# Your Pets' Names? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 24, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409 "2011-02-24T02:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![loshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@loshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/loshan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/141 "2011-02-26T03:55:09Z")
I’ll try it this way: Shadeaux & Keisha - [http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/101\_0144.jpg](http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/101_0144.jpg) Inchems - [http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/100\_0280.jpg](http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/100_0280.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/142 "2011-02-26T04:14:46Z")
[Paris and Vienna](http://www.flickr.com/photos/42009607@N00/5477589483/#/photos/42009607@N00/5477589483/lightbox/). I like to name them after places I’ve visited that I still feel a connection to. The next one will be either Barcelona or Amsterdam. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/143 "2011-02-26T04:19:08Z")
> [@loshan](#): > > I’ll try it this way: > > Shadeaux & Keisha - [http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/101\_0144.jpg](http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/101_0144.jpg) > > Inchems - [http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/100\_0280.jpg](http://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x383/loshan1/100_0280.jpg) **SUPER-SWEET** , **loshan**!🙂 Thanks for re-sending! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/144 "2011-02-26T04:23:45Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > [Paris and Vienna](http://www.flickr.com/photos/42009607@N00/5477589483/#/photos/42009607@N00/5477589483/lightbox/). > > I like to name them after places I’ve visited that I still feel a connection to. The next one will be either Barcelona or Amsterdam. Those two are some sure enough cute kitties, **panache45**!🙂 I also found Poobah when I took a tour of your slide show. That one looks like he has you wrapped around his paw.😉 Great photography, BTW! Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/145 "2011-02-26T04:24:58Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > We named our AKC Beagle “Princess Juliet of Midvale”, Julie for short. We had a mixed breed named “Dutchess”. I guess my parents had a fixation on royalty. > > We had a white rabbit named “Whitey”. Yeah, a lot of imagination in our family. 😃 At least they didn’t name him “Spot” or “Shadow”! 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/146 "2011-02-26T04:26:48Z")
> [@carnut](#): > > My favorite pet name came from a lop-eared rabbit in my brother’s household. As a small child, Terry had always called his baby blanket a “mugget” so that the bunny was baptized “Mugget.” I bet there’s not another name like that for a pet, **carnut**!🙂 I like it! Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/147 "2011-02-26T04:30:32Z")
> [@rayman5321](#): > > Female Siamese: Snowflake (aka Sweetie Pie) > > Male Tabby: Junior A female Siamese named snowflake? Gotta be a “Flamepoint Siamese”? Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/148 "2011-02-26T04:36:14Z")
> [@Katriona](#): > > Mojo was our first dog. The shelter told us his name was Buddy, but he wouldn’t answer to it, and wound up being named after Mojo “Elvis is Everywhere” Nixon. > > He was really Tony’s dog. The shelter had a note in his file that he would fear-bite men, but we think it must have been a particular man. > > He is much missed. > > [http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2024301&id=1591052365&l=8ab775f76b](http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2024301&id=1591052365&l=8ab775f76b) That little guy doesn’t look like he’d bite unless provoked, **Katriona**. Thanks for adopting a shelter pet! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/149 "2011-02-26T04:42:57Z")
> [@StarsApart](#): > > Loki is my juvenile female bearded dragon, seen here helping me pack things to move: [Loki Helps With the Move | StarsApart | Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/meginsanity/5466764254/) > > I wanted to do a mythological theme with my pets and Loki definitely fits her name. > > I don’t have a picture but I also have an older male cat named Sneakers. He was originally my grandmother’s and now my mother is watching him until I move. I named him when I was younger because he is black with white paws, so it looks like he’s wearing sneakers. **StarsApart** , I have mixed emotions about owning a reptile as a pet, but my son has no problems and has had snakes and lizards as well. Does he eat mice or is he herbivorous? Can you tell I don’t know a lot about dragons? 🙂 I think I’d prefer Sneakers as a housemate! 