Dog/ pet inspired names from Travels

My past pets have had Yiddish names…Shmatta, Yenta, and Shoindu but after reading that post I’d consider a Kooikerhondje just so I could name her Miss Tricht ;)

Our granddog is named Kivu. Our daughter in law named him after one of her favorite places in Africa. Usually his name inspires comments like “Kiva?”, Kobe?, Coffee?”
Only people I have ever met that said his name perfectly were some Nigerian tourists. They said, “Kivu! He’s named after the lake in Rwanda!”

Not myself but I have a friend who lived in Guam for a time, when he returned to the US he named his two cats Piti and Yigo, the names of two villages in Guam in the native Chamorro language.

do foreign food names count? I have Queso and Sushi kitties.

PS to Jennifer, my good friends also had a Kivu dog, named after the same place :)

We had a beloved cat named Maui.

Our female chocolate Labrador, Lucca, is named after one of our favorite Italian towns. And we met another Lucca, same breed, named by her humans for the same reason!

Cathy, never thought of Lucca- we will be there in the spring. That's a good one, and a female name. I'm putting that on my future's list.

My husband and I were married on a sailboat off of Lahaina in Maui in 1987. We tried Akeka’s ribs from the Akeka’s marketplace in Kihei. Our next dog, a golden retriever was christened “Azeka”. We even managed to get Azeka’s ribs delivered to Canada twice.

@Pat, not a pet name, but a travel name.

I was working in an English Camp in Navarra, and one of my student's name was Tenaya. I know Tenaya from Yosemite, and it is also the name of a dorm at UCSD. When I asked her where she got the name, thinking that it may have been Basque, she said that it her mom and dad took their honeymoon to California. They visited Yosemite and liked the place and the name and made a vow to use the name for a daughter. So some where in the north of Spain there is a Tenaya running around.

First visit to Florence way back when, we decided if we ever had a dog we would call it Arno.
We never did get a dog, but have had five cats, two of which had Scottish names: Argyll and Ailsa.

Well, not a pet name but my neighbor many years ago named her daughter Pavia, after the Italian town she fell in love with. Also…her middle name was Spry, after the fondly remembered illuminated billboard outside her NYC apartment window advertising vegetable shortening.

Denny, now Spry is an unusual one.
PS I see you're from Columbus. I'm an OSU Alum. Go Buckeyes!