My black cat is named Shitty. Or actually Little Shit. She had an actual name, but the default is the only one that stuck. When I call her it’s “Shitty, come on, Shitty.”
I had my first cat, a little beigy-orange longhair barn kitten whom I named ‘Puff’ in my defense, I was 5 years old and Puff was the name of Dick and Jane’scat.:smack:
Goldie the goldfish
I don’t have any particularly lame names for real pets, but after having kids (who chose all sorts of radical names for their stuffed animals), I realized that as a child, I clearly had no imagination:
-My stuffed teddy bear was named “Teddy”
-Stuffed animal dog was “Doggie”
-Stuffed cat was “Kitty”
-Stuffed Lamb was “Lamby”
…I could go on and on, but you get the idea.
I had a stuffed skunk named “Stinky”.
When I still had my Weimaraner, I bumped into a couple who also had one. While he was busy sprinting here and there, I asked them what his name was. “Der Stürmer,” “because he runs around everywhere.”
I said, “Duh, it’s a Weim,” while thinking, “Not real big on WW2 history, are you?”
When I was a kid we had a cat that my sisters named “Cuddles”, which always seemed pretty lame to me. Though eventually we ended up calling him “Jabba the Cat”, due to his extreme girth.
Edit: I just remembered, my parents have a pair of cats. One is a black tuxedo cat and the other is an orange tabby. They are named “Black Kitty” and “Orange Kitty”, respectively.
Our most recent feline was doubly blessed…
She came to us with a pet rescue name of “Carol”
My daughter renamed her to “Kit-kat”
Kit-kat is a pretty lame name for a cat, but it sure beats Carol.
Our Boston Terrier is named Spartacus (not by us, we call him S’poo or Sparky) and he, suffice to say, has not grown into the grandeur of his name.
We had a white cat with orange ears. My uncle called him “Blackie” (har har). My mother called him “Ahn-gheer”, which was her exaggerated “French” pronunciation of “orange ear”.
I had a Lilac Point Siamese I initially called “Lilac Lou.” He had been abandoned by his mother and raised by a dog who just had puppies. Lou thought he was a puppy, and one day while watching him a friend remarked “Just like you to have a Puppy-Cat.”
That was it. We called him “Puppy-Cat” for the rest of his life.
I have a cat now named Meep Meep “because she says meep meep”. She has this weird robotic meow of which I’ve never heard the likes of in all my dozens of rescues. Also a few decades ago we had a kitten with a face like a pit bull puppy. We called her Puppy Face. The name stuck for the rest of her life. I’ve had a few strange add-on names, like we had one black with white feet we called Jazzy but it few over the years to Miss Jazzy Jazzhands but you also had to do the hand movement, as that was a required part of her name. 
We brought a puppy home when our son was 3. We asked him what we should name the puppy. He said, “Scott”. I asked him for another name and he came up with “Stop Sign”. 
So I asked him if there was any other dog name he’d like. He finally said, “Dodger” from the Disney movie Oliver & Co. Thank goodness.
My mom adopted 2 kittens when she was having some issues with alcohol. They were brothers, an orange tabby and a black. She named the black one Inky and the orange one Stinky!! How we all hated that name. She went into treatment and has now been sober for over 10 years. She now regrets the name Stinky too. She wishes she had named him Pumpkin. So now he’s known as Stinky Pumpkin.
My husband had 3 different German shepherds when he was a kid. When one died they got another one. His mom named all of them Queenie. I always thought - why the same name? It’s a different dog!
When I was a kid we had a cat named “Cat”. But there’s a story as to how he got that name. You see, our other cat was named Allie (a play on “alley cat”). As a kid I liked the 80s sitcom Kate and Allie, so I thought it would be fun to name the second cat Kate. Except that cat was male. So my dad came up with the idea of naming him Cat, thus our cats were “Cat and Allie”.
My current cat is officially named Nelson, but 99% of the time I address him as “Kitty”.
I’ve always wanted to have an Asian breed of cat and name it “Mousey Tongue”.
^^^cute. Love that. We have a thing for food names. Started when my sisters cat was Black Bean, shortened to Bean. We’ve had Cookie, String bean, Bread, Porky, Dumpling. I quit the food names with my 4 now. They are proper pet names:)
Hey! I resemble that remark.
Someone dumped a box outside my sister’s house on Thanksgiving Day. The ox had originally held a turkey, but inside was an orange kitten. Who was promptly dubbed “Turkey.”
I don’t think I’ve given any of my pets particularly stupid names. A boyfriend and I adopted a cat that he named BK for “black Kitty”. I thought that was rather stupid.
Some time when I was a teen but staying at a friend’s house, my mom got a beautiful golden retriever / spring spaniel mix named Brandon. I think that’s a nice name for a guy, not so much for a dog. In fact, I’d rather an animal have an unimaginative name than a serious human one. Goofy names like Cosmo (my cat’s name) or Elmo are fun; common names like Lisa or Elizabeth just irk me when applied to an animal.
So I take it the entree that Thanksgiving was Turkitox?