Strange Dog Names

[BigBoy99]

A friend has gotten a new dog and has given it strange name. The name over the door on the dog house is: Phydeaux.

How many others have encountered strange names for dogs or other pets?

Oh, by the way, the dog's name is pronounced - Fido!

 

[chaparrito]

A neighbor has one of those little long-haired dogs; looks like a dustmop missing its handle, a Maltese or something. His name is Walter.

 

[arjay]

We took in an afghan hound years ago that had been named Doshi.

 

[Arik]

A friend has gotten a new dog and has given it strange name. The name over the door on the dog house is: Phydeaux.

How many others have encountered strange names for dogs or other pets?

Oh, by the way, the dog's name is pronounced - Fido!

So it's not so much the name as it is the spelling.

Everyone I know with dogs those dogs have typical dog names. The only strange one I can remember was my aunt naming their Rottweiler Channel. As in the perfume name.

My one friend named his dog Mike. Don't know if that's considered strange

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[OLDSTER]

My pheasant hunting buddy owns a fantastic 8 year old Springer named Bill

 

[hammerfired]

Somebody I used to know had a dog named dee oh gee. Spelled dog.

 

[sheepdawg]

We had a boxer when I was growing up named Jigger.

 

[Bkreutz]

I named a dog Phredd years ago.

 

[kenv1950]

Fido isn't a strange name,heard it all my life

Fido (1941 – June 9, 1958) was an Italian street dog that came to public attention in 1943 because of his demonstration of unwavering loyalty to his dead master. Fido was written about in many Italian and international magazines and newspapers, appeared in newsreels throughout Italy, and was bestowed several honors, including a public statue erected in his honor

 

[nodpete]

Our beagle mix was named ' Stroh's' after the beer that I drank at the time. We took a picture of him sitting on a case of Stroh's and sent it to the brewery and they sent us all kinds of stuff for our home bar.

 

[Ballistic147]

I currently have 4 dogs that are all rescues. Luke, Eddie, Toby, and Rocket. All of these dogs were already named when we got them.

 

[Mickey D]

I had a Brittany Spaniel named Style, and a Conur parrot named Flip.

 

[gman51]

I had gotten a German Shepard puppy and looked down at him and said what shall we call you buster. I named him Buster.

 

[glenwolde]

We had a dog named Fabio. He was a rescue and his previous owner named him Astro. But being a Bichon "Astro" really didn't work. We wanted something that ended in "O" to help with the re-naming. The Mrs came up with Fabio. It was kind of embarrassing when he got out and I had to run around the neighborhood calling his name.

I had a neighbor that gave all his females boy names, and vice-versa. That was weird.

 

[Alpo]

Usually I let my dogs name themselves. Used to have a beagle named Sally. About three months after her first litter she didn't know "Sally" anymore. Answered to Fat Mama.

Was given a Chesapeake named Ivy ("because she's the color of Godiva chocolate"). Two years later she answered to Big Brown Dog.

Current dog came with a collar that said "Jeannie" on it. She doesn't look like a "Jeannie". She was "Nameless Yeller Dog" for about a week, and then she and I agreed that she was the most Worthless dog in the world, so her name's Worthless.

 

[cowart]

Years ago we had a poodle named "Kimo". He was named after the Kimo theater in Albuquerque. I don't recall who came up with that idea.

 

[SAFireman]

A good friend's grandmother had named her pets after WWII Nazi generals. I don't think that it gets more strange than that.

 

[vonn]

I don't think dogs care much what you call them. Mine always came no matter what I called them,they pretty much understood anything I tried to tell them especially if you mentioned eat or food!

 

[BearBio]

When my GSP Maggie died (just a month before), we picked up a male GSP that the pound called "Haggerd" because he was picked up wandering and all beat up (he'd been fighting coyotes). Wife suggested "Hagrid". I thought that's a nice Teutonic name for a German hunter. The next day, I looked it up and found it was the name of the BIG, GENTLE, DARK giant in Harry Potter. At over 100 pounds, he has lived up to his name.



Before his diet!

 

[Mexican Kerry]

My wife let our kids name our shepherd, Hallie (as in Halloween). We got another one a year later and I named him Roscoe.

We had sheepdogs when I was a kid and the neighbors got one of the pups and named him Shadow Clint Eastwood. Really rolls off the tongue!