Looking at the post on German boxer names got me to thinking - how did everyone choose their dogs' names? I'm sure there's some interesting stories behind them!
Here's mine:
Tink - we had always planned to get a pair so were thinking along the lines of Belle & Beast, Hector & Andromecha (she'd have been Andi for short), etc. etc. We finally decided on Tink(erbell) and Hook...
until...
We got Hector and he didn't look like a Hook at all! I studied Classics for 5 years, so we called him Hector after my favourite character in Homer's Iliad. (Unfortunately there's a rather annoying "personality" on Irish TV named Hector O hEochagain so everyone thinks he's named after him!)
Here's mine:
Tink - we had always planned to get a pair so were thinking along the lines of Belle & Beast, Hector & Andromecha (she'd have been Andi for short), etc. etc. We finally decided on Tink(erbell) and Hook...
until...
We got Hector and he didn't look like a Hook at all! I studied Classics for 5 years, so we called him Hector after my favourite character in Homer's Iliad. (Unfortunately there's a rather annoying "personality" on Irish TV named Hector O hEochagain so everyone thinks he's named after him!)