My friend used my baby name for her dog!!

[Stillmonday]

Spent ages thinking of a name we both love and low & behold my work friend has just used it on her new puppy!!

The only saving grace is that she's left work so chances are we will just be Facebook friends from now on as we live quite a distance from each other etc.

But it has put me off using the name now.

So we feel we are back to square one. We like names ending in y and not too popular.

no reason you can't still use it!

The kid will probably love sharing a name witth a dog

dog life expectancy is only about 10 anyway, so not a life long doubler

Get a dog and give it your friend's name.

I agree - it's just a dog and you're only going to be facebook friends don't let it affect your decision. Also agree with above pp - name your next pet after her (or pretend you have - maybe a nice bald rat or something..)

The dog will probably be dead before your child is out of primary school

Use it still

The dog will probably be dead before your child is out of primary school

How do you work that out?

Use it!

My chosen name for DC #2 (due later this year) also happens to be the name of my parents' best friend's dog. My parents will absolutely hate it! But they hated DC1's name too so I kinda find it hilarious that they'll see it as a dog's name and be horrified yet again

My friend gave her cat the same name as my ds.

I didn't care.

Dogs don’t live that long OP, go for it.

My parents gave their puppy my name. I don’t mean the name I was planning on giving a child, I mean my actual name.

I named DS after my childhood dog so it really wouldn’t bother me

I’d still use it 🤷‍♀️

Is it lassie?
Id still use it

GreatDuck

The dog will probably be dead before your child is out of primary school

How do you work that out?

Because googling says dog life span is 10-13?

It's no big deal. Either use the same name, or choose another. There are LOTS of names ending in Y...

Tilly, Rosie, Keely, Kelly, Lacey, Kylie, Molly, Polly, Maisie, Gracie, Lainey,
Carly, Charley, Lexi,
Tommy, Robbie, Charlie, Marty, Artie, Bartie,

"My parents gave their puppy my name. I don’t mean the name I was planning on giving a child, I mean my actual name."

WTF, Agatha! I'm a bit stunned by that. Did they say why?

She’s just some woman you’ll occasionally hear about via FB.

Why on earth wouldn’t you still use it?

This made me laugh. My brother named his dog after me. Think it will be fine!

Also I say named after me, it wasn't even that complimentary, he just called the dog it without thinking about me apparently.

I have a fairy unusual name.

I was thinking primary school meant age 6 but yes I get it now.

All these comments are swaying me back to using the name.
I think i doubted it as our mutual friends / colleagues might say that I named my son after her dog - but like you say - I shouldn't care less!

I really wouldn't let it put you off. Is she even that close of a friend that youll see her regularly ? Or is it more like in a few years she'll be 'someone you used to work with' .
I wouldn't let it put me off. A girl I worked with had a dog called Phoebe ! My girls name . But I don't work there anymore and don't keep in touch with her , didn't even think twice about it lol

Most dogs I know these days have human names rather than traditional dog names anyway. On my street alone there are dogs named Bella, Graham, Poppy, Eliza, Sebastian and Lara. Don't let it bother you and go with the name.

Literally no one will think you named your child after a random ex-work colleague's dog. No one.

What is the name?

Is it a proper human name?