Need help naming my puppy
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And then you gotta yell it out the backdoor to see if it flows easily off the tongue. ;-)
LOL, that test was exactly what I used when I was trying to think of a name for my youngest girl. The name I was originally thinking and that the breeder liked was the one I tried out and when I yelled it, one of my other dogs came running. So because I thought it might confuse them, I went a different route. ;)
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My breeder was showing our girl Gambit last fall and at the photo the judge turned to him and said, did you really name her damn it. He was not quite hearing her name correctly:)
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haha. ill try yelling different names out my back door. I just can not think of any ideas at all. Maybe they will come to me once i pick her up from the airport but every time i have picked a puppy up i have always had ideas and this time i am just drawing a blank.
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@i<3mybasenji:
haha. ill try yelling different names out my back door. I just can not think of any ideas at all. Maybe they will come to me once i pick her up from the airport but every time i have picked a puppy up i have always had ideas and this time i am just drawing a blank.
what sort of names do you like? Human names? Music type names? Military? Names that describe the dog?
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No human names. The only name i kind of like for her is Nismo. I was looking at African names but i could not find anything that was simple enough, i do not want it long. I just want something short and sweet.
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another thing to keep in mind is how the name shortens. so nismo would naturally shorten to nizzy, which i think is cute. my personal thing is i'll never give a name to a dog that i don't want it to live up to - so things like chaos, nipper, killer, etc are out. but some people like names like that.
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yeah I know what you mean. She is not going to have any name like that.
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You may want to wait until you get her and see what kind of personality she has. Sometimes when I look at an animal a name just pops right in my head. Sometimes it can take a while though.
You may want to check out http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/names.htm. Be sure to bookmark it though as it can take hours to look through every topic. :)
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@i<3mybasenji:
haha. ill try yelling different names out my back door. I just can not think of any ideas at all. Maybe they will come to me once i pick her up from the airport but every time i have picked a puppy up i have always had ideas and this time i am just drawing a blank.
There you go. "Enigma"
" A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand."
" A riddle or paradox." -
my personal thing is i'll never give a name to a dog that i don't want it to live up to -
lol, or screaming rock n' roll singers… I have one named Ozzy (named after Ozzy Osbourne - registered name Timar's Black Sabbath). Care to guess which of my 4 basenjis is the loudest complainer when he wants to come out of his crate. ;)
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My first boy was Bushbabies Obviously Jazz, call name OJ… Around the time of OJ Simpson arrest and trial back in the early 90's.... yikes the comments were so annoying that I started calling him O GEE.
You can also think of names and then see what it might translate to in the Living Swahili Dictionary http://www.kamusi.org/
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another thing to keep in mind is how the name shortens.
I like the name Pistol, I think it would suit a Basenji, but I don't think I would use it.
-Joanne -
ok thank you everyone! i will post pictures of the little girl when i get her and her name! :)
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I like also the name Shanty, sounds cheerful
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i have a kitty named jazzy and a kitty named jasper lol.
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I named Chipley for the town where he was picked up as a stray, it's different (till another person at the park last week called their dog Shipley and both dogs responded, theirs and mine!) and easy to say, shortens to Chip. The shelter named him Benny but that didn't suit at all, I called him Chipley immediately and it stuck.
So have several names in mind, try them out and see what sticks. Sometimes the dog responds to one sound over another . And yes, it needs to sound acceptable to be yelling out the back door at night, haha!
Don't agonize too much, and if what you first pick doesn't seem to fit, change it; after all, she is a basenji, she won't come to anything you call her!
