"Puppy" needs a name

893bet

Around three years ago one of my dogs (now deceased) went in pup unknown to us. We had no plans on keeping any of the pups and gave them away however we had no takers for one. A female who was very nervous of people for some reason. And still is. She will literally come to no one but my father or me and is very distrusting in general. She ended up staying with us as we grew attached (as you do)!

Any way....

As we had planned on keeping none, she never got a name! We started calling her "puppy" and still do! She even answers to this name!

1) Can I change her name now or would that be too traumatic for her?? I feel puppy is too impersonal for the little lady (and she is far from a pup now).

2) If so.....any ideas?

artanevilla

Well you can't keep calling it puppy after it grows up.

Call it 'dog'.

Corvo

Nah, just keep Puppy. It's actually not a bad name. Better than Trigger.

catallus

Yeah, dog is a good name for a dog.

Whale Oil Beef Hooked

You have the dog 3 years and you have not named it? keep calling her puppy

PandaPoo

We have 7 dogs.

Scoop
Roxy
Butters http://m.imgur.com/JPdXrv4
Fudge
Barney
Homer
Biscuit

Mint Aero

It's ok OP. You can call her after me if you so wish.

Or little lady

Ruu

Benji.

gerrybbadd

Aragh, look at the lil head on her!!!

Adalie! (Add Ah Lee)

the groutch

Kitty

Generic Dreadhead

893bet wrote: »

As we had planned on keeping none, she never got a name! We started calling her "puppy" and still do! She even answers to this name!

1) Can I change her name now or would that be too traumatic for her?? I feel puppy is too impersonal for the little lady (and she is far from a pup now

Seems like if the dog/puppy has no problem with their name and they identify with it, then changing it is a completely superfluous action you're taking only to humour yourself

dodderangler

Call him " help" or " rape"
So when your dog is walking around you can just help or rape just to confuse people

Hoop66

I'm a big fan of giving dogs human names; particularly "old man" type names like Eric, Stan or Wilf.

Dozen Wicked Words

Poppy is the most straight forward name to call her, pup won't notice the difference.

Arsemageddon

Rover - unoriginal but solid

223vmax

ya c unt.

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Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Poppy is the most straight forward name to call her, pup won't notice the difference.

We had to do that with our dog when we were kids, I have two siblings, all of us had strong feelings on what she should be named and by the time (a couple of weeks maybe) we'd reached an agreement on the name she was answering to Puppy.

beyondbelief67

Such a cute little pup, I think it suits her, I'd agree with the other poster that poppy would be best similar to her name or Polly ?

SEPT 23 1989

Shadow

My dog isn't a puppy. I call her puppy. Even though her name is not puppy.

I call her puppsicles a lot too.

kylith

She doesn't know 'Puppy' isn't a name. If it's really bothering you just call her Poppy.

And no, they generally have no bother with changes of name. Say the new name and give her a treat and in a couple of days she'll answer to in grand.

893bet

Cormac... wrote: »

Seems like if the dog/puppy has no problem with their name and they identify with it, then changing it is a completely superfluous action you're taking only to humour yourself

What if the other dogs tease her over not having a "proper" name?

To Elland Back

If I had known what sort of a character my lad turned out to be, I would have called him Nidge

spuddy90

Looks like a "Sally" to me! 😀

To Elland Back

Deleted User wrote: »

My dog isn't a puppy. I call her puppy. Even though her name is not puppy.

I call her puppsicles a lot too.

Pupsadaisydoodles

893bet

223vmax wrote: »

ya c unt.

I dont know you well enough to name her after you but thanks for the suggestion.

To Elland Back

To Elland Back wrote: »

Pupsadaisydoodles

Awwwww I'm calling her that when I go home

the_monkey

chezza

kfallon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=howO-wo7XOM

wp_rathead

What

musiknonstop

Puppy is cute. Don't change it.

Knex*

I refer to most dogs as "woofins".

LOOK AT THE WOOFINS!

And then you roll around on the floor with them like a giant four year old. It works particularly well if said dog is big, like a labrador or some such breed.

Man, dogs are awesome.

ElKavo

Bongo maybe, I always wanted to call my dog bongo. They have all been rescues lately and couldn't bring myself to rename them.

Knex*

Your puppy looks like an unfinished painting.

I'd call her Sketch.

Flibbles

We have a cat called "Cat", she was originally called Thor but we found she took to "Cat" much better.

893bet

I think puppy is going to be retained!

She loves the sun!!

Turtyturd

893bet wrote: »

I think puppy is going to be retained!

Not if it rolls off the edge of that cliff.

Knex*

Turtyturd wrote: »

Not if it rolls off the edge of that cliff.

That's a wall :pac:

Turtyturd

Knex. wrote: »

That's a wall :pac:

That's the joke.

Although I want to know what their cows name is...you can clearly make out the shadow in the first pic.

hatrickpatrick

My dog has about six different names. It probably depends on breed, but she very quickly picks up new nicknames when coined (Labrador)

hatrickpatrick

Also I have strong evidence that dogs understand the concept of names and not just that name = come - if my mum says "Where's Paddy/Patrick?" to my dog she'll come looking for me, same with other members of my family.

cocker5

after three years you've never given the dog a proper name?

My dog is 10 and has a few names... one main name... and a few other silly ones... we call him "pup".. even when he is 15 he will always be know as pup...

age is but just a number

:pac:

Generic Dreadhead

Turtyturd wrote: »

Although I want to know what their cows name is...you can clearly make out the shadow in the first pic.

If OP doesn't respond with "That's my Mother-in-Law" well After Hours just aint ever gonna be the same :pac:

Magico Gonzalez

Nidge

libelula

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Also I have strong evidence that dogs understand the concept of names and not just that name = come - if my mum says "Where's Paddy/Patrick?" to my dog she'll come looking for me, same with other members of my family.

Yup.
My boyfriends sister has a springer who knows everybody in her family's name. If she comes looking to be fed/let out/whatever, and you say "go ask Michael/Alan/Sinead etc.", she'll go beg to that person.

wexandproud

fella on the telly had a dog called ' piss wilie' ,

next dog i get that's gonna be his name

Wompa1

Distrusting of people, eh?

How about: Manson
Dahlmer
Taylor Swift