Naming Puppies: S litter

Okay, so this is my final litter, and I could therefore throw away the letter thing. However, S is after all a great letter. All sorts of fantastic words start with S. Let’s take a look at some of those words:

Sarabande ………………………… Sensational ………………………… Scintillation

Soliloquy ………………………… Songbird ………………………… Solace

Scaramouche ………………………… Serendipity ………………………… Spectacular

Serenity ………………………… Sybilline ………………………… Spellbinder

Remember that the registered name, or show name, cannot be too short, can be multiple words, and must start with the kennel affix; eg, a puppy could be named Anara Scaramouche or Anara Sweetie Pie (don’t tell me, I know that would be twee), but cannot be named Anara Sunshine — that’s too short to sound right as a show name. Some of the words above are too short, but could be included in a name. I do like one name that is multiple words:

Anara The Sky Is Everywhere

And then of course call the puppy Sky, which is a cute and appropriate call name. Also, that would fit either sex and any color.

However, a possible theme emerged when I started thinking about names, because there are a lot of music/poetry terms that begin with S, such as

Symphony ………………………… Sonata ………………………… Sonnet ………………………… Sestina

And while some of those are too short on their own, there is a remarkably easy way to make them longer and cooler, like so:

Anara Symphony Number Nine Ode To Joy ………………………… For a girl, and call her Joy

Anara Sonata Number Eleven Alla Turca ………………………… For either sex, and call her Alla or him Turk

Anara Sonnet Eighteen Summer’s Day ………………………… For a boy, maybe? And call him Day.

Sestina Sing While He May ………………………… For a boy, and call him something or other. This is one of Swinburne’s poems, so something from Swinburne’s name might be appropriate. Or nothing stops you from picking a pet name that has nothing to do with the registered name, of course.

Sestina Starlight Way ………………………… For a girl, maybe? This sounds more like a girl’s name to me.

Are there any other symphonies or sonatas or sonnets that come to mind for anybody? Or other ideas? I would like to use something from Emily Dickenson, but unfortunately I don’t think she ever wrote sonnets or sestinas, so I guess that’s not likely to work with the S theme.

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