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Sometimes people will choose names based on what they mean I’ve found that the meaning of names comes from the feelings you develop for a dog over the course of your lives and adventures together. When it comes to sources for cute puppy names, I’ve been lucky that two relatively unlikely characters provided inspiration at key moments. So my girl dog names have both been drawn from cartoons and movies. They thought it was a good name, and it stuck. So where did “Tina” come from? My parents are huge fans of Napoleon Dynamite and loved the pet llama in the movie, whose name was Tina. Cute puppy names can grow on you over time, as your dog begins to inhabit the name, until you can’t think of her as possibly having any other. If you think about cool dog names, “Tina” probably isn’t the first one that pops to mind, but I assure you, Tina is one of the coolest dogs I’ve ever had the joy of knowing.
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Who knows how many popular dog names are drawn from our childhood experiences? When I saw the dog for the first time, the name just seemed to fit! Violet the dog far outlived Violet the cartoon character, and she was a huge part of my life until she passed away when I was in college. The name came from a character in a cartoon I watched as a child, called Pound Puppies, based on a stuffed-animal line that was all the rage in my youth. I got my first dog in elementary school and named her Violet. One was named after a cartoon, the other after a llama, and both names worked out marvelously. I’ve had two of the most wonderful female dogs in my life.
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My own history with girl dog names has been a bit haphazard.