Puppy !

[OH HAI SPI!]

very creative title, i know. so, on saturday, we went and got a puppy he's a cream colored yellow lab, and he's nine weeks old. we absolutely love himm <33 aand he still doesn't have a name, we're all kind of picky i guess.. it's reeeally hard to get all six people to like ONE name. so, any ideas? :3 i'll post some pics later today.

[*~`cHEsHirE!i!cHEetAH`~*]

Try ten people. It took us eight hours alone to finally decide that my dog Dakota was going to be called Dakota. XD And I have no knew. But a good way to name a puppy is say random names until you get a response from him.

[Rigs]

Actually, if you are serious about making the dog training easier, you do not use the dog's name at all until you formally train the dog to respond to the name in the manner that you wish. Some use the name as a recall cue (Otis come). Other use it as an attention cue to ask for eye contact, and others still use it as a punishment (OTIS NO.) I use my dog's name (actually a shortened version of it) as an attention cue, trained using positive reinforcement. When choosing a name, you typically want to choose a name and then a shortened, working version of the name as to not fade out the meaning of a name, since you'll be using it often to refer to your dog in conversation. I use Oats instead of Otis.

Most dog trainers call their new puppies, "Puppy" until they come up with a name and it is, in fact recommended that you refer to the dog as puppy until you have trained what you want your dog's name to mean to him. Remember that the name is just another word that the dog doesn't care about if you don't attach meaning to it.