u/Truckerlightning

Belly up. Paws in the air. Not a single care in the world. Puppy life looks pretty good. 🥹🐾

We brought home this little guy on Monday and we're stuck on a name.

He was born April 24, 2026, and currently weighs a mighty 5 lbs 2 oz.

He's our newest Mini Schnauzer and already has a big brother named Tomyris, who absolutely adores him. They've bonded much faster than we expected.

We're torn between two names:

Wynric

A combination of my wife Wyn's name and mine

Unique and meaningful to us.

Kind of has a fantasy/medieval vibe.

Jax Pollock

Inspired by Jackson Pollock

He looks like someone took a paintbrush and flicked black paint all over a white schnauzer

Fun and easy to remember

Personality-wise, he's surprisingly calm, sweet, and laid back for a puppy, though he's still very young and may have some surprises in store for us.

So what do you think?

Team Wynric? Team Jax Pollock? Or do you have another name suggestion that fits a calm, paint-splattered little schnauzer?

Bonus points if the name sounds good alongside his big brother's name, Tomyris.

Thanks! 🐾❤️ 😍👌👍👆

Benefits of puppysauge (puppy + massage): a calm mind, a relaxed body, and quality bonding.

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Side effects: becoming unbearably adorable, limp puppy syndrome, excessive sighing and requiring additional puppysage sessions. 🥰🐾

It was NOT the day. 😂🤣🙄❤️😍

Tomyris has never caught a squirrel. This has not affected his confidence.

Every. Single. Time. 😂😍❤️

Time to water the dog... errrr... I mean the grass. Tomyris isn't sure there's a difference. 🐾💦🌱

1. What you doing mom? Can I help?

2. Let me inspect this more closely. (Very upset that the puzzle board means I can't sit on Mom's lap.)

3. Yep, you're doing it right. My work here is done, time for a nap.

Tomyris insisted on helping with my puzzle. I took pictures because he was so adorable, slowly inching his way want to be on my lap.

Apparently "helping" means claiming the best blanket, supervising for five minutes, and then clocking out for a nap.

Thought I was watering flowers. Turns out I hired a 11lb. middle manager with opinions. 🌼🐾

Adorableness! The only way I can can describe it. I blurred myself out of the background so I can have it framed.

Backstory..... Tomyris, this tiny man got a new baby pool, you know the blue plasticy ones. We just spent the better part of the last hour, splashing/digging on it, bobbing for tennis balls and trying to eat our own bubbles. He's my first water schnauzer and I'm enjoying the heck out of it. I've owned 3 before him and water was a naughty word to them.

Now this is him after a hard shift of aquatic chaos. Battery: 1% 😁😂📸😎

I thought I was adding a little fun and exercise to his day. Apparently I unlocked hidden factory settings.

My first ever schnauzer that LOVES water. Not “likes splashing.” Not “enjoys a puddle.” No. This tiny mustached lunatic believes he was born as an otter and accidentally issued the wrong body.

I thought schnauzers were supposed to be little old men that judge your life choices from the couch.

Nobody warned me mine would identify as a submarine torpedo.

If I shower without shutting the bathroom door, he’s in the tub trying to co-bathe like we split the water bill together. This dog hears running water and materializes out of nowhere like Beetlejuice with eyebrows.

Walk near a lake, pond, creek, or suspiciously damp ditch? I need a short lead because this furry torpedo will absolutely launch himself into the water like he just got activated for a Navy mission. (Veteran Navy Corpsman here.)

I bought him a kiddie pool and he stood there barking at the hose because it wasn’t filling fast enough. Sir. It has been FOURTEEN SECONDS.

The level of outrage this dog has over water pressure is honestly impressive.

At this point I don’t own a schnauzer. I own a highly opinionated aquatic cryptid with a beard.

I’m fully convinced that if I dropped him into the ocean, he’d emerge three days later captaining a shrimp boat named the S.S. Schnauzer.

After work nap. On the chest, snuggled in the blankee.