Posted on 08/22/2006 5:17:16 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
Vanity of vanities . . .
I put a deposit down today on a female Black Labrador Retriever, born 8/16. She'll be ready to come home in October. So now I've got to figure out a name for this little bundle of joy.
She's coming from Wisconsin, from Candlewood Kennels which is arguably the best field trial kennel in the country. She's not a typical field trial dog, she has some "dual purpose" (i.e. show and hunt test) on her mom's side. Her mom is a fully trained hunting dog who has produced good field dogs.
The tradition is to somehow combine the names of the father and mother. Of course her prefix has to be Candlewood. The sire is FC/AFC The Man In Black ("Cash"), who is by 2xNAFC/2xCNAFC Ebonstar Lean Mac (a top producing sire - 117 field champions) out of Gator Point's Sweet Potato Pie, a CFTC/CAFTC Pachanga Magnum Force daughter out of a HRCH. The dam is Kerrybrook Candlewood Connor, who is by Ch. Franklin's Champagne out of Kerrybrook's March to the Sea JH. That side has notable FC/AFC Webshire's Honest Abe, another very good field trial sire, and Abercrombie & Fitch MH, who is a sire not only of field dogs but also numerous seeing eye dogs and search and rescue dogs. Two of his get were S&R dogs at the Twin Towers. So she should have plenty of brains, and plenty of "go". Because of the show background she should be a pretty girl as well.
The obvious way to go is a Johnny Cash song . . . friend of mine suggested "A Dog Named Sue" . . . we could easily tie in her mom's name with an "O'Connor" . . . but I'm kind of looking for something cute and a little unusual.
I figured I could get both out of the dog fanciers at FR . . . the floor is open for nominations.
Shorty
Desoto
Roger, the Shrubber.
You're getting her in October so name her Pumpkin or Autumn.
Osama
I dunno but I like the cleaned up version they're running on the Scfi channel better than the raw Showtime one. I suppose Showtime just didn't give it enough exposure.
After a few days or a week our dogs always seem to name themselves. I know you are looking for a name to put on the registry but he needs a call name too.
Johnny Cash's birth name was "J.R." Just initials. Maybe something like Candlewood J.R. Connor
Freepy
I suppose that a name like "Bull Connor" (the segregationist) wouldn't be appreciated.
Candlewood Man That's Sweet
It did need some cleaning up. And, you know, all the f-words weren't needed at all because the writing and acting were great.
Rover.
Or how about Connor Carter-Cash
Ciara is Gaelic (Irish) for black. If you need something unusual, maybe you could research the names of female water or river goddesses since you are getting a water dog.
LOL
How about Abdul!
You could go back to his early stuff: Keep on the Sunnyside, or Katy Too for possible names.
So, a new puppy, eh? How will Her Highness the Beauty Queen, Miss Shelley, take to having a little sister?
Congratulations on the new Pup.
I lean towards "Sweetie Pie"
Leila means night in Arabic.
Black in Thai is pronounced "dumb".
:)
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