Dog owners chose middle class children’s names
September 3, 2010 | 0 Responses
Before you buy dog insurance for your new puppy, you have the task of choosing a name for your pooch.
Recent research shows that owners are abandoning traditional dogs names like Sandy, Rex and Lassie in favoutr of trendy middle class baby names like Alfie, Poppy and Milly.
A study undertaken by protect your bubble insurance company looking at 80,000 dogs names over the last 12 months has compared names given to dogs in the 1970s.
Results of the survey show that nearly half of today’s dog owners are now humanising their pets with popular kids names.
Stephen Ebbett said, Naming a dog Millie, Daisy or Oscar doee not seem surprising, particularly as these sorts of names appear in the top 100 baby names for children in the Uk.
Interestingly, 21% of dog owners said it was just as difficult choosing a name for a dog as it is a child.
It also transpired that many parents find it confusing at the park when dog owners yell at a pet which has the same name as their child.
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