# Funny/distinctive names for pets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187 "2016-04-14T15:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/61 "2016-04-15T10:00:56Z")
Two possums when we were kids, Speed Bump and Road Kill. The current guinea pig whose name is Charlie Brown. Mom had already decided to call him Charlie. He also happens to be brown. When I picked him out, the clerk described him as the one that looks like a beaver with no tail. I didn’t know about Mom’s name choice until I got home. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/62 "2016-04-15T11:56:20Z")
Somewhere on the boards, I once proposed the name Dioji for a dog. (Think about it!) I’m in charge of the silly names department at our house. Our daughter had a dog, named after a popular TV dog, and over the years I generated well over a hundred silly nicknames for him. He was generally known by one or another of those names, rarely his actual name. And, of course, we have to post a link to [A Dog Named Sex](http://www.snopes.com/humor/jokes/namedsex.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/63 "2016-04-15T12:16:03Z")
My brother once gave me his four newts. Fig Newt Cute Newt Olivia Newt and John Newt ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/64 "2016-04-15T15:04:36Z")
On the TV show Hart to Hart, the couple had a dog named Freeway. My mother brought home a puppy, she wanted to name him Sarge. I suggested the name Speedway, at the time I drove race cars at a local short track. The name stuck, he even became a bit of a celebrity at the race track due to his name. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/65 "2016-04-15T15:30:33Z")
When we had the cat Archie (Archibald), we got a puppy. We named her Duchess. Sometimes we called her Duchibald. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/66 "2016-04-15T15:33:58Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > On the TV show Hart to Hart, the couple had a dog named Freeway. We had a terrier named freeway, but we stole the name from a friend who did rottie rescue. I’m guessing she stole it from the TV show., since I never watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/67 "2016-04-15T15:53:23Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > When I was a kid my parents had friends who had a cat named “Cookin’ fat”. They would never explain the name in front of us children. We eventually worked it out. Was it a euphemism for butt sex? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/68 "2016-04-15T17:10:13Z")
When you sober up–you drunken **Smurf** , you–reverse the first letters in the two words and pretend you’re Cockney. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/69 "2016-04-15T17:11:52Z")
I’ve mentioned this before. When I was a little kid, we had a stereotypical little old lady who lived down the street. She had a little black poodle that would roam the neighborhood, named “Jiggs”. When he would wander off she would stand on her porch in an old housedress screaming, “Jiggs! **JIGGS!!** **JIGGABOO GET YOUR BLACK ASS BACK HERE!!!** ”. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/70 "2016-04-15T17:13:39Z")
^ You and the Smurf have been partyin’ again, haven’t you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/71 "2016-04-15T17:20:53Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ You and the Smurf have been partyin’ again, haven’t you? 🙂 Well, I won’t deny partying, but the story is true nonetheless. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/72 "2016-04-15T17:42:33Z")
Before I got a cat, I had a cage of hamsters that, for some bizarre reason, had a Popeye theme. Not like I was a Popeye fan, but there was Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee-Pea, etc. My first kitty, Molly, had a pretty common name, but I thought it was pretty cool. My mom’s best friend became nanny to actress’s Meredith Baxter(-Birney) when she had her twin children, Peter and Molley. The cat lady who gave me Molly was kinda starstruck by my mom’s friendship. She got that spelling a bit off. (And apropos of nothing… I got Molly when I was 8. I had her until I was 32. Pretty awesome 8th birthday gift.) My current cat adopted me, just walking into my apartment and taking residence. If it explains the ordeal we went through in getting acclimated, her official name those first few months was “Shut the Fuck Up You God Damn Cat, Shit In the God Damn Box.” When it was time for the first vet visit, I realized yeah…no. She’s Quinne noe, named after a friend on Suicide Girls. And not a single vet or tech pronounces it correctly. “Queenie!” “Quinne. Like 'Quinn the Eskimo.” “Oh, that’s new!” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/73 "2016-04-15T18:20:57Z")
Growing up we had a cat named Neko San. Yes, we named our cat Mr. Cat. We were very imaginative children. I told my kids about this cat and they were absolutely fascinated and wanted to adopt more cats just so they could name them things like Senior Gato, Monsieur Chat, etc. It’s not surprising. Our cat and dog have actual names but most of the time they go by Kitten and Puppy. I’m not even sure the cat actually knows her real name. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/74 "2016-04-15T18:37:02Z")
My grandfather once had a dog named Utzi-Butzi-Boo-Boo-Boo, Utzi for short. ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/75 "2016-04-15T18:45:39Z")
My son adopted a tiny Persian looking cat that he promptly named Meowfurrion. It’s derived from Malfurion on WoW. Most of the time we just call him Furry Bastard. He’s got that Grumpy Cat face and for the first year was very aloof. Now he’s a fuzzy lovebug. The rest of the horde have Nintendo themed names starting with my Heart Dog, Zelda (RIP), and then there is Link, NJoy (for Nurse Joy) Daisy, Gannondorf, Yoshi and Midna (dogs and cats). ---
**Author:** ![Nefario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/59ef9b/32.png) [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/76 "2016-04-15T18:46:31Z")
We knew a couple who called their dog “TD”. We later learned that meant “The Dog”. :rolleyes: Do you know how it can helpful to get two young kittens together so they can play and grow up together? A friend did this and calls one of them “Bogo”. We once knew an upwardly mobile young couple whose last name was Duffy. They had a little designer poodle they called “Buffy”. Therefore the dogs name was Buffy Duffy… ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/77 "2016-04-15T19:22:02Z")
Bogo is adorkable. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/78 "2016-04-15T19:24:55Z")
> [@Nefario](#): > > We knew a couple who called their dog “TD”. We later learned that meant “The Dog”. :rolleyes: > > Do you know how it can helpful to get two young kittens together so they can play and grow up together? A friend did this and calls one of them “Bogo”. > > We once knew an upwardly mobile young couple whose last name was Duffy. They had a little designer poodle they called “Buffy”. Therefore the dogs name was Buffy Duffy… When we were kids we adopted a stray kitten at a motel on the way home from vacation. We kids couldn’t agree on what to name him, so in the meantime he was just “The Cat”. TC was his name for the rest of his life. When we acquired a second kitten a couple of years later, she naturally became LC/Elsie for “Little Cat”. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/79 "2016-04-16T00:10:02Z")
Our city zoo once had an exhibit with a mated pair of gnus. Their names were Weather and Sports. When they produce a baby gnu he was Special Bulletin. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187/80 "2016-04-16T03:38:47Z")
At my vet, they have a counter/windowsill kitty (she alternates between these two locations) named Princess Dominique Buttercup. It suits her. A friend of mine had a pig named Pig Newton. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-distinctive-names-for-pets/752187.md?page=5)