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Dog Names
when I took my kids to adopt a pet, I was expecting things to be difficult. To my surprise, however, everything went pretty easy at first. Everyone wanted a dog, and within a few minutes of haggling, we had decided on the perfect one in the pound. We all agreed on a little Dalmatian pup that was absolutely precious. It was only a few weeks old, and looked to be very happy and healthy. We got the dog home and my kids couldn't have been more delighted. That is, until we got around to picking dog names.
We never really thought about how to name the dog, and we were left struggling. For a while, it was a lot of fun. We exchanged different dog names back and forth and talked about which ones would be better. My son wanted a tough dog name like Spike or Butch, while my youngest daughter was obsessed with the name Genevieve. My wife had her own opinion, and I had mine. Soon it became clear that no one was going to budge. It seemed like we would be contemplating pet names forever.
A lot of families would have continued to fight it out forever until everyone gave in to one person. In my family, however, we always do things in a kind of strange way. In this case, we decided that the dog would have several names. Each of us would be able to pick out his or her favorite dog name and refer to the dog by that. We thought that, if we all spent enough time around the dog, he would learn to respond to all of the names. We figured that, at the very least, it would be a good experiment.
It worked like a charm. I don't know if anyone in the scientific community has ever done any research on the response of canines to dog names, but if you know anyone like that you should have him or her talk to me. There is living proof in my living room that a dog can be trained to respond effortlessly to five or six different names. Although no one is completely satisfied with all of the pet names, everyone is satisfied with at least one of them. And seeing my family happy always gives me a lot of joy. It never pays to fight when you can come to an agreeable solution for everyone. That's the way I see it anyway.
Summary
Dog names can be very hard to pick out sometimes. Dogs have such distinct personalities picking out the perfect name could take some time. New owners just need to spend some time with the new family member and see what name fits more than any other. Choose wisely as it is the name you'll both live with for quite a while.
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