What's her name to be

Dogs and puppies are great therapy for the elderly and the young: they're used for therapy with special needs individuals as well. The selfies do not surprise me at all. Glad she had a great time of it.

Thank you, everyone. Her name is Razz.

She had a busy day and is sacked out. (What's the chances she sleeps all night? Very slim.)

She her her second tracking lesson this morning and actually got her nose down.

She had a play date with a 9-week old border collie - What a hoot!

In the afternoon she attended AP Psychology classes as we demonstrated the techniques of training dogs. There were a total of 5 dogs, including our Breeze and Jinks, but Razz was the sentimental favorite. Funny how, after each class, the students wanted to make "selfies" with her. She loved the attention.

Thanks, again.

Tom

Our perceptions and understanding of what a dog is capable of (as far as thinking, reasoning and language recognition) has changed dramatically since my time in vet school.

Did any of you see the 60 minutes segment on the Smartest dog in the world? This dog has over 1000 toys he can find by name and then follow a command with what to do with it.

Individual Dogs have different levels of intelligence and different areas where they excel or not. But the bottom line is that they have way more ability that we ever thought.

Discrimination between a one or two syllable name seems to be pretty elementary ability most dogs should breeze through.

Doug

rockylarson,

Thank you for taking the time to respond. You have provided a subject of conversation with out dog friends, almost all of which have working dogs.

For most people, this statement from the article, "Notice that all commands are designed with a single syllable ... " may ring true. But it is not true in our world. We do use a lot of one-syllable commands - probably the majority of our commands. However, we use a lot of multiple syllable commands.

For example, in NADAC agility we encounter many "discriminations." Usually, a contact obstacle and a tunnel are side-by-side. The commands we use are, "Come, walk it" and "Out, tunnel." The "come" and "out" might be interchanged, depending on the positioning of the obstacles relative to the dog's path.

Our dogs seem to be able to make fine distinction. We use "left" and "right" to mean spins. We use "go left" and "go right" to mean direction changes.

I will be interested to see what others and our dog friends think about this.

Tom

I guess it is something I picked up old school, out in the field, pre-internet. I never met a dog, one or two syllables, I didn't like. Trainers and owners.....well you certainly understand.

Found this for an explanation:Two syllable naming a dog.

From above link:
• Your dog’s name should be two syllables – Research has shown that two syllable dog names are the best for your dog’s learning. Names like “Spike” – one syllable names – sound more like commands than names. Notice that all commands are designed with a single syllable (“Sit,” “Stay,” “Down,”). That is because single syllables resemble barking – the way that dogs give commands in the wild. Your dog’s name is not a command, therefore a two syllable name is far more effective for dog training.

That's one gorgeous pup, no matter what you call her! I vote for Razz as it has has a good, solid ring to it.

rockylarson wrote:
If she is going to be a house or show dog a single syllable name will do. If she is going to be doing any field, obedience, or serious training I would go with a two syllable name.

That's an interesting comment. We don't do any field work with our dogs, but for the other elements, I don't know how the number of syllables would effect the dog's performance.

Our dogs compete in tracking - the first thing we train (the puppy will have her second lesson tomorrow) - agility and obedience. The border collies also herd.

Our current dogs all have one syllable names. Breeze - the number one rated golden retriever in NADAC for 2011 - 2013 (the 2014 rankings are not out yet) has TDX and CDX titles to go along with her champion title in agility. Jinks and Fire are equally accomplished.

Perhaps we have disadvantaged our dogs with their one-syllable names. Could you elaborate.

Tom

If she is going to be a house or show dog a single syllable name will do. If she is going to be doing any field, obedience, or serious training I would go with a two syllable name.

Thank y'all for your votes and even for the suggestions (some of which we had considered.) Rock-It is still under considerations, but for sentimental reasons, I believe that we will choose between Nike and Razzmatazz

Doug, she is not related to Breeze. For those who remember her, she is distantly related to Allie, an Oklahoma dog we had for too short a period of time. This puppy is from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Her dad is an Oklahoman.

The dog walk in the picture, which she races over, has been lowered, of course. She also like the A-frame (It is lowered.). She has learned that she can take a ball to the top, drop it, and then chase it.

Tom

rockhillmanor wrote:

pulsar wrote:


Her registered name will be Chantelle's Rocket Red Glare, in keeping with the litter's theme.

We're cut the list of call names to two choices: Nike and Razzmatazz (Razz).Which would you choose?Tom

Rockette

The expression on that puppies face says She's mischief or trouble:B.

C.B.