When I got Dixie Belle, I had pretty much run out of German names, (thanks to about 25 years of Dobermans)---so I was thinking about names, and leafing through an illustrated coffee table book about steamboats on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and 

Enka's name came from an old Serta mattress commercial for "Enka Loft" mattresses. I don't think Enka means anything, but it struck me as a nice femmenine sort of German or Scandinavian sounding name, so that is where that came from.

there was a picture of the Dixie Belle-

Enka, the Weimaraner. Hobbies – RETRIEVING.

 a steam packet, not only did I like the name, it also was my mother's middle name(Belle), it means a pretty young lady. So since Dixie and my mother were already best buddies even before she came home from the

 breeder's--her name became Dixie Belle. Her registered name, Stoneridge's Missouri River Queen came from the same book. She has always been a golden girl, a perfect lady, dignified and well behaved, even as a puppy. That isn't to say she mopes around like some sort of cloistered nun, but I've never had any major complaints about her behavior, and if I have a minor one, a simple no always stops whatever the problem was instantly. The only thing I can think of that has even remotely been any kind of problem is that she is sometimes a little too anxious to make friends, and even that has not really been too much problem.

  Click HERE to read the stories their Daddy wrote about Enka and Dixie!