strange names

@winterose (39887)
Canada
July 19, 2012 12:58pm CST
I didn't know the person myself but a writer friend of mine used to sell avon and one of her customers had several cats. She asked my writer friend to give the cat a bath because she was elderly and not able to do it. The cat was old and smelly. She asked what the cat's name was and the women said it was a stray she never really gave him a name but she has had him for a while and she just calls him "Old fat bast-rd. Can you imagine taking the cat for a checkup and being asked what that cats name is? I broke out laughing. Any thoughts? Any strange names of animals that you know?
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• United States
20 Jul 12
That's funny, I could only imagine the vets face if she took the cat in and told his name. I have heard too many bizarre animals names like that but I remember a friend of mine once had a dog name D.O.G and a cat named C.A.T which I always thought was a funny and lazy way to name your pets.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
yep those names were pretty lazy
• United States
20 Jul 12
That remi Ds me of Ivan. His pet name that S gave him was Hairy Little Bast-ard. We would always go awww. It seemed that Ivan knew S was cling him out of his name. He's wag his tail because he seemed to know he was loved.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
yep some crazy names we get our animals.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
20 Jul 12
hi winterose how fu nny and I can just see the vet call out Old fat bas.t.a.r.d and the whole room laugh.years b ack when we had our own home we bought a mixed breed puppy at a swap meet. so"I named him Swap. Before this whenwe were still in tempe Arizona we bo ught a purebred dachhound bu t she w as too tall for showingv as a show dog bu t she had a puppy that w a also pure bred Dachhund and we named him Lucky. He was to be our show dog. oh yes. we moved to a rental house with our son and I was pregnant again.the puppy was in the back yard fenced in.b ut a swift moving irrigation canal was on the other side of the fence. a child,a boy maybe 5 came running to my kitchen door in tears."maam come quick, the big guys got your puppy and threw him in the canal" he was c rying"come quick before he drowns" turned out the big g uys were the sweet little bous brothers,their father ran out and helped m e to find my puppy lucky and he pulled him in but he was not breathing nor could we get him to breathe.My wonderful little puppy was drowned just because these high school kids wondered if the could swim. the father felt horrible and insisted on paying me the cost of the puppy but 300 dollars did not undo tgb but because we had lost my little pal Lucky. I never wanted another dog as it w as just too painful do not ever c all a pet lucky as it could be bad luck.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
that is so awful. My mother's poodle cocoa got out of the house and kids throw rocks at his head until the poor dog was unconcious, by the time he was found and taken to the vet it was too late, the vet advised that the dog should be put down.
@celticeagle (159002)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Jul 12
SHe could just use the initials. OFB! My grandmother always had some great names for her cats. SHe had a big, grey tom she named Battleship. She came home once from a trip to California to see her sister with a new cat she had name COIN. I asked why the odd name. She said it had been through California, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada. So with the first letter of each state she had come up with C.O.I.N. She was a foxxy ole bird my grandma. And Mark Lindsay had a black and white cat he named St. Thomas for the favorite vacation spot. My daughter's old black cat is named Sabbath. And our newer grey Maine Co.on cat is named Colbert after our favorite Maine Co.on cat Colby Conner. And it goes on and on. We are a family of cat lovers back four generations!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
oh we have had many good names for cats too, currently we have Junia named after a former cat Junior, and we have Rugby We have had Fancy, Mercy, Chino, Chi Chi, Harmony, Tao, Nimrod nicked named Rudy, Seti, Pearl, Sheeba and Finnegan.
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@celticeagle (159002)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Jul 12
I like Nimrod and Finnegan.
@celticeagle (159002)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Jul 12
We had a calaco named Muttley too.
• United States
19 Jul 12
When I was younger, I would give my various pets some unusual names--named after places, for instance. However, I cannot imagine naming a cat something such as that. It was bad enough when my youngest still hadn't been named since she hadn't yet "told" me her name, and I took her in for shots; she was listed as "barn cat"--oh, a knife to my heart! The three cats I now have all have human names. The one is named after a vampire in a book series. The two girls have lovely feminine names. Each name seems perfectly suited to the bearer.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
then why didn't you tell me there names, my current cats are Rugby and Junia
• United States
20 Jul 12
I named the boy Armand after the vampire from the Anne Rice series; he has the strong personality to pull off such a name. The girls are Laura and Samantha. Their names all fit them quite well.
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
23 Jul 12
I've never heard that one before, I know some who call their animals funny names. But your right imagine the look on the vet staff face when you give them the name.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Jul 12
yep that look on the face would have to be just precious, a picture moment.
