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One scene in Pink Floyds The Wall has an old black and white war movie playing in the background or it could have even be a close up of the TV,I don’t remember, but they are talking about a dog named Nigger,I think he got ran over by a car,but not sure.
[/QUOTE] The Dam Busters from 1954. It’s actually a pretty good movie but the dog’s name is horribly jarring for a modern viewer. Peter Jackson has talked, off and on, about doing a remake, but is uncertain whether or not to try to make the original name fly.
Like others in the thread, I am enormously amused by people-type names attached to animals. If I ever get another cat, I’ll probably name it Walter or something like that.
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That reminds me of one we had at the vet clinic I worked at. The dog’s name was BJ, and the (total bitch) owner’s last name was Free. Our computers printed up consent forms with the owner’s last name first, so it was always “Free BJ.” We enjoyed that.
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My dog’s name is BJ! (But at least our last name isn’t Free.)
It’s been a long while since I’ve heard it, but I think his AKC name is something like ‘General Watson’s Ticket to Ride.’
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I’m thinking that the namers of the WKC dogs are trying to imitate the ridiculous nature of the horse names that are given to racing and show horses.
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But I like the names of race horses. For the most part they seem catchy, clever, and allusive. Show dog’s “official” name just seem nonsensical, most of the time.
We always give our cats half-witted Indian names. Started out with Babu (baby boy), his succesors are Limbu (Lemon), Gundu (Little Rascal) and because you can’t be desi and not rhyme every damn thing, Mishu, orig. Missy.
I’m too transitional right now to own pets but when I settle down I’m going to name my cats Idli and Vada
[QUOTE=nashiitashii]
I’m thinking that the namers of the WKC dogs are trying to imitate the ridiculous nature of the horse names that are given to racing and show horses. Maybe they assume that the dog/horse won’t be embarrassed by whatever they’re named, so they come up with the dumbest name possible so they don’t have to inflict it on future children.
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Not so sure, many times dogs come already named from the breeders. My parents had hunting goldens in the 60s named Tigatho’s brass Tacks and Tigatho’s Copper Penny, nicknamed tiggy and tacky. The kennel they were bought from was Tigatho. For some odd reason my dad also had a black lab named Par [he liked to golf.]
One thing you will see in a lot of show dogs is the official registered name and then a kennel name [nickname’
My friend’s guide dog, Willow, is a cuddly black Lab from the “W” litter, specially bred for guide dog-hood (the majority wash out of the program and become pets). So, while she’s not AKC material (she has wavy ridges of fur on her back) some other official organizations use this system.
My brother has two adopted doggies–the puppy they named Bella (because she is!) and the other came pre-named: Lester. But he looks totally like a Lester, since he’s a beagle/bassett/Sasquatch cross.*
he looks like a giant, lowriding beagle and he sheds like an angora sweater
My brother’s white rat was named Rat, sometimes adjusted to Ratskie. My dad was once heard to say that the rat’s name should be Helen, because he wished it were to hell and gone.
AS for call names - I figure never name your dog something you don’t want it to live up to - I have met very few Bandits, Tuggers, Troubles, Lokis, that I would have wanted to live with!
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I’m a little more disappointed every time I hear of someone else’s animal named Loki. I thought I was being so flipping creative when I was 16! And my Loki-baby is actually fairly well behaved. Certainly the same as Annie, my parent’s other dog.
supervenusfreak had a client in years past whose boarder had two dogs, a rottweiler and a poodle. The rottweiler’s name was Bear and the poodle’s name was Twinkie.
He eventually couldn’t stand not saying anything (the silent snickering was doing him an injury) and told her exactly what a bear and twink were in gay parlance.
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The ridiculous names you hear at dog shows. I got these off the Westminster Kennel Club’s website for 2007. If anyone understands the meaning of these names, please dispel my ignorance (I think part of it has to do with naming the sire/identifying the bloodline).
Happy Hour Highmark Toasty
Fionavar Javahill Topgun
Elmo’s Men are from Mars
Phl’s Aneas of Love Call Seven
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They’re goofy, but as I understand it, they usually somehow reference the name of the kennel and/or names of dogs that contributed to the bloodline. An old co-worker had a Boxer named Clyde, but his registration name was Kennel Name’s Brown-Eyed Clyde. I can’t remember the kennel’s name, but it sounded just moronic as a whole until you understood where it came from. It also keeps from having 50,000, say, Scottish Terriers, registered as just MacGregor. “MacTavish’s Scotty MacGregor” tells the competitive dog people exactly where that particular MacGregor comes from.
Kinda like Michael J. Fox having to use the J. for his SAG registration, because there was already a Michael Fox registered as a SAG member.
As for my own foray into stupid pet names, we have a Beagle/Corgi mix who has always reminded me of Rosebud the Basselope from Bloom County, and I lobbied to name him Rosebud. DH thought that was too girly for a boy dog (even though Rosebud was a male Basselope, who we later found out was portrayed by a female, and…oh, never mind). He is going to make an appearance on our next holiday card in antlers, though.
And our second “Borgi” is Binkley, for another Bloom County character, so I got my 80’s reference.
Our female came to us named Penny, but I know so many human Pennys that she’s become know as The Wee Beastie.
The biggest disaster I’ve ever witnessed was a dog named SID. The girl who owned Sid could never figure out why the dog would never listen and her script with Sid always went as such.
The dog would get excited…
Sid! Stop it! Sit!
The dog would run over to her and get even more excited…
Sid sit! SIT! Dammit SID SIT!
Hmmm… Good job in rendering a command useless.
Why didn’t you just name the dog Down, Stay, or Outside?
Has anyone else ever had a problem with naming a dog Sid?
But he looks totally like a Lester, since he’s a beagle/bassett/Sasquatch cross.*