Nurse Jackie Inspired Dog Names

Many people choose regular dog names like Milly or Spot and are content with being one of the billions with that same name. However, some people like to buck the trend and associate their pet with their passion for TV. Fortunately, when you choose Nurse Jackie inspired dog names, you can also link some of those characters back to pop culture, such as two main characters Jackie and Eddie.

Jackie, in Nurse Jackie, is a strong-willed, hot-headed, and addicted nurse who uses Vicodin, Xanax, and Percocet to get through her days. She struggles with her family life, pleasing her husband, and keeping her man on the side. She’s also an exceptionally talented nurse who works long hours. In pop culture, Jackie is the name of two notable dogs who hit the news for very different reasons.

The first Jackie is a Golden Retriever who became the focus of an investigation after food kept going missing. The second is a Dalmatian-mix from the 1940s that someone taught to do a Nazi salute every time someone would say the word “Hitler.”

Then there’s Eddie. Eddie is a lovable, calm, and caring emergency room pharmacist who enters into an affair with Jackie. He’s quite happy acting as the deep, dark secret – at least in the beginning until everything comes to the surface.

Eddie is also a lovable dog from the 1993 sitcom Frasier with personality traits, not all that dissimilar from Eddie, the pharmacist. He’s a Parson Russell Terrier played by Moose, then his son Enzo. Eddie has a human-like understanding and uses it to taunt Frasier. He’s an intelligent dog, but also uses it to his advantage rather than to do anything helpful for Frasier.

For example, in the episode “Three Dates and a Breakup” Eddie eats the dinner that Frasier prepared for his date. He did this knowing that Frasier’s date would not stick around for a meal anyway.

Eddie appears prominently in the show, not just in the background from time to time. He usually is always in the show’s closing sequences, and the production crew even made sure the fans knew when his birthday was (approximately). In one episode, it was May 7, then in another, May 15.

The first dog to play Eddie, Moose, only had six months of training before debuting on the show. He also starred as Old Skip in My Dog Skip. Moose was born in 1990 and died in 2006.