The Name Game

The Portuguese Waterblog inspired us to play the name game. It's easy, for those of you that want to play you just explain how you came up with your dog's name and also share any of their nicknames.

Oreo was my first puppy of my own and I spent a lot of time picking out a name. The perfect idea came to me while I was sitting in World History class. I would call him Oreo-it was perfect, he had a lot of black on his head and his body and a white strip in the middle around his neck-just like an Oreo cookie. Later on I found out a lot of people name their black and white pets Oreo, but at the time I thought it was unique. I'm also very disappointed when people use the name Oreo and their pet is not even black and white-what a waste! Oreo did not have any actual nicknames, but I often called him buddy. However I call a lot of animals buddy so it wasn't unique to him.

Since there were so many Oreos in the world I wanted to pick something really unique for the next dog. One day I came across the word Zodiac while I was reading and thought it would be cool dog name. So Zodiac was picked before we even got him. As it happened his original name was Zack so it seemed like a perfect transition. His nicknames are Z and Baby Z.

Legend was also a name I had picked in advance because I thought it would be a great performance dog name. I had actually picked it for a male but that's not what came along and it seemed to fit her too. The boys were registered with the AKC (for ILP numbers, none of my dogs have papers) with their call names but for Legend I finally decided to come up with something else for the registration and so she is officially known as "Living In Fast Forward" which is cute for a border collie and also a Kenny Chesney song title. Her nicknames are Ledge, Ledgie, and Baby Girl.