While you'll always hear a Max or Luna being called in the dog park, you don't often hear a name that makes you do a double-take. But one man has shared how his mum outright refused to walk his new puppy in public because she's too embarrassed to call its name.
Taking to Reddit, the owner explained how he wanted to name his dog something funny because it would create more joy in his day-to-day life. He said: "I personally find this hilarious but my mother does not. I recently got a lab puppy and I named him Woof.
"Some of my friends like it, others think it is silly, while my mother hates it." Unable to understand why her son would name his dog Woof, the mum refuses to walk his dog in public.
He says his mum cannot "fathom" calling Woof's name in a park as it would fill her with too much embarrassment to shout within earshot of others.
"I guess that's just my own sense of humour because I laugh when I call my dog's name out loud at a dog park," he added.
Although he has told his mum she doesn't have to walk his dog if she doesn't want to, the son says he wouldn't be able to contain his laughter if he heard her shouting: "Woof! Come here! No, Woof, Woof. No get down Woof! Woof!'
"He added: "It's not like I need her to walk him as my girlfriend and I have plenty of time to do that ourselves - but my mother thinks I'm a bit of an a***h*** for the name still."
While most users agreed it is a "hilarious" name for a dog, others sought inspiration from it and came up with their own future dog names.
One user said: " I want to name a dog Everyone so I can yell 'Everyone, get I inside' and 'Everyone stop sniffing my a***!' This seems fine and fun."
Having already given their dog a funny name, one user said: "We have a brown dog named Poo because he's brown - and we are still laughing 13 years later at 'Oh, look! There's Poo on the rug', 'There's Poo in the car,' 'There's Poo on the bed'. My dad has gotten a lot of mileage out of this."
Another said: "My parents have a lovely all-white boxer that they let my little brother name when he was quite young, he named him Boo like a ghost.
"I felt like an idiot every time I would be out walking him and had to tell somebody his name and they gave me pretty weird looks. I do love that dog, but I never really got past his name."
Does your dog have an unusual name? Email paige.freshwater@reachplc.com.