• Canada
20 Jul 12
My husband's ex-wife left us to sit for her dog one summer, and by the end of the summer my husband had the dog answering to "dumb-sh!t" and "ex-wife." haha
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
lol
• United States
20 Jul 12
we had a blue nicknamed "piggy"(he did have a real name)..the vet thought it was hilarious til he saw all his 34.5 pound kittyness.. i've heard some strange cat names before..one i knew in tucson was named "helicopter".he had 2 tails,a birth defect.that cat would get excited,and the tails would be spinning in every direction LOL
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
wow I would love to see that cat,
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@mobhomeir (7558)
• Philippines
21 Jul 12
I had a neighbor before who had three dogs, the name of the first one is "bark" and the other one is "bite" and the last one is "DON'T STOP". Whenever there would a stranger/s coming in or calling anyone inside from their gate the two dogs would obviously bark..Instead of commanding the two to stop barking, the master would shout "BARK, BiTE, DON'T STOP" com'on!!! Mobhomeir here 072112 2211hrs
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Jul 12
no that is truly original
@suzzy3 (8342)
19 Jul 12
That is just so funny I have never heard anything so funny in all my life .You can just imagine her calling the cat in for its dinner.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
Yeah I know, I couldn't stop laughing when I heard that story.
@hsofyan (3446)
• Jakarta, Indonesia
19 Jul 12
My pet cats named: "Pity", "Zoobay", etc.. What do you think?
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
They are great names
• United States
20 Jul 12
LOL! That is a funny name. It appears that strays seemed to be named very odd and/or funny names. I know someone that took in a stray kitten. The kitten was very sick when he took it in, and he really didn't want a cat but the poor thing just kept following him around looking all pathetic, so he finally just gave in and adopted it. He called it "Little Sh1t" ... I think he didn't want to give it a "proper name" because he didn't want to get too attached in case the kitten didn't survive. The kitten got stronger and the name stuck, so we could hear him calling to the kitten "come here Little Sh1t" when it was outside and he wanted to bring it in!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
yep that is funny
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
19 Jul 12
even i have witnessed several times these kind of incidents,people do it since they love their cat invaluably and also take them out for a ride in the car and the names are even more funny like chickopop and tuffledude.they keep so that they can easily recollect it and always keep them close to their heart.so its a nice and funny way to keep names and i also love these kind of unique names even like daffodilians .it makes them take notice and they are so kind towards their cat which makes it even more good to see.these strange names always make me think about one particular name for my cat also.but these are good and always cynosure in a public stance and these also add a great deal of humour for it
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
Yep you can say that again, these names are really original and funny
• India
20 Jul 12
Hi friend, really the cat name is very strange and i heard the name for the first time, there is no wonder in smiling a while after hearing this name, i don't know this kind of strange names, but interested in hearing them, as it will give more fun to us and we forget about our worries and have a great laugh for a while
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
yep it certainly makes you laugh to hear names like that.
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
19 Jul 12
It reminds me of that episode of, oh what was it? Some show, I think it was coach (but maybe not?) and this guy got a dog but couldn't think of a name. He kept calling out names but the dog wouldn't respond until he said "dam it (of course without the space and with an N in between) and the dog responded! I don't think I'd want to take that cat to the vet myself. I'd probably say we don't really have a name for it, it was a stray...
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Jul 12
she had him for a long time, a couple of years so that was his name as far as she was concerned. It is hilarious though.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Jul 12
This is definately a discussion for me. you dont even want to get me started i love strange names and could likely talk all day about them. my boys ended up with ordinary names because of their dads but my girls have strange names. one my youngest most people have tried calling her everything else and cant get used to it. Jaely was named after a great grandmother and ive never found anyone else with that exact name. anyway, i usually named my cats strange names unless they were already used to a name. my dogs were already named when i got them. but my first siamese i named Demona, then i got a male siamese named cuddles and that just didnt seem right so i changed it to warlock, they had a kitten i named satan. i know sounds gorry, poor thing. maybe its why he didnt live long. i was very young then, a teen barely. so i learned my lesson about macabre names. after that, it was angelic names. anyway, dont want to bore you with more so thats all i will say this time.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
20 Jul 12
oh we have had many good names for cats too, currently we have Junia named after a former cat Junior, and we have Rugby We have had Fancy, Mercy, Chino, Chi Chi, Harmony, Tao, Nimrod nicked named Rudy, Seti, Pearl, Sheeba and Finnegan.