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Help me name my new dog!
Oct. 24th, 2017 07:57 am Posted this to LJ yesterday, I always forget to crosspost. Eventually I'll get used to it.
I adopted a dogtoday yesterday! (Officially adopted -- she lived with me for a trial period for a little over a week.)
So she's a 6 year old wire haired fox terrier and she has the unfortunate distinction of having a name that rhymes with Finn. Her name is Erin. When you call Erin out loud (or scold her for stealing food for example), Finn has a REALLY hard time telling the difference. And he thinks you're calling him. Or scolding him. (It was HIS food she stole by the way, so here he is, thinking I'm correcting him for eating his own food. He was very upset!)
(In case you forgot!)
Erin, for her part, doesn't seem super confused. I think it's because she is hearing the "Er" part of her name and not paying so much attention to the "in" part.
So I need to rename her.
I know what you're thinking. How heartless and cruel! She's had that name for 6 years. Well I've looked into it and most experts say you can rename a dog and they will be fine with it in as little as a week, possibly two weeks. And an often cited great reason to rename a dog is that the new name sounds too much like the name of an existing dog in the household. So I'm gonna go with that.
Fun fact: I've never named any of my dogs even though I've lived with dogs my entire life. I have only named one cat (Dodger Fitzgerald).
Anyway so I'm trying to decide on names for her and this is what I've got. Help me pick between them:
- Sunday (maybe spelled Sundae)
- Zelda (as in Fitzgerald)
I considered naming her Po/Poe after Poe Dameron (Finn and Poe, since Finn is named for the Star Wars character) but unfortunately it sounds too much like the word "No." And I think that's a no-no. Haha. I could maybe be convinced otherwise, however. I'm sure Bo Obama got over it.
But right now it's a dead heat between Zelda and Sunday. I love them both equally although I do look forward to calling her "Queen Z" as a nickname. Haha. (But Sunshine would be really cute too. Omg!)
See? I am just like Chidi on The Good Place. Cannot decide anything. (Also if I name her Zelda, Sunday could easily be her middle name... Lol. I'm the worst.)
I adopted a dog
So she's a 6 year old wire haired fox terrier and she has the unfortunate distinction of having a name that rhymes with Finn. Her name is Erin. When you call Erin out loud (or scold her for stealing food for example), Finn has a REALLY hard time telling the difference. And he thinks you're calling him. Or scolding him. (It was HIS food she stole by the way, so here he is, thinking I'm correcting him for eating his own food. He was very upset!)
(In case you forgot!)
Erin, for her part, doesn't seem super confused. I think it's because she is hearing the "Er" part of her name and not paying so much attention to the "in" part.
So I need to rename her.
I know what you're thinking. How heartless and cruel! She's had that name for 6 years. Well I've looked into it and most experts say you can rename a dog and they will be fine with it in as little as a week, possibly two weeks. And an often cited great reason to rename a dog is that the new name sounds too much like the name of an existing dog in the household. So I'm gonna go with that.
Fun fact: I've never named any of my dogs even though I've lived with dogs my entire life. I have only named one cat (Dodger Fitzgerald).
Anyway so I'm trying to decide on names for her and this is what I've got. Help me pick between them:
- Sunday (maybe spelled Sundae)
- Zelda (as in Fitzgerald)
I considered naming her Po/Poe after Poe Dameron (Finn and Poe, since Finn is named for the Star Wars character) but unfortunately it sounds too much like the word "No." And I think that's a no-no. Haha. I could maybe be convinced otherwise, however. I'm sure Bo Obama got over it.
But right now it's a dead heat between Zelda and Sunday. I love them both equally although I do look forward to calling her "Queen Z" as a nickname. Haha. (But Sunshine would be really cute too. Omg!)
See? I am just like Chidi on The Good Place. Cannot decide anything. (Also if I name her Zelda, Sunday could easily be her middle name... Lol. I'm the worst.)