how did you come up with yours
max just looked so regal like maximus he just had to be called that
and axl was so ginger we had to call him axl after axel rose in guns and rose lol
how about you??

Gawd knows how we came up with the name Woody, he should have been called hoover hes eaten most of my house

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RIP all my babies.
Monty LabxGSD 1972-1982
Jody Black Lab1982-1999
KizzyLabx Goldie 1983-1994
Larry Yellow Lab 1985-1993
Charlie Black Lab 1986 -1997
Ben Yellow Lab 1985-1999
Pud Choc Lab 1989-2003
Bridgit Black Lab 1991-2004
Floss Yellow Lab1992-2006
Millie Yellow Lab1994-2010
My boy Ted, my first my last my everything.Golden Retriever 1/8/98-28/6/2011

Jakes racing name was Shakey Jakey, so we kept him as Jake. Dylan had his name when he came to us too.

Blue was called Kyte when we got him, but he's a lovely steel grey/blue colour... so we went with Blue!

Alfie - suited him when he was a little tiny puppy and suits him now he's a little old man

Harvey, no special reason, it just suited him!

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''Dogs are like chocolates, you can never have just one!''

Dottie was originally called Dorothy but her 2nd owners nicked named her Dottie for short, when we got her she was all white with just solid black patches...then after a few months she became covered in dots! And her big trademark one on her nose!

And Charlie my sister just thought of the morning after we got him, she kept calling him Charlie and I said "Its not Charlie is Shadow! (his original name) but then we decided Charlie suited him more and it stuck!

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Tummel is named thusly because we both adore Perthshire(the county in which the river, loch, bridge and valley of that name are found, the area is especially gorgeous but very touristy) and it's somewhere we'd love to move to one day Also we were actually looking for a lab pup and liked the idea of going with Scottish places/words as a name).

Nelson... recommended by "breeder" amongst a list of names. We all liked it.
Emma... previous owner had already changed her name from Pasha. Didn't think it was fair to change it again.
Daisy... As the american bulldog is a banned breed in some parts of germany we wanted a gentle, harmless name. We recently saw something about the Dukes of Hazard. Name just clicked.

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I haven't got a clue where Dixie's name come from, she was an impulse buy (oops, lol) and as I was carrying her from her ''breeders'' to my house the name Dixie just popped into my head.

Dave... was the last born of a litter of 9. After going through all the regular nicknames relating to colour or markings like ruby, smudge, patch etc got to the last one and could not think of any more. So I said ''Dave, that'll do'' and when we decided we were keeping him the name had well and truly stuck!

Millie already had that name well she used to be called Missy before her prev owners got her and then they tried to change it back. I love the name Millie for a dog though.

Xiva... not really sure tbh! I wanted something different, something that didn't sound like the other dogs' names. In the end it was between Diva and Xiva and both can be made from letters of Dave and Dixie, just decided I liked Xiva more (pronounced zeeva).

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All of mine except one ended up keeping the Names they came with as they were all rescues, the one that we were going to change Daisy, no one could agree on what to anyway, so Daisy she stayed.

Kobi our one purchased pup became Kobi, as our first dog was a Samoyed, Kobe was a famous early Samoyed Kennel Affix, and he had some Kobe dogs in his pedigree (He was a vets notice board/private rehoming so the owners passed on his pedigree) So my daughter chose it sort of in memory of Tzar our first dog, we just changed the spelling.

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maddie is short for madelaine (the rag doll from bagpus) i like "propper" names esp old fashioned names. we have maddie, mabel the cat the chinnies are jemima, annabel and florence(flo)
dearly departed cats have been agatha, tabatha and missy

Maya was a stray, the kennels named her Ice. I did not like it and knew I would change her name. The day before I went to go see her I had been watching eight below so when I saw her I thought, she reminds me of Maya. I still swear to this day her name previously was Maya because she responded to it instantly.

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R.I.P Barney, I had 4 wonderful years with you, Thank you-29/04/06-25/11/09
The dog who saved my life
Proud owner of Maya, the Rescued Alaskan Malamute

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