We have a challenging task for you. We have not one, but two litters of puppies, and we need you to help us name them!SSD Midge and SSD Pearl are both pregnant. Midge was bred to our founding stud, SSD Sweet William, and she's due to give birth around January 27. Pearl was bred to Lobuff Hollyridge Wizard of Oz ("Wizard") and will give birth around February 2.
For her second litter, Midge's breeder caretakers have chosen the theme "The Civil War." Pearl's puppy raisers have chosen "Games" as Pearl's theme.
Are you up to the challenge of naming two litters of puppies?
All of the the names must have something to do with the themes "The Civil War" or "Games." You can suggest more than one name. In fact, please do! Don't forget to suggest both male and female names.
We'll announce the puppies' names when they're born.
So dust off your history books, open your game closet, and let the naming begin! Just leave your puppy names in the comments.
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Lee, Grant
ReplyDeleteYahtzee, Bunko
Emancipation Proclamation
ReplyDeleteMeade! I am a descendant of General Meade!
ReplyDeleteCivil War girl-puppy names:
ReplyDeleteClara (Barton)
Dorothea (Dix)
Rose (O'Neal Greenhow)
Lula (Bowers)
Lucretia (Mott)
Games:
Red (for Red Rover)
Millie (for the card game Mille Bornes)
Miss Scarlett (from Clue)
Abraham, Lincoln, Stonewall, Jackson, Ulysses
ReplyDeleteFortune (from wheel of fortune)
Jeopardy
Price(from price is right)
Uno
Candy(from Candylane)
Monopoly
Clarissa "Clara" Barton - teacher, nurse, founder American Red Cross, Civil rights movement - what a name to live up to - but I bet one of these pups could do it!
ReplyDeleteSally Louisa Tompkin - helped nursing become a profession
Both during Civil War
Jackson, Lincoln, Abe
ReplyDeleteCivil War Names- Liberty, Winchester, Meade, Potomac, Lincoln, Custer
ReplyDeleteGames - Spades, Rummy, Twister, Hold'em, Dominoes, Marco Polo
Confederate, Union, Abe, Lincoln, Getty(sburg), Fort, Mason, Dixon, Mani(festo), Tariff, Traveller(Lee's horse)
ReplyDeletePacman, Checker(s), C.C. (Chinese Checkers), Chute(s & Ladders), Ship (battle ship), Uno, Clue, Scrabble, Poker, B.J. or Jack (black jack), Twister...
For Pearl's litter: How about Yatze! Jenga! Othello (that uses black & white stones); or Checkers!
ReplyDeleteFor Midge's litter, I have to do a little research first!
Civil War:
ReplyDeleteJenny (Jenny Wade only civilian killed in Gettysbrug Battle)
Shiloh
Sumpter
Beau (Beauregard)
Reb or Rebel
Games:
Dodger (Dodge Ball)
Chance (Monopoly)
Domino
Checker
Scarlett O'Hara
ReplyDeleteRhett Butler
Sorry I spelled Sumter wrong!
ReplyDeleteCivil War
ReplyDeleteStonewall
Burnside
Antietam
Games
Trouble
Jeopardy
Risk
Scrabble
Solitaire
Games:
ReplyDeleteBINGO
Pac-Man
Yahtzee
Poker
Checkers
some battles would make interesting names... these are my favs:
ReplyDeleteSumter
Hoke (Hoke's Run)
Parker (Parker's Cross Roads)
Kessler (Kessler's Cross Lanes)
Lex (Lexington)
Boon (Boonsboro)
Hudson (Port Hudson)
Baxter (Baxter Springs)
Pulaski (Ft. Pulaski)
Macon (Fort Macon)
Winchester
Morton (Morton's Ford)
Garnett (Garnett & Golding's Farm)
Jenkins (Jenkins' Ferry)
Peebles (Peebles' Farm)
Harper (Harper's Ferry)
Hatcher (Hatcher's Run)
Sayler (Sayler's Creek
Civil War--Getty(sburg), Manassas (after the battles at Bull Run...or Manassas) , Meade, Grant, Lee, Clara, Julia (Ward Howe--writer of the Battle Hymn of the Republic), Lincoln, Johnson, Hamlin, Davis, Mary (or Boykin or Chestnut...for Mary Boykin Chestnut author of a diary from the civil war), Emancipation, Harriet (for Tubman or Beecher Stowe)
ReplyDeleteGames: Jenga, Trouble, Risk, Twister, Tag, Seek (Hide and Seek), Duck (or Goose! Duck duck goose hehe), Monopoly, Candy (land), Apple (apples to apples), Memory,
Games:
ReplyDeleteFrisbee
Plinko
Euchre
Sonic (the hedgehog)
Scoop (from the 1950s)
Tex (Texas Holdem)
Stud (5 card stud)
Cribbage
Games:
ReplyDeleteCheckers
Twister
Rummy
Monopoly (polly)
Bingo
Ring around the rosie (rosie)
Uno
Polo
Sherman, Blue, Grey, Yankee, and Rebel!
