Name Ideas for BIG FLUFFY Puppy / Dog? Share, please...

[Jill]

Harvey and I are getting a new baby. Tentatively, we've picked the name "Dozer" (like a bull dozer), but am not set on that idea. I thought I'd see if any of my creative friends on LB had ideas of what we could name the new boy?

He was born on 4/11 (comes home in 3wks) and is 3/4 Pyrenees and 1/4 Lab.

Would love love love some unique or clever name ideas!

Thanks,

Jill

 

[vickie gee]

Ohhhh, he looks so lovable. He looks like he would answer to anything...but my first thought was Brute, then Zeke. But on second thought he might get big as a mountain so Everest sort of fits him. If you could use another "H" around the place Harlan is a cute name. I also like Duncan for a dog's name.

 

[Sonya]

He sure is fluffy....what about 'Brutus'? He is really cute!

 

[Mona]

Jill, when I read (in your other thread) that you were going to name him Dozer, I thought it was a really good name for him!

 

[susanne]

That's a great mix -- we believe Ella was a mix of Pyrenees/Retriever, although the truth will never be known. I have such beautiful memories of her sitting next to Scarlett, licking her face.

He's reminds me of the wild but gentle giant who looked out for Harry Potter, Rubeus Hagrid

 

[REO]

I vote for Hagrid too!

Big but sweet, yet takes care of business

 

[Jill]

Thanks for the input. Still leaning toward Dozer but not 100% I never actually read Harry Potter nor watched the movies, so that reference is lost on me. I do have the books (audio) but haven't gotten into them. H is of little help. He says every name I suggest, with a couple exceptions, is "fine" and in H speak, fine really means fine. That's not normally the case when I use that word

 

[minih]

Congrats Jill on your new family member! I kinda like Dozer too, I have a feeling he will be big enough to doze thru just about anything lol

 

[susanne]

As you are a Stephen King fan, I'd suggest Cujo, but somehow that doesn't seem like a fair name for such a sweetie...Zombie also misses the mark...I'd say Dozer is good, and especially apt for that big, clumsy puppy stage.

 

[vickie gee]

I was trying to thinky of some more names. When we raised anatolian shepherds I gave them barn names as soon as they were birthed. Sometimes that was a name a minute. I remember that I named one of the pups Boulder because he was so rock solid and one of the bigger pups and he did turn out to be massive. So I was just now thinking along the lines of mass and the name Boson came to me. I quickly associated that one with quarks and thought quarky seems quirky. So next I start to see a pattern that I am stuck on names that start with "B" (already suggested Brute) and this fluffy guy needs a befitting name. Well, since he will be guarding the barn (and everything else in sight) I suddenly thought of yet another "B".

Barnaby

giving it my one vote and two thumbs up

 

[Jill]

Vickie, one name I had been considering is Barny! Kind of thinking alike there

 

[Lizzie]

He's a lovely pup. How about Theophilus? His call name could be Theo. Years ago, I made friends with a big Turkey Vulture, whom I named that. I have several Welsh ancestors, by the same name.

Lizzie

 

[jyuukai]

Oh my god, Barnaby, yes Barnaby! That's so cute! Awesome suggestion, definitely has my vote!

 

[vickie gee]

He's a lovely pup. How about Theophilus? His call name could be Theo. Years ago, I made friends with a big Turkey Vulture, whom I named that. I have several Welsh ancestors, by the same name.

Lizzie

Theophilus is a cool name. There used to be a "bible toting" cartoon character named Theophilus. Theophilus is the character "doctor Luke" was writing to in the New Testament chapters of Luke and Acts. And then on the Bill Cosby show there was the son named Theo. My dad had a friend (now deceased) named Theo. I remember him as a gentle man with class. As my husband would say with an imitation British accent "I like it. I like it a lot." Theo. It has a good ring to it. Long weekend has me silly and happy!

Lizzie, just out of curiousity, how DO you make friends with a vulture? I have memories of seeing buzzards on the sand bars at the river doing that weird ritual where they point their wings down and and stare each other down and walk in a circle doing the stare down. They always reminded me of gunslingers just before a shootout. I am not sure if it was a prelude to a fight or a mating. Far be it for me to understand everything in the animal kingdom. Does anybody else know what I am talking about? It was always so funny. Me and my friends would start humming the music from Clint Eastwood westerns and start copying the buzzards and have our own western Josie Wales style. From that, it was taken to "doin the buzzard dance."

rotsbl (roll on the sand bar laughing)