[Orla]

After a few months of having both Ben & Emma my good friend blurts out, "Do you realize you named your dogs after Ross Gellar's kids from the show FRIENDS?!" LOL!!!!!! I always loved that show but I had no idea I named my fluffs after both his kids! Guess you can say subconsciously I was having a hard time when Friends went off the air LOL!

haha! I LOVE Friends and I never noticed that:blush:

 

[Rocky's Mom]

What a sweet story....I won't forget that one.

Micky was named after our last Maltese, who's name was also Mickey. I just dropped the "e", so he would be slightly different. The reason we had to do this is because my grandma, who has Alzheimer's, couldn't remember that our old dog passed away. So we had to get a new Maltese and name him Micky too. Kind of like when you have a little kid with a brown hamster, it dies, so you go to the petstore when the kid is at school, and just get another brown hamster...might sound kind of mean, but its what we had to do. She kept reliving his death, very sad, so we HAD to get another Micky. I wouldn't want to keep his old name anyway, it was Bob!

 

[LitGal]

I love literature and I teach it, so I knew that the name I selected would have something to do with literature. I tossed around a lot of literary terminology and literary characters. I settled on Haiku (a three-line Japanese poem) because like the poem, Haiku is small and full of meaning.

 

[Rocky's Mom]

HA HA HA....loved your story!:wub2:

Sorry you are sick in bed! I hope you get better very soon.

A Side Story:
I am a fan of classic, classic westerns - roy rogers, gene autry, etc. (I don't like westerns made after 1935).. It has been a goal of mine to name my dogs after the classic western/singing cowboy's horses (you'd also have to know that I grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma and my dad & uncles are all cowboys - as in they ride a horses/train horses to make a living - or did at one time). So, I wanted to name my dogs: Silver (lone ranger), Champion (Gene Autry's horse), Scout (Tonto's horse), Pie (the horse that James Stewart always rode - yes his movies were newer), Trigger (Roy Rogers) and so on.... I didn't decide to do this until after I had 2 dogs - Libby & Tasha. After Libby passed away at the age of 17.. and lots of research I decided on a Maltese.. this led me to discussing names of my new puppy with my massage therapist and she just had a new foal and she'd named him Atticus.. we discussed the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" and how much we loved the book, etc... well this stuck in my head.. so when Heidi asked me if I had a name for my new puppy - I said Atticus (so she started calling him Atticus before I picked him up! She is so cute that way).

Well, Ken met Atticus and he had to have a Maltese too! so funny, he didn't think i needed a new dog - i still had Tasha, etc, etc. He met Atticus and he completely changed his mind and he wanted one too. So, a month later we flew back and picked up "Rugby" - now, Ken named "Rugby" - I lobbied hard for another name from the book, but wanted to name this 5lb ball of fluff Rugby after the rough and tumble sport! ..

fast forward 10 months.. Tasha passed away from old age and Atticus is missing and we are on the phone with Heidi and very teary and upset. We felt like we'd let her down as well - when our dog sitter lost Atticus! It was horrible. Heidi was great (heidi is Atticus's breeder - aria maltese), and she said she was ready to retire Grace (Atticus & Rugby's mom) and when we were ready we could have her. We did find Atticus (or a friend of Ken's did on a morning walk by an arroyo, fighting off a crow!), so a month or so after getting Atticus back and being so thankful - !! We went off to CA to pick up Grace.. and SCOUT.. now if I haven't lost you - Scout was the name of Tonto's horse and Scout is also the name of a character from the book.. (grace was already named.. her official name is "Champion C and M's Every Day is A Gift")

So, It was a long and convoluted story.. but you asked for a story.. you didn't say it had to be interesting or make much sense! I have enjoyed reading people's stories and i'm not even sick in bed!

Take care of yourself.

jj

 

[Rocky's Mom]

Very interesting too...how do you pronounce it... Hay ku? or Hi Ku?

I love literature and I teach it, so I knew that the name I selected would have something to do with literature. I tossed around a lot of literary terminology and literary characters. I settled on Haiku (a three-line Japanese poem) because like the poem, Haiku is small and full of meaning.

 

[Cute Chloe]

Chloe's name was picked by her breeder and it is such a lovely name.

The name was ranked 10th in the most popular baby girl names of 2008:
Top 1000 Baby Names for 2008

She was already responding to the name when we picked her up at 13 weeks so
there was no sense in confusing her.

 

[revakb2]

My husband's favorite movie is Casa Blanca. On our anniversary I gave my husband a black bag that had a tiny white fluff in it. I told him it was his anniversary gift. He came up with the name Bogie. When we adopted Cassie, she came with the name of Mandy. Now there is a black Chi named Mandy across the street so we didn't want our dog to have the same name. We thought of naming her Bacall, but I thought that I might sound like a parrot calling her, so she is Casa Blanca and called Cassie.

 

[Katkoota]

We surely struggle to find the right names, don't we?!