ReplyDeleteEmmitt (for Emmittsburg)
ReplyDeleteGetty (for Gettysburg)
Civil War: Harriet, Tubman, Railroad.
ReplyDeleteGames: Solitaire, Jenga, Nintendo, Yatzi, Scrabble, Poker, Rummy, Hearts, Mario (from Mario Brothers Nintendo games), Tribond, Homer (in baseball), Safety (in Football), Strike (bowling), Dice, Spinner, Tetrass, and Uno.
My goodness! You have tapped into a veritable font of creativity here! So many promising names!
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to see the dogs first, so see if some name fit especially well. An all-gray would be great for Stonewall, Jeb, Reb, or one of those Confederate names. I guess the homeliest dog would have to be Honest Abe! Depending on colors, maybe name a few after Clue characters?: Colonel Mustard or Professor Plum. A motley dog might be Scrabble and a white-haired dog might be Vanna (White). I think you'll need about 40 dogs to use up all the clever names suggested above!
Somebody mentioned Confederate general Beauregard above. His full name was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard: you could practically name a whole litter using his names alone!
Scanned quickly but my favorite game name that popped into my head that I do not believe I saw was CLUE.
ReplyDeleteCivil War:
ReplyDeleteCalhoun
Henry Clay
Harper('s Ferry) either name, either gender
Winfield Scott
(George) Brinton (McClellan)
Grant
Sherman
Savannah
Vicky (Vicksburg)
"Old Pete" James Longstreet
Jeb Stuart
Virginia
Charleston
Mary Chestnut
Rebel
Drummer John Clem
Merri(mack)
(Thank you 8th grade history book!)
Games:
Scrabble
Boggle
Bingo
Trouble
Euchre
Bunko
Jart(s) - lawn darts
Clue
Wicket (croquet)
Puzzle
Deuce (tennis)
Cricket
Good luck choosing! Looking forward to seeing the pups and finding out which names you chose!
Civil War -
ReplyDeleteSimon (as in Simon Cameron - the Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Civil War.) Simon Cameron was born in Maytown (Lancaster County),PA!
Civil War Names:
ReplyDeleteGirls --> Virginia, Harriet Tubman, Dr. Mary Walker, Varina H. Davis, Sarah Emma Edmonds, Mary Todd Lincoln, Jennie Hodgers, Loreta Velazquez, Pauline Cushman, & Susie Baker
Boys --> Robert E. Lee, General, George Meade, Abe Lincoln, Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson
Games:
Monopoly, Boggle, Candyland, Clue, Uno, Scrabble, Scategories, Pictionary, Poker, Spoons, Twister, Jeopardy, Malarky, Tiddlywink, Bop it, Apples to Apples, Marbles, Plinco, Yatzee, Jenga, Jumanji, checkers, chess
Games:
ReplyDeleteTag
Mahjong
Simon (Simon Says)
Tic
Tac
Toe :-)
Civil War:
Lee
ABERCROMBIE
Oliver
Grant
Julia (Grant's Grandchild's name)
Shiloh
Civil War litter:
ReplyDeleteGrant
Lee
Musket
Remington
Rose (Rose O'Neal Greenhow,Conferate Spy)
Clara(Clara Barton,Civil War Nurse)
Jennie (Jennie Wade,Only civilian killed)
Ulysses
Winchester
Civil War names:
ReplyDeleteChantilly (Battle of) - Maybe Tilly for short?
