My stupid statistics class is making me ask 50 people: How did you choose your pet’s name? I’m serious. I don’t know what we’re doing with the information, but I need the data by Tuesday. I got ten family and friends to answer this for me, but I still need 40 people. So I need help! Here are your choices:
A) Named after a friend/family member
B) " " " fictional character
C) Thought a generic name was cute (like Princess or whatever)
D) Play on words or inside joke (I think “long story” falls under this, too)
E) Other
Thanks in advance!
PS–I’ll start. I once adopted a dog I named Dioge (prounounced like D-O-G. Haha! Get it!? I thought it was really cute.
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My cat’s name is Evil… simply because she is (or used to be- she has mellowed a bit). She used to attack my friends when they came in the house.
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My dog’s name is Teddy. We didn’t name him. We inherited him from my great-grandma, when she moved to an assisted-living facility.
My cat, on the other hand, has a very unique name. His name is Sovtek. My husband named him. My husband is a musician, and one of his amps is made by a company called Sovtek. The amp is black and white. So is the cat. The amp gets screechy from time to time. So does the cat. But the amp really likes my husband, and he just can’t seem to get rid of the damn thing. Same with the cat.
So, that is how my cat got his name.
Cristi, Slayer of Peeps
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Cat - named Cozy because she looked so cozy as a kitten.
Cat - named I-YA (karate yell). Long story? My 14-year old daughter hated to yell in karate class. She named the cat I-YA to prove that she could say the word, she just didn’t want to in class.
Hamster - named Mouse, by two-year-old son who insisted that the new family member was a mouse. After repeated explanations by patient older siblings failed to change his mind, we all gave in and decreed the newcomer must be Mouse, the Hamster.
Guinea Pig - named Pig. Imaginative group aren’t we?
Guinea Pig - named Wrinkles (had fluffy hair)
Guinea Pig - named Browine (brown)
Guinea Pig - named Graw Wolf (gray)
Guinea Pig - named Yogurt (white) I know these are dull, really.
Guinea Pig - named Inigo (after Inigo Montoya in Princess Bride)
Guinea Pig - named Pig Newton (um, after the cookie)
Guinea Pig - named Road Kill by husband sick of rodent pets
Hope these help. I found statistics challenging as well.
inconceivable? i don’t think that word means what you think it does
Well, I don’t know whether my answer would fall under option C or D.
Since it is somewhat of a long story, I copied my reply from this thread.
If you don’t get 40 replies here by your Tuesday deadline, perhaps you could check out the link above for some of your answers.
Good luck!
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Typically, my pets are either named after fictional characters from books, or they’re named after a musician I admire. My last three cats have been named Simon, Garfunkel, and Elton. Oddly enough, my male pets are usually named after a musician, my female pets are named after literary characters or mythological figures. For instance, I’ve had two female cats, one named Akasha (Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles) and one named Circe (mythological figure), and my ferret is named Viola (Shakespeare’s the Twelfth Night). The two pet birds I’ve had, on the other hand, were given rather odd names meant to be humorous. My parakeet was named Crunchy Bird (just Crunch for short), after a joke I had heard soon before I got the bird, and the cockatiel I used to own was named Buzzard, for no particular reason. Anyway, I really don’t follow any pattern in naming my pets, I usually just pick something that I like that seems to fit the animal, but the names just tend to fall into the above categories, but not because I set out to pick those sorts of names. (The only reason my cat Garfunkel was given that name was because I had already had my cat Simon, and it just seemed cool, and it fit him. He looked like a Garfunkel.) I do avoid cutesy names like Fluffy and Snowball and such like the plague. I hate cutesy.
Cats - Çebeaux, Mandarin, Mouse and Spunky = D, C, D, C
Newts - Gingrich, Jerriko, Maria, Anscot and Darryl - B, C, C, C, C
Fish - Roofus, Wendall, Jake and Sam = C, C, C, C
Geckos - Kirby and Kirby’s friend = C, D
Dog - Raz = B
Hamsters - Taffy and Smidgen = C, D
Gerbil - Frisky = C
Turtle - Leonardo = B
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