This is a fab topic!!
I have a boy pup coming home in a couple of weeks and for about 20 yrs I have waited for this certain dog(breed, sex,colour all perfect) and I have had a name in my head this entire time.  Well, once I've seen/picked him, the only name that comes to mind is 'teddy' and I'm livid!!! This is nothing like the masculine, grownup name I had in mind!
Maybe I'll find him another through this thread.....
PS  I love Wookee...he's another that looks like one but not a Briard.

I wanted to call my youngest Teddy and then when he was older 'Ted' as it was more mature but hubby wasnt keen!

I am glad I am not (actually more my OH)  the only one to ....enhance let's say! on my dogs names. They have various other daft names they get called most of the time.

Rowan - Wizz, Wizzy, Wurzel Wizzywoo, SquizzyWizzy
Ruga - Boogle, Booglebog, MigMog, Booge, RugyWoogy
Caleb - Tink, Tinky, Shrink, ShrinkyTinky
Wiggle - Wigs, Wiggy, WiggyWoo, WooWoo, WigglyWig, WigglyWoo
Fynn - Finny, Finster, FinstyWynsty
Kas - Cassie (sure we will come up with more, she is only 5 months!)
Ebbi - Ebbs, Ebsie, Ebbiloo, Ebbilooloo
Deacon - Dilly, DillyDoo, DillyDumdum, Deeks, Deaky
Brent - BrentyBoy, Numpty, Brenty
Luca - Luky, Lukyloo, Luke
Fraser -  Fraze, FrazeyWazey, Frazywazeywoo

I am surprised any of them ever come to their proper names!!! :D

Previous dogs,
1st two GSDs never really had 'other names, Zigi and Zan
Freckles  - xbreed - little wimp, wimpy dog,
Wichita  - Rott -  widget, wijjy, fart-bag.
Pima - xbreed - Pea dog,Pea, Peanut
Current,
Zuma - GSD, - 'orrible 'erbert, herbert, dollop, pudding, oi you!!!

I microchipped a springer spaniel called Jerry the other day! It wasn't until a week or so later when I mentioned 'Jerry Springer' to my sister that the penny dropped!

>now I've written them down and reading them back to myself i've realised just how ridiculous they are

Hey don't beat yourself up about it!  I have hundreds of dogs and each of mine have their own song.  I sing this song to let them know dinner is ready.  They are all pretty dopey made up songs.  Oh, and I'm tone deaf.  Willfee poos loves his song, and wags like mad when it's his turn for a song.

I guess the worst embarrassment I felt was when I went to pick up a Bearded Collie who had been in for a spay.  Went up to the counter, and it was someone new so they didn't know I'm slightly eccentric.  :-)  She said "Can I help?"  I said I'm here to collect Cassie Gumdrops.  Just caught myself in time before she was given the rendition!

I sing silly songs to mine too -except for today 'cos I 've got such a bad dental abscess that I can't move my mouth.

Nicknames of mine are:

Brian - Noodle
Heidi - Pie, Princess
Kody - Scooby
Brenda - Bones
Chaos - Pud, ginger pud
Megan - Moo, moon

We have a whippet pup , called BANG , our daughter named him and as he's hers she got to choose , we tried always to convince her to change it but no he is called Bang , the vets couldn't believe it when he went for his injections . I think she got it from seeing a friends dog play dead when they say Bang!!

Sunny - Sundance, Sunshine
Cally - Cals, Cally-dog
Tora - Tora-Dora, for gods sake come here
Jodi - Jo, Joey, sweetie pie, lovely dog
Isla - Pups, Pupsical, Princess, leave it, get off there, NO!, (this is an ongoing situation, she's 4 months)

One of my hens is called Cackypants ( I seem to have a poo theme lol), she's been to the vets a few times in her long life, and it never fails to crack Angus the vet up every time.

One of my dogs was given a "human" name by her breeder and when she arrived at my house nobody could come up with anything better so we kept it. A few years later my brother began dating a girl with the same name, so to avoid confusion we started coming up with nicknames for the dog. She is now called Froo (unless she's in trouble) and nobody has any clue where it came from.

>One of my hens is called Cackypants

ROFL  I absolutely love it.  :-)

>I 've got such a bad dental abscess that I can't move my mouth

Oh nasty.  Poor you.  :-(

My daughter friend has just chosen a beagle puppy, they are going to call him Jeremy !
Jeremy Beagle.
The younger end won't remember him but he was in a programme " Game for a laugh "

>The younger end won't remember him

Mmmm!  Would say I don't know who you mean, but you already know that I would be lying.  :-)

Haha, glad I'm not the only one whose dogs have songs!
Little Ripley (aka Bean) has loads of songs, her favourites are The Grand old Duke of Bean and Twinkle Twinkle Little Bean.

