…to ask what’s the best dog name you’ve ever heard?

[Whadda]

Funny/cute/witty/daft… let’s hear ‘em.

I met a dog at the park recently called furlow.

I have a guide dog, and one of the great fears of guide dog owners is that we’ll get a dog with some god awful name.

In general the litters all have a letter attached, so if you think about naming 10 puppies with something beginning with q, then it’s inevitable that some interesting names will emerge.

However now we have the added complication is that a lot of the dogs are sponsored, and if you raise over £2500 to sponsor a puppy you get to name it. In theory guide dogs retain the right of veto over sponsored names, even though you have to submit 3 different names.

But e.g. Vauxhall sponsored a dog a few years ago and it was called Vectra. Some airline sponsored one called runway, and so on.

My DP has a dog who was also sponsored, and which is a name I didn’t think I could take to. However it’s unique in that he’s the only guide dog ever with that name. Which is why I sadly can’t reveal it as it could be outing.

I’m on my 4th dog now and fortunately they’ve all had fairly normal names.

Floyd, the best dog, recent passed away.

Charlie and Malcom are great names too that i ve used.

Lassie, of course.

One of our rescue dogs came with that name and we never found a better one so kept it.

We all learnt her name on her first day. It took Lassie a while longer.

Sprocket was the dog on Fraggle Rock.

I also know of a dog called Taxi. Friends had a dog called Benson and a cat called Hedges.

We’ve named all our cats after stars, particularly ones that aren’t very bright and are hard to find. Current cat is Eta Delphini. She’s known as Bob.

A bonkers jack russell called Yogi, 2 beautiful great Danes called Barry & Barbara, and a sausage dog called Daphne. They all belong to various neighbours, and none of them are a match for my no-nonsense ginger tabby cat Bob

When I was a kid myself I had a dig called baffia ( think Baffia against vampires) 😃

But I couldn't pronounce it and called her MAFIA instead. She was poodle and sausage dog cross 😃

@Unicornspirit
My dogs name is Trigger 🤣 and I tried to get one from a rescue called Del Boy 💕

@WhatALump

When my exh (named Dave) and I got our first dog we named him Rodney. After Dave.

our dog Dave was going to be Rodney, but we couldn't use Rodney so we called him Dave.

He is a real Dave, as well.

@BearSoFair

Sausage dog at the park - Toulouse

Love it!

@wannadisc0

My in laws dog is called Arnie Schnauzernegger 😁

Round of applause

A former dog of ours was called Bonkers - not our name, we inherited from friends who couldn’t keep him. He was a lovely boy, so good with children.

A colleague had a pair of Rottweilers named Monkey and Drum which I always thought were great names for them

A little black lab cross called Wayne.

We named our cats after stars that aren't very bright and hard to find

I love it @MooseBeTimeForSnow

D-O-G

Pronounced Dee-Oh- Gee

Ie. Dog spelt out.

Dr Barker!

Splodge the Dalmatian always made me laugh.

OI (as in OI stop that !)

Fenton is still my fav for obvious reasons (Feeeeeennntooooon)

A cat called merlin! Or as people have misheard ‘melvin’

@Unicornspirit

Brother and sister, Boycie and Marlene. Awesome names for dogs

Brilliant .

My MILs two cats are Sid and Nancy.

A shooting acquaintance had a disobedient spaniel which I was informed was called Ted You Bastard.

I met a Pug called Pam recently which I found very amusing. Also a very big poodle called Alan.

Whoopy the black lab
(Was initially called Puppy but it grew up!)

Fluffy the HUGE bull mastiff

Scrumptious the Pekingese

Butch - so named as was going to a local butcher, Butch was supposed to be a boy, Butch was a girl and remained Butch for her very long life.

Martin Bishop