To be upset about a dog's name

[ThatsABop]

DH and I talked about getting a puppy this year.

My parents and family support one football team. I live in the same area and my young DC go to a school dominated by that same team (they are a bit too young to be proper fans but have all the gear)

My DH wants to name the dog after a famous footballer from the biggest rival team. DH is not a football fan at all but he just thinks it would be funny.

I think its weird and a wind up. He's told me off and said I'm taking it too seriously and I'm losing my sense of humour

AIBU to think its not that funny and he is trying to be arsehole for no purpose? We are now at point of not getting a dog after all.

So basically he wants to use a name he has no particular feelings about from a sport he has no interest in, simply to wind up your friends and family?

Yeah that is a dick move.

Suggest you call it after his most recent ex, cos that would be "so funny!"

A name should be the least important part of a dog.

However, Roger Mugford once said a dog should have a nice name.
Those named 'Kali' 'Tyson' or 'Hades' some other name alluding to destruction or violence seem to follow through- but that may be the type of owner drawn to that type of thing.

It's the daily care and responsibility for making dogs happy and content that is the most important thing.

Dogs often have several names anyway - including nicknames.

Their main one, and shorter versions.

Can you maybe give the dog a Cruft's-style full name and put the footballer's name in that ('Petticoat Gazelle Lineker', or some such bollocks), and then just actually call it some normal dog name? That way DH gets to tell his mates that he's given the dog some highly subversive 🙄 name and you can forget about it.

Celtic a club for all? Apart from Jewish players aye? Throwing bananas onto the pitch when black players played? Making monkey signs to a black rangers player?
And not even mentioning Jock Stein?

How big is that brush?

Oh yes and the celtic fans getting charged in 2016 for "hanging" rangers fans at their game and saying "know your place hun scum"

Leigh griffiths wiping his nose on a flag on the goalpost at ibrox?

But oh yes. A club for all.

I was at Aberdeen match when they were belting out some ditty about the Enniskillen bombing the day after it happened.

Aberdeen were? Or rangers?

I'm Aberdeen,it was against Celtic and as you will know no love lost between and and rangers.

Aberdeen and rangers

Of course. I remember one "rangers" fan shouted something about scott browns sister after a game and it was all over the rangers pages trying to find him to get him banned from ibrox etc. They succeeded And the guy got banned

Back to stupid names for dogs hopefully.

If I ever get a pet I want to call it a human name.

Like Michael or Paul for a cat/dog etc.

Get him a goldfish. He can have his extremely infantile joke that nobody but he will laugh at. You get to name the dog.

I honestly think naming dogs after actual people is offensive and rude.

Haha, I would really really not be making a fuss about that. On the up side, congrats on having a lovely marriage if this is your worst problem.
But yeah sorry I'm with your husband, you sound a bit tight. ( nicely said)

And YOU'RE calling ME a simpleton!
Jesus Christ, you have no idea.
I pity you for being so insular.

No, that's incorrect. The Celtic support have supported Palestine for a long time, way before the current conflict. It's sad to see Liel go, he's a wonderful player.

I’m not the one so in thrall to men with hairdos being paid too much money to play a game that I want to dress up like them and cause trouble. The only dog name I ever thought was offensive belonged to Barnes Wallis. Because it genuinely was.

Getting upset because a dog name is perceived to disrespect your set of overpaid men with hairdos who play a game (and who you like to dress up as) is almost comedically insular. “Us and them” stuff.

I genuinely wouldn't be throwing stones from that glass house of yours. That's really not a drawer you want to open.

And what do you mean about Jock Stein exactly?

Again, showing your ignorance and inability to retain information.
I never dress up as a footballer, I wear a shirt, never the shorts and socks.
I have NEVER caused trouble at a football match, that is reserved for a minority, considering the numbers that don't.
Dodgy haircuts was a thing in the 70s.
It is very insulting to use the name of a player of an opposing team for a dog.

I’ve said YANBU - I do think it would be funny, but I’m from Glasgow & that’s the kind of funny that could get your kid stabbed if they shouted on their dog when out on a walk. I wouldn’t because if that.

I wanted to call our dog Keano, after Roy Keane, but my Liverpool-supporting husband was having none of it.......we eventually reached a compromise by using a non-football-related name. This is a surprisingly common issue among new puppy owners!!

I don't get why one family member's joke pips everyone else's ideas for a name.

Surely if you have kids you let them name it? Or at least put names in a hat and what comes out is it?

You've all got to live with the name for years, at the end of the day. If it's really stupid and is going to make you look a nob head shouting the dog down the park then I'd defo argue against it.

Exactly, sometimes you just have to compromise.

I grew up insisting I'd call my first born Aston (as in Villa, obvs), then shacked up with a Spurs fan. If I'd pushed for Aston, he would have pushed back with Kane etc - not worth the agro.

I have a friend who named her dog Theo (Walcott) and he was sold shortly afterwards. theo walcott not the dog

I think your husband is being very out of order.

I hate ppl like this who would then turn on everyone and accuse them of not being able to take a joke...