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Naming Your Puppy

Choosing a pet name for your puppy can be a surprisingly hard task, and one that needs careful thought, as both you and your puppy are going to have to live with it for a long time.

Here are some quick tips to help you find the right name for your pup. 1.  Try to settle on a name for your puppy as soon as possible as name recognition is vital for effective dog training and obedience. 2.   Avoid names that sound like common obedience training commands. For instance, sit, stay, no, come, heel are all commonly used sounds in dog training and it’s best to avoid confusion for the dog where possible.

3.  Choose a puppy name that has hard consonant and vowel sounds as they more easily recognisable to a dog.

4.   Short puppy names are better than long ones. Try to keep to just one or two syllables as these will be easier for your puppy to recognise and respond to.

5.   Choose a name you don’t mind shouting out in public. If the whole family is to be involved in the training and walking of your puppy, his name has got to be acceptable to all family members. Men, for instance, may not feel comfortable calling ‘Precious’ to heel.

Popular puppy names to think about include names from famous or familiar films (disney dog names are very popular) and books, names that reflect the puppy breed, place names or family names. Some puppy owners give them names to reflect characteristics or temperament, or maybe a puppy name taken from nationality would reflect your puppy’s identity or breed.

Here are some ideas from films, books, and nationality or breed to consider when naming your puppy:

Disney Dog Names include: Disney Girl Names: Lady Daisy Belle Minnie Bambi Jasmine Montana

Disney Boy Names:

Baloo
Figaro
Goofy
Doc
Chip

Chinese Dog Names include:

Li Wei
Manchu
Lo shen
Dewei
Kuan To

English Dog Names include:

Cadbury
Digby
Max
Crumpet
Winston

Fictional Dog Names include:

Pickles - Beatrix Potter’s Ginger and Pickles

Orson - Dean Koontz’s Seize the Night

Fluffy - JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books

Bullseye - Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

Timmy - Enid Blyton’s Famous Five

Choosing a pet name can be great fun and is something the whole family can be involved in. But it’s only the beginning because when you’ve chosen a name for your puppy, the next task is to get him to recognise it.

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