game) is a big guy. So when Sophie was 2 we got a boy and he was already Bowser when we got him. Zoe is an old mutt we saved as a puppy many years ago, she came with the name. (she was our first dog and is 9) Our Boxers name is Lily Miss Prime.... husband is a fan of transformers and so we kind of went with that. She goes by Lily or Lily Miss. __________________ Alexi Sophie Zoe Lily Bowser FreeFromDairy.com Last edited by Alexi; 02-05-2011 at 05:15 AM.

02-05-2011, 05:39 AM	#14
dinkyweil YT Addict Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Nebo, NC Posts: 479	We spent hours on our daily walks tossing about names for the dog we were going to get once I was off school for the summer. I liked Q after the Star Trek character, and then I could call him Q-T. I also liked literary names like Little Darcy, Lizzie, Emma, Pip. I kept trying to think of a Shakespeare character name that would fit. I wanted something clever or sophisticated. Oh, I even looked up words from Yorkshire dialect. I think one was Spoggy-it means a sweet thing, I think. Instead... we ended up calling him a name that fits in with family tradition. DH's family likes toy poodles and gives them names that end in a kee sound: Ricki, Jacqui. When we got the dog, my husband started calling him Dinky, almost immediately, and then I did too. Now, I love his silly name. It's just who he is. Sometimes we sing to him to the tune of "Maria" from West Side Story: Din-kee! I just met a dog named Dinky, and everytime I walk, he likes to me talk and say- Dinkee,eee,ee, ee ....Oh dinky, dinky, dinky, DINKEEEEE!" Yes, we sing this outside on our walk, in public!

02-05-2011, 05:54 AM	#15
peachesmom1sc YT Addict Join Date: May 2010 Location: south carolina Posts: 428	we got porscha on Nov 16 09 she was born Aug. 16 09 had a vet appointment the next day she didn't have a name i wanted to call her Patti ( always wanted a lil girl with that name ) but she just would not respond to Patti even the vet said i needed to change it she was called every name we could think of no respond to any of them on her second trip to the vet still no name vet wanted to know if she could hear told his yes so he check her hearing she just would not respond to any name third trip back to the vet still no name vet said you have got to get this lil one a name i knew i wanted it to start with a P so he said go home and sit at the pc and type in names that start with the P so that night we sit here at the pc and we went down the list nothing took a break from trying so hubby and i got down in the floor with her and would call again ever name we could think of with a P hubby started calling her pineapple told him no way so back to the pc we come went down the list some more and when we cot to Porscha she perked up told hubby to call out Porscha and he started calling here Porscha here Porscha boy she wanted down and went to her daddy with that lil tail just a waging so she picked her own name but everyone said she did a good job because she was so EXPENSIVE who said money can'y buy LOVE __________________ mom to my lil one Porscha nothing in the world like a yorkie kiss first thing in the morning... now mommy to Mee Ling the most darlin lil ( BIG ) pekingese