Our dog came from the rescue shelter named Matserella. We changed it to Abby. She had it down in under a week.
Our dog came from the rescue shelter named Matserella. We changed it to Abby. She had it down in under a week.
Kama was adopted and nameless at about 3yrs old. There was never a problem. And like the Inuit with snow, I have about 175 different names for her which all work. 
akamcfly wrote: Kama was adopted and nameless at about 3yrs old. There was never a problem. And like the Inuit with snow, I have about 175 different names for her which all work.
thought you were going to say you changed her name to Sutra
I adopted my late, great border collie Jocko 12 years ago and immediately named him "Bruce." My dad persuaded me that "Jock" was a better border collie name and that quickly became Jocko. He was a pure-bred border collie, but without papers. I still wanted to give him an absurdly daft and long AKC-style name, so I told people his actual name was Jock O. MacEccles, the Phantom Chuckler From Moor East of the Glen. He was more recently remnamed "James Jocks from PBS kids.org" by my four-year-old girl. R.I.P, little man.
Our other dog is a border collie/golden retriever mix who the rescue named Ole (Norwegian, not Spanish pronunciation), but spelled "Ollie." We renamed him Clyde, but his nickname is Clarty, which works too.
Our Husky showed up on our door step, she was about a year old, unknown name. She picked up that we meant her when we called her Bella pretty quick.
She's now 4 and I call her puppy more than anything and she responds to it.
Our neighbor and one of our dogs have the same name. Hey, we got the dogs before they moved in.
The other day I yelled the dog's name, only to hear "What!?" from the other side of the fence.
My parents left me alone with their German Shepherd for a week a few years ago.....by the time they had come back, he no longer responded to "Rebel"... but instead "Numb Nuts" It only took me a bunch of dog biscuits, but it took them 2 months to undo that. 
My current German Shepherd has had his full name restored in the 10 months he has been here. Went from "Dey Dey" which was too ebonics for my tastes, back to Holliday.
In reply to David S. Wallens:
Your neighbor is named shiny happy person?
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