hi all, what are the names of your dogs and how do you name them, we are looking at naming our new terrier either skye, or isla as they are to do with the outdoors and the terrier is a outdoor working breed????????

for me its down to personal choice,and also a feeling you get when you meet them(a bit like when a human baby is born,you know the name will suit)
i had a really cheeky pug,called rupert
i have a pug called george,he is a proper old gentleman fusspot and well spoilt
and i have a newf called stanley,his nickname was fat stan when he was born as he was the fattest chunkiest one in the litter!!!i loved the name stan,and when i first met him,i thought it suited him and it does lol
jo

I agree, definitely a feeling, a name that just seems 'right'. With our first boy, we were trying out loads of names, as soon as we saw him, we knew he was Louis, and he did turn out to be a little haughty king, lol. With our next boy, a pied, we wanted something french, black/white, knew he was going to be a clown - harlequin - french harlequin/clown - pierrot - Pierre! It was made for him :) Next, our first girl - she just had to be Eve and then our little welshman, Taffy :)

I love choosing names :)

Hi, I've named mine either on names that suit the dogs character or names I've liked.Occasionally a nickname has stuck as in my Claude who I nicknamed Clumsy Claude when he took a nosedive in his dinner one day! After cleaning him up he became Claude from then on. I named Enya as I liked the singer of the same name. One of my old girls I named Cracker as she was about to get up to mischief one day and I couldn't reach her and called out to my friend "crack her quick!" and it became Cracker. Whatever you call them I find the name usually does suit them.

I like to have something a little different and like it to have a reason, I find its easier to name puppy when you get them home, my current dogs are...

Deacon (working lab) after Deacon Blue
Brent (working lab) after the Brent Goose
Fraiser (working lab to be!) after Fraiserburgh in Scotland, OH dad died last year and this was where he was born, so sentimental.
Rowan (Basset) came from Rowan Tree Avenue
Ruga (Basset) means crease/wrinkle!!
Caleb (cardi) Hebrew for dog faithful and bold.
Wiggle (cardi) 3 days without a name, but I saw 'wiggle' up the garden and the name stuck!
And Bella (working lab) Not named by me.

Also had a lab pup which I got to name but was to be trained as a gundog for someone and we called him Wispa..... because we were eating a Wispa McFlurry at the time we were trying to think of a name, luckily new owner like it!

My 6 month Samoyed is called Khione after the Greek Goddess of snow, i love everything Greek and thought this was rather fitting :D

My other girl is a traditonal Shar-pei, shes called Kya, but she was a rescue dog so we didnt name her

We like to have names that come from their registered names  eg. the two we kept from our last litter are M. Michelangelo (Michael) and M. Margarita (Rita). In the previous litter we had M. Marseillaise who ended up as Mimi as she was hand reared and she was all ME, ME, ME.

My new baby who is sired by one of my boys will be Cassie as she was born in Castleford, which is known as Cass by the locals :-)

We spend ages thinking of a suitable name and except from the last one the calling name has had a link to the registered name however tenuous but the last has a register name of a Celtic God and I could not deal with that so I used a Norwegian first name that as far as I know has nothing to do with Gods.

Segar celtic for "sea warrior"
marley celtic" for meadow by the lake"
axel " axel foley bevely hills cop" he is black and funny
Sorcha  celtic for bright eyes pronounced soreka
saint but belive me she wasnt
dempsey not named by me as he was a rehome
peter originally called pilot but rehomed and we changed it to peter
i do think if you have a pup the name just comes out of the blue and sticks