Why did you name your corgi what you named him/her?

Ok, first of all Einstein is obvious. The first time I saw a corgi is when we were living in Japan (my husband's in the Air Force) and we were watching Cowboy Bebop at a anime FREAK friends house. I think they had every one ever made good or bad and made us watch them all. lol! Anyway, we loved Cowboy Bebop just cause it was so different and kinda neat. And of course I loved Ein-didn't get Ed so much but Ein was cute and saved the day a couple times so he was cool. I don't know any other dog that knows computers like Ein does. We lived in Japan 6 years and corgis got to be kinda popular off base and I kept seeing them and thought they were sooo cute. One day we went to Tokyo and our hotel was near a dog groomer and this woman with 6 beautiful poofy perfect corgis came walking down the street towards it and we just happened to be walking by and I was like a magnet to her. I didn't know if she knew English but thankfully she knew a little and I kept going saying how cute they were and how "kawaii" they were. She just kept saying thank you. But that impression never left my head and when we moved to San Antonio I had already decided I wanted a brown and white Pembroke named Einstein. Ein for short and that's just what we did. And we loved him so much we got another corgi and named her Daisy. We had to have a boy and a girl and she just happens to be his half sister so they have kind of the same bossy personaliities which I think is funny sometimes and not so much others. But Daisy had many names before we settled on Daisy May. It was Basil which didn't fit her personality and then Bella which was too dainty and finally Daisy May which fit her perfectly. I think that was all the names we actually called her but we thought of so soooo many. It was much harder with her cause we didn't have a name picked out years ahead of time.

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Permalink Reply by Gail & Ashton on June 17, 2009 at 12:21am: I am an anime otaku so of course there would have to be some reference to Bebop in the naming of my Pembroke Welsh Corgi! A portion of his registered name is "Ein's Real Folk Blues". We call him by his pet name which is Ashton. When he is bad we call him "Evil Ash" and when he is good, "Good Ash", in reference to the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness movies. If you tell him "Give me some sugar baby" you will get kisses. :D; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dannie & ( Tom Servo ) on June 23, 2009 at 2:42pm: Tom Servo was the name from me and my husbands favorite show mystery science theater 3000 it fits too because the character is a short robot with really short arms.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Heather and Ella on June 27, 2009 at 9:00pm: When we pick up our Ella, we had a 2 hr drive home and lots of time to pick a name. Our son is named is named Eric, and we wanted an E name for our puppy
We had originally thought of naming her Ein, however since we ended up getting a SHE this was not going to work. During the 2 hrs, we went through every E name. We were determined not to take her home without a name. Eric was going along the lines of something with an L. So lots of names later and we have our Ella.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeny (and Wrigley) on July 20, 2009 at 5:19am: Wrigley was named after Wrigley Field. I lived in Chicago all my life and just recently moved to Dallas. I have been missing Chi-town and my friends like crazy and the whole reason I got a dog was to combat my loneliness. I figured Wrigley was the perfect name for him to remind me of home. :)

I considered about 6000 different names, including: Patronus (mine would be a Corgi for sure), Bowser, Potter, Tonks, Butters, Boba, Fett, Solo and my boyfriend wanted Ein, but I just couldn't name a Corgi mix Ein. I don't think of him as anything BUT a Wrigley now.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Reix on August 1, 2009 at 12:03am: I couldn't figure out what to name mine. I almost settled on Ian (from Final Destination 3), but my dad up and said, "You should name her Mischa, after Hannibal Lecter's little sister." (Coming from a man who named a TINY Chihuahua Lucian (after Underworld's Lycan clan leader.); ▶ Reply to This