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My GF and I have acquired a dog from our local homless mutts shelter. She's about two years old, grey, and of no particular breed. Looks a bit like a bedraggled schnauser (sp), and is about 18 inches tall. Slightly skatty, but not in a mentally ill way.

Anyway, we need to think of a name for her. The people at the shelter had been calling her Pepsi, but there's no way we're going with that. Nobody knows what she was called before she was rescued this summer.

Current thinking is Laika (after the Russian spacedog rather than the British electropopsters), but we're open to suggestions.

Go wild...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Wes Mantooth

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

Not that wild, though.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Heh, Laika is what I'd name my dog if I ever get another.

Do you dislike Pepsi because of the brand associations, or because of how it sounds?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

call your dog 'l33t'

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Laika is a cool name. Stick with it.

Or you could call it Bella.....bella-laika. hahaha

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Mako-chan

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

Cos I'd feel like a muppet standing in the middle of Wandsworth common shouting "Pepsi! Pepsi!" like some demented salesman.

It's perhaps worth noting that we already have two cats called Belle and Sebastian, so the dog's name should avoid tweeness.

BTW, I'd like to apologise for my spelling in the thread header. Not sure what came over me...

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Looks a bit like a bedraggled schnauser ... Slightly skatty, but not in a mentally ill way.

g-kit?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

I favour a two-syllable name for a dog, preferably ending in a vowel sound. Having had to stand around calling many dogs in my life, I've found that these are the names that sound least stupid and produce best results. My dogs are called Milo and Cody (Cody was already named when we got him). So Laika would suit me. But if I had a bitch I would call her Rizzo. I used to have a dog called Layla, or Layla-Payla-Best-Girl to give her her full title.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

TigerMilk!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

PuffyWobbles

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Tweeness!

you could stand in the park and shout "TWEENESSS!!" and see if anyone yodells back "I was only joking when I said... (etc)"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

call your dog Latin.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

Basil! I think it's an awesome name for a dog. :-)

But you should post a pic of your dog so we can SEE the dog.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

Tony Wright from Terrorvision has a new band called Laika Dog.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

glen

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

just name him something plain.

Frank

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Spatchcock

― Led, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

If I ever get a dog, it will be called Tufty. I decided this years ago, but still haven't got around to owning one.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Smokey

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

hehehe, owning one.

http://www.omgpwned.net/pics/owned/dog_dressed.jpg

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

omgpwned

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

my roommate recently took in a stray cat and had been calling it "pumpkin", i was pretty upset with how rancid the cat's shits were though so I decided to bring things a bit over the top and name her Pumpkin Fire Meadow or PFM for brevity. That was mostly to upset the people that brought her in but it's sort of caught on by now... you should do something like that.

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

I recommend avoiding giving pets names that could belong to humans. My mother does this and it drives me nuts. Her dogs are Daisy, Gracie, Leo, Sammie, Katie, and Hank. She talks to people about them, and they think she means her children, not dogs.

So, name her for a favorite tool, or toy, or game, or foodstuff, or book, or color, or song, or something like that.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

"C'mere Auger! Good boy!"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

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― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you paying attention Dan? Good GIRL.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

i'm sorry, but we'll need to see a photo if we're expected to name this dog.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

iggy

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Papershooter. Pennybank.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Sheila

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Cowboy Lab

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy

― Name Your Female Dog Jimmy, Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Asta!! - like the Schnauzer in the Thin Man with Wm Powell and Myrna Loy.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 6 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

But you should post a pic of your dog so we can SEE the dog.
Yes, photo is essential!

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

MC Skat Kat.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

How dare you not go with Pepsi; our dog was called Pepsi, though we got her in 1986 and this was to do with Pepsi and Shirley rather than the refreshing soft drink of the same name.

― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Mittens! So it will always think you really wanted a cat.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Woofer. And then get a bird and name him Tweeter. GET IT?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

aww...i didnt read the bit about laika. skylab! poor dead commie doggie.

did you go with that? if not, what?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Lynn at work has a dog called Pepsi!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

It's still officially nameless, but Laika is now hot favourite thanks to your backing. Can't post a photo as I don't have the technology.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

Laika. Or Eleanor Roosevelt.

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

sheriff

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

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