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Thanks Darren. We’ll wait to decide until we get to see more of his personality, but it’s good to get some feedback.

Hmmm … maybe Bearfoot?

Kidding. Mostly.

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there is no need to sweat too much about deciding on a name. i think that people tend to give the dog one name and then call it by a bunch of others.

my dog’s name is hunter (hunt for short) but i usually call him doomer. i have no idea why i call him that. it just seems to fit some of the time.

he has this strange thing with his head where he’ll knock it against my wife’s lower jaw by accident when they’re watching tv together, she’ll be on the floor nearly blacked out, and he’ll be walking around like nothing happened. at those times, i call him cannonball. the wife, once her eyes focus again, has other names for him.

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After I got my way-too-clever polydactyl cat Smokey from a woman in Halifax who was about to be evicted if she didn’t start getting rid of some pets (either that or the kids), I seriously thought about giving him a more original name. Some cool literary or historical reference, perhaps.

Then we moved to Malaysia, where there aren’t too many Smokeys. Now we’re in China, where there probably aren’t any Smokeys at all except mine. Suddenly Smokey is a unique name.

My advice, then: Bree should name her dog Fido or Spot and move to China.

Just kidding. Any name will do. Then again, how many Fidos or Spots are there these days? Or Sparky, or…OK, I’ll shut up now.

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that last post reminded me of this girl i saw in a park with a dog named “go-yang-ee,” which is the korean word for cat.

odd that she would go to the trouble, because most koreans give their dogs the same name, mari.

it sounds a bit like the name mary, which is why my wife refuses to give the name to any of our future daughters.

my uncle claims to have had a roommate with a cat named groin. the whole reason was because this guy’s mother was this nice Italian woman who spoke almost no english. he would hide the cat in the closet, tell his mom the cat was missing and send her out into the neighborhood, telling her to shout its name so it would come home.

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So far, the dog seems to like Siegfried and Wagner best. We’ve tried calling him by other names, including Sigmund (my preferred ‘Sig’ name) but no response. For now we’re alternating, seeing what seems most natural.

We like Ajax, but it just doesn’t suit him well enough. Ludwig doesn’t seem right for him either, now that he’s in here with us.

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my dog’s name is asker. a la:

person: “what’s your dog’s name?”

me: “asker.”

person to dog: “what’s your name?”

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Hi!I don even know how 2 name a pet because i don know much about animals.There was once my father had a cat n he did not know how 2 name so i said “hey daddy lets name him cubby?”He said no lah i dowan 2 name him juz call him nameless ok!!”N now im having a turtle wat shoudl i name him n her??? PLZ HELP ME!!!!

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hey you shud name yur turtle soup get it turtle soup so you can say to your friedns i hae a turlte named soup i know corny joke but anyways im gettin a pigeon wut shud i name him im kinda stuck

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I think that he was right and wrong! So I don’t blame him, because we all make mistakes and non of us are perfect in this world. The pet names are important and they can’t be made fun of at all. They have to be the right ones. I mean you got to admit there are a lot of choices, and they are so unique. We all have different taste in things, like pet names….. Thanks for keeping us posted!!!

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