Names for cats, dogs, fish, iguanas, whatever

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Well, I’ll stick with the animals we’ve got 'round here now or this post would be unreadably long.
Cats

Horatia(named by my sister who was in a big Lord Nelson kick so she’s Horatia after Nelson’s daughter or so she claims)

Elroy(well, mostly because it’s a cool name but also because it rhymes with his nickname kitten boy)

Cotton(named by the people who gave her to us. They claimed she looked like a dirty cotton ball. ewww!)

Monty(in honor of the family’s general great love of Monty Python)

Juan Carlos Eduardo Wesley aka Wes(ah, poor cat… My mom and sister insisted that he be named Juan Carlos for some reason that simply can’t be understood. Then of course we had to tell my dad(Ed) that we had named the cat after him so that he’d be convinced that we should definitely have six cats. Wesley comes from one of my favorite singers, John Wesley Harding. )

Lucy(named by my 4 year old niece, definitely an improvement over her last cat name, meow-meow)

Dogs

Grady(originally my sister’s dog who was at that time in the habit of naming dogs after hospitals she had worked at so he’s named after Grady hospital in Atlanta)

Zelda(after Zelda Fitzgerald, she’s definitely lived up to her name)

Scout(Zelda’s brother, so in that vein, he’s F. Scout officially)

Percy(just like my screenname, named after Percy Percy from Black Adder)

Zoe(still not sure about this one, my sister’s idea)

Eimer(Irish word for Princess)

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well u all have really cute pet stories i’ve also had my share of pets. when i was a kid i always wanted a pet, a puppy to be more specific, i use to fawn over every puppy i saw but since we lived with my grandparents and it was their house my parents thought it best to let the pet issue go. then one day my grandparents had this brilliant idea! my grandfather, then a mason, had a friend who knew this old lady, who owned this chihuahua-terrier; i guess she couldn’t take care of the poor dog anymore and was looking for someone to take her in so they figured they could shut me up by brining this dog home. and thus my first dog was this psychotic, neurotic freak of a dog named maile. she hated being carried, she hated taking baths, she hated everyone, and she liked to bite people. i detested this dog. a couple of years later this female cat decided to give birth under out extension and she had three kittens, blackie, stripe and another one whose name i cannot remember; at the same time i also came home with a chick taken from the honolulu zoo. my father swears on his bunyon that taking the chick from the zoo was my idea but i don’t ever remember saying “daddy i want a chicke” i still think it was his idea and that he was hoping it would be a hen who would lay eggs for us. i named this chick “cheepee” because that’s what he sounded like to me ( i was never one to be very original with names) so the chick grew into a rooster, actually worse than that he grew into an untamed fighting chicken! he attacked everyone! did his wake-up call at 4am, and lived to the ripe old age of 9. maile died after about 5 years and the cats went off on their own. i’m sorry i just realized that this thread was for pet names and not the life stories of your pets. i apologize but wait i still have one more pet. he’s my aunt’s dog, we’ve had him for about 8 years and he’s a poodle named rocky, but i prefer to call him un-chan or unchi, he’s blind in both eyes now, and we figure he’s around 14, still pretty frisky and definately not your best guard dog as he makes friends with everyone.

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The most perfectly named cat I had when growing up was Humphrey, a tiny, imperious and very affectionate longhaired white cat. He’d go on “love tours” around the house, allowing everyone in turn to pay him homage – and you felt like he was doing you a favor. I never met a cat whose name suited him better.

I presently have a black and white girl named Enid, after the best and most virtuous of Guinevere’s ladies in the King Arthur stories. The name doesn’t really suit the cat – Enid is a tough cookie – so she’s often called The Nid, Niddy Kitty or, sometimes, Oklahoma.

Catrandom

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It’s a Dylan theme. :slight_smile:

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First Post! Woo Hoo!

Currently have a lab named Scully. Wonderful dog. Loves her swimming pool, belly scratches, and ice cubes. Also have a huge lab/rott mix named Russ. Folks who had him before I adopted him called him Rusty because he’s red. (Can’t stand the name Rusty…reminds me of the National Lampoons Vacation movies.) Shoulda named him ‘Bullet’ or ‘Colt’ or ‘Pellet’ or something in reference to a gun because some idiot shot him with a BB gun. :mad: He had this huge pus pocket on his side. (Gross, I know. Sorry.) All I know is that I WAS NOT going to name him Mulder.

Had two fish named Wallace and Grommit.

Had a neurotic cat named Fort Augustus…Auggie for short. And a cat called Daisi. (Her real name was the French word for disillusioned - because she was. Can’t remember that word now, tho’.)

Baby-sat for a lady who had a cat named ‘Coucher’. She had a three year old son who pronounced it “Kowt-cer”. Cute kid. Cute cat.

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I looked up “disillusioned” in the English to French dictionary and came up with “désillusionné.”

[sub]Congratulations on your very first post, btw. Um, I think you’re now supposed to have a post count party or something.[/sub] :wink:

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As any self-respecting Minnesotan should, I have taken the vow to name every pet I shall ever own and my firstborn “Kirby.”

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AudreyK

filthy, is your snake Trebuchet named after the [geek warning!] typeface Trebuchet? Just wondering… what? Don’t look at me like that…

Hi, Audrey,

Trebuchet, a Great Basin Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis lutosus), is named after the siege engine that could toss a dead horse over castle walls and still be out of bow range. I named her that due to the way her head comes flying out of her hide box at the mice I give her.

(he-he) I also keep an African Puff Adder (Bitis arietans) named Emphysema.

What’s in a name, huh?

luck

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Cats:

Trouble. Well, kinda obvious, I guess, but his sister’s name was Mischief…

Punkin’. I didn’t name him. The lady who’s son rescued the litter did. He’s an orange tabby…hence, pumpkin colored.

Molly. Punkin’s sister. Calico cat>>>motley colored>>>Molly.

Dog:

Ladybug. Didn’t name her either. We inherited her. She mostly gets called Bug, or Bugster.

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Oh, Loweller (hope I spelled that right…)

I remember Rosencrantz and Guildenstern…they’re dead, right? :wink:

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I grew up in a house that almost always had cats and dogs in it. Didn’t have much to do in the way of naming most of them, but let’s see what I can remember.

Dogs

Basenji: Basil
OE Sheepdog: Winston
Corgi: Ralph
Whippet: Mitzi (ancient when we adopted her from some friends moving out of state)
Mutt: Honey (renamed from Hobo when my sister adopted her)

Cats

Tiger, Okeefenokee (‘Swamp’ for short), Haarlem (all-black cat), Rusty, Tabby, Snicker (so named because my father couldn’t stop laughing at how quickly Mamma O. adopted him from his litter), B.K. (for Baby Kat), and Maxwell (named for a cat in a sci-fi book I was reading at the time; cat had identical markings and was just as keen to cause trouble).

Rodents
Gerbils: names long forgotten except for Jane
Chinchilla: Rocky

Hermit Crabs
in order of quick succession - Orville, Wilbur, Dumbhead

A special mention here for the one dog, a Boston Terrier, I bought myself and owned before I went to Georgetown, when she went to live with Mamma O:

Pluggy.

When she was a puppy only a few weeks old, she had the round face, flat nose, and bent-over ears of the old Fisher-Price dog that came with the playsets. You all know the ones I’m talking about :smiley: We used to call them “plug people” and when I first saw her I said “She looks like a plug dog!” Hence Pluggy, which eventually expanded to ‘Plugfester Q. McPuppyDoggue’ for the usual “baby-talk-at-your-pets” reason.