Oh my! some can sure struggle to decide on a name for his/her fluff baby; I am one of them :blush: My brother is 100% Katkoota in personality :HistericalSmiley: Someone dumped this guy in the streets

My brother found him in front of the gate a year ago, brought him in, took care of him..etc we put up flyers everywhere about him (vets, shelter, newpaper..etc) Nobody claimed him -some people are just nuts- !!!! I then told bro that he can see this as his 9th birthday gift (which was few days after finding the kitty); to say the least, bro was thrilled. The struggle time came next... brother was stuck, didn't know what to name him, asked me for help, but I was also blank with no idea. What I did though was e-mail a pen pal of mine who lives in Texas and asked her for help :w00t: . She and her family are so dear to us, so I thought that we will name him with the first suggestion she was gonna give us. My pen pal gave us the one an only suggestion: ROMEO :wub: without doubting or reconsidering; that was the name that was given to this guy. He is now bro's best friend and my malts' pal too :wub: a year has passed since having him in our family. I sure also love him.

He still needs to learn how to pose like Crystal

Kat

 

[jeannief]

Mason was named by my son and husband. I liked the name Bailey but was out voted. I think they named him after the Blue Jackets hockey goalie but they say no. I don't believe it. One thing for sure, he is a sweet little Mason.

 

[Rocky's Mom]

I love his name and his bandana....does he like it or try to chew on it? Rocky won't leave his alone. Mason sure does look cute in it!

Mason was named by my son and husband. I liked the name Bailey but was out voted. I think they named him after the Blue Jackets hockey goalie but they say no. I don't believe it. One thing for sure, he is a sweet little Mason.

 

[Rocky's Mom]

Romeo...LOVE IT...he sure is beautiful.

 

[Rocky's Mom]

Chloe is an adorable name!!!!

 

[moniq1231]

Bree's name was inspired by a friend from college. I always loved the name and while suggesting names, Bree just stuck best

 

[Harley & Dakotas Mum]

Years & years before I ever thought about getting a dog, a friends house-mate had a cat called 'Harley', I loved the name (it has nothing to do with the motorcycles in my mind btw, I'm not even into bikes!) so years later when I did get my very own puppy, naturally he was named Harley! He is called by his full name, Harley Parker, when he is in trouble, and my mum calls him Harley Parley when she loves on him.

Two & a bit years later, I decided I wanted to add a little girl to our family. At one point, I had a list of about 30 names written down and for a couple of months, while I was waiting for my baby girl to be ready to come home, I went over & over the list ... I ADORE the name Grace and it was top of my list ... I think Dakota was about number 3 or 4 on my list.

Well, when this little one finally came home, she was called 'baby girl' for about 3 days because I just couldn't decide, then one day, I just called her 'Dakota' and it stuck! She still doesn't have a 'permanent' middle name and she will be 4 this June! lol, I call her Dakota Jane, the 'Jane' was something I quickly added one day, thinking that I would eventually think of something else, but I haven't yet! lol

I think I made a subconscious decision not to go with 'Grace' thinking that maybe one day, I might have a child, and name that child 'Grace' ... the days of thinking that might happen are pretty near over, so maybe one day I will have another little fluffy girl, and name her Grace.

 

[SugarBob62]

Well I always use baby name books for when I name my pets. Always have. Actually I used the baby name book my mom used when she named me 25 years ago! Yes, I still have it!!! It's taped up and falling apart, but that is where I got Casey, Andy and Spencer's names from.

Nelson on the other hand was a little more difficult. I had the WHOLE world wide web to search for names, overwhelming to say the least. And after having only 1 doggy before and calling him Andy for over 14 years. Anything else just seemed weird. I don't even know how I came up with Andy. We'd make lists and then narrow them down and end up with 1 of the names.

But Nelson didn't come as easily. We actually hadn't even full decided until the day we went to pick him up and held him. Nelson was a name we tossed around. My dad wanted Elwood, like the Blue Brothers. I said thats nice but I picture a big dog, like a bloodhound or something. I wanted Bentley, but my dad said no that's a car. My mom wanted AJ for Andy Junior...I said NO!!!!!!

So we had a LONG list of names going. Nelson was pretty much one of the names we could all tolerate and agree on, no harsh feelings for or against it. And after I looked up the meaning and saw that one of the meanings of it was "son of the champion" I said thats perfect! Since his dad is a champion, it seemed like it was meant to be.

And honestly any other name we COULD have picked, I don't think I would have like them as well, Nelson just seems to suit him well and I couldn't imagine calling him anything else now. :wub:

 

[Maltese&LabMommy]

We let my daughter (3 years old) Name Ponyo. Ponyo was her birthday gift! She picked Ponyo because we live in Japan, and the whole time we have been here (almost 3 years) she has LOVED the movie Ponyo, we all do! (We reccomend the Japanese version w/ subs, over the english one!)
Ponyo (2009) - Movie Info - Yahoo! Movies

 

[Gabby]

... love this topic...
So here's my story: Since I LOVE egyptian mythology I wanted an egiptian name from the begining, but a name with a meaning, not just any name... Most of egyptian godess and queens have very very large names, and since my pup was SO small a large name wouldn't suit her (she was very tiny, she only weighted 350-400 gr at 3 months).. So I keep looking for egyptian names and finally found "Sagirah" which means "the little one", it's not from egyptian mithology but it's origin is egyptian/arabic... I LOVE her name, it suits her very well, I love my "little one", my "Sagirah" <3 <3 <3

 

[Katkoota]

I really enjoyed reading all these stories

 

[jeannief]

Thanks. No, he doesn't chew on his bandanas. He is such a ham that I think he likes it. Likes wearing his sweaters on cool days. He just struts around.

 

[jeannief]

Ooops. I was answering Rocky's mom. Guess I put it in the wrong spot.