Rolf. I adopted him at a year old and he's a Rottweiler. I wanted a one syllable name and kept thinking and thinking and one European guy that worked for an owner I worked for was named Rolf. So I looked it up and it means "Famous wolf" in German....so that's what I chose.

Named my cat shithead, because she acts like one.

So, my family has had several wonderful (there isn’t another kind, I’m sure) labs over the years. Each named after a shotgun brand. Parker, Worth (Fox Sterlingworth), and Moses (John Moses Browning). I have an awesome name picked out for the next. But will had to be female. (And, Lord, I do not wish to use that name anytime in the next decade!) We have had two Scottish Terriers, Finn and Wallace, obvious where their names came from. The current pack of 3 also includes a small mutt from the pound (some kind of 9# toy poodle terrier mix) named Winnie by my daughter (don’t ask for a rationale, that’s just the name she chose). Little dog’s legs are like springs, I swear, but she is a sweet little devil.

Kiki
A feral stray who I caught after her second batch of kittens in our window wells. I gave them a room and made her feed and clean the second batch.
The kittens have been 'Homed' but Mama's release would have been in Dec.after the T and N of the Trap Neuter Release. so the cold and snow didn't help w/ the releas.
Now days she does go out but not far from the deck where she mostly just sleeps in the sun/shade/sun/shade...
Here she is w/ Colby Jack (I need to take more pics of her but all I have right now is a kindle.
Oh, and the reason I chose Kiki was because if you say, "kitty kitty kitty" real fast it sounds like "KiKiKI..." Not real special after I thought about it and then asked the vet during a visit, "how many Kikis do you have as clients? She checked her file. 7.

Our chocolate lab was Wilburbud.

Our rescue "hybrid" (husky/lab/???) was Spark since parts of the iris in each eye was white/blue, my wife said he had sparks in his eyes.

Petey. Black lab. Picked him up right after a friend's father's funeral. A life is too short moment. Petey was my friend's dad's nickname.

Picked up a Border Collie puppy on Saturday and my wife insisted on Ricky, because we already have one named Lucy.

Rylee. She is an Irish Labrador and the name is an Irish word meaning valiant. Seen here protecting my Martini

We had a dachshund we adopted When he was 9 months old and lost him earlier this year after 15 years. We named him Elvis because he was “nothin but a hound dog” and a real hunk of burnin love. We miss him every day.

SPSHOOTER

This is Lucky. He got named that because he was found with three siblings, at about 5 weeks old, in a box, on the side of a busy road, at night, by a friend of mine. One sibling had already been killed by a car. He was full of worms. But he got to live with two people who love him, on a horse farm.

I'd say the name fits.

 
Our dogs choose their own names. They let us know what to call them by their personalities.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
This is Lucky. He got named that because he was found with three siblings, at about 5 weeks old, in a box, on the side of a busy road, at night, by a friend of mine. One sibling had already been killed by a car. He was full of worms. But he got to live with two people who love him, on a horse farm.

I'd say the name fits.

That is one lucky dog!

Roxy

Because everyone else names their cockatoos "Peaches", "Snowy", "Pickles", etc.

Our dog's name is Dasher. Doberman/Rottie mix. Returned to the breeder by her first owner, we got her at a year old from a rescue shelter. She made me understand why the phrase "crazy bitch" was created. Unbelievably powerful and active, she ran around the house three times, tearing divits out of the lawn as she cornered, she earned the name Dasher.

Now after two years, under the tutelage of our now deceased Dobie, she is extremely well mannered. Not an indoor dog - she has a pen and doghouse, but is mostly free range. She protects the chickens, sheep and ducks at night. Best alarm system ever.

Dang, this thread is making my allergies act up some....

Bandit

That was his name when I rescued him and it kind of fits. He's got a mask, every now and then he decides to be bad, and well it gives me an excuse to restore a Trans Am.

We had to name our dog with a "D" after the Kennel's name to designate their 4th litter. So, his official /registered name is: Champion Halo's Diggin' Up Pennies, CGC,CGC A and we call him Copper.

Making sure Willow our 4 year old makes it to the grandparent's house.



Hanging with the chickens.

had a cat when I was a kid, almost completely black, so I named him Sylvester, (looney tunes fan)

name did not stick, since we lived in a very diverse neighborhood then, Dad called him Spook or Spooky and that name stuck,

and a neighbor, scared of black cats, killed him



later I had a Ferret when we got married, we named him Spot, cause he basically acted like a dog sometimes, and it seemed to perplex people for whatever reason,


wife got a cat, named it George, (no real reason) so the second cat became Thomas (president's name)

after they passed, we got 3 more over time, and all have traditional English type names,

Finley the psycho male
Charlotte the Calico princess
and
Ripley, the little black demon, (this one named for a movie character,, )

all rescues as well

Our cat was a stray who was hit by a car, and we happened to be in the next car to come by. We rescued her and patched her up, so she became Patches. I wanted to name her Michelin, but my wife wouldn't hear of it.

The original crew who has gone to Fiddlers Green were either found or bought on the West Side of Cols Ohio.

I was running a jack hammer and took my hard hat off because I was burning up. I came back for it and there was a kitten. Well I took him home and he was hell on wheels for about 14 years.

I named him Wyatt Jeb Mutley. (Wyatt Earp, Jeb Stuart from The Haunted Tank comic book and Mutley from the Cartoon character)

The two pups we rescued were out of a crew of six that was found discarded by the railroad tracks. They were shepherd mixes and I named one was Panzer since I am a light armor type of guy and the other was Stryker named after John Wayne In the Sands of Iwo Jima.

Fast Forward.
Our hybrid Husky mix was named Alexius: The defender of People. This week has been a year since she has been gone.

The cats are:

Camden after Camden yards in Baltimore

Tiger because he sort of looks like a white Bengal Tiger

Milo: I have no idea why I called him that. It stuck though.

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Our last two were owner surrender situations and they seemed to know their names well already.
Others just seemed to get names that fit them well after a short time.