Dog Names that Start with Wu

When you decide to look for dog names that start with "Wu", you may discover there are not all that many options out there. What is available, however, often comes with deep backstories that may be quite hard to get into detail with when talking to strangers.

If you don’t want a full history lesson during your vet visit, why not look at dog names that relate to dogs in pop culture or the news? You can then say that you named your dog after another dog which can be far easier to explain. One such dog is Wulfgar, a Husky with a painful past who brought several thousand people around the world to tears.

Wulfgar was a struggling, starving purebred Husky on the streets in the United States in 2015. He was scared, afraid, alone, and exceptionally thin. When a husband and wife heard about this unusual dog, they knew they had to act immediately. However, Wulfgar’s intense fear of men meant the pair had to tread carefully.

When they took him to the vet, his fur was patchy, his ribs were protruding, and he was in terrible shape. The vet said he should be between 45 and 60 pounds, but Wulfgar was a mere 39 pounds. The vet believed that given his size; he should be close to 50-55 pounds.

The first noticeable condition of Wulfgar was his demodectic mange. As most people know, Huskies have two coats, so to notice his disease was so severe, he must have had it for a long time. His skin was also patchy, dry, red, and irritated, which meant he had been suffering for months.

Surprisingly, Wulfgar didn’t have any fleas or heartworms, which led the couple who found him to breathe a sigh of relief. It could have been much worse. The vets gave him antibiotics to deal with his terrible immunity and medicated shampoo to treat his skin. The next form of treatment would be time.

The couple bought Wulfgar a kennel which he went into to sleep right away. In his past life, they believe he must have had crate training. Therefore, they think he escaped, ran away, or someone abandoned him. He was not microchipped, so there was no way of finding any previous owners.

For the next few days, Wulfgar would be unsure of his surroundings and would cry himself to sleep. He was not able to sleep with his new owners until his mange had cleared up. Over time and with a proper diet, care, love, and attention, Wulfgar would become a new dog. His fur grew back thick, he got on well with other dogs, and he had a strong loyalty to his new owners. Wulfgar well and truly bounced back in the best possible way.