Dog Names

I've always had a thing for interesting dog names, and if I had my way, would like a dog named Kafka and a cat named Easter (insider joke from a Tori Amos song).

It struck me as wildly appropriate for a dog to be named after a great academic, a famous writer, poet or philosopher. As such, dog names I love are:

• Tolstoy (Leo)
• Kafka
• Plato (joke on the famous dog belonging to Mickey Mouse - Pluto)
• Auden
• Kipling (see, you could go Kip for short)
• Tolkien
• Gandalf (already taken by a very cute guinea pig!)
• Orwell (four legs good, two legs bad)
• Chomsky
• Shakespeare

The only exceptions to these are Socrates and Aristotle, which for some reason must be reserved for cats.