What "hooman" names DONT work for dogs?

[Jeanette]

My dad had a cocker as a child called jeanette

Louise

Now thats just silly 

[Mudmagnets]

just to add the girl I'm keeping will probably end up being called Dora! 

Is that cos you will A.dora

[SkyeSue]

just to add the girl I'm keeping will probably end up being called Dora! 

Is that cos you will A.dora

 

[BettyBoo]

I have a giant snautzer for a neighbour called Betty.   You get used to it after a while.

Betty's a perfectly acceptable name for a dog thank you

[louis mum]

My OH wants to call our next Norman  Someone have a word 

There's nothing wrong with Norman I'll have you know We had a lovely Cocker called Norman & the name really suited him (well we thought it did )

Strangely enough, just after I posted that response I was looking through some old yearbooks and who did I see ..... your Norman  I was waiting for you to reply  He was gorgeous btw, and suited Norman  Have I redeemed myself 

[Colin]

Bob was going to be called 'Norman' or 'Colin' or 'Noris' but mom wouldnt have it     

I think those all fall into the "so naff they're cool" bracket

  

I maybe about to keep a boy & the names in the running are 'Colin' 'Dave' or 'Barry'!

I vote 'Colin' - with a cool name like that he'd be bound to add to your long list of a SH CHs, Kim. 


If I hadn't promised my neices that they could name my next dog, Misty could have joined Stevie as a girl with a boy's name - Robbie ( after Robbie Fowler). Next one, long way off, will be Torres or El Nino, regardless of sex... unless a new hero comes along in the meantime.   

[Jane S]

Strangely enough, just after I posted that response I was looking through some old yearbooks and who did I see ..... your Norman  I was waiting for you to reply  He was gorgeous btw, and suited Norman  Have I redeemed myself 

I'll let you off then 

[6thSense]

I've known a 'Norman' who was a Cocker Spaniel and a 'Simon' who was a lurcher. Also a Whippet called 'Colin', a Norwich Terrier called 'Jonathon and my mums old Lab x Rough collie was called 'Robert'.

[skyesmum]

Not on the dog theme..............but I met a woman at the vet who had a rabbit called Stew.......

[6thSense]

ahhhh mean.

[Cockertime Blues]

I think Shirley would be a good unusual name.  Julian Clairy has a bitch called Valerie, which is about the same thing as Shirley.  The last dog we had I actually got to name (i.e., got her as a puppy) was in 1985 and we called her Vickie.  She was a really sweet gentle Dalmatian girl and it suited her.

Why do we make pet names longer instead of shorter though?  We often called Vickie Victoria, called our old lab, Bessie, Elizabeth.  I'm already calling poor old Alfie Alfredo when I'm petting him, and Mollie is usually Molliedog.

[SarahS]

We have a cocker called Reg, but he is Reggie now.  The breeder was seriously unimpressed, so much that we pretended we were going to call him something else in case she refused to sell him. My mother went on about it for weeks.  I love telling people he is called Reg.  But he does suit Reggie better as it is sweet.  Mind you, our last cocker was called Marmite, so it's an improvement.  I had a goldfish called Norman once, think Norm is a cool name

[GothPuppy]

:p we know a huge hulking choc lab named Bruce *giggle*. Suits him though. The best name by far for any animal I've come across was my friend's 18yr old ginger-tom named Alfred

[leslabelle]

There's a friendly wee staffy type dog that walks in the same park as us and it is called Kevin !   
It came from a rescue centre so i'm not sure if the name came with it or the current owners picked his name.
Either way i have a giggle when i hear them shouting for him in the park.

[SJP]

I met a lady at the park with a black working cocker that she had rescued (but she insisted it was a field spaniel because that was what the Rescue Centre had told her) and he was called Reggie.....I laughingly said "Reggie?  Who on earth would call a dog Reggie?" and she said "we did actually" stuck her nose in the air and minced off! 
Funnily enough I haven't seen her since