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Just wondering...........since I am hoping to get a new basset soon, I'm thinking about names. Our first basset's name was Lucy. She came with AKC papers but we never followed through with filling them out and paying for the registration. Her parents, of course, had fancy names, two or three bunched together. We thought about Marvelous Miss Lucy of Maple Street Manner but decided we didn't need a fancy name or the papers, just a basset to love, Lucy. Here's the story of how we arrived at Lucy:
My children were begging for a dog for about three/four years before my husband finally caved and said "OK", so they had a lot of time to choose a name. One kid was in college, the next in line 15 and the youngest 12. Since the kid in the middle often gets "lost" in the shuffle, we went with her name choice, which was Lucy......Lucy after the Charles Schultz Peanuts Gang cartoon character. Well, let me tell you, our basset Lucy, grew into that name perfectly. She was bossy and at times obnoxious but we loved her very much. So although her name was Lucy, she had many nicknames as her family and friends fondly greeted her, lovingly in many "pet" names related to the name of Lucy or related to her behavior or stature. So her name was Lucy but "pet" name and alias list included:
Lulu
Lulu-belle
Lu
Lucille;my brother always sang to her "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
I Love Lucy the name given to her by a neighbor who always ran out of her house or stopped her car as we'd pass her by, hollering "I LOVE LUCY"
Lucy-two-cie, another neighbor's varation
Loopy
Luthy
Loo-hee-as called by my 2 yr. old granddaughter
The great wabbit hunder
The dish towel thief
Hound-dog
Poo-dog
Hot dog
But mostly just LUCY. I was thinking about naming the next basset we get, "Lucy-too" but no one in my family thinks that's a good idea. I'm just thinking it'd be good b/c I'll probably call her Lucy just from habit. The rest of the family says the new basset deserves to make her own place in our family with a new name! They said, I never get anybody's name in family correct, going through the whole list of kids until I get the right one, what's one more than to add to the list. So maybe they are right. My husband likes Ruby, no one else likes that. I think we need to wait to see what she looks like, then settle on a name. Of coures, we need to find her first!
Just wondering, how did you choose your pet's name? Does he/she have any nick-names? I'm really having a wonderful time reading all the basset names on the forum. Most of them seem to suit very well when I see their pictures or read what you write about them! I'd love to hear your stories!
My children were begging for a dog for about three/four years before my husband finally caved and said "OK", so they had a lot of time to choose a name. One kid was in college, the next in line 15 and the youngest 12. Since the kid in the middle often gets "lost" in the shuffle, we went with her name choice, which was Lucy......Lucy after the Charles Schultz Peanuts Gang cartoon character. Well, let me tell you, our basset Lucy, grew into that name perfectly. She was bossy and at times obnoxious but we loved her very much. So although her name was Lucy, she had many nicknames as her family and friends fondly greeted her, lovingly in many "pet" names related to the name of Lucy or related to her behavior or stature. So her name was Lucy but "pet" name and alias list included:
Lulu
Lulu-belle
Lu
Lucille;my brother always sang to her "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
I Love Lucy the name given to her by a neighbor who always ran out of her house or stopped her car as we'd pass her by, hollering "I LOVE LUCY"
Lucy-two-cie, another neighbor's varation
Loopy
Luthy
Loo-hee-as called by my 2 yr. old granddaughter
The great wabbit hunder
The dish towel thief
Hound-dog
Poo-dog
Hot dog
But mostly just LUCY. I was thinking about naming the next basset we get, "Lucy-too" but no one in my family thinks that's a good idea. I'm just thinking it'd be good b/c I'll probably call her Lucy just from habit. The rest of the family says the new basset deserves to make her own place in our family with a new name! They said, I never get anybody's name in family correct, going through the whole list of kids until I get the right one, what's one more than to add to the list. So maybe they are right. My husband likes Ruby, no one else likes that. I think we need to wait to see what she looks like, then settle on a name. Of coures, we need to find her first!
Just wondering, how did you choose your pet's name? Does he/she have any nick-names? I'm really having a wonderful time reading all the basset names on the forum. Most of them seem to suit very well when I see their pictures or read what you write about them! I'd love to hear your stories!