Mikey was registered as Flinthill's Michelangelo and we started calling him Mikey because it is Mike Turner's nickname (he came from Bonnie and Mike Turner).  We were going to name our next puppy Bonnie but when we got her from Bonnie Turner she looked like an Alice (in Wonderland) so that's who she's named after.

Button got her name for the fact that her nubbie tail looks like a machine toggle button/switch to me.  But UKC said there were too many Button's on the registry and made me pick something else.  We settled on buttonbutt, knowing we would always call her button.  As I sew, Zipper just seemed a logical name for our little rescue girl.  Now that we've had her awhile and have seen how she really zips fast, we find it a most apt name for her. 

Plus, Lance is always has his pants trying to fall down when he does the lawn and projects, so I told him surely with a Button and Zipper in the house, he'd be able to keep his pants on!    If we ever get a third, it will be Velcro!!!!!!!! 

My husband and I both work with computers. I started using the name pixel or pixelgeek several months ago for my computer then some online forums. When it came time to name our new addition we brain stored for other names that were computer related but Pixel was the best

We are talking about after we get this one trained getting another, Ive already started thinking what we would name it lol!

I named Ivy after my grandmother because I ended up having 2 boys for skin-kid and all my brothers did not have the guts to use her name as a first name and used it as a middle name and we tried a few other names but for some reason we kept going back to Ivy.  I know my grandmother would have loved that I named her after her.  She loved the critters.  My mom even approved of the name and said grandma would be pleased that I named her that (even if she hated it).   There was nothing poisonous about her!!!  One of the best people I have had the pleasure of knowing!!!!

Daisey was a pet shp purchase done before I understood the ramificaitons of pet shop purchases. But to my defense, the shop was owned by a coworker's friend who said he purchases the "culls" of breeders, those labeled as "pet quality". I did internet research and took quizzes to see what would be the right 2nd dog for us (had an evil old chihuahua) and Rat Terrier kept turning up. Had never seen a full blooded one (previously had a chi mixed with some rat) so  pet store was a good place to see what they looked like since the breeders I contacted never followed through with meeting me. So I went to the friend of the friend pet shop and there was my Daisey in a glass cage with a chihuahua!  I took it as a sign since she would be living with a chi. I wanted to name her Coconut or Macy but since she was a birthday gift for husband (yeah, right) he picked the name Daisey Mae but it's really evolved to Miss Daisey.

Eddie was easy - he came with the name. He was an owner surrender to a shelter in Milton, FL and they listed his name as Eddie. When Ratbone stepped in and freed him, his name did not change. He responded to it so I believe it was his original name and it seems to fit him. He will also answer to Ed and Edward but not so much Eduardo,

Well, when you bring home the first puppy the kids can ever remember and say that the girl with the 10th birthday gets to pick her name the list starts something like this: pixie, dottie, tinkerbell, spot, diana..........then we narrowed it down to Dottie or Tinkerbell and she decided to call her Tink short for Tinkerbell.  We haven't yet come up with something clever for her paperwork.  We'll let you know if we ever do!

Pixie didn't get her name because she's so small, as most people think.  It fits, sure.  But that wasn't my motivator 

My daughter was staying with my husbands parents for a week, and since I stay at home with her, I decided to use the ENTIRE week to sleep, LOL.  I was asleep in the bed and the next thing I knew, there was a reall smelly, itty bitty dog on the bed next to me, and my husband was standing directly behind her. 

I blinked a few times and asked what seems to be the only question I can ask when surprised with a new dog, "What IS it?"  He said he didn't know and then I said, "Well, whatever it is, it's got Pixie Stix for legs.  One wrong move on those babies, and it's a goner." 

I checked for undercarriage and when I didn't find any, I just started calling her Pixie because of my comment about her chicken legs.  She faithfully answered to it by the end of the 2nd day.  Her owners never came forward and it just stuck. 

She now answers to Pixie, Peo, P, Pixelator, Peo Pixelator, and Princess Pixie Piggles...since she'll eat it, even if it IS nailed down. 

I got Jasmine from the local pound and there they hadn't had a name for her but most of them called her Tiny, because she was so skinny and cowardly (when we got her she was 11 pounds at a year and a half old).  We brought her home and decided Tiny definitly didn't fit her at all since she soon began to fill out after gettin over Kennel Cough.  She began acting like a little princess and we had picked out her own purple collar.  Thought Princess Jasmine  seemed to fit her personality better than Tiny (which wasn't the case since she was no longer cowardly).  Needless to say she is still living up to her name!

Ginger's full name is  "Starbux Gingerbread Latte"  after our favorite drink.

Blue's full name is "You're My Boy Blue" from my favorite movie "Old School" and because he's blue in color.

This is my first post here, because we just adopted our first rattie.  He is four or five months old and had been left by his first owner (from Texas) with a man in our town (in Wyoming).  His dogs couldn't take the energetic little guy, so the dog was put on freecycle.com where we found him.  He was called Dallas, but that didn't feel right to us.  When the kids were meeting him, they threw a ball and he ran after it with all his might, overshot the ball, and fell head over heels.  We named him Tripper.  This is also fitting because he's always underfoot, and we trip over him.  We had some issues with submissive urination at first, so he was Tripper the Dripper.  Now, it's just Tripper or Trippety Doo Da.

We've had him less than two weeks and just adore him.  Our other dogs are getting used to him too.  I promise to post pics in the bio thread very soon.

Conni

First of all I have to say I love this site!!!  Have read alot of interesting things on here.

This forum was neat, how you came up with names for your pups.  That was the

hardest thing for me.  When we got our pup at 6 weeks her name was Bella.  I really

didnt like that, she didnt answer to it anyway.  So beings we got here in December, we

decided on "Holly".  she answers to puppy, baby, and infant too.  My husband always called

her infant.  Being the runt she fit in the palm of his hand and weighed only 3 lbs when we

got her. But now boy oh boy, I can think of alot of names. lol.  She is my little terror!!   Its been tough at

times, but we gotta take the bad with the good.  Holly loves loves loves attention!  She has me

wrapped around her little paw, and she knows it.

This being my first purebred dog, I took the whole naming process very seriously. I studied the breeders registration form for days and then came up with her name.

Her sire is Burz Ouji and her dam is Reynolds Minuet . SOOOO.... I decided on Minuet Bijou . It perfectly combines both parent's names AND after looking it up online, I discovered in French it means "little jewel"... and she is exactly that.

After all that effort, I failed to send in her registration application before she was six months old.

Lacey got her name because she had quite a fixation on shoe laces!  She would pounce and tug, and eventually we would just hide to put on our shoes.  She also liked to stash her little balls in our shoes.

We get our new puppy on Friday, we are so excited!  We named her Pokey, after the Pokey LIttle Puppy of Golden Book fame (my favorite story as a child).  She's had her name for a few weeks, and the breeder has been calling her by name.  She says that she responds to it quite nicely (as in "No! No, Pokey!)

Man I --LOVE-- reading this thread!

So many cool stories of how the pups got their names!