Sumner (Edwin, General)
Lawson (Thomas, General)
Belle (there were several female spies in the Civil war and two of them were named Bell. One was Belle Boyd, the other Belle Edmonson)
Florina (Budwin, who enlisted in the Confederate army as a soldier with her husband)
Lizzie (Elizabeth Compton - she actually went by Lizzie, female Union soldier)
Rebel
Lee (for a girl? :) )
Games:
Yahtzee
Checkers
Uno
Rummy
Battleship (Ship for short?)
Boggle
Rook
Stratego
Jenga
Hearts
Taboo
Twister
Balderdash (Dash for short?)
Spades
Risk
Wii (for the new age games people out there!)
Domino
Bonnie (for the Bonnie Blue flag!) :)
ReplyDeleteCivil War fortifications that sound like they could be alright dog names.
ReplyDeleteAlbany, Brooke, Churchill, Columbus, Corcoran, Darling, Davis, Douglas, Bowie, Bragg, Defiance, Mason, Yuma, Jackson, Lincoln, Livingston, Marcy, Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, Reno, Reynolds, Vancouver, Willard.
well i trhink you should name a dog checkers cuz its a vry cute name
ReplyDeleteCivil War- we need a good spy: Belle Boyd; other ideas - Mosby, Manassas, Shiloh. Personally I think we need a "wine" litter and a "cheese" litter.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Fortune should really be used.
ReplyDeleteLeader ( follow the leader)
Flag ( capture the flag )
I knew I loved my mentors! :-) I like your idea Carol! I am partial to Robert E. Lee somewhere in the naming...I am a distant relative on my mom's side.
ReplyDeleteI also like "Marvin" (Marvin Gardens), Mario (Mario Brothers), Tetris
Just to throw in a couple more names.
Leader ( follow the leader )
ReplyDeleteFlag ( capture the flag )
Domino
How about:
ReplyDeletePratt
Nevins
Shelby
Hundley
Sheridan
Brady
Jefferson
Catton
Braxton
and my favorite
Mosby
Games
ReplyDeleteParcheesi
Link, Zelda (from Legend of Zelda)
Canasta
Crono, Marle (from Chrono Trigger)
Strider
Vaan, Balthier, Penelo (from Final Fantasy XII)
Hearts
Wind up (toys)
Civil War
Joshua Chamberlain
JEB Stuart
Jennie Wade
Ambrose Burnside
Civil War Names
ReplyDeleteShennedoha
Mason
Scarrlett
Rhett
Grant
Dixie/Melody
game names
Uno
Twister
Candy/land
Poker
Ceckers
Yhatzee
Hearts
Taboo
"Reynolds" - a Union General from Lancaster County PA, commanding officer of the 1st Corps until he was killed at Gettysburg in 1863. The Lancaster connection would be fitting for a dog in the Susquehanna Valley.
ReplyDeletehow about BEANS (as in don't spill the beans)
ReplyDeleteGames: Jacks or Jax
ReplyDeleteCivil War Name: General, General Lee or Leigh (for girl), Belle
ReplyDeleteGames: Checkers, Bingo, Jacks, Monopoly, Crazy 8's, Cards, Stratego, Othello, Memory, Fushgi (the gravity ball).
Ah... the Nintendo NES days...
ReplyDeleteQ*bert
Kirby
Tetris
Zelda
Okay... I apologize for all the game name submittals but this is just too much fun! :)
ReplyDeletePinochle
Pong
Bridge
Racko!
Simon
Games: Hopscotch, Marbles, Blokus, Boggle, Spades, Scrabble, Twister, Solitaire, Pinball, Tag, Jenga
ReplyDeleteCivil War: General Lee, Yankee, Bugle Boy, Molly Pitcher, Lincoln, Rebel, Ulysses, Stonewall, Little round top, Devil's Den, Jefferson Davis, Mason, Dixon
These are great names! We have some good news - Midge is having her puppies right now! We'll announce the names of her puppies when they're all born.
ReplyDeletePearl's Games puppies won't be born for five days, so keep suggesting names for her Games litter.
Flyball, kayak
ReplyDeleteScrabble, Rosy (for Ring Around the Rosy), Twister, Dare (for Truth or Dare), and The Butler (from Clue) :)
ReplyDeleteTwister and butler are cute names! I vote for this name too :)
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