# Name that pet! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2006, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720 "2006-08-22T08:15:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/21 "2006-08-22T20:18:36Z")
Harvey - James Stewart’s rabbit Ribsy - Henry’s dog from the kids’ book series of Henry and Ribsy Battlecat - He-Man’s cat, alter ego of Cringer Brain - Penny’s dog from Inspector Gadget Daisy - Dagwood Bumstead’s dog ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/22 "2006-08-22T20:23:44Z")
I once had a beloved cat named Pete, short for “Petronius Arbiter,” from one of my favorite SF books, _The Door Into Summer_ by Robert A. Heinlein. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/23 "2006-08-22T20:27:21Z")
Crap…beaten to Battlecat. Buck is also the name of the Bundy’s dog on Married With Children. Gort’s a robot, not an animal, and from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Is this Harvey the invisible/imaginary rabbit from the movie of the same name? Orson was the name of the pig from the farm segment of the old Garfield and Friends cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/24 "2006-08-22T20:29:31Z")
My mother has a horrible devil-cat that I’ve nicknamed “Church,” after the scary undead kitty from _Pet Sematary_. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/25 "2006-08-22T21:48:39Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Rosewater] Are you referring to the character from Red Dwarf? [/QUOTE] No. > [@Fish](#): > > I didn’t realize Dr. Forrester had a pet named Frank on MST3K — the one I’m thinking of is a movie dog. Woosh. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/26 "2006-08-22T21:55:57Z")
I did say that these were dogs and cats — or at least doglike and catlike. Harvey, on this list, is not a rabbit, nor is Orson a pig, nor Gort a robot. Good ideas, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/27 "2006-08-23T03:38:23Z")
I don’t know if this is the dog you’re thinking of, but Fluffy was Hobo’s first name in in the book _Summerdog Comes Home_. Llyan is the giant cat from the Prydain novels. Wordsworth W. Wordsworth is one of the cats from the Heathcliff cartoon, the one that rhymed all the time. And is **Otto** ’s Cat the cat from _Cat and I_? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/28 "2006-08-23T04:33:24Z")
Let’s see, on these remaining ones, I should give some hints. 🙂 Ginger and Pickles Harvey (hint: Drew Barrymore) Baby Cinnamon Gort (hint: Matt Dillon) William the Conqueror (hint: Karl Malden) Asparagus Lipshen Orson (hint: Chris Snow) Mr. Underfoot Frank (hint: Will Smith) ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/29 "2006-08-23T05:15:37Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] Let’s see, on these remaining ones, I should give some hints. 🙂 Ginger and Pickles Harvey (hint: Drew Barrymore) Baby Cinnamon Gort (hint: Matt Dillon) William the Conqueror (hint: Karl Malden) Asparagus Lipshen Orson (hint: Chris Snow) Mr. Underfoot Frank (hint: Will Smith) [/QUOTE] Frank is the pug from the Men In Black movies. Are Ginger and Pickles the cat and dog from the comic Pickles? ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/30 "2006-08-23T05:29:20Z")
Anyone remember Freeway? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/31 "2006-08-23T05:34:07Z")
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry] Anyone remember Freeway? [/QUOTE] Yep, the little dog from Hart to Hart. How about Clarence? Although he may not qualify as a pet. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/32 "2006-08-23T06:00:38Z")
“Lipschen” should probably be “Liebchen,” Anjelica Huston’s cat in “The Witches.” Isn’t Mr. Underfoot one of the Smith family cats in “To Sail Beyond Sunset?” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/33 "2006-08-23T12:46:24Z")
I’m withdrawing Cat from consideration. I thought it was fairly obvious (Holly Golightly’s unnamed cat from "Breakfast at Tiffany’s) but I guss not. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/34 "2006-08-23T16:05:19Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Are Ginger and Pickles the cat and dog from the comic Pickles? [/QUOTE] That’s Muffin and Roscoe. As for Mr. Underfoot: correct author, but isn’t he in the book _Friday_? ---
**Author:** ![Dracona](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea5d25/32.png) [@Dracona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dracona)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/35 "2006-08-23T23:04:20Z")
Asparagus, from _Cats_? The only Fluffy I thought of was the three-headed dog from Harry Potter. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/36 "2006-08-23T23:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I’m withdrawing Cat from consideration. I thought it was fairly obvious (Holly Golightly’s unnamed cat from "Breakfast at Tiffany’s) but I guss not. [/QUOTE] It’s probably just a popular name for fictional cats. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/37 "2006-08-24T01:59:10Z")
Oh, and Pyewacket is Kim Novak’s gorgeous Siamese cat from **Bell, Book and Candle.** Hmmm… WAG, is Harvey the framing device cat from **Cat’s Eye**? ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720/38 "2006-08-24T22:25:19Z")
Ginger and Pickles are chickens - **Chicken Run** Pyewackett was also an actual cat in a 17th century witch-trial. Matthew Hopkins, the Witch Finder General, said that it was a name ‘no mortal could invent’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-pet/369720.md?page=1)