BS: Help name our new dog?

Subject: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 04:33 PM

Our Luna was bored and needed a playmate, so today we went to Pet Smart and met with the Petsamaratins who drive over from Utah, every other weekend to adopt out dogs. They had a ten month old border collie, which looks more like a McNab BC, like our old Merlee. Anyway, she came home with us and she and Luna are getting along great, as are the cats and grandson with her. Looks like a GOOD fit. I told Rog we could consider her an early b-day present to me.:-)

Anyway, her previous owners claimed they'd had her since she was two months and only noticed when she was ten months that she was a girl and squatted to pee on their perfect grass, so they turned her in! Idiots!

So, her name right now is "Minnie" which none of us like and it doesn't fit her personality, so how about some suggestions? I think it'd be best if it had the same sound at the end as "minnie," but different.:-)

She is sweet, fast on her toes, and looked like some kind of so-fast-it-was-a-blur-fish when going after a ball a few minutes ago. She can leap at least five feet, all four feet off the ground and shows the BC intelligence.

So put yer thinking caps on and the winner gets a prize to be determined.**bg**

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 04:50 PM

Well you already have 'Luna' (Lunar).. so how about 'Sola' (Solar)?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 04:56 PM

Jamie

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 04:56 PM

I think you should live with her for a while until the right name suggests itself.

Our cat was officially named M&M but after a couple of months his real name became obvious and now he is "Floppy Cat"

From what you have said so far "Speedy" might be an option, but give it a few weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:00 PM

How aboutb Sylvie?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:33 PM

How about Squat?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Neil D
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:47 PM

Annie?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:51 PM

Chewy? Jumper? Piddles?

Wait. She'll name herself.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Amos
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:52 PM

Maximinnian?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 05:52 PM

LOL...thanks, folks! From the suggestion of Sola, we are thinking of going with Soli/Sully or maybe la dulce only pronounce it "dull-see."

Can't go with Sylvie due to my dad's widow, Sylvia, not one of my fav. people.:-)

Definitely like unusual and, like Bert says, we may have to live with her for awhile before the right one comes up. Keep 'em coming, folks, and thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 06:44 PM

Well, you love her, don't you? You think she is sweet?

So

HONEY

~☺Michael☺~

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:04 PM

I'm kinda leanin' toward "Tik"...

You know, Luna 'n Tik...

B:~)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,olddude
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:13 PM

Spaw would be a good name.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:18 PM

Border collie... female..

Walter Scott's ballad heroines tend to be nameless or have one of a small collection of token names (Jane, Jeannie, Janet....), reflecting the status of women in that primitive society... but Madge Wildfire has a ring to it, and will appeal to Hearts fans.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:21 PM

Tia-TIA?
TIA Thanks In Advance
Tia Maria
Tia Greyhound rescue group
(But, not a transient ischemic attack)
TIA

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:29 PM

Dan... "Spaw"

One syllable, which is important when naming a non-human, and just seams to be a good name.

Kat... "She is sweet, fast on her toes, and looked like some kind of so-fast-it-was-a-blur-fish when going after a ball a few minutes ago. She can leap at least five feet, all four feet off the ground and shows the BC intelligence." Reminds me of Spaw, mentally at least.

>;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Ed T
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 07:30 PM

Jessie, the dog from the satirical novella Animal Farm by George Orwell, is portrayed as a Border Collie in the 1999 film version

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 08:19 PM

How about "Puter", so when she is out and you want to call her you would shout "Come-puter".computer.
Or how about "Arf". So when you are calling her you would be shouting ARF!, Arf! arf!

I know they are old jokes. Here are a few that sound close to "minnie".
Bonnie, Angie, Annie, Brownie and Aggie. I like Bonnie.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bert
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 08:21 PM

Gnu, the only time old Spaw gets all four feet off the ground is when he's on the job.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 08:40 PM

Not at all meeting the rhyme criterion but fits with her high jumping: Pogo.
Closer to the rhyming thing: Ricochet (Rickie for short)

I wouldn't worry too much about making the name rhyme for the sake of the dog. Years back we adopted a 16-month old shepherd-lab mix, named Norman after a horror movie character. Within a day he understood very well that when we said "Rudy" good things happened to him--food, love, walk, fetch.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,Hookey Wole
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 08:51 PM

So, she's American and exhibits all the positive personality attributes of.. "Barbie" ?


ok, how about, perhaps so obvious but.. "Collie" ?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,Bizibod
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 09:23 PM

You say she's a doll - Dollie sounds nice to me
*¬)
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Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 09:31 PM

Beer... "Puter"... I love it... hahahaha.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 09:34 PM

Phydeaux

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 09:53 PM

Love that name Bill. Spelled your way. There is a great dog joke about this Cajun's hunting dog spelled Phydeaux. Wish I still had it on tape. it was very very funny.
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Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,Hookey Wole
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 10:33 PM

Then there's my name "Hookey" - sounds good to me.

