How did you pick a name for your dachsie?

[Goob]

I was just courious how the everybody picked the name for their dachsie! :hearts:

When we went to name Bella, it was between Bella and Clancie - but DH said everybody would think she's a boy if we went with Clancie. So we named her Bella, but then we just started calling her "Snooter" all the time because she's nosey, bossy, busy, and always "snooting around" (up in everyone's business!). :hearts:

Professor Brown was named when we went to pick him up from the breeder one week after we got Snooter. This guy had promised me that he would hold on to Snoot's brother (Buster) on Friday night until Saturday so I could come and get him. Well we got there and he told me that somebody was already going to the bank to get cash for him. So I threw my credit card at him, grabbed Buster Brown and we took off! He was MY dog! Anyways, we were driving away from the breeders place and Buster kept poking his head thru the top of the pet carrier, so I said, "sit back down there Buster Brown" - and DH looked at me and we just knew that was his name! :banana:

[Jen]

A great story Karen. Tasha's name came with her when we got her from rescue. We'd been planning to rename her, but one look and we knew she'd been through enough stress in the past few weeks, she should at least be able to keep her name!

[Jill]

I thought Bailey was appropriate because of his coloring and then Reese, who was Bruiser, became Reese because I thought he looked like a peanut butter cup. :heartbt:

[lotsadox]

Amanda I named and have no idea where it came from. I just looked at that little puppy and said "She's Amanda" :conf3: Bogart I named (obviously) after Humphrey Bogart, my all time favorite actor :heartbt:. Miller, Cash and Sweetums all came from rescue with their names and I saw no reason to change them. Scooter was named by the people that had him for a few weeks before we took him and fits him really well.

[Lisa]

We had names for our dogs BEFORE we had them. I had always wanted a "wiener dog" and Rafi and I were at the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) and we were talking about adding a puppy to our family while we were eating Pogo dogs and he said, I guess we know what his name will be....and it was!

Then with Pixel he was orginally named Granite, and it totally doesn't suit his personality (he is anything but hard or cold). But when we saw his picture, we said, "he's so tiny, he like a pixel"....and we had his name - a week later we had him too!

[HotDogMama]

When we got her home, we didn't have a clue what to name her..... my husband looked on the internet for the top 10 dog names I think and he named them and when we got to Molly (she doesn't have a middle name either which most people think is weird) we both knew it was perfect!!! Now I can't see her with any other name....... the rest is history!! :banana:

[LUVMYGUNNER]

Hubby picked Gunners name and i picked Petunia's name. I saw a doxie in one of the rescues by the name of Petunia and I thought it was so cute and I told hubby if we get a little rescue then we will name her that.

[JanUet]

When we got Casey I wanted to name him Monty. Doug and I talked about it and wanted to give him a name that was Special to us.

When we were dating we always frequented this one Restaurant by the name of Casey's. We loved that place. We even took Casey there for lunch (he was in his carrier) We told the Manager that we named him after the Restaurant. Sly me, thinking we would get a wee discount on our order. We didn't :(. We haven't been back since! :rofl:

Sophie came with her name thru Rescue. We wanted to name her Stacie (Rhymes with Casey) We would call out her name before we got her. STACIE! STACIE! and Casey would come running. We didnt' want to confuse him, So we kept her name.

Their middle names come from the in-laws. Doug and I do not have children together. Doug's parents joked with us saying that they will never have Grandchildren with their names. So, that is how Mr. Casey Walter Smith and Ms. Sophie Carol Ann Smith was born.

[Pokeys Mom]

(...) Tasha's name came with her when we got her from rescue. We'd been planning to rename her, but one look and we knew she'd been through enough stress in the past few weeks, she should at least be able to keep her name!

Same for Pokey. Being a rescue at nine years of age is stressful enough without a name change! At first the name sounded odd for him (to us), but we soon realized it was perfect. He's such a honey. (most of the time :rofl: )

[Fluffy]

Heidi came with her name when I adopted her. I somehow morphed it into Heidi Sue...just came out one day and it stuck. Buddy was nameless for a few days. I got him on Valentine's day and was trying to come up with a cool name for him that had to do with the special day...however naming a boy dog after a girl's holiday wasn't easy. His original name was Wally but Andrew said his mom used to call his dad that when she was mad at him, so it had to go. Andrew came to me one night before bed and said "you better pick a name for him soon because he's getting used to me calling him Little Buddy." As soon as the words were out of his mouth we just looked at eachother and said "BUDDY" at the same time. It stuck and suits him PERFECTLY!! His middle name is Matthew...he had grabbed the end of the toilet paper and when I shrieked at him (laughing of course) it just kind of came out "BUDDY MATTHEW!" Andrew hated that so it stuck LOL (guess that should have been a sign we were doomed).