How old is she and has she been spade? She has a lovely expression.

Oh she is so cute -- I love her big pointy ears! I like the name Rosie, or Rosa. Rosa Parks was a determined woman, so there is a strength to that name.

Does your SO get a vote for her name?

Nickel_He has vetoed my first 4 suggestions. We do both have to agree,unfortunately. :op

Skibby,I love the name stella,but one of my sister's has a cat named Stella. We All have an unspoken agreement: no copying!!!!!!!

Rhizo,I have no idea,but I think its safe to assume that she has not been spayed yet.

I am smitten with those toes and ears! Such a cutie!

I like dog names that are short and sharp -- names that begin with a consonant. What are traditional names for German girls? Gretel? Gretchen? Gerda? Trudy? I like Heidi, and the hard "i" is a help.

Greta?

Wilhelmenia, or Minnie for short (that was my paternal grandmother's name). Gertrude, Gertie, or Trudy (was my other grandmother). Elsie.

Beautiful and lucky. I knew German woman professionally whose name was Ute (pronounced oo-tah). I loved her name.

I found this at the AKC website - top 100 German dog names

AKC German Dog Names

Lucky pup. So happy for you. And I've known several women named Ute.

I just met my new renters 4 month old GSD puppy today. Her name is Iza....pronounced eye-za. Congratulations!

Awww, what a sweet hubby you have. This little girl has been waiting for you to come into her live and will give you much love in return. May she bring you many years of joy and laughter when she's not getting into mischief.

I'd like to add Sadie to the list of wonderful name suggestions you've already received. It's a name I've always thought of as as kind of sassy and scrappy (for lack of a better word).

Enjoy this time getting to know your girl! Things are looking up for you - a vacation and now this new friend!

Nicole, I wonder if your renter's dog is named after the Iza character in the book, Clan of the Cavebear?

Lucy, cute name and rolls off the tongue, need a easy name when calling them...

I ended up with a cat named Princess, never would have picked that name. But she knew her name and didn't feel right changing it. But she was a escape artist. Quite a few times I was wandering the neighborhood yelling Princess... Felt awkward yelling that name.

Not a German name but for some reason Olga comes to mind.

Congrats......

As soon as I saw her I thought she should be named Jackie. No reason, just looks like she should be Jackie.......Jackie Faye if you want a middle name for when she's in trouble!! : )

KT (Katie) in honor of all her good wishes from...the KT!

I can't help but notice that almost all of the names suggested are 'people' names. Am I the only one that does not use people names for pets? German Shepherd mixes that I have had were Kippy, Scampy, Lady, and Major. Other dogs I've had were Snoopy, Happy, Rusty, Smoky, Bandit, Shorty, Lucky, Little Bit, Scamper, Blackie and Chips. Somewhere I read, a long time ago, that dogs that have a name ending in the 'y' sound are more easily trained. Something about the inflection that your voice automatically takes when pronouncing the name. I also think it is a very good idea to not get into too big a hurry to chose a name, give the dog at least a few days (or more) so you can get a good idea of its personality.

Sorry if this is too far OT, but I really find the types of names suggested interesting.

Rusty

I notice that I tend to give my dogs people names..... I don't know why. Maybe it's easier to talk to them when I'm lonely (and fuss at them when they misbehave) when they have a people name.

All my 15 cats and four dogs have had people names but one, a cat named Pumpkin because I rescued him on Halloween and he was yellow. But I never liked that name. All my pets have/had two syllable names ending in y or ie. Currently, they are Bernie, Henry, Annie, Ziggy, and Wally.

My cats always have people names too - Benny, Henry, Nellie, Timmy, and Toby

My favorite dog name was one I named one of my fabulous Great Danes. MOJO

it was a name of a dog in a book I read and knew it would be a name I used. So I suggest

MOJO

that is a beautiful story and a beautiful dog. I am proud of your DH for rescuing that baby.

We had a female GS named Greta....... she lived to be 12.

.. I also like Gertie. Of course Rosie or Rosa would work as well...