Vic's song is just my OH singing oh VickyPoos to O Christmas Tree over and over again. Rigsbys song is the theme tune from the old GummiBears cartoon because he does always bounce everywhere, his nickname is Gummy for the same reason.

Vics nickname is Lord Vicory Poopington Smythe (more of a title really!) and he is also called Lumpy because he is so boney and horrid when he sits on you.

All my dogs have had songs lol, the downside is, when they are gone, I can't listen to that song without crying !
Lovely Day by Bill Withers is a particularly tough one, this was one of Spud's many songs, and I well up every time it comes on the radio.
Embarrassingly, Spud also had his own made up song that I would sing to him when he was tiny, The Tissin' and Tuddelin' Song.

>Little Ripley (aka Bean) has loads of songs, her favourites are The Grand old Duke of Bean and Twinkle Twinkle Little Bean.

Oh how normal you sound.  What a relief!  :-)  :-)  :-) 

One of our Gold Fish got the name Slightly Chewed after an unfortunate incident, and having to be prised out of the jaws of a certain Bumble Basset when the Tank was being cleaned out.

Despite his ordeal he went on to live for a few more years.

Our dogs have been

Spot and Fluffy two hulking great big GSD's

Some of the Bassets have been

Fraggle
Muggles
Spotty Oike
Spotty Muldoon
Huntley & Palmer....After the Biscuits
Fugg
Noddy
Vader
Flump
Squidgie

When my eldest lad was little more than 2yrs old we took in a little poodle x and he wanted to choose her name. He chose helicopter!! we compromised and called her heli lol.  Roscoe is called the spoilt brat as thats what he is lol And Kira when going through that horrible gangly stage was nicknamed the ugly bugger that then got shortened to ugly bug and finally u b which even now she still answers to even though she did finally turn into a pretty girl.

i too had a cat called bimbo,when i was a kid.A little ginger kitten!

Were you a child in the 1950's by any chance?

thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread!Remembered Max,our lovely little furry jack russel,who had the nickname"maximilian migglesthwaite"alias "mig".Long gone.They break your heart,dont they?

born 1949!

my german shepherd Sheba also had the nickname wookey,bcause of her fur,but my collie jill also got called it because she regularly made that weird bubbly wookey noise!

Sounds like your cat was named from the same song as my cat, colliepam!

> nicknamed the ugly bugger

Love it!  :-)
My sense of humour totally.

I well remember the song,too,Jodi!

I was a child in the '50s and our neighbours had a cat called 'baggypants'

I have seen in the recent BRS a dog named Sir Poopalot (I kid you not) this dog *may* be destined
to be shown too (normally the people only show at open shows)...

Hopefully it may have a 'normal' pet name....

I once knew a little peke called "buggerlugs"!Imagine hollerin that across a field!Had to laugh at poor Sir Poopalot,My Max used to be called Mr yapalot,or yapcity,but they were strictly private nicknames!I learned that after i gave my first collie ,Robin, nicknames,and after calling him back in the woods one day,heard an incredulous girls voice say "DOBBIN???" !

Have to laugh at the name "buggerlugs" - my Scottish Father calls ALL dogs this, regardless of name, sex or temperament :-D

My Scots father called us all 'buggerlugs ' !

'buggerlugs' is one of many nicknames of our two.

My Husband wanted to call the Stud Dog Endaway.....I squashed that idea straight away!

On another note....I used to love the song Bimbo when I was little....I would stand by the record player singing along to it, and can still remember some of the words to this day...how sad is that!

>I used to love the song Bimbo when I was little....I would stand by the record player singing along to it, and can still remember some of the words to this day...how sad is that!

That brings back old memories.  :-)  I remember sitting on my fathers knee when I was a little girl, and he sang that song to me.

Nicknames in my house are

Gunner - Gungun, Nunner, Bug, Bugg-a-lee, Handsome pants,
Isis - Pissymoo, Moo bag, Wissy-woo, baggage, moo-baggage
Ember - Embino, Emberino, Emberini, Weeny, Teeny-weeny, leeny-weeny,sqwember, sqwemberino, squishy

Ellie - Jelly-cat, Elliebelly, Elsbells
Mozart - MoMo
Loki - Piglet, squiglet

I am AMAZED Ember comes when she's called as she has so many stupid names :D