alexis

If you named your horse yourself, how did you pick? Only on their behavior or markings. Even better for couples that own one or more, did you fight over the names like parents do with their children?

katie

Our kids usually name any pets or animals we have. We just a parakeet that our kids named Shnitzel and our new lab puppy was named Chowder.

purplefdu

We normally let the person who the pet was acquired for name the pet. It could be based on their personality, coloring, birthday, etc depending on how it goes.

Example:
coppernicus was a green/blue beta (copper oxidizes that color)
dusty was a fuzzy grey cat my dad threatened to use as a duster

alexis

I have sometimes done that with names for smaller animals. I have had a cat named Kitty that after we thought up so many names Kitty ended up fitting her better than the others. I'm not sure how that name would work for a horse, but I do know someone with a dog named that.

MizzRibbon

I was raised on a farm and grew up with three horses in my lifetime. One was a beautiful red & white mare named Ribbon simply because she looked shiny like a ribbon. We also had a Palamino horse named Prince that my Dad named just because he liked that name. Finally we had a pretty little black and white Apaloosa mix named Duchess because Dad said she was too young to be a Queen.(:

RidingWild

Before the kids came, my husband and I would have little spats on what to name our horses. We usually either name them after their behavior or special markings. Sometimes depending on where we got them from.

ilovehorses

In my family, we each pick a name we would like to call the horse or any other pet we acquire and put them into a hat, shake it up and pull out a name.