What's her name to be

[pulsar]

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

[toedtoes]

pulsar wrote:


As far as one-syllable versus two syllable names, we've seen no difference in training. We've had Heather, Tucker, Raisin, Katie, Cricket, Allie and Boogie with two-syllable names. With one-syllable names we've had Mike, Fire, Breeze, Jinks, and Razz. (Our current dogs are Breeze, Jinks, Razz and Boogie.)

Tom

Heck, i've named dogs with 3+ sylllable names and never had a problem with their ability to learn/follow commands. Moose-dog has an official 4 syllable name plus one 4 syllable nickname, four 3 syllable nicknames, one 2 syllable nickname, and three 1 syllable nicknames and can distinguish between them all (which one means "you're in trouble" versus "aren't you the cutest thing in the world", etc.), and follows commands without hesitation using any of them.

All my dogs have had multiple variations of their names to be used at different times/points in their lives. Those who were easily trained were easily trained regardless of the syllables in their names.

[magnusfide]

A beautiful young lady. I'm glad you adopted her.

dturm wrote:

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.

Our cats would say the smartest dog is below average. Not only do they know more than 1000 individual names, they know how to spell :B

[Go_Dogs]

What a gorgeous dog that Razz has become! I have never been able to pick a name for children, nor dogs. I always let someone else choose. I quickly come up with affectionate nicknames that I use. Example, Sunny is laying at my feet, but I call her, 'Boo-Boo Bear'.

[pulsar]

Dashonthedash wrote:
The odd thing, all my dogs who have had one-syllable names (Max, Dash and Dot) were easy to train. The dogs who have had two-syllable names (Willow, Lily, Molly, Shadow and Hannah) have all been harder to train (or untrainable, in Shadow's case). As for the name, Razz will do but, based on her registered name and her pretty looks, I might have chosen "Red".

There are sentimental reasons for her name being Razz. Interestingly though, her litter name was Ms. Red.



As far as one-syllable versus two syllable names, we've seen no difference in training. We've had Heather, Tucker, Raisin, Katie, Cricket, Allie and Boogie with two-syllable names. With one-syllable names we've had Mike, Fire, Breeze, Jinks, and Razz. (Our current dogs are Breeze, Jinks, Razz and Boogie.)

Tom

[Scottiemom]

She is a beautiful gal.

Dale

[otis-agnes]

What a beautiful pup!

[Dashonthedash]

The odd thing, all my dogs who have had one-syllable names (Max, Dash and Dot) were easy to train. The dogs who have had two-syllable names (Willow, Lily, Molly, Shadow and Hannah) have all been harder to train (or untrainable, in Shadow's case). As for the name, Razz will do but, based on her registered name and her pretty looks, I might have chosen "Red".

[Crowe]

Gorgeous!

[Uppercrust]

Beautiful dog!

[pulsar]

Here is Razz a year later (at 14 months)



Her agility and tracking training are progressing nicely.

We have a borderline dog - make that border collie - 8-month old that we picked up in Wyoming this past summer. His name is Boogie. I've been too busy to introduce him to the forum; I'll see if I can get some pictures up. Razz and Boogie are great playmates. Boogie teaches Razz border collie games and Razz teaches Boogie how to play like a golden.

Tom

[magnusfide]

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.

[pulsar]

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

[dturm]

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

[pulsar]

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