What's in a name - Penny or Benjamin?

While signing up for a Windows Live ID to share files with the Board of Advisors for Eastside Entrepreneurs, I was asked for a "secret question. I chose "Name of First Pet".

The first pet I remember was a great dog named Penny. She was a mutt, but she was my pal and I loved her a lot. I'm pretty sure my parents named her - probably because it was sometimes hard to find a Penny while raising a family.

I was thinking about other dog names - I once had a best friend named Apollo, and then Esmerelda and Hans and Inga (all Rottweilers and some of the finest dogs that ever lived).

The next dog I get if he or she arrives without a name, will probably be named according to its personality, but I will strongly consider naming it Benjamin - short for Benjamin Franklin and his most famous portrait.