# Help name my new (maybe) dog! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437 "2009-09-17T13:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/41 "2009-10-01T19:42:19Z")
I think we’re going with “Toby”. Toby and Tilly has a good ring to it, it pulls some noises from “Bob”, and it’s The Office related. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/42 "2009-10-01T19:47:38Z")
My friend has a Tobey, who is occasionally referred to as Toblerone. Happy times with your doggie! ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/43 "2009-10-01T19:48:53Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Doggie Howser (for Dick Howser, not the TV show). I knew a Doogie Bowser, M.D. The M.D. stood for My Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/44 "2009-10-02T16:40:28Z")
Best pet name of all time: **Askit.** As in, “What’s your dog’s name?” “Askit.” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/45 "2009-10-03T10:11:46Z")
He has a very big nose, wonder where he is from… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/46 "2009-10-03T10:38:05Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I think we’re going with “Toby”. Toby and Tilly has a good ring to it, it pulls some noises from “Bob”, and it’s The Office related. Bad plan. If an African-American were passing by, he could be quite offended, as that name has certain connotations. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/47 "2009-10-03T10:46:27Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Bad plan. > > If an African-American were passing by, he could be quite offended, as that name has certain connotations. Simply by hearing the name Toby? He needs to get the fuck over it. Although now I realize what those throngs of protesters outside the Spider-Man movies were on about. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/48 "2009-10-03T17:29:29Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Bad plan. > > If an African-American were passing by, he could be quite offended, as that name has certain connotations. Why? Because it was the name of a movie character from the 1970s? Fuck that. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/49 "2009-10-05T04:25:51Z")
For the record, my malamute has now been home for two weeks. I hadn’t had inspiration for a name, but on each of the first two nights that he was home he had a panic attack from loneliness. And not a small panic attack, either - full-blown ones with screaming, crying, howling, biting at the baby gate he was behind and a loss of bladder control. The council received a call from one of the neighbours alleging animal cruelty. So he’s now known as “Morrissey”. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-my-new-maybe-dog/510437/50 "2009-10-05T04:35:28Z")
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