# Help me name my new pet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883 "2002-04-22T00:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/1 "2002-04-22T00:18:58Z")
I got a cockatiel. He’s a baby yet, he was hatched 3-23-02. I will have to hand feed him for a month and a half or so. He is pied cockatiel and of course he is a male. LIONsob has a couple of name ideas, mainly Baretta, Fred and Killer. ( I’m not sure about any of those. ) I’m hoping his first words will be _bite me_ So help a girl out here please. Don’t let a poor innocent little bird be stuck with any of the names hubby came up with. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/2 "2002-04-22T00:25:23Z")
**Pablo**. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/3 "2002-04-22T00:32:24Z")
**Quito** ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/4 "2002-04-22T00:34:12Z")
**Hank** ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/5 "2002-04-22T00:34:31Z")
Fahnstock P. Beaudry ---
**Author:** ![Nevermind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@Nevermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nevermind)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/6 "2002-04-22T00:40:37Z")
Crusher Fraanz Chuckie Leroy Barry White Good luck with that feeding schedule!!! ---
**Author:** ![spathiphyllum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@spathiphyllum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spathiphyllum)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/7 "2002-04-22T00:52:32Z")
Congrats on the new bird. I noticed you mentioned handfeeding. Have you handfed a baby before? The reason I ask is because it can be a pretty difficult undertaking for someone new to bird ownership, and some breeders don’t emphasize that enough. See this article: [http://www.oldworldaviaries.com/text/lewis/unweaned.html](http://www.oldworldaviaries.com/text/lewis/unweaned.html) to see what I mean. Of course, for all I know, you may be very experienced at raising baby birds, so I hope you don’t take this the wrong way. Just don’t want to see anyone have trouble with their new baby. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![spathiphyllum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@spathiphyllum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spathiphyllum)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/8 "2002-04-22T01:17:46Z")
Another more detailed article about handfeeding, just in case you might benefit from it 🙂 > **[▷ 🥇 The Responsible Breeding Of Cockatiels Part IV: Handfeeding Cockatiel...](https://exoticbirds.life/blog/responsible-breeding-of-cockatiels-4/)** > > The Responsible Breeding Of Cockatiels Part IV: Handfeeding Cockatiel Chicks ✅ All you have to know about your exotic bird and much more☝ Cages, care, food, ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/9 "2002-04-22T01:52:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\ ***Pablo**. \*\* I second that! 🙂 I have two parakeets… Pele & Pablo. It’s a great bird name. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/10 "2002-04-22T02:11:12Z")
foghorn ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/11 "2002-04-22T02:27:32Z")
Your “northeast” pet? 😛 Just kidding! Hmm… good bird names… **definitely NOT** what your husband suggested! Peter? Patrick? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/12 "2002-04-22T02:29:19Z")
(Robert) Blake. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/13 "2002-04-22T02:32:18Z")
**Rico Suave** ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/14 "2002-04-22T02:41:30Z")
Thank you very much for the links spathiphyllum. I have never hand fed a baby before, but the breeder I bought him from showed me how and even had me feed him before we took him out of her shop. He is close to being fully fledged and is wanting seed as well as the baby formula he has been being fed so he has a small amount of seed and water in his cage along with the feedings I will give him. I will study the information on those pages carefully. And no I won’t name him Pablo. Geez y’all are the teeming millions, come up with something good for me. Or maybe I’ll name him Cecil if Unca CeCe would come talk to me. Oh yeah, will some sweet mod fix the title of this thread for me ? I have a new pet, not a ne pet. ---
**Author:** ![Wicked\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/2acd7d/32.png) [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/15 "2002-04-22T02:51:56Z")
How about Simon? ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/16 "2002-04-22T03:58:54Z")
Hmmmm, looks like his name may be _I love to sit on Ayesha’s Head and she is freaking out with the fear I may crap in her hair !_ ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/17 "2002-04-22T04:06:15Z")
**Aye!** , hey, Hon, how ya doin’? I have a cockatiel, too. He was an “escapee”, and came into the animal shelter I work at. He’s a pied, too, and mostly white. Apparently, he was not treated too swell at his former home. he’s terrified of hands; maybe that’s why he flew off into yond… His name is Smitty, kinda long story, but, man, he whistles a whole lot. Loud. Cockatiels sometimes talk, but mainly, they are expert at whistling tunes. A friend has a cockatiel that expertly whistles the Andy Griffith theme song. I’ve been trying to teach Smitty songs, but he pretty much takes the parts he likes and whistles a medley. Anyhoo, as to names: Whistlepig, Sweetpea, Quetzlcoatl, Hamelin (pied, get it? ;)), Butch, Yoyo, Yomama, Hobbes, Huevito, Che, Chucklehead, Biff, and Phideaux come to mind. But, Cece would be a mighty swell name too. Enjoy yer birdie, Aye! Cockatiels are muy swell. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/18 "2002-04-22T04:24:19Z")
a bird? **WOODSTOCK** of course. (or Shiva)… ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/19 "2002-04-22T04:24:22Z")
Echo ---
**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883/20 "2002-04-22T04:37:51Z")
hmmm… how about… Cosmo, or Mucho or… Mr. Leblanc, Uncle Feather, Beaker Jones Whistlebritches Seedy Rodriguez [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-pet/104883.md?page=2)