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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:54 PM
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What should I name my dog?
I am getting her tomorrow through a local animal adoption program.

I want something unique and yet cute (Blwuvtienmank would certainly be unique, but not cute)

I was thinking 'Jenny', as in Gemini. But I'm still not sure. Molly, the name the site gave her, sounds kind of good as well.

Here she is, from the site:

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The Night Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:55 PM
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1. Jeff (NT)
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:56 PM
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He's a she. . .
It would be unique, though.
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kanrok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:55 PM
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2. She's adorable
"Molly" fits IMHO. She looks like a Molly.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:01 PM
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14. Thank you. I originally was going to adopt another dog, but while
he was still in their care, he bit two people. When I met him and pet him, he didn't seem like he had it in him.

That kind of dog needs the care and expertise I can't provide.

Although, they said it was while they were trying to neuter him. I can see why any dog would get defensive. . .
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:56 PM
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3. What a sweetheart!
Both names are cute. When we adopted our kitty Morrissey, the HART people had named him "Bode," which we didn't like. What about "Gemini?"

Many years of happiness with your new puppy!
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:04 PM
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25. Thank you. Gemini was my first idea,
but both sound good to me. She'd easily fit 'Jenny' or 'Mollie'.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:56 PM
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4. Patrick
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:56 PM
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5. liberty?
nt
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:56 PM
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6. Shazamm
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:58 PM
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8. Only if I can get her to play basketball. Actually,
The last time a basketball player was named Shazam, it was Shaq in that hellspawn movie about a genie.

Ugh. . .I think I'm going to be sick.
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:10 PM
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33. okay
then name her "Stay."

old Steven Wright joke. . ."come here, Stay. . .go fetch, Stay. . ."etc"
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:18 PM
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39. LOL! n/t
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:57 PM
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7. "She told me that her name was Mia like in Mia Farrow"
But you can call her Molly. She is a gorgeous dog and she looks very happy. Is she a collie lab mix?
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 04:59 PM
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9. They said she's an Austrailian Shepherd and Great Pyrenee's mix.
I definately can see the Shepherd, kind of. But I don't see the Great Pyrenees.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:03 PM
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20. The color and the face
strike me as non-Aussie (I've had two in recent years).

Beautiful doggie. Great job on adopting her.
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:07 PM
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30. I don't see a tail
but her coloring is a bit unusual for an Aussie Shepherd. Beauty of a lass...:hi:
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Old_Fart Donating Member (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:07 PM
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29. "Boy was I wrong"
:dunce:
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:15 PM
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35. The other breed has to do with her coloring and ears
My spouse and I have 2 Aussies at home. They are sisters from a litter of 2 Aussies. There are bi-colors, but not like that. Often the lighter Aussies are merles (with spots) or the bi-colors are b/w.

The sweet doggie's ears don't look Aussie either. Aussies ears flop, but still not as rounded.

I presume Molly or whatever her name will be has a nice disposition. :-)

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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:00 PM
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10. She's a pretty girl, so how about Joli, french for pretty.
Hope the two of you have many happy years together.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:02 PM
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16. I thought about going with a name in another language, but it
didn't seem like it'd fit her well
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:01 PM
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11. Name her God
It's dog spelled backwards
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:03 PM
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19. I have fundamentalist relatives.
There's no way that'd go over well. It'd be three years before I could go to Christmas.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:01 PM
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12. I've always wanted a dog named Clem.
Or Clyde. This probably doesn't apply here, but it would be a hoot.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:01 PM
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13. What a sweet poopy dawg!!
"Mulligan" - she's getting a second chance!
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bluedonkey Donating Member (644 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:01 PM
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15. How about
Miss Molly?
She looks cute and dignified and when she does something inappropriate you can say:"Good golly,Miss Molly!"
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:05 PM
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26. What song is that from?
I know it, it's on the tip of my tongue.

It is a song, right?
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:15 PM
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36. Devil With the Blue Dress On.
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
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bluedonkey Donating Member (644 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:25 PM
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41. No.No
totally different beat.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:42 PM
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46. Mithc did it too!
Good golly, Miss Molly
You sure like to ball
Good golly, Miss Molly
You sure like to ball
It's late in the evenin'
Don't you hear your mama call
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bluedonkey Donating Member (644 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:21 PM
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40. Little Richard! n/t
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:02 PM
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17. She must know you're coming for her I think she's smiling. Best wishes for
Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 05:03 PM by kikiek
many loving years. I named ours Swedee as a tribute. I like names that mean something to us.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:03 PM
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18. Hey STELLA!!!
Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 05:07 PM by Richardo
Hey, it worked for Brando.

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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:12 PM
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34. I don't think I want that kind of relationship with my dog. . .
;)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:04 PM
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21. How about Gem?
She looks like one...
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:05 PM
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28. That would be a good nickname for Gemini. n/t
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benny05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:04 PM
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22. Mattie
Good Aussie name. Otherwise, I like Molly, her foster home name.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:04 PM
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23. She's really pretty
Jenny seems to fit :-). I like Gypsy (Ciganka in Slovak pronounced see-gun-kuh) and I almost named my dog Cindy that.

Good for you, adopting a shelter pup.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:04 PM
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24. Does she have a name right now?
She doesn't exactly look like a pup. Can you just change her current name a bit?
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:08 PM
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32. She's one year old. Her previous owners returned her
because they didn't realize how big she'd get.
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ahem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:05 PM
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27. Jemmi
Sort of similar to Jenny, still derived from Gemini, but I think it's a really pretty name.

Congrats on your new family member. She's gorgeous.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:07 PM
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31. I know. She's so beautiful.
I'm glad she's spayed, cause I don't want any of the neighborhood dogs knocking on my door for her.

I am NOT staying up late waiting for her to comeback from any dates.
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ahem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:18 PM
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38. Ha! Yeah, that should save you some trouble.
She reminds me of a cross between a dog a used to have and one of my current cats. But the cat just has similar coloring:

He's a Romeo, though. I'm sure he'd try to be her boyfriend despite the spaying and species thing!
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MN ChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:18 PM
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37. Cute pup
I'm adopting my new cat tomorrow too.

I agree, she could definitely be a Molly, but if you want to acknowledge her Aussie antecedents, howzabout Sheila. As in "now there's a pretty Sheila, Bruce."
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:28 PM
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45. If I was twenty-one and drank Fosters, that'd be a great choice.
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lastknowngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:26 PM
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42. She looks like a Cindy to me
n/t
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:26 PM
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43. Stay
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 05:27 PM
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44. Sadie was a popular name for traveling dogs...
...during the 1960s.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 06:07 PM
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47. My husband says,"that's Lucy"
I said ,"Gussie", short for "Augusta" since that's when you met(?)
She's a lovely doggie-girl!
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charlyvi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 06:29 PM
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48. Bijou
Edited on Fri Aug-12-05 06:29 PM by charlyvi
French for jewel.
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