To think people name their dogs the name they'd have liked if they'd had more DC?

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I keep seeing it among people at the school gates.....or just people I know. "Oh we've called the new Puppy Ella."

"The new dog is called Lola/Max/Poppy..."

It's odd and annoying as I've now met two families who;se dogs share names with my kids! My kids names are not in the above selection

I would never call my dc Fatboy Greedykins. Suits my cat though.

i,m not going to have anymore children and have two boys we are contemplating getting a dog if it was a girl dog i would like to call it a pretty girls name!

Our dog is called Trevor. That name was definitely not on the list. It suits the dog, wouldn't suit the child.

I did things the other way round.

My cat is called Amber, fast forward 7 years and I am starting threads on here such as "can I name my DD after my cat?"

I didn't

My dog is called Dave.

So no

Whilst I concede that my current two have human names (though I wouldn't want to call my child either, they're named after characters out of Wodehouse!), previous dogs have been called ziggy, dash and lady. I have never felt the slightest urge to call a child any of those.

The only condition I had when we were naming our dog was that she didn't sound like a 3rd child
She's called Minnie...a woman at school has just named her baby Minnie!
I agree that people are calling their children dog names more these days rather than the other way round

I don't have children yet, but my dog is called Eric.. Not something I would name my children... I love human names for dogs over doggy names....
Dave as mentioned earlier is awesome!

Surely animals have always been given human names as well as traditional animal ones? What's more strange is when children have names which sound like animal ones. We had a dog called Monty; since then, I've come across several baby Montys.

I did once know a cat called Colin. That was quite funny!

I called DS after my childhood dog - he's called Spot Hoppinggreen!!!
Not really it is a human name

My girl cats had pretty names Annabelle , Sophie and Mitzi . The boys had butch names Arthur and Harry Pusser .We had two kittens that died called Oscar and Samson.

I probably would name all of my mythological children any of those names.

Sorry OP, another one here that doesn't fit your theory - my dog's called Alan! Definitely would not have used it for a DS.

My DC have names which my FIL considers to be "Dogs' Names"

Two of my cars had the names I had set aside for my future DSs (my cars are always male)

I don't have a dog (though the cats had human namrs) and 4 out of 6 of our guinea-pigs had/have human names.

Someone who lives near us has a cat named Sarah, which has always made me giggle, as it doesn't sound like a pet name.

I know people with pets named things like Molly, Jake, Ruby, Alfie, Charlie and Poppy, and they all work on pets (as well as humans).

Sarah just doesn't sound pet-like. Sarah the cat is lovely though!

We wanted to call our ds Oscar but both sets of parents didn't like it.

In the nicest possible way surely it's none of their beeswax! I don't think my parents liked any of my DC's names when I first pitched them, but they've had their turn at naming with me and DSIS so they didn't have to.

I'm not having more DC, so I named the Labrador HullyGully.

I know Notso but we had "that's a dogs name" and "oh it reminds me of Oscar Wilde" with disapproving looks! It was easier to go with our second choice.

My best dog (now deceased) was called Eddie, I also knew a cat called Dave. Friends pug is called Colin - he is so cute.

I was thinking exactly this recently. Our dog's name is however just a leetle bit tool cool and not quite classic enough for an actual human child of ours so it would definitely be on the fantasy list!

Definitely didn't want to call my child Shep!

Honeydragon I wonder if there are any pets out there named after MNers?

It never occurred to me to name my children Panda

A friend of mine has a dog named Oscar.

Guilty as charged.

Dpup has the name that ds3 would have had if he was a girl

No - the dogs definitely have doggy names that I would never saddle a child with :) Domino and Velvet. The cat is called Paige which apparently is a girl's name - she came from the SPCA though, so we didn't choose that one. I wouldn't have called any DDs that either.