# How did you name your pets?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 6, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584 "2006-08-06T18:24:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584/61 "2006-08-09T11:44:22Z")

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**pbbth** , Cricket did the same thing to me. I was going to warm her bottle and announced “I’m going to feed Cricket. Wait a minute…who’s Cricket?” Her name also lends itself well to nicknames - Cricker Kidder Cat, Crickums, CrickerBadCat, CrickerFatButt, etc.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584/62 "2006-08-09T14:41:15Z")

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I named my ferret Clyde, after Ginny’s cool cat boyfriend in Doonesbury.

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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584/63 "2006-08-09T14:47:19Z")

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When I was a kid and had a dog, we called him Jasper. No reason, I just liked the name.

My white-cap pionus parrot was named Kyoko after the lady in Maison Ikkoku.

My turtle is called Pilk from a turtle in a D&D Adventure we played once.

I call my leopard gecko Picante because that’s a great name for a lizard, plus his coloring and spots make him look spicy.

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**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584/64 "2006-08-09T15:17:05Z")

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> [@Anaamika](#):
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> I call my leopard gecko Picante because that’s a great name for a lizard, plus his coloring and spots make him look spicy.

I forgot to mention my three leopard geckos. Their names are _Progressive_, _Nationwide_ and _AllState_.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-you-name-your-pets/367584/65 "2006-08-09T16:02:07Z")

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My dogs are called Andy and Katie - from “N.D” and “K.D”, which are short for “N\_\_'s Dog” and “K\_\_\_'s Dog”, N\_\_\_ and K\_\_\_ being my wife’s and mine names. This tradition being started by my sister, who named her dog “Seedy”, both because he was “C\_\_\_'s Dog” and, well, he was pretty seedy.

Cats, on the other hand, when I have them, get “witch names” - Hepzibah, Mehitabel, that sort of thing. Haven’t had a cat since Mehitabel, though.

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