Friday, May 21, 2010

What NOT to Name Your Dog


Before adopting your next puppy or dog at a shelter, you may want to take a moment to review a few handles that should be avoided. Over the course of his or her life, you'll end up using your dog's name over 35,000 times. The list can usually be applied to naming children or other pets as well.

1. Lucky. Come on, that's just tempting fate.

2. Zeus. You can be certain that your dog will never take orders from you, a mere human.

3. Beau. Or anything else that rhymes with "no", "sit", "stay" etc.

4. Sarah. If your aunt's name is also Sarah.

5. Tip. If your other dog's name is Flip. Dogs respond to the vowel sound in their name.

6. Foofers. Or any other name you don't want to yell out the back door 10,000 times.

7. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Dogs prefer a simple one or two-syllable name.

8. Shark. Unless you want to create widespread panic at the beach as you call your dog to you.

9. ****. Because the grandparents will be offended, you'll be embarrassed, and the kids will get in trouble if they mention the dog at school.

10. Stinky. No one will want to pet him!

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