I have a friend with a dog named Coochie. She honestly doesn’t understand why people have hysterics whenever she talks about her doggy, Coochie. I’ve never had the nerve to ask her what she’d name a cat. 
A police officer used to train his German Shepherd in a field near my workplace. They were a delightful pair and frequently a small crowd would gather to watch. It was always fun when the two worked on silent commands: gesture, response; gesture, response. Beautiful. Now and then the officer would call out “Damnit,” seemingly apropos of nothing. Invariably some newbie to the admiring crowd would get indignant on the dog’s behalf and ask “What’s his problem?”
I suppose “Damnit” is one of those “names you should never give,” but it’s still one of my favorites.
That reminds me of one we had at the vet clinic I worked at. The dog’s name was BJ, and the (total bitch) owner’s last name was Free. Our computers printed up consent forms with the owner’s last name first, so it was always “Free BJ.” We enjoyed that.
Our schnauzer is called Ethel :rolleyes: I know, I know; but it was her litter name (They were all named after types of roses - better than the previous generation: they were all named after potatoes - Maris Piper, Desiree etc ) and the family couldn’t agree what to change it to!
You try calling that out in the park 
I know someone who has a cat named Cooter. And no, they didn’t know the other meaning of the word until the name had already stuck. 
Precisely the reason I always snicker when I watch reruns of Dukes of Hazard.
I have a 75-lb German Shepherd that I named Bubbles.
We also have had in my lifetime several dogs – Sam, Sarah, Max, Zephaniah, and Audi.
The cats have had even less catlike names: Rose (male, and black), James (female), Dorothy, Binky, Roscoe, Grey Man, Jacob, Robin and Robert (siblings), Genevieve, Miko, Blob, Daisy, Susan, Fred, George, Harriet, Coco, and a couple others I’m sure I’m forgetting.
We’ve had some normal cat names, too: Precious, Kitten, Fluffy, Punkin, and Garfield.
I do like Bubbles’ name best, though. I think the next one’ll be Linda or Joanne or Debbie or something like that – office manager names.
I know a cat names Sparkleberry.
The family had two cats, and one died. The youngest boy told his mom he wanted the new cat to be named Sparkleberry. She agreed, because she wasn’t planning on getting another cat, but somehow they ended up with a kitten. And Sparkleberry he was.
Thank heavens for that extra letter in my Doper name.
I have a cat named Jack, which they gave him at the shelter but we really loved, so we kept it. My other cat is named Squirt, as she was incredibly tiny when we got her (taken from her mother way too early). My parents had this habit of naming our cats Pretty Boy (Pretty Boy, Jr., Pretty Boy III, etc.) after a parakeet they once had. My husband’s cousin has a cat named Benjamin, which is also my younger son’s name, resulting in many “Benjamin-the-Cat” vs. “Benjamin-the-Boy” calls.
Growing up, my husband had a beagle called Pizza.
I once had a dog whose name was simply “Mister”.
My favorite was a dog named Kitty.
When I was young we had a neighbor that nobody liked and she had a dog named Rommel.
I don’t know who started it but someone started calling her Rommel’s Mommy. For some reason it caught on and that’s what everyone called her even to her face. I don’t know if she liked it or not but she was called Rommel’s Mommy for as long as I knew her.
Mr Mister?
Our neighbor had a dog called Mister Bo Diddley. I guess he couldn’t decide.
You have to be careful with these things. Someone I know bought a puppy as a Valentine’s Day present to his wife. The dog got named Valentine. They divorced messily soon after that (it involved brandishing, but fortunately not using, a shotgun–her, incidentally, not him). He got the dog. She started getting called Val, and then, suddenly, Valerie, which she’s been ever since.
Oh, I just remembered a dog that belonged to a buddy of mine in high school.
It was a Jack Russel named Salvador Milosevic. Probably one of the funniest names I’ve ever heard. The family just called him Milo.
I once knew a guy named James Mister (Mr. Mister), but he wasn’t a dog; or, at least, his paramours would be better able to tell you how he treated them.
I think my favorites were my childhood neighbors dogs named Dammit and Didhebite. The former typically failing to come when called; “Comere Dammit!” and the latter that was smaller and prone to nip anyone near enough.
My neighbor has a pair of very sad dogs.
The authorities can’t do anything about it because the dogs are fed and so not technically neglected. But nobody loves them. Nobody plays with them. One has gotten mean and the other one is just frightened of everything. They’re dirty. They’re out in the cold and rain and extreme heat. They’re very sad dogs.
And the little one… poor thing… was given a sadly ironic name: Lucky.
AKC kennel names can be at the beginning or end of the dog’s name, but are usually included somewhere. On top of trying to include them, there is usually a naming convention for the litter - a lot of breeders will have alphabet litters, and when they get down to the end of the alphabet, there can be a lot of odd ones - especially in breeds that whelp BIG litters.
My two pedigreed dogs have come from the same breeder - Achafalaya La Brise, and La Brise Corbeau Doree. I don’t know how many dogs have been registered with the AKC over the years, but each name has to be unique - so breeders have to get pretty creative!
AS for call names - I figure never name your dog something you don’t want it to live up to - I have met very few Bandits, Tuggers, Troubles, Lokis, that I would have wanted to live with!
The fucked up names are just the way that the Kennel club requires them to be… they’re strange because they have to be unique for every dog, alive or dead, registered with the club. I don’t remember what our dogs’ names are (at all!), but they’re all four words, the first two having to do with the breeders.