Strange Dog Names

[Big Cholla]

My Father raised English Pointers and Brittany Spaniels. My Father was from the south but his family were transplants from Indiana and so were northern sympathizers. His Pointer that I remember the most was "General Sherman". But to balance it off he named a female "Lone Sara". That was the name of General Lee's favorite everyday riding mare as opposed to the one that got all the publicity, 'Traveler' who was a parade horse. The most fun dog of my Dad's hunting pack was an Springer Spaniel named "John Henry Jones". John Henry was a dog about town and left his offspring all over for several years.

My most favorite Doberman stud dog from my Dobie years was named "Kofa's Kyplan von Tigre" by the kennel that I bought him from. I called him "Kyp" which is sort of like the Engineering term "kip" that means 1,000 pounds of whatever. I had a female dobie give berth to three puppies in my study one night sort of unexpectedly. I named them "Juan, Too and Trey". They all turned out to be great dogs. Today we have; "Ms. Mattie Jo" a 90 lb. Italian Mastiff/Pit Bull; "Rose Bud" a Fox Terrier/Yorkie and "Harley D. a purebred Shih Tzu. Ms. Mattie Jo was a 'save' from the very southern tip of Nevada, so of course she had to have a deep south name.

I also know a "Gritty Sue" Coonhound, "Foxy", a Pit Bull that is a wonderful dog, a "Bentley" that is a GSD and a bloodhound female that is....."Elizabeth Taylor". She lets her friends call her "Liz". .......

 

[JSR III]

I have a 3yr old female Irish Setter named Kaitlyn and an almost 6 month male named Kasey.

Prior to that we had a brother and sister named Reagan and Reilly.

Top of the morning to ya!!!

 

[tndrfttom]

"Red Line" was the mascot for the 91st Bomb Group which was located in Kimbolton and Bassingbourn England where my dad was stationed in WWII. He was a mixed breed - mostly black with some white markings. Some say he made the voyage from the US to England when the 91st ground echelon went over on the Queen Mary; others say he was a local dog that got onto the base. He had the run of the base, was allowed in the mess hall and got plenty of spam from the ground crews when the planes were in the air. How he got the name "Red Line" isn't clear. Some say it referred to the red line on air speed indicator. The other version was that it came from the aircraft readiness table: A red "X" meant the aircraft couldn't fly, a "red line" indicated that the aircraft could fly but had restrictions and no mark meant the plane was combat-ready.

 

[bullmack]

I know a guy who bought a husky and his daughter said it was everything he wanted in a dog - so he named it Every.

 

[kozmic]

What would be a good name for this one?

Proudofhisfarts!

 

[steamloco76]

My wife had a beagle mix named Muttels. Our first adopted dog was Lexxa and we now have Crystal, both named by the shelter.

Here is a not so great cell phone shot of Crystal. I often call her Crystal Meth because she can be a complete spaz. She also grunts and snorts like a pot bellied pig. We think she may have been raised in a home with a pig. Seriously, we had a yard sale last summer and people kept asking if we had pig on the porch. She'd barked herself horse and could only grunt, snort and pant!

P.S., I had a very inquisitive Flemish Giant doe rabbit which I named Nebby, the western PA term for Nosy.

 

[Arik]

I grew up with a lot of pets so I won't name them all, just some of the more unusual names. Growing up we had a female cat named Helman. I think named after my Dad's partner when he was a PO. Then we had a Dalmatian named Bertha Butt. My sister named the dog. I think there was a crazy song from the 70's about a cave man whose woman was named Bertha Butt. When the dog would wag her tail her whole rear end would sway. We had a polydactyl cat I named Wolfgang. We called him Wolfy for short. My aunt called him Sasquatch. My dad called him PITA. He was quite the ratter but liked to bring them to us alive.

Some of you know we care for two colonies of feral cats. They have all been fixed but sometimes new ones come along. They only get named once they get fixed. Some of the more fun names are Stubbs McCoy (she has a stubby tail), Bram, Kina, Finn.

Around Halloween I was naming 3 kittens and mama. I was struggling so a friend suggested a Halloween theme. We came up with Riply for the mom (Aleins) and Dexter, Boris (Karloff), and Edgar Allan Poe for the kittens. The kittens were too feral to tame except for one, which I am only half heartedly trying to find a home for.

Here is Edgar. There is a resemblance, no?

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[Arik]

Our whippet rescue is named Petra. That was her name before us. Our particolor cocker is Rocky. AKA, Rock, Rockhead, Doofus, You Idiot, Dammit Rocky!

Hahaha ... I think we share the same dog. Mine is a whippet/rat terrier mix, named Rocky who I call Doofus and all the other names you listed!!!

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[glenwolde]

I have a 3yr old female Irish Setter named Kaitlyn and an almost 6 month male named Kasey.

??after the Jenners?? Kaitlyn (aka Bruce) has a daughter named Casey.

 

[Gamecock]

My oldest brother named a dog "Dammit."

I always got a chuckle when opened the kitchen door and yelled at it to come home.

 

[wuluf]

My daughter has two cats she named Moose and Squirrel.

Just realized I've never met a dog named Rover..

 

[the ringo kid]

Probably a Zappa fan?


My friends have a pair of peafowl named Harold & Maude.

NEVER TRUST A DOG (PERSON) WITH TWO FIRST NAMES. Sorry for caps.

 

[the ringo kid]

When I rescued this dog from destruction his name was "Dillinger" :

I quickly gave him the call name of "Buckethead" as you could "swish" a donut down his gullet without touching the "rim". He was sentenced to the pound for getting in a fight with a German Shepard and putting 70 stitches in the poor dog's face. It was a "dog thing" that had to do with the Shepard feeling he was protecting "his" children.

Otherwise, the dog was like Ferdinand the Bull in that he was completely mellow, not aggressive at all is size may not be apparent from the photo but he weighed in at 130 lbs and was quite wide.

digiroc

Believe it or not? but when I was in Law Enforcement, one of my partners name was: John Dillinger.

 

[the ringo kid]

What would be a good name for this one?

Clown? .........

 

[the ringo kid]

Here is a not so great cell phone shot of Crystal. I often call her Crystal Meth because she can be a complete spaz. She also grunts and snorts like a pot bellied pig. We think she may have been raised in a home with a pig. Seriously, we had a yard sale last summer and people kept asking if we had pig on the porch. She'd barked herself horse and could only grunt, snort and pant!

P.S., I had a very inquisitive Flemish Giant doe rabbit which I named Nebby, the western PA term for Nosy.

Looks like a dog I had and loved when I was a toddler. She was an English Shepard named: "Friskey." I miss that dog so much that Friskey was used again with another black-curley-haired dog we had who was a mutt-but a great mutt.

 

[Fat Frank]

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.

Seems like as long as I can remember, nearly everyone I've ever met has either had a dog, or knew of someone who did, named Toby.

Not sure what to think of that.

 

[paul641]

Our white shepherd Gone now a few years was named Crisco

 

[pawngal]

Had a Golden Retriever AKC registered name was Jenny's Golden Cadillac because he cost so much in vet bills. (he couldn't stay out of barbed wire fences)
Other dag names over the years were Blackie, Penny, Pipsqueak, Goldie, Mandy, Boji. Belle, and Shadow(current hound)

A friend had cats, one was Speedy and one was Hungry.

 

[Inusuit]

Batai from an episode of Star Trek Next Generation. Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof. Both rescue mutts.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

What would be a good name for this one?

...Winston...looks a little like Churchill...but he has that Charlie Chaplin mustache...so maybe Charlie...