# Name our new dogs! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 2, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575 "2016-08-02T19:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/1 "2016-08-02T19:18:39Z")
We just adopted 2 young pit bulls from the Sacramento Shelter. One boy, one girl, both about a year and a half old. they get spayed eutered on Friday and we bring them home on Saturday. Both are smallish for pit bulls and good-natured. (so far as I can tell). They met for the first time last Saturday and seem to like each other. The shelter named the girl Lady and the boy Batman. Lady is brindle, and Batman looks very much like the Dark Knight. While I think it would be really cool to have a dog named Batman, the wife will have none of it. ☹ We are strongly considering Arlo and Ava. (we are both _ **Justifie** d_ fans) But we are still open to suggestions. Have any? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/2 "2016-08-02T19:24:48Z")
I like the idea of Arlo and Ava. Then again, if I had a male pittbull I’d be tempted to name him Vick. After he was castrated, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/3 "2016-08-02T19:25:57Z")
Bonnie and Clyde. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/4 "2016-08-02T19:50:51Z")
Call the boy dog Bruce (Wayne). Barbara (Gordon) for the girl. Batman and Batgirl. StG ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/5 "2016-08-02T20:32:18Z")
Going for something different, how about Bo (for the male) and Jangles (for the female)? ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/6 "2016-08-02T20:41:46Z")
If the dog is being castrated, call him Theon. Name the bitch Cersei. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/7 "2016-08-02T20:48:49Z")
I didn’t come up with this one…but name one “Chew” and the other “Barker” Then call them both at once in your Han Solo outfit. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/8 "2016-08-02T20:56:32Z")
Miles and Ella (or Stella) Ozzie and Harriet Sasha and Bo Thor and Freya Harley and Shelby ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/9 "2016-08-02T21:00:50Z")
Kappa and Theta Goose and Maverick Cherry and Apricot (both have pits…get it?) ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/10 "2016-08-02T22:00:32Z")
Darryl & Rick. (…who is going to mess with you in the dog park if you can call out to Daryl & Rick…?) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/11 "2016-08-02T22:01:24Z")
Name one Happy, and the other Lucky. That way when you call one and send the other away you can say, ‘Happy! Go, Lucky.’ ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/12 "2016-08-02T22:05:19Z")
Squee! Our baby pittie turned 7 months today – good for you on adopting slightly-older siblings. I’d have to see the pups before suggesting names; any chance of pics? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/13 "2016-08-02T22:22:37Z")
How can we possibly name these so-called “dogs” if we don’t even know they exist? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/14 "2016-08-02T22:54:47Z")
Salt and Peppa. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/15 "2016-08-02T23:02:57Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > How can we possibly name these so-called “dogs” if we don’t even know they exist? :dubious: So, Schröd and Inger? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/16 "2016-08-03T00:37:24Z")
Since the male will be neutered call them Peter and Heloise. > **[Peter Abelard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Abelard)** > > Peter Abelard (/ˈæbəlɑːrd/; French: Pierre Abélard; Latin: Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; c. 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician. > In philosophy he is celebrated for his logical solution to the problem of universals via nominalism and conceptualism and his pioneering of intent in ethics. Often referred to as the "Descartes of the twelfth century", he is considered a forerunner of Rousseau, Kant, and Spinoz... ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/17 "2016-08-03T00:47:26Z")
George and Gracie ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/18 "2016-08-03T01:08:28Z")
OMG! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I am the coordinator of the Pit Bull University program there at the shelter and I’m so happy to hear they were adopted. I haven’t been in since last Thursday so I didn’t realize they were adopted. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/19 "2016-08-03T01:32:23Z")
Do **not** name them for at least 48 hours. Live with them for a day or two, learn them & let them choose their own name(s). We _had_ to give OBL a name in order to bring him home. That name _never_ fit that dingbat. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575/20 "2016-08-03T12:12:58Z")
Donald and Hillary. Thank God they can’t mate. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-our-new-dogs/761575.md?page=2)