Funny you named your dog belle, I name all my dogs the same, females are Belle and the Males are Jake, great names for great dogs, my last Belle died dec. 22 2001 terrible day, I'm sure she retrieved over 500 pheasents and half that many grouse and maybe half that many ducks and geese, she did a lot of hunting and she took me everytime,
the thing about picking names for dogs is that you want one sylable names, and somebody all ready said not to pick a name close to a command, A friend of mine names i his blask Lab, Bo well it was a mistake From a distance, the dog has'nt learned the differnce betgween Bo and NO