😉 Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/150 "2011-02-26T04:50:00Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I have Miso and Wonton, cats named by my oldest daughter. She tends to name all our pets something Chinese or Japanese. > I named my adopted dog Buddy because he follows me around everywhere. He’s my little buddy. > > My little girl named the black cat Blackie. She was five so that’s the reasoning there. > > Shadow was just a little black fuzzball following mama dog everywhere so I came up with that one. Heh! I like all those names, especially the Chinese/Japanese ones. Kids seem to have that talent - coming up with cute names for their pets. When I first came to the US from Germany, my first dog’s name was “Puppy”. I didn’t speak very good English at that time, and when I asked what kind of dog he was, I was told he was just a puppy (mixed breed), and since that word was unfamiliar to me, I thought that was his name, so “Puppy” it stayed until one day he was run over. The driver did stop, but My Mom still let him have it. It really wasn’t his fault and I know he didn’t understand the German/English mix she was yelling at him. He finally just threw up his hands and helped me move him from the side of the highway into the yard. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/151 "2011-02-26T05:05:57Z")
My first Himalayan kitty came to us already named: Katmandu. (Let me just ask here, as I can’t be objective. Is this a stupid name for a cat? It sounded fine to me, but others have laughed. Pointed. Sneered. Said, what a dopey name for a cat, yuk yuk.) Present Himalayan kitty: Marco. We had a red Betta (for more years than you would have thought possible for the thing to live), that we called… The Red Menace! Later, replaced by a blue Betta named Flash. Right now we also have a gigantic goldfish named Big Tuna and a gigantic plecostemus named Hoover. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/152 "2011-02-26T05:50:47Z")
Cat named Boris Beagle named Nordberg… after OJ character in naked gun, She was always getting in trouble but it was never her fault. Winston… Better known as Winnie the Poop. If you cleaned up after him, you would not ask why. My cat that died after 21 years was Fourteen. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/153 "2011-02-26T15:10:25Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > That little guy doesn’t look like he’d bite unless provoked, **Katriona**. Thanks for adopting a shelter pet! > > Quasi We never could figure that one out. He loved people; it was other dogs he had…issues…with. He scared the beejeezus out of us when he challenged a Dane at a dog park. The Dane just kind of looked at him like, You have GOT to be kidding! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/154 "2011-02-26T15:41:29Z")
Current dog is Rufus, just because, well, he looks like a [Rufus](http://s392.photobucket.com/albums/pp3/kenghisghan/?action=view¤t=snowdog2.jpg). I once had a cat named ‘Jane’, after the song ‘Sweet Jane’. We rapidly discovered that she wasn’t sweet. We had to rename her ‘Ming the Merciless’. ---
**Author:** ![whereismymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/49beb7/32.png) [@whereismymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whereismymind)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/155 "2011-02-26T20:19:07Z")
My new pup…half lab,half st.bernard named Strummer.After Joe Strummer…=) ---
**Author:** ![newsbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@newsbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newsbunny)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/156 "2011-02-26T20:47:47Z")
My late cat, who just died in July, was named Eleanor Roosevelt Rigby. She had that look about her. We now have: Buster, a giagantic black white cat. Buster was his shelter name and my husband wanted to keep it. and…Amelia, who is an itty-bitty tabby. She’s always exploring things, so I named her after Amelia Earhart. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/157 "2011-02-26T21:30:04Z")
One dog, one cat, one cockatiel. The dog is a miniature Australian Shepherd, all the energy and psychosis, half the size! 😃 Her name is Cricket, which is the name the breeder (or maybe it was the first owner?) had named her, I’m not sure why I never changed it, but it’s a good aussie name. I got her as a 3 month old puppy. The first owners brought her back to the dealer because they didn’t want her. She’s 11 now, and has been a great dog, I’ve no idea what they thought was wrong with her, she’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen, and tons of fun (but yeah, kinda psycho). She did have a few kind of odd behaviour problems as a puppy, but what puppies don’t? Maybe they just didn’t know anything about dogs. Their loss, my gain. The cat’s name is Maisie, a name dopers helped me choose out of a selection of 3 or 4 other names. Maisie was the name I liked all along, and one doper called it “charming” which I thought too, so it sold me on that one. Maisie is about 6 years old. The cockatiel. Oh my. What a pain in the tailfeathers that one is. Talk about an attention whore, and she can split your eardrums with 180 db shrieks to get it too! Anyway, her name is DV. It stands for “Dark Vader” because she’s a dark grey and I like Star Wars. ---
