happier puppy news-with pics

[sundial]

Aly, do you have more pics of Chester?

[TsPoet]

I keep expecting someone to come up with a name that takes that wonderful tongue into account! I know, Gene Simmons, but there has to be others.

My two rescues both came with names I hated. I always heard that you shouldn't change their names, but I don't think rescue dogs get a chance to know their rescue names. Buddy became Murphy and Trisha became Finagle (which I pronounce with a soft a). They both sure know their names now.

He's gorgeous and I'm sure he'll continue to look better with love and a home.

[aly]

I think Gene Simmons is a brilliant name- it totally cracked me up. I lobbied hard for it, but it was vetoed. The name Chester actually did take into account his tongue/ kissing, but it's in bad taste. I'm big on bad taste.

I've done some work with rescues, and in the ones I've worked with it seems that most names do end up getting changed (but not all). Some people feel bad doing it, and just won't tell the rescue. With one of my kitties, I just changed it from Ash to Cash. Others, I've kept the name and some, I've changed completely.

I spent last night looking through the "happy endings" photos on the Westside GSD rescue page, and noticed that most of the names were changed. It's funny how it's all a matter of personal taste. I thought many of the rescue names were much better than the new names, but obviously the new families didn't feel the same.

Sundial- thanks for asking for more pictures! I'll be taking a bunch more just to post here. I love taking pictures of my puppies! Maybe I'll take some tonight...

By the way, he did the breathing thing again. Anyone have experience with this with a new rescue? My little guy had kennel couch when I got him and I remember it being a weird breathing thing, but it's been too long to remember exactly what it was like. We're going to the vet later this week to check it out.