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Huckleberry is a decent name for a dog, though very long. Huck just sounds like a coughing spasm. I really hate how Huckleberry has turned into kind of a celebrity baby-name; I don't know why Mark Twain used it for the character, but I suspect it had something to do with huckleberry being synonymous with hillbilly or hayseed, or to show that Huck Finn's parents were really ignorant.
Also, I know of a teacher who was famous around the school for the time, years before I was ever there, when he mixed up the sounds in Huck Finn and had his entire class in hysterics for the whole rest of the period and never lived it down. Kids are potty-mouths at heart and they won't have any trouble making the name dirty.

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