Brendan Hughes

Anyone got any witty suggestions on what to call a weimaraner puppy? We just picked him up on Monday, eight weeks old, still can’t agree on a name.

I don’t have a digicam, so no photos, but looks identical to this (except a bit better focussed!) :

Thoughts so far, on the silver ghost / grey ghost theme:

Rolls or Royce
Dorian (I think this is classy, problem is it has 3 syllables, not great for a dog name)
Sterling
Major (as in John )
Casper (friendly ghost)

As he is displaying a particular interest in eating (set) cement and sand, I’m wondering about calling him Gypsum or Portland

Wife wants Kira or Akira, but I think they sound a bit female. We also considered Batu, who was Genghis Khan’s grandson who conquered Europe as far as Vienna, but the dog doesn’t seem very aggressive, so I’ll probably leave that…

Other possible sources:
His mother is called India
He has an odd quiff at the back of his neck, like someone got a fingertip of gel and smeared it upwards. (Smudge, Stripe or Streak – if the latter, wouldn’t want to lose him at a football match )


Thanks in advance!

Brendan

Jap2Scrap

Wasn't Dorian the old slapper in that sitcom based in Essex with the blonde bint who does some dodgy house type thing now and the fat bird out of that other programme. (I'm good with TV I am)

I'm waiting for someone to say Scooby, but I'm hanging in with Oscar, I reckon that's a good dog's name.

Buzzer

My mate has a Weimaraner, his is called Jasper Suits him aswell

Daryl

Wiener - as in Wiener the Weimaraner

Brendan Hughes

Y'know, I was quite considering Jasper

J2S - TV not my thang, I was thinking of Dorian Grey...

what would scooby do

Marilyn (Manson )

Dream Weaver

****break

No particular reason, just LMAO whenever I hear that name, and after watching American Pie 2 last week

Seriously though, Casper is cool

Or how about Wisp, or indeed Willow.

k.b

birds of a feather?


keep it simple and call him dog.

MJW

What about Alan ? I once had a goldfish called Alan, and a cat called Roger.

PG

Whats his kennel name on the pedigree ? Could work something off that ?

mj

Nelson.


so you could say he was a



















wee - mariner , boom boom





Or maybe call it Dave.

Buzzer

He calls him Jazza for short, which sounds a bit better than calling your dog Cazza (if you named it Casper)

The dogs name will get shotened. Our dogs name is Amber but she always gets called Ambs for short.

Get some pics up anyway, they're lovely dogs along with Labs, GSD's, Dalmations and Retrievers

oh yeah............. good luck

+Doc+

wambo?
xD

Buzzer

I've changed my mind......................... i'm going with the "Dave" contingent

PG

Ozzy is a good name.
Our youngest Boxer is an Oz. Suits daft dogs.

And daft people alike......Dont you think so ozzy ??

Markus

Brendan,
So you got a puppy then? Excellent.

As for names, ooh, well, Jack is rather nice, but I'll get shot by somone for 'stealing' a name

I seem to recall that precious stones were used to name the first, if not both littlers from the stable of Kallasilya (plug the breeder, plug the breeder! lol ). So you could go for something like "ghostly slate".

I've always thought "Silver dream storm chaser" was a rather nice name

But I guess we are really talking about "at home" names rather than the fella's KC name or anything like that.

I like the idea of smudge/stripe/streak.

I only have to choose between two names for the puppy, Jessica or Emily, of course, I need the little grey lump first lol.

Markus

Yup, can see Jasper suiting a weim.

Having thought about it...

Fred, Harry, Larry, Bob, Alfie, Banana are all good names.

Or how about JD - for "Just Dog" (and you get a prize if you know where i plaugrised that from )

Iwan

My mates got one of those dogs, it's a utter mentalist and is called Maverick. Not from Top Gun though apparently, more to reflect it's personality.

I'm a big fan of simple names though, so you could call it Dog/Alan/Steve etc. I used to have 2 snakes called "Snake" and "Other Snake" a few years ago, it got a bit confusing when "Snake" died as i just had "Other Snake" left.

If it's a bit silly like my mates, how about "Mongo" - nice and short.

Brendan Hughes

Kennel name is "Ghost of [house name]", so same as the breed nickname effectively.

Wee-mariner - couple more vodkas and I could go for that one

I like wambo, too

At the moment we're watching him having great fun destroying a moose teddy that he was given to keep him company - wonder if we'll call him Robert ?!

Dream Weaver

Moose

what would scooby do

Archibald ?

Markus

I always recall what I first learnt about Weims all those years ago...

The Weim is a very intelligent dog, but they tend to be lacking in common sense

It's all true I tell you! They will happily lie by the fire, letting embers fall on them, but they won't move, or they stand with their head above the fire, getting nice and warm. The best is when they are trying to protect you, from some big nasty shadow, which is your own shadow, and you are just trying to get past the hound that is in the way.

Mongo? lol, like that. Might get a dog and call him Joey lol

Brendan Hughes

Hey Markus, wondered when you'd arrive!

I asked about one from Suzy, last time we spoke she still had one left, but finally I got a local one - if I'd got one from the UK, given the price and export costs compared to the price here, the UK breeder would have had to pay me to take it

JD also appeals...

[FYI, this one has both tail and dew claws intact, apparently removing them is already illegal in a number of countries in Europe. I'm agonising over whether to remove them. I've seen how difficult it is to mend damaged ones.]

Iwan, I suspect Mongo shall be Right Out, given the nationality of my wife and son

lukey1

Smokey, Scoot, Bently, sky, ummmm....... give up

Markus

Hi Brendan,
Well, you know me and weims

Yeah, Suz still had jack, but he's found a new home and seems very happy. She's still got mad Maggie and Tia, and I shall no doubt be getting ripped to shreds by the pair of them when I'm over at xmas and go round to play lol

Did you look into export costs? If so fancy PM'img me about what they would roughly be? As you can probably guess I'd love a pup and the obvious choice would be one of Suzy's, well, Maggies (you know what I mean! lol ).

Thought you'd like JD.

Tail and Dew claws, wow! As you know how hard it is to mend them, it might be wise to remove them. Hard decision to make I know.
Hope he doesn't damage his tail.

As for mongo, hmm, well, it could be seen as a tribute to them, so maybe it'd work.

Buzzer

I quite like REX. Dont hear that name much anymore, and its a manly name

From the Subaru front, how about MIKA

..... and from the German origin how about OTTO

scooby595

I gotta say the obvious one surely it has to be Scooby !!!


Ok I'll get my coat now. I call my dog muttley, answers to that a treat.

davegtt

Rupert

yoza

Blue.

MooseRacer

Jasper's a good name for a dog, so good one of mine's called Jasper