Dog Names Meaning Friendly

It is not particularly uncommon to chose a name that embodies the traits you want your dog to have, so it should be no surprises that there are several dogs that have been given friendly monikers that have made it into the public spotlight. Jade, a German Shepherd in Birmingham, England discovered and rescued an abandoned baby in Birmingham Park during the winter of 2013 and one of the central figures representing the cellphone company One Plus is a red-coated Shiba Inu named Una, by all accounts a dog as friendly as her name. The name Buddy makes an appearance several times through history, in many different fields. President Bill Clinton thought it was an excellent name for a presidential pooch in 1997, dubbing his three-month-old chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever Buddy, and the first official seeing eye dog in America was a German Shepherd who was also named Buddy. She was paired with 20-year-old Morris Frank in 1928, and the two of them would spend the next several years logging miles by foot, train, bus, and boat in order to introduce people to the idea of guide dogs for the blind, with Buddy eventually becoming the first seeing-eye dog allowed to ride with their master in the cabin. Probably the most well-known dog that was given the moniker Buddy is the canine actor Buddy the dog. Originally a stray dog, his owner noticed his talent for all sorts of sports, including soccer, football, hockey, baseball, and most famously, basketball. While Buddy was best known for his role as Buddy in the movie Air Bud, he also made a cameo as Comet in one episode of Full House.

An American Pit Bull Terrier in California that was given the name of Dakota, a Sioux name that means friendly one or ally, and has certainly lived up to her name as well. One of three search and rescue dogs owned and trained by Kris Crawford, Dakota’s tenacity and skill quickly made her one of the top search dogs in the United States. She was the only Pit Bull Terrier on a team of 20 elite search and rescue dogs that worked some of the most high-profile search and rescue missions of this century and was instrumental in locating debris from the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. When Kris and Dakota weren’t working high-profile cases, they also participated in public safety classes and visited hospitals and nursing homes in order to educate the public on search and rescue dogs and about Pit Bull Terriers in general.