**Author:** ![StarsApart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@StarsApart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarsApart)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/158 "2011-02-26T23:56:55Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > **StarsApart** , I have mixed emotions about owning a reptile as a pet, but my son has no problems and has had snakes and lizards as well. Does he eat mice or is he herbivorous? Can you tell I don’t know a lot about dragons? 🙂 > > I think I’d prefer Sneakers as a housemate! 😉 > > Thanks > > Q Hi Quasi! 🙂 I really love all animals - furry or not. 🙂 But I agree they aren’t for everyone! Bearded dragons can eat mice, but Loki has never had one - I’ve read they’re too fatty and bony for them. My Loki eats veggies, greens, crickets, and worms. I’ve been very surprised at how friendly and, honestly, cuddly Loki is! She reminds me a lot of a cat in some ways. Although I am very excited to get my “real” cat back soon. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/159 "2011-02-27T00:57:06Z")
**CanvasShoes** , We also had another Belgian named Cricket. (D and I owned a lot of Belgian Tervurens during our first marriage - yeah, we bred them - but that was in the early 80’s and we just wouldn’t today. There are too many unwanted pets to add to the population and we both became animal welfare advocates.) Aussie Shepherds, like the Belgians are a herding breed of course. Does Cricket ever try to herd _you_? I like Maisie as well, and I also once had an unsexed Cockatiel. Named “him” Merlin. The only thing he could say (and this was MY fault for not working with him very much) was “Birdie, _BIRDIE_, **BIRDIE**!”, ad nauseam. Funny story: My company at the time, Sherwin Williams, transferred me to Lexington, Massachusetts, and Merlin rode with me in his cage on the passenger side in the U-haul truck (don’t remember the size) secured by the seatbelt. As we were travelling the interstate out of Florida, I came upon this sign which read, “All Trucks, Next Right”, so hell, I got in line with all the 18 wheelers, whose drivers must have laughed their asses off. I drove onto the scales, when out comes this State Patrolman, looks in the truck, sees me and Merlin and says, “I ain’t believin’ this shit!”, and waves us on. Well, damn! I was in a truck, right???🙂 **Stars** , I’m just glad you’re not one of those owners who sets their reptile free when they become too big and too much to feed. So you’re “multi-animal”, huh? I LOVE it! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409/160 "2011-02-27T01:28:53Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > **CanvasShoes** , > > We also had another Belgian named Cricket. (D and I owned a lot of Belgian Tervurens during our first marriage - yeah, we bred them - but that was in the early 80’s and we just wouldn’t today. There are too many unwanted pets to add to the population and we both became animal welfare advocates.) > > Aussie Shepherds, like the Belgians are a herding breed of course. Does Cricket ever try to herd _you_? Oh Belgian Tervurens are so pretty! Crix is more interested in herding strangers, but she LOVES to herd her “boomer” ball. Nowadays the boomer is actually a basketball, but we started out with real boomers [http://www.boomerball.com/](http://www.boomerball.com/) until we figured out our dogs (my mom had a standard sized aussie) were wearing down their teeth on the boomers. > [@](#): > > I like Maisie as well, and I also once had an unsexed Cockatiel. Named “him” Merlin. The only thing he could say (and this was MY fault for not working with him very much) was “Birdie, _BIRDIE_, **BIRDIE**!”, ad nauseam. > > Funny story: My company at the time, Sherwin Williams, transferred me to Lexington, Massachusetts, and Merlin rode with me in his cage on the passenger side in the U-haul truck (don’t remember the size) secured by the seatbelt. > > As we were travelling the interstate out of Florida, I came upon this sign which read, “All Trucks, Next Right”, so hell, I got in line with all the 18 wheelers, whose drivers must have laughed their asses off. > > I drove onto the scales, when out comes this State Patrolman, looks in the truck, sees me and Merlin and says, “I ain’t believin’ this shit!”, and waves us on. > > Well, damn! I was in a truck, right???🙂 > > **Stars** , I’m just glad you’re not one of those owners who sets their reptile free when they become too big and too much to feed. So you’re “multi-animal”, huh? I LOVE it! > > Quasi Yes, I love animals. I’ve almost always at least had a dog. Maisie’s my first cat. I’ve even had stick bugs (when my son was in elementary school). Oh I loved your truck story. That sounds like something I would have done when I was young. 😃 And DV occasionally gets to go for rides in the truck, she has a “flight suit” and I take her out on walks too when it’s nice out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-pets-names/572409.md?page=9)