You can call me Spike

A friend of mine who has a highly distinguished Bernese Mountain Dog, and cannot keep another (one to a walker, one to a car), would like a companion for him.  He (this is not he) is a clubbable gentleman.




Her friends who have kennels assure her that Havanese pups are ideally temperamentally suited to be family with Berners. and have offered her a bitch.

This is not her idea of a DOG:




She would like a name for a "substantial creature," a name with attitude, something with the feel of Spike.

Dido?  Sophie?  Spike?

Ideas?

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