Before Georgy Girl, my dog was a rescue that someone dropped off at the shelter in the middle of the night and tied to the chain-link fence. (temps in the teens) Since no one knew where she came from, I called her J.D. for Jane Doe. At the Vets years later, a man brought in a dog whose name was J. D. also but his J.D. stood for Jack Daniels. :-))))

Izzy Mn - awkward? How about calling out "Peeechesss!" (Peaches) ;) I wouldn't have named a male cat that but the little neighbor boy whose kitten it was before it stayed permanently at my house named him that.

When your SO said. "Go look", I immediately thought "The sun will come out in the morning ". SUNNY

Nickel, my grandmother's name was Wilhemina (known as Minnie) also. I always thought to use that name (not the nickname "Minnie" for a daughter but that didn't happen). I thought the full version was too many syllables for a pet.

I like people names for pets :) Actually, most of the pets I know right now have people names.

My heart skips a beat whenever I see a German Shepherd, my favorite breed. I am so glad your SO rescued her and I hope she will be an indoor dog as they love to be near their humans. My current GSD came with the name Tasha which I changed to Katie, and previous one was Duchess which I changed to Hannah. Met a person and his GSD with the name pronounced Meeka, which I really like. After you have had her a few more days, you'll come up with a perfect name for her. She's beautiful!

ETA: OneRidgeOff - Bud is a handsome teenager.

Omigosh, she's beautiful. I love German Shepherds so much. Your SO did a wonderful thing! I hope the idiot that chained her up doesn't go get another dog. Let her meet lots of people so she get socialized, and I hope you'll let her stay at your side. I'm jealous!

Lucky puppy have fun!!

Amylou, I keep checking back here. Please start a new thread when you decide on a name!

She is adorable. How about Chloe or Sophie?

If I'm reading this correctly, this dog was dumped. The guy who chained this dog up was trying to save her life by keeping her out of trouble until he found her a better home.

Our pets don't actually have human names either. That's because I didn't pick the names. Lol! I have another name to add to the earlier list... Frances.

That's how I read it too, Adella. I'm so glad your SO rescued this beautiful dog for you, Amylou!

Duchess. Madame. Donna. Andrea, nickname could be Andi or Andra. I'm so happy for you

I've had dogs with "people" names, and dogs with other names - both have worked. Godfrey could not have been anything other than Godfrey - it just suited him so very well. The same was true of Alfred. My present Cavalier came to me when she was almost 6 and her call name was Shimmer - it suits her perfectly. Her breeder never gives her Cavaliers people names, but does always give them call names that are different than their registered names - very confusing sometimes. Yet when she bought a lovely large breed puppy recently (for the protection of the small dogs), she named her Adele. Go figure...

All my pets have had "people" names but they somehow seem to morph into ridiculous nicknames that are impossible to explain. I think the original names make me feel better when I need to take them to the Vet and can't say Hi, I'm go-go dog monkey ring around the bathtub's Mom. (I hope you know I made that up). More or less.

AND HER NAME IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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Muffin.

SO named her Muffin, at the suggestion of my 9 yo nephew. He likes things like that. She will be HUGE and look intimidating already, so he likes that its a sweet name. We had a big pitbull/great dane mix named Tiny once, so its right up his alley.

I always rolled my eyes at names like that, muffin,cookie,cupcake, etc. But i like it in this case.

