Wilson seems to be a popular name - it's the name of the search dog being searched for in the Colombian Amazon:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/11/amazon-plane-crash-colombian-children-survived-on-cassava-and-fruits-family-say

Personally, I'm going Mullarkey  :)

Call it what you want  just not : Shelton , Philip ,Dale or Ian .

I would go for Mullarkey not a lot of dogs about with that name.

I have just got a German shepherd puppy named by our granddaughter .

She is a bit confused at the moment as my wife keeps calling her Nailer. Or Neighler. Or Nalan.

Her name is Nala.  Meaning princess or lioness so has not a clue who the wife is talking to. ;D

Don't call it Forecast at any cost.

Back in the early '70s my grandad had a black lab called N*gger and for some reason not only was it acceptable but I can remember knowing another dog called that as well,I just just like to add that my grandad wasn't a racist or owt like that... Erm I think

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I just just like to add that my grandad wasn't a racist or owt like that

Yes he was!

Quoted from Sandford1981

Yes he was!

I can remember asking him about it years later when I realized that it wasn't a good name and he said that it was named after a dog in WW2, completely forgot about it until now

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I can remember asking him about it years later when I realized that it wasn't a good name and he said that it was named after a dog in WW2, completely forgot about it until now

Something to do with the dam busters wasn’t it?

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Something to do with the dam busters wasn’t it?

I honestly don't know,it seems completely bonkers now

My Red and White Collie is called Disley

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Something to do with the dam busters wasn’t it?

Yes, it was a black Labrador owned by Guy Gibson. I understand they over dubbed the name with ‘blackie’ in the Dam Busters movie a few years ago, which was a controversial move.

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Don't call it Forecast at any cost.

It'd always be missing.

Harry?

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Yes, it was a black Labrador owned by Guy Gibson. I understand they over dubbed the name with ‘blackie’ in the Dam Busters movie a few years ago, which was a controversial move.

Buried at Scampton, they are trying to work out what to do with the grave when it becomes an asylum home.

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Back in the early '70s my grandad had a black lab called N*gger and for some reason not only was it acceptable but I can remember knowing another dog called that as well,I just just like to add that my grandad wasn't a racist or owt like that... Erm I think

My grandad had a great pyrenees called chalky ,never crossed my mind it could be colour related though and that it's the same name as you until now though chalky !

Wilson as I love the film with Tom Hanks 😁

Mullarky great name for a dog

My red/brown shelter dog is great with a ball - she's called Gilly after Dave Gilbert.

The grave of that jet black WW2 dog is at RAF Scampton, awaiting a decision on re-location after the closure.

My brother and I had a pair of rabbits once. White with black patches. We called them Joey and Deano. You can probably guess why.

We had a black and white cat called Grimsby

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Yes, it was a black Labrador owned by Guy Gibson. I understand they over dubbed the name with ‘blackie’ in the Dam Busters movie a few years ago, which was a controversial move.

I thought they changed it to Digger.

I had a brown Burmese called Grimsby - great cat

Prior to that I had a dog called Hunza. My then wife was (still is) Czech (this was before marrying Czech girls became popular but in retrospect it probably was all about the passport). Anyway, there was a children’s story called, I thought, Hunza the Bear, and it seemed like a good name. I later discovered that Hunza was the name of the boy in the book and it means John - the book was called John AND the Bear.

So I had a dog called John.

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Wilson seems to be a popular name - it's the name of the search dog being searched for in the Colombian Amazon:

The more famous Wilson the Dog was Jim's placid Belgian Shepherd Dog is Friday Night Dinner (which he was terrified of)...

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I thought they changed it to Digger.

You may be right, I have only seen the original version. Great film though!

Quoted from Chalky

Back in the early '70s my grandad had a black lab called N*gger and for some reason not only was it acceptable but I can remember knowing another dog called that as well,I just just like to add that my grandad wasn't a racist or owt like that... Erm I think

I hear you're a racist now father?  Should we all be racist now? What's the church's position?

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I hear you're a racist now father?  Should we all be racist now? What's the church's position?

That still makes me laugh on reruns,the woman who joined in about the Greeks was suburb

"It's not the Greeks he's after,it the Chinese"

We used to live next door to the turkey farm at Fulstow; and when lots of local men used to help the farmer out with plucking before Christmas; there was hell of an uproar of laughter, each time the wife called out for our cat Nobby.  :).

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That still makes me laugh on reruns,the woman who joined in about the Greeks was suburb

"It's not the Greeks he's after,it the Chinese"

It's just a brilliant episode all over, I particularly love the big where he visits the other priest and tries to be polite about all the nazi memorabilia!