Help me name my new dog!

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
#1

To celebrate my new job and my first payday, I adopted a dog from the pound. I picked him up today after his neuter. He looks just like an English setter, although he’s a couple inches smaller than the breed standard. He’s white with liver freckles all over his body. He’s very calm and gentle, and I was thinking possibly Darcy, after the English gentleman in Pride and Prejudice, but my family thinks Darcy is too effeminate a name for a male dog. Other possibilities are Ronan or Alastair. Any other suggestions are welcome.

Hopefully I’ll be able to take pictures tomorrow.

StG

#2

If you wanna stick with the English Lit references, I’d vote for “Linton”, the name of Cathy’s husband in Wuthering Heights.

#3

How masculine are we going with this name?

#4

Cuthbert? A nice old english name.

#5

Benedict?

#6

My sister said “Spot”, because of the freckles. When I said I wanted something more dignified, she said “Mr. Spot”. I’m not wedded to literary or British names, (although I’m thinking about Mick, too). I want something easy to call when out in the fields. I don’t need something that is testosterone-filled, but Darcy sounds like a girl’s name.

StG

#7

Guy in motel room next to Navin Johnson: “You should call him Shithead.”

#8

I always thought “Magnus” would make a good dog’s name.

#9

Sex! Sex is always a good name for a dog…

(…what, am I the only person who knows this joke?)

#10

As promised, here are dome pics of the new boy. Hopefully better pics to come.

Setter 1

Setter 2

Setter 3

My horse

StG

#11

how about Van-Illa - and call him Van?

#12

You should call him Bob. If, like me, you already have a goldfish with that name, you could call him Bob Jr.

#13

Ghost
Spirit

Misty

Smokey
Smokey Joe - From the song not the grill.

#14

Based on photo #2 I say Rudder

But I really do like Mr. Spot. So many Star Trek jokes just waiting to happen.

(He’s a lovely dog, you two will have so much fun together)

#15

If Darcy is too effeminate, how about Darby, or Dabney?

Or you could be like my grandfather who named all of his male dogs “Boy”. It seemed to work pretty well - “Here Boy!, Sit Boy!, Speak Boy!”

Seriously, I think Darby would be a pretty good name for a setter.

#16

I like Cuddy.

#17

He looks like a Winthrop to me. I don’t know why.

#18

I like:

Winston

Frederick

Sherlock

#19

My suggestion would be a name that is, or reduced to one sylable. For example my dog Foxie is called Fox. The reason is practical. If the dog takes off to chase a squirrel, and the squirrel happens to be on the other side of the street, and there is a car coming, by the time you yell "Winston Molly Siegried stop! " you got a dead dog in the street. FOX SIT! is a lot faster and more efficient. One, maybe two sylables is your best bet. Of course proper obedience training is a given. Around here itcosts about 50 dollars for the basics. And they don’t train the dog, they train you how to handle the dog. I went through it with Helga, and again with Fox. It really is a bonding sort of thing. Beyond that, you are on your own.

#20

Just don’t name him John Jacob Jingheimer Schmidt.

That’s my name.