Naming the Boy Dog

So, we've known for a while that we wanted to adopt a boy dog to be a permanent pet to go along with our collie Sage. [My son needs another boy in this house, trust me LOL!]

We took in another foster dog yesterday for Mostly Mutts and he is AWESOME! We are pretty sure he is "THE" one. We will wait officially until Friday to make the decision, but the truth is, we are all in love with this dog already - unless he sprouts a demon from his chest or something really dramatic, he's staying.

So, we started talking about boy dog names. We decided that the best way to do it was everyone got to suggest as many names as they wanted and we wrote them all down. Then each person got a "veto" for a couple of names and we just took turns till we got down to the final 5 and then my son got to pick the official name. [The poor foster dog's name is "Rufus" at this point, and we all feel he deserves a much cooler name than that!]

Just for laughs, I'll share the list. These were the actual names suggested by actual members of our family. See if you can figure out which choices came from the 4 year old. LOL!

General
Major
Sergeant
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Fury
Michael
Fisto
Cujo
Max
Chief
Master Chief
King
Prince
Samson
Thor
Odin
Ramses
Buddy
Apollo
Hermes
Tyr
Pan
Perseus
Hercules
Thesius
Duke
Jason
Fenris
Sweetheart
Beautiful
Handsome
Marduke
White Boy [in her defense, he's a pretty white and gray boy dog!]
Gray
Collar Collar
Athanasius
Tarcisius
Snuffles
Ninja
Doggie of Love
Alexander
Hagrid
Maximilian
Harry
Moses
Romulus
Remus

And, we got down to this final five:

Thor
Odin
Tyr
Hercules
Tarcisius

And, our son chose [drum roll please.....]

TYR

Tyr is a god from Norse Mythology who sacrificed his hand to Fenris the wolf in order to save the world from destruction. [ie: He put his hand in the wolf's mouth knowing the wolf would bite it off so that the wolf could be bound and keep him from destroying the earth].

Pretty cool, if obscure. :)

He's a really neat dog! They have him listed as a "Husky / Lab mix", but I think he's definitely got some Shar Pei in there somewhere because he has these cool forehead wrinkles that come up when he puts up his ears. He's really calm and sweet, but also a good guard dog with a really deep bark! He seems extremely intelligent, he's not jumpy or mouthy, doesn't chew, and so far hasn't had any accidents at all in the house, even though he's never lived inside before. They think he's about 2 years old. We really like him, and he and Sage seem to like each other so far.