Names

[injenius]

Dad just brought up the puppy while I was eating dinner and I mentioned how the theme of the litter was children's literature and that was why I had been calling her Charlie. So he sits there for a while and then says "How about The Velveteen Rabbit?" and suddenly all these wonderfully warm memories washed over me. I so loved that book

Comments

[omnipoodle]

Hmm, the call name for Green Eggs and Ham could be Sam.

Now you've got me thinking about all my favorite children's books. :)

Secret Garden (Mary? Martha? Those sort of suck.)
Ramona Quimby (Ramona?)
Any of the Paddington books--I think Paddington would be a cute call name for a bitch!
Wind in the Willows (Willow?)

You could name her after a Harry Potter book and call her Bella, except that Rowling's Bella is evil. :( Or you could name her Beauty and the Beast and call her Bella, except that that's not really a BOOK, plus you might end up with a dog with a split personality. You don't HAVE to make the call name related to the registered name, though. Look at Joey--his registered name is (embarrassingly enough) Smokeless Wardance. And Kiwi is Kahlua And Cream. (Ugh! Both of them were named by their breeders.) If I were you, I'd pick out the call name first and then the registered name.

[injenius]

I know they don't *have* to be related, but it's kinda fun when they are.

Plus all the lists I make of names are ALWAYS for males. Even when I got Mackenzie (my mom named her btw) I had no idea what to name a female.

Some of my favorite names for a dog:
Heartbreaker
Strut (cause I'm a marching band nerd)
Maniac Magee
Riot
London
Preppy (saved by the bell)
Sodapop (the outsiders)

I guess maybe that whole "get to know the puppy before you name them" thing might be true after all.

[injenius]

I did try and help my friend name her great dane puppy (she ended up naming it Waffles... and then when she was rehomed they named her Bella) and I gave her this list of what I thought were good female names:

Phoenix
Brooklyn
Riley
Lola
Jade
London
Chaos
Riot

[omnipoodle]

Maybe Charlie's call name could be London and her registered name could be a book set in London? Gah, I don't know. I had Faith's call name picked out ages before I met her. I got lucky that she happened to be part of the "L" litter so I had a good choice for her registered name.

Corduroy

[thympress]

No one mentioned Corduroy!

Re: Corduroy

[injenius]

I don't remember it! I saw it on one of the lists I found on the internet and I recognized the cover, but I can't remember the book.

Re: Corduroy

[thympress]

there's a teddy bear on the shelf who's missing a button on his corduroys, and he wants to go home with this little girl, so he wanders the toy store and night to try to find a replacement for his button.

Corduroy was good.

[royalporcupine]

My favorite book was The Shrinking of Treehorn, but I've never met another person who has read it.

I totally want a dog named Treehorn, but it might get laughed out of the dog park.