One of the quirky things that makes our relationship work is our obsessive devotion to naming our pets. It's a little trickier when you adopt an adult animal who's got a name, and we truly debated changing our new guy's name since he's pretty used to it.
We'd only had him for a few hours before it was obvious his name simply doesn't fit him (an artist friend said it best - "Jazz" is mellow). What's worse, it's doesn't roll off the tonge, and in the last 24 hours he's been inadvertently called names of every other naughty dog we've had.
One of our cats went weeks without a proper name, so we're in no rush here. And we are wide open to suggestion - sometimes when you're so close to something the obvious doesn't occur to you.
We've compiled a list of potential names based on what he's really like - big, lumbering, sweet, goofy, affectionate, and inadvertently destructive.
Havoc (Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. We find this hilarious.)
Gamra (friend to people but destroys their stuff)
Shiva (Male god of benevolent destruction. But common usage is now female.)
Juggernaut ('Nuff said.)
Janus (A god of doorways... but he's not really a "guard" dog other than as a visual deterrent. He's more of a "come on in, I'll show you where we keep the jewelry" dog.)
Kona (Epic challenge. Massive scale. Requires a lot of training.)
Soooo... whatcha think?
6 comments:
First, he looks like a goofball. I wish I had a dog to run with.
Naming pets is personal, but from the photo and your description, I like Juggernaut as my first pick. But all your choices sound good.
Have fun!!!!
SO cute.
I like Kona. :) But all those choices are very cute!
I would anticipate a large number of Kona fans- given your audience. I love his ears so much, I'd probably go with something stupid like Lefty.
He's adorable, congrats on the new addition.
I think Kona has a ring to it...and much easier to say than many of the others. I have a feeling you'll need to yell it out quickly - as quickly as possible - from time to time!
Because he's a German Shepherd, I thought I'd look up some German words for the terms you've used to describe him...so see if there were any possible names there.
destruction = vertilgung, zerstorung
naughty = unartig
lumbering = tapsig, klobig, trampelig
enthusiastic = einsatzfreudig, begeistert, enthusiastisch
affectionate = gutig, liebevoll, herzlich, zugetan
goofy = albern, damlich, doof
So, it seems there are no potentials there...except for maybe Doof. But, that would be pretty cruel.
Looks awfully michivious, but in a cute, gnawing on your stuff way, not a distructive way. How about Ruffian? or Scallawag?
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