I knew a cat named Fido.
Stephen Fry points out that Cerebus is the English version of the (transliterated) Greek ‘Kerebos’, meaning ‘spotted’. It’s amusing to think that Hades, ruler of the underworld, had a dog named ‘Spot’. 
Pee Wee Herman’s Chihuahua in the first movie is named, “Speck.”
True story. I helped re-home a tiny little mutt that I was calling “Speck”. A family fell in love with the dog, and decided to keep calling her “Speck”. After a few months, the woman contacted me to thank me again. They really loved the dog.
She asked me if I got the name from the Pee Wee Herman movie. I told her no, she was named for Richard Speck. She didn’t get the reference, just smiled. Years later her husband told me that his wife eventually did a search and was pretty shaken up.
Kids are. My baby sister had a little cream-colored terrier-type stuffed dog with blue vinyl ears, which, after much deliberation, I christened “Creamy Blueears”. She was immensely impressed.
I think children are still kind of processing the whole concept of “naming”, and how you can identify a thing by the same words you would use to describe it: wow. The concept of choosing names to be “original”, in the sense of only subtly or indirectly descriptive, comes later.
For the puppy we adopted last year, I wanted the name Rover, but was out-voted in favor of the name Joey. So I almost knew a Rover personally.
You should have told her that she was named after bacon in German:
Ach du großer Gott!
My son was 3 years old when we brought a puppy home. He was so excited. We asked him if he had any ideas for a name. His choices were Scott and Stop Sign! 
We convinced him to go with Dodger which was the name of a dog in the latest Disney movie.
Ha! At our local after work dog park last night. It was rainy so only 4 of us showed up. One Bella and one Charlie, two others.
Why would you name your dog “others”?
“come here” was taken.
I met a ‘Spotty’ at an Australia Day bbq a couple of weeks ago. Being female, they obviously couldn’t name her Spot. Thing is, she was white all over, the only ‘spots’ on her were pignentation spots on her belly skin! But she was a gorgeous lady who very gently played with our new pupper, and allowed Sascha to bite her ears and feet with nary a reaction. I hope to meet Spotty again next year 
I had a bird named Fido when I was a kid.
This song has been running through my head ever since I started reading this thread:
I had a cat (all white except for a black tail and a few black patches) I was planning to name Spot, but after we’d had him for a week or two, my brother looked at him and said, “That’s not a Spot; that’s a Ralph.” And so he was.
Hey, I found a (current) “Rex”! And he’s part of a team of superheroes! 
(Mexican search and rescue dogs flying to Turkey to help find earthquake survivors)
I knew someone who had a dog named ‘Human’.
If I get a cat, I may name him ‘Steve’.
When I was a kid, I had a cat named ‘Pud’ (rhymes with ‘would’). I named him after the sound his front paws made hitting the floor when he jumped down off something.
My sister, on the other hand, had a dog named ‘Magnolia Wrinkles Dawson’. Different naming philosophies…
Had a cat named Spot ( B & W cow cat). Her litter mate, a grey striped tabby, was named Stripe.
Dan