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New Giveaway with 3 Lucky Winners – How Did You Choose Your Dog’s Name?

September 17, 2011 on 3:03 pm

It fascinates me when a dog owner shares their story on how they chose their dog’s name. It’s a great topic for conversation!

Our dog’s names are Gido and Mochi. Gido got his name by combining mine and my husband’s first name. His name has been pronounced Guido, Geydo, Guydo, Geedo. It’s correctly pronounced Gido as in Gi for Gina. The day we picked up Gido’s little brother (Gido and Mochi have the same dad so they are half brothers), my nephew made my favorite Japanese sweet snack – Mochi (which I absolutely love). So that’s how Mochi got his name. It suits him well because he’s puffy and fluffy and such a sweet lil boy!

I would love to hear your story. Tell us, how did you choose your dog’s name?

We are giving away the Nite Iz Spotlit dog light to 3 lucky winners for sharing their story.

Nite Ize Spotlit clips on to your dog's collar and makes him visible at night up to 1,000 feet.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Leave a blog comment by telling us…How did you choose your dog’s name?

2. Head over to our Facebook page (click on the “Like” button if you’re not yet a fan). Post your comment onto our Facebook page. Feel free to share a photo of your pooch, we love pics!

3. Please share our Facebook page with your friends! We’d appreciate it! : )

Giveaway ends on September 27 at 11:59pm. Good luck!

15 Comments »

Ashley C said,

September 17, 2011 @ 7:43 pm

I’m not sure how we came up with Lola’s name… it was just the name I knew I wanted to name my dream baby… and she has been my dream come true ever since. If I had to pin point it down I would say it was from “Charlie and Lola” which is a cartoon… but you have to say the names with a British accent. And Hunter came to us with that name and responded well so we didn’t want to change it.
Ashley C said,

September 17, 2011 @ 7:54 pm

I like on facebook and shared a pic : )
Kelly Ann T said,

September 17, 2011 @ 8:47 pm

Kouga means steel fang and we named him that because when we adopted him and brought him home he popped all the tennis balls in the house. Milele means eternity and we will love her forever so that is how she got her name.
Kelly Ann T said,

September 17, 2011 @ 8:53 pm

I liked you facebook page, shared with friends, and left comments with photos.
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Linda Kish said,

September 19, 2011 @ 3:26 am

My 10 y/o min pin’s name is Puppy. We adopted him when he was 4. I can’t remember what name he came to us with but it really didn’t suit him. We started calling him Puppy while we thought of an appropriate name. We ran through several dozen names but couldn’t agree. After a year of tossing names around, we realized he was answering to the name of Puppy so we gave up on trying to rename him. So now we have a little old man named Puppy.

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Deb E. said,

September 21, 2011 @ 4:17 pm

Gizmo-5 year old Chihuahua Long Haired…
We got him when he was 8 weeks old. His attitude and his looks reminded us of Gizmo from Gremlins. Till this day, he’s just like Gizmo.
sandy w said,

September 21, 2011 @ 4:50 pm

i have 3 min. schnauzer, evie, the oldest, i went thru several names for her, i did not like the one the breeder picked out, i settled on evie, because i have always liked the name eve. tressa, had another name by the breeder which i did not like either, i loved the name tressa, very feminine, and it suites her well; harley, picked by the breeder, which i love, i registered as harlequin hullabaloo, because she is a real hulabaloo…always getting into trouble, tearing up toys, a real mess but my baby…the youngest of the 3.u
sandy w said,

September 21, 2011 @ 4:54 pm

left a comment on fcbk and pictures, liked as well, shared
Diana Thompson said,

September 22, 2011 @ 6:31 pm

Helo, a 5 month old Red tri Australian Shepherd….
His name came from the new revamped Battlestar Galactica sci-fi television show. One of the characters was a pilot and his name was Helo. Thought that was a totally cool name and wrote it down and kept it on hold. Then when got a new male puppers I thought that Helo was good for an agility dog name since Helo makes you think of Helicopter/Fast flying, etc. etc. and how that goes good with how fast dogs run around doing agility. And also researched the name in greek mythology and Helios has something to do with a god riding in a golden chariot with red flaming horses driving it, all going along with the flying theme and red coloring like him, so I thought it all went together very well….and now you know the rest of the story
Nicola said,

September 23, 2011 @ 8:21 pm

When I was younger, I adopted a black lab from the pound. I named her Lucky, as she was “lucky to be adopted!” I have another dog named Scooter. When I first got her, she was scared of her own shadow and would scoot across the floor instead of walking or running. So, she earned her name.
Nicki said,

September 24, 2011 @ 11:54 pm

We have five dogs! Our newest, Bella, came with her name, but we added Mae to the end of it after our dog Sadie Mae who passed away last year. The other four dogs are from a litter one of our old dogs had (who also passed away, 4 wks. after the puppies were born). Puffa got her name because she is all white with just a tiny tiny dark spot at the end of her tail – like a cigarette. My brother in law named her. Chunk got her name because she was the chunkiest as a pup, and Missy my stepfather’s mother named. Harry is the only boy, and we struggled with a name for him for weeks. We called him horizontal, because he always fed upside down, but didn’t like it for a real name. I came up with Harold, to match the H from horizontal, but we usually call him by the nickname Harry.
Nicki said,

September 24, 2011 @ 11:57 pm

Liked you on facebook and shared my comment!
Jessica said,

September 26, 2011 @ 6:49 pm

My dogs are sisters named Shea and Josie. I have the bad luck to be a Mets fan, so when Shea Stadium closed and I got the dogs shortly afterwards I knew I wanted to name one Shea. I wanted a name that “went with” Shea for her sister, but not something really obvious (like Shea and Shirley). I couldn’t think of something else Mets-related, but my elementary school, St. Joseph’s School closed around the same time Shea Stadium closed. So I went with Josie. The connection between the two is a little obscure, – both named after things that closed that were important to me – but at least Shea and Josie sound nice together (I think anyway
Jessica said,

September 26, 2011 @ 6:57 pm

I liked the fb page, added my comment, and added a link to the page on my wall.