Imaginative names for a chocolate lab puppy ...?

Kick-Stand · February 3, 2006, 1:02am

Chockie.
Chewey.
Hershey (Hersh for short) and impress your feminist
friends by saying it stands for ‘her-she’
Chunkie

Stray_Dog · February 3, 2006, 3:18am

I like Maya.

Mucha_Man · February 3, 2006, 3:25am

Too trendy. By the time she gets to kindergarten she’ll be embarrassed to have such a name.

irishstu · February 3, 2006, 3:41am

I think you should merge “chocolate” and “lab” together to get “Chab”, and since we’re being international, how about using a “v” instead of a “b”, since those letters are interchangeable pronunciation-wise in Spain.

So you could call him “Chav”. What a lovely name

(Seriously, don’t call him “Chav”. Seriously.)

Kick-Stand · February 3, 2006, 6:52am

Chab.

Chabsters…

Chabby.

I got the Chabs.

LOVE IT!

Huang_Guang_Chen · February 3, 2006, 7:05am

Chav is a brilliant idea, especially if you happen to take her to the UK. You could have many an adventure wandering the likes of Manchester calling out “here chav, chav, chav.”
HG

irishstu · February 3, 2006, 7:11am

[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]Chav is a brilliant idea, especially if you happen to take her to the UK. You could have many an adventure wandering the likes of Manchester calling out “here chav, chav, chav.”
HG[/quote]

OK. OK. Stop it now. I will not be responsible for this dog getting named Chav. :scooby:

ImaniOU · February 3, 2006, 8:23am

How about Gustav? Seems to work well for a certain chocolate lab I know…

Okay, seriously though, Ghiradelli? Ghira for short?

Dragonbones · February 3, 2006, 8:46am

Sorry, dear, but the Maya weren’t the first. The Toltecs (e.g., Quetzalcoatl), Aztecs, Mixtecs, Mayans (250-900AD) and Xi (Olmecs, 1500 to somewhere between 500 BC and 1 AD) all drank chocolate, and the Olmecs predate the Maya by about 1750 years. So they could name the pup Olmec!

Olmec use is evidenced by archaeological finds of teapots with cocoa in the bottom, from an Olmec site 2,600 years ago; some scholars also argue that it is the Mixe-Zoque word *kakawa (a linguistic reconstruction), which gives cacao and thus cocoa its name, and some scholars believe the Olmecs to have spoken a language in this group, although both facts are disputed. Is Kakawa a good pup name?

The Olmecs lived in the Mexican states of Tabasco and Vera Cruz, between the later Maya and Aztec heartlands. So one could name him Tabasco.

The subsequent Izapan culture of this region and/or the Chontal or Put

Mucha_Man · February 3, 2006, 8:48am

Holy Mole, what a post!

irishstu · February 3, 2006, 8:52am

Dragonbones has too much time on his hands.

sandman · February 3, 2006, 9:41am

Broondug. There. That settles it.

Woudsprite · February 4, 2006, 5:09am

The poor dog! I think some of the deity names of south america might be a bit much, I mean a lab being named after the God of war? My 23 pound tugo had more fight in her than any lab I have ever met. Why don’t we just call her turtle? I like turtles, it makes no sense whatsoever and isn’t connected to her colour at all. Of course you might not want to take my advise as I named my first dog small and ugly in chinese and the other one Stimby (a cross between stimpy and bartleby)

sandman · February 5, 2006, 8:21am

You’re a sly dog, Muzha Man! :bravo:

j99l88e77 · February 5, 2006, 2:37pm

I’ve heard the chocolate labs can be pretty crazy. Nice dog though. My borther has a yellow (white) one and a black (chocolate?) one. They named theirs after scotches (liquor).

Stray_Dog · February 5, 2006, 2:56pm

Mozart.

Godiva.

Tigerman · February 5, 2006, 3:47pm

Mousse

Truffles

Dragonbones · February 5, 2006, 3:56pm

I don’t know… Huitzilopochtli is growing on me…

maoman · February 5, 2006, 4:00pm

Ex-lax!

Dragonbones · February 5, 2006, 4:05pm

They make that in chocolate flavor, right?