to not much like this name but not know how best to proceed?

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DD's 18th birthday present puppy.

The name DD appears to be settling on is inoffensive, pleasant and frankly a bit dull. And I don't like it.

She has declined all of my suggestions. What can I do to get over it?

(Yes, I know this is a non-issue but I'll be hollaring this name accross the countryside for the next 16 years)

Our dog is called Emily, but we also call her 'Millie', 'Mills', 'Millsyboon', 'Weasel', 'The Wheeze', 'Measel', 'Louise', 'Meeze', 'Scratrat', 'Witch Bitch'... the list goes on. She answers to all of them

It is perfectly possible to avoid using someone's name, you just call them by an endearment 'dear', 'darling', 'sweety' etc. The problem only comes when you are socialising and want to refer to your darling husband and you've temporarily forgotten his name!

Thinking about it, my ex's sister used to mainly call him 'Nobby' or Dickshed', I thought it was a bid odd, but she was right.

I'm with your daughter. It suits her. (The dog, that is.)
Hepzibah (isn't there a series of books where the house sitter-cum-detective's dog is called Hepzibah?) is OK, if you shorten it to Hepzi, but Agatha - no, no, nooooo...

I call him hun

The dog called Catkins wins the thread.

How about Mildred then? Or Millicent, or Maleficent, anything that could be squashed down to Millie?

(And if you go with Maleficent, there are dog Halloween costumes out there, just saying...)

Cute puppy Dd who has ASD named our puppy Eric. I assumed it was after Prince Eric in Little Mermaid but apparently it was after Bananaman in the Beano He answers to anything, I usually call him Irksome or bloody nuisance tbh. To get him to come back we shout "Hat!" because he ignores Eric but he comes back to "Hat!"

A friend of mine called her dog Knickers. Any poor sod (including her mother) who looked after it ended up walking around the park going 'Down Knickers, get down'.

Or 'Off knickers', right now.

I like the name Millie

Our first girl-bunny was Millie and it suited her perfectly.

Not sure about it for a dog, but it's better than agatha!

It took us longer to name the cat than it did choosing a name for DS..suggestiosn were made then vetoed by other members of the family. DS2 suggested names like Patch...DS1 THEN persuaded DS2 to go with our choice of Ernie....

He tends to get called FuckWit

Ha my little girl is called Agatha so I would definitely call the puppy Millie as Agatha is far too good a name for a dog

'Down Knickers' is classic!

Dog called knickers
Op your pup is adorable and looks like a 'Suki' to me

Can you give her a nickname?

She's very cute. And totally off subject, what is she sat on and did you crochet it, it's lovely!

I don't understand why we name cats, in spite of TS Eliot and the three names, they never come when you call. If you are lucky you will get a disdainful look.

My first cat always came when I called him.

my cats have very inoffensive names, i rarely use them.

the kitten gets called BabyBoy, Dude or Bear more than his actual name.

The other one is currently FatCat or TubbyTabby because well, she's fat and greedy and keeps eating the kittens food!

Omg she is gorgeous!!!
Sorry your names are not good

I think Millie is a better choice than yours OP.

It does suit her.

all small dog should be called either Fang, Savage or Killer - it's that law

because it makes me laugh

Agatha, Hepzibah are both horrible horrible horrible horrible names

isnt it funny how people take offence and really hate names, when they're just a bunch of sounds

My son's cat was called Hermes, after the winged messenger of the Greek Gods. By the time he died, it had been shortened to Mimi (no, I don't really understand how, either...).

The very awkward conversations we... I mean "I"... ended up having with the new local vets when it came to making decisions regarding life or death, and then with the local pet crem... because they all - without exception - assumed he was female rather than the very dominant male he actually was, were horrible.

"Oh, we'll take good care of her..."
"Him."
"...?"
"She's a he."
"...?"
"No, really. I know he was neutered, but really - Mimi's a tom-cat, not a queen!"
"...!?"

Then there's the fact that I wasn't allowed to call my cat Lancelot because my DD insisted he was a Merlin, instead. Now? Now he's simply known as Farty McFarterson because he's ancient and, well, uses an otherwise normal bodily function as a means of clearing the path to the food bowls/sofa/laps/random discarded items of clothing that he thinks look comfy enough to snooze on... He answers to it, too. Usually whilst passing wind, mind.

Millie's pretty inoffensive. And I doubt very much you'll be having to reaffirm her gender when you have to meet with the vets!

I think Millie suits her, perfectly good dog name.

Dd named one of my cats Poppadom.

She also named a chicken Loveheart Pompom. Chicken had to go the vets and Dh rang up and they asked him the chickens name. Rather than deny it had a name or make a more sensible name up he told them it was called Loveheart PomPom. He then had to sit in the waiting room and be called by "Loveheart Pompom please". I pissed myself laughing when he told me!