Following the incredible response to my request for suggestions to rename my daughter, I feel emboldened to ask for help in naming one of my hamsters. While I have no photo, she looks remarkably like this, except she’s not usually to be found gambolling on a bed of crocuses.
Her history is both sad and a little complicated. Her first husband, with whom she had had three litters, died of old age a few months ago. At around the same time, Ickings Ick, the long time partner of Leaper, immortalized in song by Dr Jackson, also passed over. Overcome perhaps by the emotional roller-coaster we were riding, my daughter and I have forgotten the name of this poor widow. She is around 9 months old, and a little smaller than average for a Dwarf Campbell’s Russian hamster. She enjoys lying in the U-bend of the tubing that arcs into the ether above her cage, rolling in the sand, and running on the wheel when it is clear of debris.
She is clearly fond of her new partner, but the spark seems to be missing, as they have had no offspring, even though she is still of young-bearing age. This at least means that she tends not now to nip fingers, as she had the habit of doing when she was pregnant.
Please, please spare us a few minutes of your time to suggest a name for our hamster. I pledge that we will choose the name put forward here that best suits our poor hamster-with-no-name.
When I was about 7 I had a hamster who I named Fuzzy Face. We called him Fuzz for short. I’m sure the name can be unisex, as you say your hamster is female.
BTW, I meant your little girl, not the hamster, but you could say hi to both.
Which just reminded me of a story of misunderstood references…sorry if I hijack for a moment, but this is good. My older neighbor took her 20-year old cat into the vet’s for a routine checkup. Once the cat was up on the table, the vet gave her a pat and asked, “So, how’s my little senior citizen today?”
My neighbor automatically answered, “Oh, I’m fine…”
My exceptionally gifted four year old (okay, I’m biased) came up with the name for our new hamster all on his own: Peanut. And you know what? It’s extremely appropriate for the hamster. Kid just blew me away with that one!
Oops - I just noticed you said you’re reading this with your daughter. My apologies. Now you’ll have to explain dope, dope running AND the highly technical inner workings of Internet message boards. I am a bane to parents everywhere.
My parakeet is Frankie. or Frankenstein, Frankensnitzel, Frankfurter (my fave) or sometimes FrankENfurter, FrankandDelores (although there is no other bird in the cage, I say it quickly so it sounds better). Frankiebird seems to be the norm.
Wow! I’m overwhelmed by the response. So far, and just speaking for myself, I like Cliff Richard, Camilla and Frankie. The last is an incredible coincidence, as just yesterday evening when I was helping Natty with her homework (what a dad, huh?!), I had to tell her how to spell Frankenstein. She had spelt it Frankinstein, which I thought was equally good and pretty damned smart since to my knowledge she’d never seen the word before. Bright kid, eh?!?!
See, she was doing this homework task “What does your parent do?” (not that they were implying kids only have one parent, but they only wanted the kid to write about one of their parents). I WAS SO CHUFFED THAT NAT CHOSE ME. HER DAD!! (We’re real close by the way.)
Anyway, she kind of interviewed me and I sort of told her my life story (which she still seems to find interesting!!), and then she had to stick a photograph of her chosen parent in this big space. SO THAT MEANT ME! Well, I hate havign my photo taken, and even more I really, really hate displaying it so that everyone can see it, but in the end she twisted my arm and I let her use a photo taken at your very own Universal Studios right over there in L.A.! It was a photo of me with - can you guess? - Frankenstein. (Okay, not Frankenstein himself, but his monster, but I’m trying to bring my kid up to be healthy and balanced, not soem kind of pedantic retard.)
After school this evening (her school - not mine - I may look young but I ain’t no sixth former no longer!!!), I’ll sit down and have some quality time with Natalie on this thread between her piano lesson and her E.Q. tutorial. We’ll choose a name then.
So you got another 10 hours to come up with some more of yoru beautiful names. I am one helluva appreciative parent. I esteem you all.
Well, my uncle once had a cat named Dog and when she had kittens, they kept one and named him Pup. So I simply have to suggest that you name him/her something along the lines of Lamb or Piglet.