Dog Names

Every now and them we receive an email from someone giving us their dogs name and they tell us why they named them with that name. I'd like to share this email and we see how unique names come about.

"I just found your site and wanted to let you know that our sable Chinese Shar-Pei we had for 13 years was named Ripli. I tried to think of a name that would describe her endless wrinkles without being cutesy pootsey and frou-frou. I came up with that name because I used to skim rocks on the ponds at the farm when I was little. You see, I grew up on a farm. The ripples seemed to go on forever across the pond; you couldn't tell where they stopped...just like her wrinkles. They started at the top of her head and didn't stop until her tail, but looking at her from the front, they went on forever. You might not think that her name was that unique, but we liked it. She was the only Ripli at my vet's office...until someone waiting in my vet's office one day heard me call her name and then named her new puppy the same durn thing. I just told Ripli that it was O.K. since she was the original Ripli-Dog. We sure do miss her crazy self.
Sincerely,"

Thanks Julie for a neat email.