Remove numbers in front of file[working] + append number to duplicate filenames[not-working]

Hi all,
I have an AppleScript which removes any numbers and/or hyphens and underscores from the beginning of a filename. Thats works fine.
However, sometimes i might have a situation like this:
Filename Eg;, 01-Dog.jpg, 02-Dog.jpg, 03-Dog.jpg, etc.
In such a case, the script stops/does not run, only telling me that there already is a file with that name. It does not tell me which file its conflicting with (sometimes there are ALOT of files to look through).
Could somebody please help in modifying this script so that in such a case, a file with the same name would have a number OR letter appended to the end of a filename (before the extension).
Eg;, Dog2.jpg, Dog3.jpg, etc.
on run {input, parameters} repeat with thisFile in input tell application "Finder" set filename to name of (thisFile as alias) set filename to (do shell script "echo " & quoted form of filename & " | sed 's/^[0-9_-]*//'") set name of thisFile to filename end tell end repeat return input end run
Thank you for your help!!

If anyone should be interested in such a script, @jweaks helped me out on StackOverflow

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