Taoism Dog Names

Not every member of your family is going to share your same passion for Taoism dog names. They may feel like a religious or philosophical name for a dog is too hard to explain to the average stranger in a vet clinic waiting room. While that might be true, there are ways and means around it.

You can still choose Taoism dog names that connect with an essential part of your culture and life, but also to dogs in pop culture. Take, for example, Arthur. Arthur is the name of a Taoist philosopher. He said that Taoism has a practical, yet political side. He translated the three treasures of Taoism (moderation, compassion, and humility) to be an “abstention” of aggressive war and capital punishment. He believed that Taoism was the absolute simplicity of living, with “refusal to assert active authority.”

Offering up this description as inspiration for your dog’s name may be a bit much on the first meeting with someone. Therefore, you could also tell people that the name Arthur came from Arthur, the Ecuadorian street dog who started hanging out with a Swedish extreme sports team.

When the team were at the Adventure Racing World Championship in 2014, the leader of the four-person group, Mikael Lindnord, offered a street dog a canned meatball. After the race, the dog followed the team everywhere. They had to haul him out of deep mud, and he even swam a leg of their kayaking event. He didn’t want to let his new friends out of his sight. The team quickly grew to love the dog, even calling him Arthur after King Arthur in Britain.

The team then raised money on Twitter to take the dog back with them to Sweden from Ecuador. They received help from the Ecuadorian Minister for Social Affairs and permission from the Swedish Board of Agriculture and finally took Arthur with them. He had to have surgery for wounds he must have had for months, dental care, and stayed in quarantine for 120 days. Finally, in March 2015, he was allowed to go home with a member of the team. He was around seven years old by that stage.

Since then, Arthur has accompanied the team to Wings for Life World Run in Kalmar and is the namesake of a charity to help other street dogs in Ecuador. Mikael Lindnord has also co-written a book about Arthur.

However, not all publicity is good publicity. A supposed former owner came forward, claiming Arthur was his dog, Barbuncho. Many others claimed Arthur was theirs as well. Because of the nature of Arthur’s wounds, petitions were made to bring his former owner to justice. Claims of ownership then ceased.