Initially,she looked pretty clean. But on closer inspection she was kind of dirty,likely from just living outside.I gave her a bath today, and parts of her skin looks pretty bad. Shes got crusty patches that SO thought might be from sitting in the mud, but shes got some on top of her head, and a big patch on her chest that looks a bit like mange,since when i cleaned away the ick her hair came with it. >:op However, he may be right and her skin is just irritated from being matted with mud. All will be checked out at the vet visit. I will be using a vet my sister uses, which is an hour away, but SO is insistent that i never take another dog back to our normal vets after his jackass treatment of candy and the misdiagnosis of Sammy. Also, it turns out she is pretty dog aggressive, which will not work at my house, so we will have to work on that. She is a very intelligent dog, completely house trained, it took about 15 minutes to teach her to sit,stay and lay down and she answers to her new name already. Otis, Buster, and Mudfoot, our other dogs, are thrilled, despite her aggression (they probably know they could take her). Nevertheless, she will be kept separate from them until she settles in and RELAXES(and until whatever skin thing shes got going on is cleared-i don't need that problem)!!! For now, she spends most of her time inside with us, even though she does seem to prefer outside at the moment. When SO is home, he spends most of his time outside, and will let her out when hes out there. My dogs decide where they live. They come and go inside and outside as they want. The 3 we have almost NEVER want to come in the house and when they do they don't stay long. If she decides to live in the house with us, so be it. If she would rather be outside, that's fine too. We have acreage that is fenced in, and parts of it are sectioned off in case we need to keep them separate for some reason. (Candy was old and very much preferred to be by herself,outside.)

I found the severed tail of my pink bunny "The snuggle is real" slippers this morning, and she seems to object to me putting my dirty clothes in the dirty clothes basket, since her favorite activity today has been to take them out piece by piece. Also, she thought it appropriate to snatch SOs boxers right off his butt while he was making his coffee this morning. The joy of puppies.....Good thing shes cute.....

Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. I did present most of them as options, but was vetoed every time. :/

DH and I have been dog trainers for our entire lives(it seems like). We currently have 5 German Shepherds. We have had quite a few who have left a permanent mark on our hearts.

Marek (von Haus Antverpa). She is our benchmark for the perfect working dog.

Ali was a phenomenal KNPV dog(Dutch police) who loved our children to the point of crying when they cried lol.

Idgie is our current head bitch. Always level headed and reliable.

Java was my heart dog and world ranked competition dog.

Uma is my son’s GSD. A great granddaughter of the famous Marek above, so her full name is Umarek von Hugelblick. Uma for short.

Andra is my daughter’s GSD.

Inka is a great name for a Black and Tan.

Friends of mine have had GS most of the time. Their present one are Hos, like from the Bonanza show, and Bear, well he looked like a bear when a puppy. He grew up with GS and I guess to insure, at least no food aggression, was to pour food in food bowl then feed dog putting hand in bowl and feeding by hand.

Muffin is a great name! I love it.

she is so sweet! puppies are like that. when mine was a pup - she drove me nuts. well, most would say I already was... but she was a psycho! still is. I knew no one else would keep her (she'd been re-homed twice). So I did, and now she is my sweetie. still often psycho tho. I probably don't help much with that...

Muffin is a good name for a gonna grow big GS! I had a Sam, a Shasta, a Sugar, a Shadow, a Snuggles, a Savage, a Skeeter, a Shivers... all S names.

Muffin is a great name!

I tend to stay away from people names with my pets, unless it is a name from mythology or fiction. I did have a cat named Katrina when I was a kid... but that's as close as I've gotten.

It probably stems from my mother being uncomfortable when introduced to a dog named Lucy... her name. (Mother never did really like her own name.)

Muffin is a proper doggie name, as in "Ruff, I want to grow up to be a Muffin!"

Wow, Muffin is a great name for a big dog! Good luck at the vet's office, I hope whatever might be going on with her skin is easily resolved.

And wouldn't it be nice to teach a dog to sort laundry by colors ... put it in the washing machine ... hit the right button ... oh well, a person can dream.

So glad you changed vets!!!!

Muffin! I love it! Thanks for the update, and I'm really REALLY glad you've chosen a new vet!

Rusty

I love the name, she is definitely a Fluff-muffin! I’ll be checking back to see what your vet says about her issues.

I always found it impossible to name a dog before I got to know their personality. We thought we’d give our boy a tough manly name, like Rex, or Leo. But then we realized he is a ham and a clown, plus he’s always glued to my side, so Bud/Buddy he became (like the song, My buddy, wherever I go, he goes) Hope you don’t mind one more picture of our little ham

Congrats on the new addition, what a beauty. Muffin suits her well. Your SO is a great guy for rescuing her. Fingers and toes crossed the skin issue is minor.