What did Steve Martin call his dog in The Jerk? Shit Head? 
How about Maggie?
Maggie is a good name. It’s the name of my border collie mix.
Go here:
http://www.ceantar.org/Dicts/search.html
Check all the little boxes. Drag the menu down to “word” (instead of “headword” or “substring”). Type in “trouble,” hit the button.
More words for “trouble” in more types of Gaelic than you can shake a can of pennies at.
I kind of like “Boirey” myself.
I don’t think “Beefeater” would pass your test… :rolleyes:
Our pet names seem to evolve. After a year or two the name has been adjusted to better fit the personality of the animal, usually with two or three iterations.
Yeah, our pet names always got distorted until someone found something that stuck. Like Maggie would probably eventually become Mags.
Ever think of using a Spanish name? When we name our cats we go to a Spanish/English dictionary and look through that. So far we had cats named Lobo (=wolf), Chica (=girl), Pocha (=Mexican-American), and Pinta (=little stone).
I sure there is a Spanish speaker that will tell us that these are not the correct translations but we just liked the sound of Spanish names.
LL
Chloe.
How about Fido? My favorite dog name that as far as I can tell no one has actually ever used.
I’ve offered this utterly perfect name before and it always fails to inspire. Fair enough. Next dog in the 'addi house, male or female will be Fido. That’s a promise.
Unless it’s one of those cute little mini-daschunds and then it’ll have to be “TV’s Frank.”
I’ve always thought Parsnip would be a good name. Don’t quite know why…
Is there something wrong with Damnit?
When I name my pets I always give them a rank along with a simple one or two syllable name. You know, Admiral Boots, Captain Fido. Lieutenant Commander Petie.
Then again, I’m insane.
PS. I once read the PERFECT name for a cat somewhere (it might have been right here on the SDMB): Chairman Meow!
Emma is one of my dogs names…so you can’t use that:)
how about this…Gypsy
I think Rover is a very good name for a border collie.
How bout:
Abigail (Hebrew–father of all joy)
Mara (Hebrew–bitterness, bitter)
Gillian (Gaelic–Youthful)
Giselle (French–promises)
Griselda (German-Gray)
Blanca (Spanish–White)
Washi (Japanese–Eagle)
Wenda (Welsh–White Wave)
Wendy (Welsh-White Skinned)
Wilda (German-Untamed)
IDBB
Does it count if I spelled it ‘Phydeaux’?
The spouse suggested “Poppy” or “Spaz”. Given what I know about border collies, I suggest “Anklebiter”.
My father was a veterinarian for forty-seven years, mostly in small animal practice, and never treated a dog named either Rover or Fido.
You could be the first, if he hadn’t retired.
Regards,
Shodan
I had a border collie/minature collie mix the family named Spunky after the dog on Rocko’s Modern Life. He was bashful when we first got him, so it seemed to work in an ironic way. He made up for it within two weeks by turning out to be extremely hyper.
I just got a female Jack Russell a month ago that I named Ringyo, which two Hungarian girls I used to know told me meant “bitch” in Magyar.
As for suggestions:
Delores
Pogue
Rabies (always wanted to name a dog that)
Ballsniffer (stolen from a George Carlin bit)
Pandora
Well, the puppy has offically been named …Maggie…
(not my first choice, but this is a joint effort involving conference calls across several times zones…)
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, many many good names here.
Pictures of Maggie will be posted later this week… after I figure out the borrowed digital camera 
-Pandora
(upon posting after more than 2 hours sleep, I’ve realized that this whole thread probably should have been in IMHO… my apologies to the mods.)