I'm not a dog person. At all. I'm not a dog hater by any means - my heart sinks just as much as anyone's when I read in the news the horrific conditions some dogs are subjected to and I feel rage that a human can do that to an animal that can feel hurt and pain and hunger.
But I just don't have the gene that most people have when it comes to thinking dogs are gorgeous and cute. To me, they're scary and stinky and I don't like being around them. This is the part when most people interject with "but you've never met MY dog, MY dog is amazing and you'd love it". That's a no from me, but thanks. (Would people be as incensed if I said I didn't like parrots?!)
This happened on the Early Breakfast and I was inundated with photos of puppers and doggies and...I felt nothing except amusement at the names. Some of the names are brilliant!
Santa Paws, Prince of Barkness, Madra - they're all here:
- “My German Shepherd is called FREDDY!”
- “My girlfriend's dog is called Indy. Indiana Bones!”
- “Wall.E - after the robot in the movie! Funny 8 years ago, not so cool now!” - Amy Wexford
- “Morning Paula, our kids named our dog Alan. It's awkward when we go to call the dog as our new neighbours have a son called Alan!”
- “Morning Paula, we couldn't decide what to call our first dog so we called her D'For as in D for Dog - and when we got our second dog, the song Ruby Ruby Ruby was playing on the radio on the journey home so we called her Ruby.” - Mick in Laois
- “My old dog was called Jordan a small terrier, named after the Jordan F1 team” - Dan in Donegal
- “I was dropping my cat to the cattery and a woman in front of my was leaving her cat "fish finger" in. My cat is called Ruben!”
- “Hi Paula - my dog is called Bruce after the great man himself!” - Mattie Murphy
- “Hi Paula, our dog is called Moto, after the old Motorola advert. So every evening when we get home we say hello moto!”
- “I have a ruby King Charles named Foxy. He's named after my dad because they’re both ginger, ha!” - Keith
- “Hi Paula we have a boxer called Fat Jaws!” - Adrian in Tullamore
- “We had a Basset hound and we called him Bertie aka Bertie Basset!” - Barry Evans in Rathdrum
- “Hi Paula. Our dog's name is Trousers... just because! And she's a girl!” - Roisin (enroute from Dundalk to Dublin)
- “Hi Paula. We called our dog Sooner. Cause he'd sooner pee in the house than go out!” - Sean from Longford
- “WHISKEY for 5 year old staffy girl - why? Because it's such an Irish name!” - Peter
- “Hi Paula our 8 stone St Bernard is called Tiny. Christened when we rescued her!” - Dee in Offaly
- “Reggie D is our dog’s name and Reginald when he is bold!”
- “I had a Dalmatian dog once called him... Stripe!” - Franko in Monaghan. '
- “Hey Sweetpea, my family is very literal, we had a dog that we found that was all black so we named it Blacky. Then we found a dog one misty night so we called it Misty. Now my parents have a dog, and on the journey home from collecting her she was in a Miller beer box in the car so they called her Millie!” - Gary from Wexford
- “Hi Paula our daughter’s best friend who lives next door got a Bichon Frise she called Cocoa and Samantha got a girl dog who she called Chanel!”
- “The boy next door calls his dog Snoop Dog!”
- “Our dog is called Lieutenant Dan from Forrest Gump. Would love a beanie cos I don't have time to get a haircut!! It might hold in the madness!”
- “Hi Paula. Our 2 rescue dogs are called Barnaby and Maxamillion because they are like royalty to us!” - Jon in Spiddal.'
- “Hi Paula, love the show. We named are dog Marty after the legendary time traveller Marty mc Fly from Back to the Future!” - Dave
- “So I'll paint a picture. I'm 6ft 7 with a beard average build going for a walk with the dog - it runs on a bit, me calling it back ROSE BUD - people pointing and laughing. Kids and their animal names!”
- “Hi Paula we've had a few gender issues with dogs! Dad saw a small dog being dumped out of a car in our village so took it home. Thought it was a boy so called it Barney after the Flintstones. Discovered it was a girl shortly after so stuck with the Flintstones reference and we loved Rubbles to bits!” - Sarah from Wexford
- “Paula, we had a rescue Staffy and I named him Houdini, he did some disappearing acts when we got him first. He would always just appear filthy with his tail wagging. He could also escape from anywhere!” - Niall, Cavan
- “Dobby Oprah Glennon - a boxer with the initials DOG”
- “Hi Paula. We have two dogs one called Buddy and other called Holly!”
- “Morning Paula we had a cat called Punk, kind of after are you feeling lucky punk the name just stuck. 18 years old she was before she passed away last month.” - Mimi in Shannon
- “Hiya. My parents called their red setter Sandy and when Sandy passed away they got another red setter and called it Sandy. Our cat used to have 3 kittens at a time and there were 3 children in the house so we used to call the 3 kittens. Pixi And Dixi. Or Mork And Mindy. My poor brother (the middle child) always had the kitten called And!” - Christina
- “Our local pub has a dog, he was jet black so naturally we christened him snowball!”
- “We asked the little ones to name their fish. My 4yo girl decided on Dory. Ooh clever! Turned to our 3yo wee fella, what about yours? He replied Fluffy!”
@sweetpmac when kids small wanted cockatiels. Named them NIC & AL ..Nicotine & Alcohol 😳😳😳😳
— karen murray (@minnyminty) August 24, 2017
@sweetpmac hey Paula our dog is called BOB after the us president Barrack O Bama-,got him the day Obama was elected
— derry (@linehad) August 24, 2017
@sweetpmac Here's Axel pic.twitter.com/UTSgR2aQrV
— Merlin. (@RedMerlin1892) August 24, 2017
@sweetpmac
Woof woof😀 our two,woody and Sophie! pic.twitter.com/FG2t6tti4s— Karl Henry (@karlhenrypt) August 24, 2017
@sweetpmac You would love my dog #pretzel pic.twitter.com/cCoqcqFXSs
— danny breen (@dannybreen) August 24, 2017
