Help me name my dogs. UPDATE, NAMES PICKED

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Thanks for all the input. After my wife nixed Smith & Wesson, we agreed to:
Jake (for Sparky) Jake was the name of the first dog I remember. A Pointer we had while I was growning up in Georgia many, many years ago.

Toby (for Spooky) BarbC, I hope you don't mind my borrowing your name, but Toby is a perfect fit for Spooky.

This week I take Toby to the vet for heart worm treatment. The vet says he so young and strong, shouldn't have a problem.

As soon as he gets back home and settles down, pictures will be coming.

Thanks to all

David





Just got 2 dogs from the animal shelter. Mixed labs, about 2 yrs old. They came into the shelter together, think they're brothers because they're inseparable. The folks at the shelter named them Sparky and Spooky. Neither responds to their name.

My wife says the names are too close for the dogs to understand.

Make sense? Should I change names or just keep trying?

David

 

[DeathGrip]

Don't sound like their names so start with good boy/big boy /buddy and see what happens.Its rough for them to get it at first but some things they are lovingly called are common and they remember more of those things...Other things will come to them and you in time.Almost no time.

Best to you and them.DG

 

[P&R Fan]

Smith and Wesson.

 

[rlsbee]

I like "Smith" and "Wesson". That was great idea.

 

[5906fan]

how about 'tip' and 'good un'?

 

[John F.]

Good on ya!

Good job rescuing those dogs! I have 4 rescue dogs ranging from 18 lbs to 70 lb pure-bred German Shepherd (who is wonderful!), and all have been great. We ran into the name issue, as it seems the dogs are given names at the shelter in an "off the cuff" way, and the dogs aren't called by name much. So, we re-named all ours, and they are fine.

One major consideration is to make them sound significantly different,
as your wife mentioned. Ours are Shorty, Shadow, Hunter and Maya (pronounced My-ah). When feeding them or letting them into the house, we taught them sit and wait, then call each by name in random order to start eating or come in, and they learned their names very well. Same goes with handing out treats. Teaching them to wait for permission prevents door-dashing and a lot of confusion.

It works so well that with all 4 in the room, if I whisper one's name, that one will look up, and the others will ignore me...

Hope this helps, and again, good job!!

John

By the way, my avatar is a pic of Maya taken when we visited the Military Working Dog Memorial
at Ft. Benning, GA...

 

[jimmyj]

"Dog" and "Get Down"

 

[sipowicz]

Labra and door.

 

[Iggy]

I've always heard you should come up with a name with at least two syllables in it so that they can pick out the different sounds and relate those to themselves.

 

[BarbC]

I had a Monty and Major at the same time and constantly stuttered their names out because I'd start with the wrong one. I can see that happening with a Sparky and a Spooky (and besides - Spooky is a terrible name to pin on a dog). It won't be the dogs having trouble with the names - it will be you!

I got a shelter dog once and who knows what his name was but it didn't take him very long to learn that his name was Toby.

Do you have pictures yet?

 

[shooboy]

How about Trigger and Happy ??? Shoo

 

[rags]

"Comehere" and "Stay" ?

rags

 

[stonehorses]

I think we need pics.....

 

[Shootsomething]

Congrats on the new family members. I once had two male labs at one time named Murphy and Harley.

My wife and I now have 4 teenagers(14,15,16,17) and 7 dogs (3 inside, 4 outside).

2 beagles - Summer and (Blue - rescue)
Beagle mix - Roxy - rescue
English bulldog - Gunner - rescue
Boxer - Izabel
Choclatle lab - Jinx
Golden retriever - Sunny (17 yrs old) - rescue when she was 6 months.

There are so many different names at our house that we are thinking about just going with "Hey You!"

 

[jimmyj]

I had a horse once and Jimmy J named it "Whoa Dammit" because I was always yelling that when I rode him! Smith and Wesson is a winner name!
Jimmy J's wife

 

[cussedemgun]

I would go for "Libby & George"

Libby is short for Librace & George was his brother.

Remember librace was the famous pianist (which of the two is the "pianist" dog?)

If you don't like George, go with "Spot", - - puppies all make them on the rug !

Hope I've been of help, Jim

 

[mg357]

i also vote for Smith and Wesson

 

[David LaPell]

"Hey and You"

 

[JcMack]

Rosco and Chuck

 

[monet61]

Naming your dogs

First; kudos on the shelter rescue. World needs more folks like you.
My nomination for names are "Cuff" and "Link"
Whatever you decide, they are lucky to have found a good home.