I am fostering-with-intent a perfectly darling little retriever/spaniel mix that the rescue folks named Prince Charles.
You can see a picture of him here , he’s the third down the page.
He’s very thin, light boned, and delicate. He’s exceedingly gentle and sweet and light on his feet. He needs a good name. “Prince Charles” is unworkable and stupid (although the royalty angle is understandable…he’s a very elegant dog) and “Charlie” is all wrong.
I’m also trying to avoid names ending in “eee” sounds, to avoid confusion when I call my dog, Maggie.
We need a name fast so we can start using it and get him accustomed to it.
I brought up the picture and had my son look at it…he’s pretty good on pet names…and he said the dog’s name is Snow. Ask him (the dog, I mean) if that’s right. Tweak the cat loves her name…
Sort of like a dog named “Sex.”
I like the name Butter, or Butters if you’re a South Park fan. It’s sort of the colour of yore purdy dog, and it has a nice distinctive dog attracting sound. It’s good to have a semi-hard sound for the second syllable. The monks of New Skete reccommend a two syllable name with a vowel sound at the end, like Charlie, Loki, Shiva, Muttley, Bitchie, Smoochy…
You could also name your dog after a favourite outdoor spot of yours, like our dog Tahoe, and my cousin’s dog named Denali. Howzabout Boomer or Boodle (nod to Carl Hiaasen–tho’that dog was a black lab)? Or Pace (pronounced Paw-chay)? It means Peace in Latin.
He looks just like a puppy I used to have, named Thunder. Oooh, I miss that dog.
You typically can’t go wrong with mythological characters… I want my next pup to be named Odin. You could name him Cuchulain, and call him Cuckoo for short. Or Lugh, who’s a sun deity (Lugh roughly translates as “shining one”). Or Nuada.
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Or Lugh, who’s a sun deity (Lugh roughly translates as “shining one”). Or Nuada.