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myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner 2 years ago

I've seen that there are a lot of people that come up with some very creative names for their pets and there are others that use names that are a little bit more sterotypical. What I'd like to know is what you named your pet and how you came up with the name that you've given them.

Us, right now we have three pets. Our oldest dog is named Michela Mae because I found her out in the country almost eleven years ago and I wanted to give her a name that is somewhat old fashioned to represent the area where I found her. Then our other dog is named Jasmine Lady Ariel. She came with the name of Jasmine and my daughter decided to keep up with the Disney theme and added the other two names to it. Finally we have our cat, Cornbread. We named him this because of his coloring.

Oh, and we are considering getting another cat and we've decided that we are either going to name it Beans or Buttercup to keep up with the food theme and the classic country meal of soup beans and cornbread.

 

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1. myLot reputation of 95/100. ellie333 (8050)   ranked 118 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

Well where do I start. Cats: Button as she was white with two cicles either side of her with two white dots in the middle so they looked liked buttons, Sybil, black cat meaning prophetess, black cats are witches cats went well, Greebo, mucky black cat always in trouble always covered in oil fromlaying under cars, fitted well. Wilfred daughter named no reason. Bob, he had no tail lol. Rabbits Snowy was white self explanatory etc etc. we also have rabbits called Nike, Sweetheart, Rosie, Katie, guinea pig Dave (after guy in pet shop) and Badger cos he looks like one and the only fish with a name is Bluey as he is a blie siamese fighting fish and we also had Angel the hamster who unfortunaly is with the angels right now bless.


myLot reputation of 97/100. karen1969 (1205)   ranked 854 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

We had a hamster called Rosie and a dog called Katy!


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

I especially like the story of Buttons although I also like the story of how you named Greebo as well. I really liked reading about all of the names of your pets.

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2. myLot reputation of 97/100. karen1969 (1205)   ranked 854 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

What cute names! We have a cat called Shady and a dog called Pixie. Shady was named after Eminem (The Real Slim Shady) and because she is tortoiseshell with lots of different colours and shades in her fur. Pixie was the only name all of us liked and was after Pixie Geldof. In the past, we have had animals named after gymnasts as I love gymnastics - Nadia the cat, Olga the dog, Tatiana and Natalia the rats. We had a cat called Delgado (after Dr Who actor Roger Delgado), a dog called Katy (after actress Katy Manning), rats called Babs, Hattie and Joanie (after Carry On stars) and Eeyore, Piglet and Tigger from Winnie the Pooh!


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

My sister-in-law's dog is named Eeyore because she is a huge fan of Winnie The Pooh. I also think that it is neat that you've named animals after gymnasts. I like gymnastics as well, both of my children are budding gymnasts. My daughter has been involved since she was three years old and my son since he was one and a half.


myLot reputation of 97/100. karen1969 (1205)   ranked 854 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

That's great your kids do gymnastics. My daughters did when they were younger too. I also named two of my daughters after famous gymnasts - Emilia and Viktoria!!


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

Cool. My children were both named after people that were important in my journey to becoming the woman that I am today.

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3. myLot reputation of 95/100. Hatley (48774)   ranked 200 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

hi dorannmwin When we had pets a long time back I named our dog Seap because we got her at a swap meet as a puppy, and our jet black tom cat I named Midnight as he had not speck of white anywhere on him,
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myLot reputation of 95/100. ellie333 (8050)   ranked 118 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

Hi Hatley, I nearly came home on Sunday with a black kitten that I would have called Midnight but I resisted lol - hope you are well Higgles Ellie :)


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

My son would absolutely love to get a black cat, but he is determined that if we do it is going to be named black kitty.

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4. myLot reputation of 94/100. sleepylittlerose (1447)   ranked 220 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

The list is long:

Bommer - My 15 yr old dog was rescued from the SPCA. When we adopted him he was infested with mange mites and had no hair on his back legs. He looked like a big boo boo.

Thumper - Our Quarter Horse has two names. Her barn name is Thumper because when she was first foaled she would stand in the stall and kick her hind foot like Thumper in the movie Babmi. Her registered name is Sleepy Little Rose. This is a combination of her dam's name Rosadator and her sire's name, Mr. Sleepy's Man.

Bunny - Our 9 yr old hound dog. We decided to give her a name of something she would never hunt. This dog is so spoiled the only thing she ever hunts is her food bowl and a cushy place to lay down.

Delilah - Our 2 yr old papillion. She was named becuase my mother has a papillion named Sampson that we intend to bred her with and for the biblical reference since she is his downfall. Her registered name is Delilah Doodles Tax Day Delima. She was born on April 15th and we always seem to have some kind of delima in our house, so poor thing will always be a problem. LOL


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

My old dog Michela is a hound dog as well. However, she has never hunted a day in her life unless you count the fact that she loves to try to catch flies. I really think that it is neat that two of your pets have had names that are related to rabbits.


myLot reputation of 94/100. sleepylittlerose (1447)   ranked 220 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

When I was in high school, I had a rabbit named George. It comes from the cartoon where "I love it and squeeze it and call it Geroge." Only problem George was a she.


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

I remember that cartoon, it was Tiny Toons Adventures. I used to watch that one all the time. Thanks for bringing back a good memory.

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5. eg3av3s (16)   2 years ago

I wasn't very creative when i named my pet lol..I was in highschool and we were watching Romeo and Juliet..yes the one with Leo Dicaprio ..Anyways i decided to name him Romeo..He is a Pomeranian ..Now people always ask me .."are you his Juliet?" or say quotes from the movie/play..We also had a dog we named Daisy ..That was a bigger dog and passed away years ago.I didn't name her ..too young at the time


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

You know when I think about Pomeranians Romeo does seem like it would be an appropriate name for a male. I really like that, but I don't think that I would be the one that was creative enough to come up with asking if you were his Juliet.

