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#82 ·
twall said:
I've named many dogs after songs.

These are based on Grateful Dead songs:

TBF's Stagger Lee, YLM - TBF stood for Terrapin Berry Farm a pick-your-strawberry farm I had in college. Stagger Lee and a used 870 Wingmaster were the main "proceeds" from the business venture. Stagger Lee taught me a lot about hunting and dog training. I still have the old Wingmaster, it has a few more scatches and a lot less bluing.

Sunnyburke's Truckin Iko-Iko, Iko, BLM
Tiroen's Terrapin Flier, Terp, BLM


Tom
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My sister has a BLF named Ripple.
 
#83 ·
Registered name of: Sir Tobey Tanner of Oliver's Grove
Call name: Tobey ;sometimes Hey stupid.

Name revolves around:
Sir = Male dog
Tobey = nice name
Tanner = Sires name
Oliver's Grove = What my home city of Hastings,MN used to be many many years ago...
 
#84 · (Edited)
I have two dogs Registered name: Fargos Greenwing Thunder SH Handles to Thunder
Sire: FC Fargo II Dam: Greenwing paints her nails black SH

Registered name: Watermarks Black Tornado WC Handles to Twister
She came from Watermarks Kennel she is black and we had to stay with weather.
 
#85 ·
I'll start with the oldest...
Young's Alaskan Gold Nugget-Goldie She is the color of gold.
Go North Renegade Rusty- Rusty His sire was from Go West retrievers, so played off that.
Last Frontier's Top Ramen-Noodle My daughter came up with the call name and then the registered name.
LastFrontier's I'm No DingDong-Twinkie My daughter came up with the call name and Dave Combs helped me out with the registered name.
LastFrontier's Usibelli Coal- Belli Usibelli is a huge coal mine here in Alaska...Lots of black dogs named Coal, but not many named Belli
LastFrontier's To Infinity and Beyond- Buzz Liked the name Buzz and thought that he was gonna have to do really great things if we were going to keep him.
Dogs we sold
LastFrontier's Heavy Duty- Tonka An absolutely huge dufus of a lab.
LastFrontier's Giv'n U Da Berries-Razzy Liked the call name and just tried to come up with something different...play on the fruit and the sound you make with your mouth.
 
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#86 ·
I think I've put this up before but here it is again.

REMINGTON'S BLACK POWDER JASPER
I saw him before I bought him and like two hours later Jasper popped into my head and that was his name. Remington was his mom and he was more like his mom, and he was black. If I had ever bred him (I'm smarter now lol) his son would have been Remington's Black Powder Tracer, call name Tracer. I'll probably still name a dog Tracer, I just like it.

CEDARS TWO TOES IN TOWER TWO (Boscoe)
Boscoe's papers were never sent in before he passed so technically this doesn't count but it's what it would have been. Sire was Deuce, Two Toes Out the Door. Wanted to keep that and Tower Two was for 9/11, I'm a firefighter/EMT. Boscoe went unnamed for like 2 days and we were going through dog names online and heard Roscoe and my boyfriend at the time was like, what about Boscoe. From Boscarelli on the TV show Third Watch. It definitely fit his quirky personality even though he was nothing like the Bosco on the show.

TIGRESS MIDNIGHT WIND STALKER (Kiela)
Again, this hasn't been sent in and accepted by AKC yet but it's on the papers, just have to be mailed. Tigress for her sire, Tiger. Wind for her dam, Windy. Midnight, she's black. Stalker because she stalked everything as a puppy, it was the funniest thing. And I just like the ring of the name. Kiela came from the FOX TV show Rescue Me, it was a little girl's name and I liked it. It was another one that before I even picked her up I knew that was going to be my pup's name and luckily it fit. Though most people ask me, Kiela, like tequila? and think I named her after that, but I didn't.
 
#87 ·
Too many dogs, too many stories. But most all my dogs, if I get them as pups & have the priviledge to name them, start with Squirrel Mountain because I live on Squirrel Mountain as shown on area topo maps. Since the name is so long with limited letter space when registering a pup, I have shortened Squirrel Mountain Labradors to Squirrel Mtn then Sq Mtn & now I just use SML at the beginning of all the pups I register. Since I have bred only once in the last 10 yrs, there is not an abundance of SML dogs but if I do breed one of my bitches I would want the pup buyers to start their registered name with SML.
 
#88 ·
Nimloth has been my kennel name for about 30 of the 40 years I have been in dogs, so all the names of those I breed begin with it. Some of my current dogs got some of their names in odd ways.

Ch. Nimloth Je Ne Sais Quoi: Jenny was one of those pups (I'm sure many of you have had one) that just had a certain "flair" about her from birth. She did things differently and always caught your eye. She had pizzaz. The french phrase for that is what we named her. It translates to "I don't know what" and means a special panache. It is her photo I use for my avatar.

Nimloth Xpatriate: Paddy is a black male that we will be sending to Australia next year.

Over the years I have had a few favorites:
Nimloth Pardon My Dust: Dusty was a heavilly ticked blue English Setter

Nimloth Hand Me Down: Hannah was a chocolate that was 12 generations my own breeding.

Nimloth Jumpin' Jack Flash: Jack was a very light yellow sired by my Nimloth Quantum Leap, so the choice of name was obvious. His sister was Nimloth Jump for Joy :)
 
#89 ·
Canvasback is the kennel name we have been using since our first Chessie.

Among the current crop are:

Canvasback Gimme The Flier ***MH call name Flier. From a line in "The Retriever Game" by Boyd Gibbons about how trial dogs ache for the flier, "give me the flier"

Canvasback Southbay Souvenir **MH. Soupy is a 6 or 7 gen grandson of Ch AFC Bomarc of Southbay CD, Auggie's last Chessie. The call name if in honor of NFC NAFC SuperChief.
 
#90 ·
Bob, you reminded of the name of one of my Chessies. She was by Ch. Bayline's Okiekan Chase, WC out of CH Cocoa Angelina Whitefeather. We named her Nimloth Glory Chase'n Angel after her two parents. She was a real cutie and I had her championship half finished, but I let her go back to her co-breeder due to some conflicts between her and one of the Lab girls. There is a reason they call females of the species "bitch"!
 
#91 ·
ramblinmaxx said:
My favorite name from our group of girls..... Marty found a full sister to Hawkeye's Viking the summer we were getting married. He had his sales pitch for me ready to roll when I got home from work. I said sure, but "There Goes the Honeymoon". So she became RMR's There Goes the Honeymoon" Maddie.

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Our other girls that we have, which we have named.

RMR Waterstrike BrambleGamble "BG" from the repeat breeding of Bramble 2004 Top Canadian Junior Dog.

Ramblin Maxx Miracle "Xxam". Named because I felt it was a miracle that we had a girl "Watermark's K.D. MH MNH that, through her great Hunt Test career was considered "worthy" of a breeding to Maxx. Also just took Xxam's daddy's call name and turned it around to come up with her call name. Pronounced Zam.

Ramblin Maxx Calendar Girl "Callie" Named for her Grandmother, Watermark's Calendar Girl..... Littermate to 6 Field Champions, including High Tech CEO and Tiger McBunn.

RMR Power Of Ebonstar And Spice "JJ" Named for her parents, Lean Mac and FC AFC Brookdales Sugar and Spice.

Also the Power and JJ are to honor our good friends Jim and Judy Powers for giving us the opportunity to own such a nice young daughter of Lean Mac.

Marty
 
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