Friend named her dog after dead mum

[Yummypumpkin]

She can do what she likes.

I am a bit surprised.

It's an unusual name for a dog.

She has just told me and I didn't know what to say. I said as many nice things as possible.

Completely up to her and neither the dog nor her Mum will know.

I think it's nice. My DM has a name that would be great for a dog!

I know someone else who did this. Presumably it is a comfort of sorts to the berieved person.

She can do what she likes.

You've summed it up there, really.

Oh I'm glad you've both said that!

My friend is completely in her right mind. She does not thing the dog is the reincarnation of her mother or anything!

I just wasn't expecting it and then didn't want to.presume by saying, "oh after your mum" in case it wasn't.

I think I will text her to be a bit more enthusiastic.

And of course although I called her mum by her name, my friend called her "mum". So it's not v strange really.

😂I wanted to call my dog after my late dad , as he had a name that would really suit my dog. Turns out DH fancied calling him after his dad too.
He’s a lovely dog, very sweet and both names would have been fine, but we went for a 3rd name so as not to upset any family 😁

Our dog is named after dead FIL!

These are lovely.

It is obviously very much a thing, as they say, and typical of me both to be unaware of this and to worry unnecessarily about a woman in her 60s who is more than capable if calling her dog whatever she chooses!

I would prob do the same. However it would be for a reason. My mum called me by my dogs name, accidentally, at work in front of our colleagues...across the canteen. I answered her. So I would do it as the eternal pay back...in a nice way of course.

I don't think there is anything wrong with what your friend is doing.

Not sure I would do that tbh. I'd find it a bit weird. However live and let live and if someone wants to then totally fair play.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised Op. this is quite a common thing.

If DS had been a girl his middle name would have been after our dog that died. We still gave him that middle initial.

I imagine she wants the comfort and the link of them sharing the name.