Litter of 8 Sprockers ~ help me with names….

[lockdownlady871]

We have had two litters before and have chosen some good ‘non dog names’ by that I mean not human names. Actually we did have one called Bruno….
The mum is called Trouble and Dad is Ted.
many thanks!
ps they are not born for another week so don’t know how many boys and girls but just thought a good place to get inspiration

Names are a human thing though - the dogs don’t care what you call them, they’ll respond to your tone of voice, not what you’re saying.

I can call my dog anything I want on a walk and he’ll look at me.

Conker
Buster
Nobby
Buzz
Frodo
Duke
Willow
Sasha
Bunty
Dixie
Merlin

My dogs absolutely know their names, and a load of other words. It would be fairly hard to do any sort of dog sport or work them if they didn't know what certain words meant.

Exactly. @FickleOcelot @mamagogo1 @FancyBiscuitsLevel
Two of our puppy breeders started using the pet names that we had chosen very early on, so pups knew their name by the time we got them at 9 weeks.
Current girl was known by her registered name by the breeder, but we chose not to use that as her pet name.

Here is a whole load of different names for sprockets (see photo)

I didn’t say they don’t know their names - I said they don’t care what you call them. Rescues change dogs’ names all the time (or give them new ones if they’re strays) - it really isn’t important.

Oberon, Moth, Cobweb, Puck, Hermia, Helena, Titania, Bottom 😁

Oh my dog knows her name - she goes to a dog sitter 3 days a week who also looks after a dog called “pixie” the sitter sends us regular videos and my dog responds to her name, but not if the dog sitter says “Pixie”.

If I call upstairs my dogs name, she appears at the top of the stairs quickly, if I call one of the kids names, she doesn’t.

(the dog also knows if I say “Find [DD’s name]” or “Find [DS’s name]” which child she should go run to. We trained that with the correct named child having a bit of roast chicken which she only got if she went to the right child first, so ddog got that trick fast!)

Dr Sprock
Um ...
That's it
Peaked too soon
Can't think of any more.

Our sprocker is Pickle. Suits his personality.

@FancyBiscuitsLevel
Our dogs have always known their own names, each others name, same with our cats and the cats know the dog's names and vice versa (complicated dynamic in a multi pet household 😁) They also know our names and those of a few favoured people.

Don't quite understand the idea of a dog looking at you if you call it anything, but maybe it depends on the dog. Mine will ignore her own name when it suits her.

My point was more that it doesn’t matter what the breeder calls the puppy, because they’ll soon learn that their new owner calls them Fred, or whatever.

Rescue dogs often arrive in shelters with no name or get their names changed when they’re adopted and nothing bad happens as a result. Dogs don’t actually care what you call them.

Mine responds to all kinds of things - his own name, various nicknames, various questions and phrases - yes, he knows his name but if I started calling him Dave he’d soon respond to that as well.

Imagine shouting some of those across the park!😆

OMG! Ds1 was severely traumatized by that film aged 5! He's 30 now and still not over it!! (Spoiler: Old Yeller is wonderful, saves his owner from all sorts of danger, then gets bitten by a rabid dog(?), and has to be shot! Tough stuff!)

Can we not have a photo?

Just come back to this and seen all the replies this is awesome!
will def keep you all updated, due any day.
we have always named pups this is our 3rd litter. Obvs new owners take their own names but for our 8 weeks it’s our names!
only rule is no human names although we had a Bruno in the first litter.
loving some of the suggestions - have a list now!

Trouble

Uno
Due
Tre
Quattro
Cinque
Sei
Sette
Otto

Awww she’s gorgeous!
we used to name our pups alphabetically.

Apple
Bramble
Cairn
Dale
Ember
Fern
hmmmm can’t think of a G

Zoom seems appropriate for a sprocker

I'd definitely go halloween/horror themed if born this week.

Salem, Midnight, Shadow, Friday (13th), Spook, Hocus & Pocus if you have 2 that look alike, Fright, Fang, Spirit, Rune, Trick, Kruger, Hex, Magic, Wicca, Wednesday, Boo, Phantom... depending on colours/sex!

Oh how exciting. I like these others have suggested: Maple, Willow, Bramble, Bunty & Pumpkin.

Plus- Autumn & Oakley

Pippin
Bramley
Russet
Cox
Gala
Braeburn
Jazz
Granny

Captain
Flack,
Pugh (Pugh)
Barney
McGrew,
Cuthbert,
Dibble,
Grubb.