Or, seeing as Borders are notoriously mental {I KNOW, I used to take one for long walks}

"Barmy"


Or, a tribute to one of England's dearest loved wartime singers "Jessie"

Or one of Englands fattest banjulele playing singers "Tessie"....

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: gnu
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 10:39 PM

Sorry about the spelling. I ain't up on my French... well, Acadian French anyway, but...

Vien'cit la, Phydeaux. I said SIT LA, m***********!

Is that part of it, Beer? I can't recall it, but I heard a joke where that was part of it. There is a guy here who does mostly French venues and he mixes in English words in such a way as the Acadians do in everyday language that would crack you up. He's VERY funny. Dunno why I have never seen this guy on TV... Just For Laughs festival?

Then again, I have never seen some other locals on Just For Laughs either and they are surely better than some of the thousands of reruns aired on The Comedy Channel. Money, I guess.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 10:42 PM

Well, my first thought was Chantey : P , but after your description I thought Rocky, short for Rocket, because she moves quickly. Now, most people think of Rocky being a man's name, but I think it is also used for women named Raquel, although in that case it may be spelled differently.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:26 PM

Well, since Merlin was such a special dog, how about a name for the new babe that honors him and invokes his powers? Like Merrily, or Linnet/Linnie, or Meribeth/Bethy, or ?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Mar 12 - 11:36 PM

I like Beer's suggestion of Bonnie.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 12:33 AM

I like Merrily, but I don't think the rest of the family would go for it. Some of the other suggestions are good, some funny, but nothing has struck as "just right," yet.

Oh, and she is definitely a McNab like Merlee was..so quiet and right beside you anticipating what's next, but without all of the "barmy" as mentioned above of BCs.:-) That is a fun suggestion...I kind of love it...goes along with Luna getting called Luna-Tik once in awhile, old joke or not.:-)

Tilly is in consideration as I've always liked it since taking care of an old lady in a nursing home whose name was Tilly Olguin (Ohl-geen soft "g".)

Off to go look up more Scottish names. Thanks, ya'll! We keep referring to her as "the new one" so we have to hurry and come up with one or she'll start being known as the "Newbie!"

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 02:10 AM

Hinny might be a good name for a Border Collie.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 02:13 AM

"Hinny" is a NE variant of "Honey", the name I suggested above. I agree it would be appropriate for a border collie. But I still like the suggestion of sweetness inherent in "Honey".

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 02:40 AM

You might keep in mind that in the USA a hinny is the get of a female donkey and a male horse. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 04:29 AM

I vote for "Spaw," but I'm dying to know what Himself would suggest for a name.....

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 04:57 AM

All feet five feet off the ground - "Jordan" (not the UK's enhanced slapper, but the US basketball player - wrong gender but who cares).

Or if you're sold on a girl's name "Winnie" - like, incidentally, the US RVs.

Or "Cindy" (Cinderella - cruelly treated by family then rescued)

"Tennie" - I don't know what it means but a friend's daughter is called that.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Monique
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 05:22 AM

I don't know what Bennie suggests in English but Bénie means blessed in French.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 07:10 AM

Benny is a very dim character in an old TV soap called "Crossroads" - a name ("Bennies") that politically incorrect UK soldiers gave the Falkland Islanders when Argentia last invaded there.

In the US Benny is a derogatory term used by year-round residents of the Jersey Shore to describe rude, flashy, loud, tourists from northern New Jersey and New York.

Benzedrine is the trade name of the racemic mixture of amphetamine (dl-amphetamine). The drug was often referred to as "bennies" by users and in literature.

Cambridge online dictionaries also give "a sudden period of uncontrolled anger; a tantrum"

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Monique
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 07:38 AM

Well Richard, it means I've got it all wrong!

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 07:43 AM

Shiney
Jinni (a spirit)
Shimmy
I dream of jeannie (shortened)
Dreamy

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 07:53 AM

One owner's trash is another's treasure. Is she a jewel? Is she a gem? How about Gemma or Gemmie?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,CS
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 08:17 AM

And thinking along the same lines, is she a hairy dog?

How about Lemmy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Qqej8bHp8&feature=related

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 08:56 AM

An "old lady" (probably just over 30) who worked the food line at the high school cafeteria was picked up one day by a relative who brought her puppy along.

She called it "Kafir," although I'm not really sure of the spelling.

I presumed it's full name was "Kafir Terrier" but didn't have a chance to discuss it with her.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 08:57 AM

Did somebody say "Offenbach"?

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 09:30 AM

Or indeed JS - for JS Bark!

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 09:36 AM

Doug

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Bobert
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 09:36 AM

So, I guess that Tik is out of the running??? Oh well... Yeah, I guess that going to the door and yellin' "Luna!!! Tik" might have been a little awkward...

But on another matter... Border collies are nervous critters, Kat... So be ready to try to keep the new dog entertained...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 09:52 AM

Another name to honour Merlin: Magic. Alternative call names Madge or Maggie.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 10:36 AM

John... hehee

Banshee.

Subject: RE: BS: Help name our new dog?
From: GUEST,Wurzel Head
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 11:06 AM

Mother natures's most blessed gift - Scrumpy