Mine is a miniature pinscher named Samson. At first we thought it would give him a complex, but he’s lived up to it… very territorial (ask my couches) and loud. He always has to be at the highest point in the room, with a gods-eye view of everything: doorways, windows. He’ll bark when you come in, and he’ll bark when you leave.
Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought.
Our dog’s name is Jimmy, which I think is a good name because it’s short, fun, cute, lively… it just fits a hyperactive pup 
The name is actually a compromise. My sister got him for us at St. James church, and insisted we name him St. James. But I just couldn’t see calling a pup St. unless he’s got a keg of brandy around his neck.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
My miniature schnauzer is Sox. Originally she was a Christmas present for my dad. He was depressed about our other dog dying around Thanksgiving, and when we asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he would just sulk and say, “All I want for Christmas are socks”. My mom had forbidden him to get another dog, see. But we secretly talked her into it, and one night, my sister and I came home after curfew with a tiny puppy. He asked us where the hell we’d been, and my sister said, “Christmas shopping”. His reply was that “I said I only wanted socks this year”. Our reply was to hand him the puppy from under my coat and tell him, “Here’s Sox”. First and only time I’ve ever seen the old man cry.
Unfortunately, he lost custody of the dog 6 years ago when he divorced my mom. His new trophy wife has a mean, nasty cat.
PR
If you’re not part of the solution you’re just scumming up the bottom of the beaker.
Markxxx, was that an old Peanuts joke?
I can’t think of any good dog names, but my brother once had a friend with a pet piranha named Smiley.
Prairie Rose – that was really nice
It is hard to loose a pet and it was really nice for your family to help ease the pain with a new pet. No, they can’t replace but they can help. Sorry he lost that one too 
I forgot to add in my original post:
My cats! Or cants (mini-slam Heath Doolin, but ya know I love ya!)
Tiny Tim – mostly just called Timmy. He was extremely abused and beat up when I (the big old marshmallow heart that I am) took him in. He limped and it was close to Christmas, hence the name.
Scarlet – mostly called Scar. I was in a Gone with the Wind phase at the time and she really is like that character. Thinks she’s better than everyone else and has lots of beaus!
Lancelot – named by my sister (he’s her cat but I got him when she went into the Navy). She was in an Arthur phase at the time. I just call him Lance or Lance not so much since he’s been fixed.
All my animals are fixed. Sorry, but I just gotta plug this: Spay or neuter your animals! There are so many unwanted animals now, don’t make more. Okay off the soap box, back to your regularly scheduled show.
An anglican priest I knew had two cats. He called the more attractive one “Magnificat”, and the stupid one “Nunc Dimwittis.”
My sister named her Bull Mastiff (who died unexpectedly a few months ago, very sad) Elvis. It was perfect.
I always thought that the perfect name for a Basset or a Bloodhound would be Buford. And ya gotta say it right “byooferd”
I am #1. Everyone else is #2 or lower.
I had a bird named “Purple Hazel.”
Growing up, we always had female bulldogs and for some reason my stepdad always got to name them : Agatha, Bertha, and Chloe. The names really did suit 'em, though.
“You’re going to listen
to ME? To something I
said? Haven’t I made it
abundantly clear over the
tenure of our friendship
that I don’t know shit?”
I read somewhere about a dog that was blind in one eye, lame, and missing his tail. His name was “Lucky.”
The last cat i was associated with, it wasn’t really mine so I never knew its real name, was nicknamed Tubba, short not for TubbaDiva but Tubb 'a Lard because he was, well, pretty lardy.
We have a border collie named Dr Watson, we call him just Watson, or wats.
Our St Bernard is Stella, after Stella Mayfair in the Mayfair Witch series by Anne Rice.
My tabby cat is Ophelia, cuz she’s so stuck up and bitchy.
We have a LARGE black cat named Thaddeus, but for obvious reasons we actually call him Fatteus.
By best friend named her Jack Russel Billy and then started dating a guy named Bill. Now she has little Bill and big Bill.
In college a friend named his boxer Meat.
Well, my last name is “Dempsey”. My first boxer dog was named “Jack”.
Get it?
A FOAF had a dog named “Human”.
We had a cat named “Pud” (rhymed with ‘could’) whan I was a kid. I always thought that was the sound his feet made hitting the floor as he jumped down from something.
had an Italian Greyhound once called
Gizmoni the E-racer
We called him Gizmo.
“Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.”
I had a very aggressive little mutt dog when I got my current dog. The new dog just came in and completely took over. My husband referred to her as “The Dominator” so in honor of the greatest goalie in the NHL, we named her Hasek.
When my dad was a child, he had a dog with only three legs and his brothers named it “Crip.” Brothers can be so cruel!
Born O.K. the first time…
Our current dog is named ‘Sara’. Simple, and she does look like a Sara. She is a Beagle/Jack Russel Terrier mix. Stupider than a doorknob. She always barks and growls at a stuffed toy German Shepherd we have in my dads massage room, everytime she passes by the doorway. She’s sniffed its butt several times and still doesn’t get it.
Anyway, we also had a dog named “Puzzle”, who was an Australian Shepherd. We had a wire haired Australian Terrier named “Spock”, and a Samoyed named “Tor” (Short For Toravitch, his parents were pure breds, i dont know how we got him though).
I had a male german shepheard named Fluffy
a skyeterrier named Cindarella.
I grew up with a dog named Fish. My dad wanted a fish, the rest of the family wanted a dog, so we got a dog and named it Fish.
Our dog is a purebred Cardigan Welsh Corgi named Crease - we chose the call name a long time ago. We wanted a one-syllable, unique name and we found it! Her AKC name is Quaint’s Creased Brindle Moon. The breeder had a Harvest Moon theme so we tried (unsuccessfully) to come up with a cool name in keeping with the theme. We wanted to name her Quaint’s Justice of the Crease.
Oh well.
Most common question I ask: “What?”
Most common question I get: “Are you really hearing impaired?”
Hey Stoidela, a friend of mine had a bassett hound named Buford! The name really was perfect for him, in a Buford Pusser way. That dog had a serious complex.
I have an all black cat named Salem. I can’t remember which comic strip the dog is called Dogzilla which I think is a great name.