# SO wants to name new puppy Batman! help! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618 "2004-02-28T14:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/21 "2004-02-29T00:34:31Z")
My dog’s name is Bailey. We’ve always said, if we ever get her a companion, it’ll have to be named Barnum. Bailey’s other names are Bail-bail, Boo-boo, Boo, Bozo, Bozo-Bailey, Boze, Fatdog, and Ol’BailFatdogBaby. If she finds this horribly confusing, she’s never let on as she answers to any of them. Probably because we’ve constantly used them in conjunction with each other. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/22 "2004-02-29T02:01:10Z")
> [@dutchboy208](#): > > Better Batman than Aquaman, no? This thread is a riot, and especially this post. Why? We recently got a lab and my suggestion for a name (overruled by the wife and kid) was Aquaman. Picture the possibilities: “Aquaman, stop drinking from the toilet!” “Aquaman, quit humping Uncle Dave’s leg!” “Aquaman chewed up my slippers.” Man, that would have been great. Just picture your neighbors’ faces as you yelled out the back door, “Aquaman! Aquaman! Get in here right now! Good boy, Aquaman!” I don’t think I ever would have gotten tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/23 "2004-02-29T04:04:14Z")
Why not BatDog? Ardred’s old dog Sydney was a RottenLab (Rottweiler/Black Lab) and had big floppy ears. He would hold her ears out like wings and say “BAT DOG NANANANANANANA BAT DOG” and she’d bark crazily. Batdog isn’t so bad. 🙂 As for discipline, just don’t use “bad” use another word like NO or something silly like MILK because they can’t understand a word you’re saying. As long as your tone and the word stays consistent you won’t have a problem. Though, saying “MILK, batdog!” will make you look crazy to the neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/24 "2004-02-29T05:16:33Z")
If you don’t like Batman, just call him ‘Bruce,’ instead. ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/25 "2004-02-29T07:32:15Z")
If the Batman thing doesn’t work out, you could always call him Krypto. You know, Krypto the Superdog? Superman’s mighty mutt? Member of the Legion of Superpets? Nevermind. Sometimes I lose control over my inner-geek. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/26 "2004-02-29T08:58:52Z")
> [@Johnny Bravo](#): > > If you don’t like Batman, just call him ‘Bruce,’ instead. Yes, and only when he does something wrong do you call him ‘Bat dog’. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/27 "2004-02-29T11:30:43Z")
Well, the SO is doing the Dance of Glee around here now that most everyone agrees that Batman! is a great name. It’s going to take some getting use to. Batman does sort of leap off the sofa in a Batman style, though. I’m old enough (just barely mind you) to remember watching the Batman series on TV as a kid. I’m waiting for the big type-overs to appear. GUUUULP! Batman snatches food off my plate. PSSSSSST! Batman has an accident on the floor. RIIIIP! and so on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/28 "2004-02-29T14:54:39Z")
**Optihut** , I’m not offended, and I do see your point - it would be confusing, though I was under the impression that a lot of animals react to tone rather than syllables, but perhaps dogs are more perceptive. However, I wasn’t recommending this as a course of action - merely remarking on the human propensity to give nicknames to individuals. E.g. when my cousin was born, she was given the name Rita because, as my uncle said at the time, “you can’t make a nickname out of it”. Within a year they were calling her ‘Ritaroo’. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/29 "2004-02-29T16:49:44Z")
You think yelling for a dog named Batman would be embarrassing? I had to yell it across the video store to my _kid_ the other day. I didn’t think it would get to me, but I must admit I was a tad red-faced. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/30 "2004-03-01T17:16:44Z")
> [@FabioClone](#): > > If the Batman thing doesn’t work out, you could always call him Krypto. > > You know, Krypto the Superdog? Superman’s mighty mutt? Member of the Legion of Superpets? > > Nevermind. Sometimes I lose control over my inner-geek. Or, hey, there’s the perfectly serviceable ‘Ace the Bathound’, Batman’s own crimefighting mutt. I think my inner geek can beat up FabioClone’s inner geek. Or be beat up by him. Whichever. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/31 "2004-03-01T17:22:04Z")
I’ve just realised - when it’s time to call the puppy in for his food, you get to lean out the door and yell Dinner dinner dinner dinner Dinner dinner dinner dinner BATMAAAAN! ---
**Author:** ![FabioClone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5f8ce5/32.png) [@FabioClone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FabioClone)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/32 "2004-03-01T17:58:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I think my inner geek can beat up FabioClone’s inner geek. Them’s fightin’ words. Lucky for you, I hyperventilate at the very mention of physical activity. I would challenge you to a battle of wits if I weren’t so formidably outclassed. You win this time **CandidGamera** … but we shall meet again! [Inset Evil Laughter Here] ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/33 "2004-03-01T18:17:06Z")
Glad you decided on Batman. Excellent Dog Name!! And don’t worry about the neighbors when you call the dog - I’ve been yelling “Eightball” when I want Dog2U to come in - I yell Eightball because that’s her name - and they’ve pretty much stopped staring. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/34 "2004-03-01T18:31:24Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I’ve just realised - when it’s time to call the puppy in for his food, you get to lean out the door and yell > > Dinner dinner dinner dinner > Dinner dinner dinner dinner > BATMAAAAN! Okay, you won. I was reading and drinking… and now I just snarfed on my new keyboard. Bastard 😛 (Okay, my new used keyboard, still working, and still under warranty, so not thaaat bad. But still.) ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/35 "2004-03-01T19:12:42Z")
My reply to your SO would be “You can call the dog ‘Batman’ if you agree to clean up the lawn guano.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/36 "2004-03-01T20:14:18Z")
**supervenusfreak** tried to name our relatively new cat “Frankenpussy”, after a Margaret Cho routine. To say that I balked, and balked hard, is an understatement. I told him in no uncertain terms that I was NOT going to be wandering the neighborhood yelling “Frankenpussy!” if she ever got out of the house. So he named her “Princess Chocolate Pudd’n” instead. I hate that one, too, btw. It’s so…12-year-old girl… We’re not letting **supervenusfreak** name any more pets. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/37 "2004-03-01T21:08:14Z")
Really now **jjimm** I have to feed this little guy Every-Single-Day! For Years!!! Do you fully understand what you’ve done to me? Day after day, year after year, Decades! (I hope) I now have to sing Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Batman! I’m feeling a little sick right now. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/38 "2004-03-02T01:17:05Z")
> [@Anonymous Coward](#): > > In a little while he’ll be down to Bats or Batty. No sweat. That’s sort of what my dad did when one of my sisters wanted to name our adopted (female) Husky mix “Starsky”. Dad wouldn’t hear of it and we ended up with a “Star”. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/39 "2004-03-02T03:51:17Z")
Isn’t the name “Batman” the copyrighted and/or Trademarked property of Dectective Comics, Inc.? Tell your SO you couldn’t handle it if he ended up in jail over this. (Not that it’s ever really likely to happen.) ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618/40 "2004-03-02T04:55:40Z")
I named our new puppy “Big-Headed Girl”. My wife calls her “Heddy”. So you could call the puppy “Batty”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wants-to-name-new-puppy-batman-help/231618.md?page=3)