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6. myLot reputation of 97/100. katsmeow1213 (7758)   ranked 29 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

I have 3 cats, Char, Simba and Zeke. Char was named thus because he's all black, and at the time my mother had an all black cat named Cole... so I thought Char would be cute... Charcoal.. get it?

We got Simba and Zeke right about the same time. Simba is an orange tiger and was really frisky as a kitten.. he just reminded me of the lion from Lion King..

Zeke is a freak.. honestly, always was, he's just weird. He'd get frisky and run up to play with you but as soon as you'd interact he'd freak out and run away, still does, so we just started calling him Zeke the Freak.

My foster mom had some weird ways of coming up with cat names. Sometimes it was their color, sometimes it was something she was into at the time. She had one cat that was a total scaredy cat and she called him a Psycho.. so she named him Norman Bates. Then when I was a teen and into french and wanted to actually go to France she got a cat and decided to name it the french word for cat, which is chat (pronounced like shot) and so that cat was named Chatsie. She also had a cat named Baby.. from Dirty Dancing. Casey was actually named Kitten Cotter (Cotter was her last name) shortened to KC.. and eventually just became Casey.


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

I think that the different names that people come up for black cats are the most interesting. The reason that I say this is because Paul wants to name his Black Kitty, Kathryn would name it Midnight and I personally would name a black cat Snowy just because I am twisted like that.

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7. myLot reputation of 97/100. redmaryjane (787)   ranked 914 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

Our original dogs are Jack and Georgia. They gave us puppies whom we named Max, Bubba and Gaston. We have three cats who are named Penny, Junior (who's a girl but she kinda looks like her mom Penny) and Michiko.

Cornbread sounds like a cool name for a cat. Had I seen this post earlier, Gaston would have had that name, since he kinda has light burnt-brown color.


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

I'm so glad to hear that there is someone else that thinks that Cornbread is a cool name. When we had him fixed last week, his name definitely got some giggles out of the staff at the clinic.

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8. myLot reputation of 99/100. basqui (1385)   2 years ago

We have a Shih Tzu named Tacka and a native one (mixed breed) named Bossing. People really want to name pets of course. Here in the Philippines, even those native dogs have the privilege to be named accordingly. If I were to have a new native dog then I would name it Muning or Kuting which is usually given to native cats in the Philippines. lol


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

I think that it is important for us to name our pets. Never have I had the honor of having a purebred dog, however mine does but she isn't registered. I always thought that the registered names of dogs were kind of goofy. I really like for them to have nice, simple names.


myLot reputation of 99/100. basqui (1385)  2 years ago

Yeah, registered names are odd. Well, pet owners don't call them such at home. Of course, the simple names are what are more used.


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

So very true. However, it always does crack me up when I see the registered names on the dog shows and such.

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9. myLot reputation of 76/100. blue_thr3e (369)   2 years ago

we used to have a dog named "Sneezle" because when she was young she always had colds and sneeze often. after her we raised a dog we named "Dark" because of his pure black color. he's gone now too. and we don't intend to take care of any more puppies. so we ended up with cats, lots of them. we have 6. and we gave them the most conventional names anyone could ever think of. in fact, it's so embarrassing to admit how uncreative we were during their births. our first cat we call "Night" because she's also colored black, our second cat's "Light" the opposite of the former, whose color is pure white. our third cat we call "Dawn" not really because of her color, which is brown, but just to complement with the other two cats names. (day = light)

Night's first baby we just called her "Little Night" (they look a lot like each other, except that the latter don't have white streaks on her neck) while the only male cat, which is also night's kid, unfortunately isn't baptized yet with any name and he's really getting old already. none survived from Light's babies. Dawn's called "Baby Dawn" (who look a lot like her mother too except her tail which is shorter, almost none at all). i don't know if it has got something to do with their names but Little Night and Baby Dawn both looked smaller than their moms.


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

Well, I have to admit that I really like the name Sneezle, I would never have been able to come up with something that is that creative. And, if I were to have a pet that would become a mother, I don't think that I would be able to be creative with their names.

I did once have a dog that we named Fudge because he had a little brown spot on his nose when he was just a pup. He was a baby of my aunt's multese Princess.

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10. myLot reputation of 96/100. dawnald (24270)   ranked 3 out of 1,586 in pet owner   2 years ago

I don't know, the names just come. Now my mom used to give really interesting names like Mai Tai, Delilah, Mephistopheles, etc. Me, it's things like Jinx and Pounce and such. My cats that I have now are Oreo, because he's black and white, Jason because my son named him after a boy in his class and Tiger two because he looks just like Tiger who died the year before...


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

That is kind of strange that your son decided to name the cat after one of his classmates. I think this might be the first time that I've heard of a pet that was actually named after a person.


myLot reputation of 96/100. dawnald (24270)   ranked 3 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

My son has autism and he tends to focus on certain things. He wanted to name all 3 kittens (Jason was in a litter that we were fostering) after classmates. This time he wants to name the kittens we are fostering after Star Wars or Harry Potter characters. I drew the line at naming the female kitten Yoda. rofl


myLot reputation of 100/100. dorannmwin (17639)   ranked 43 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

Well knowing that makes it make a lot more sense. I don't know I think that I would have named the female Lia.


myLot reputation of 96/100. dawnald (24270)   ranked 3 out of 1,586 in pet owner  2 years ago

That makes a LOT more sense!

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