Cool site Bobad! Thanks. I like the idea of a traditional collie name and had thought of Meg, Fly, Gyp and others. I also like the botanical names. Bracken is probably still leading at the moment. I wish I had as much imagination as you Lucy...I'd love to come up with a totally appropriate name like those.

My last two dogs aquired names without my intervention. I had a lab bitch named Kelly (She was Ancalagon the black from Tolkein's writings). She had puppies and the night before they were born I dreamt she had four puppies....three black dogs and a bitch with brown markings called Piccola (Little one) That's exactly what she did have so obviously I had to call the little girl Piccola, which was shortened to Piccy. She in turn had pups and the one I kept was Acorn (they all had botanical names) but he was the runt and such a little scrap he was always called Scrappy.

Love Lynne