Your Pets' Names?

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Hm, first cat was a beige longhair named puff, we got her from the barn belonging to my grandparents handyman when I was 5 years old.

Next was a big black maine coon who arrived on our doorstep pregnant. I named her Pyewacket because Bell Book and Candle was my favorite movie. The vet found homes for the 2 resulting kittens when we took her in for the big snip.

I was adopted by a huge white and sort of brownish tabby spot tom who was abandoned or runaway, he was already fixed. I named him Pyewacket as well, but animal control nicknamed him Conan the Cat.

When he died I adopted Banzai, a first generation himalayan, big fluffy tom we got fixed. He died about 6 years ago.

About 12 years ago we adopted Jezabel from the vets office. She has apparently made friends with a mouse because I have actually caught them sharing kibble.

We have a dog named souage we also adopted though from animal control.

From one of my original batches of chickens, we had a very charismatic rooster we named Cogburn, who died a couple years ago of old age.

We adopted a throw away that someone dumped on the farm, since we caught him snoozing in the chicken coop where he was apparently eating the cat kibble we use as protein supplement, we named him General Sterling Price, but usually we call him fuzzybutt or snookums.

We have another outside cat that belongs to our roomie named Pickett after General Pickett, and her other cat is named Sunshine. Pickett and Sunshine and Snookums live with her in the barn.

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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.

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Loki is my juvenile female bearded dragon, seen here helping me pack things to move: Loki Helps With the Move | StarsApart | Flickr

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.

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Shadeaux - A stray, she showed up and nobody claimed her, she is the queen. Black Lab/Akita mix according to the vet. She followed the SO everywhere and he is from Cajun country…thus the spelling. Nickname: Dodo.

Keisha - yellow Lab. Rescue…came with the name. Has a middle name: Keisha Marie.

Unique - Tri-color Shepard. Rescue. Came with the name, and at 7+ YO, too late to change. Nickname _ Neeky.

Inchems - a small rat terrier/min pin mix. Rescue. Original name “Sally”, started out with the nickname of “little half inch” since she looked so small comparatively.

Zippy - Inchem’s son (we got her already pregnant). He named himself when I couldn’t catch him for his first vet visit. He was “zipping around.” Nickname: Hemi (not the motor…short for hemorroid, cuz he was a pain in the butt. :smiley:

Shadeaux & Keisha

Inchems

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Why does it have to be limited to cats and dogs?

We have four (gold)fish - since there are four of us in the family, we’ve each “adopted” one to name:

My 6 year old son named his Kung Fu-y (not sure how you spell that, in fact, I think that’s the first time since we got him 3 months ago that his name has been attempted to be spelled). Reason: because my son is a 6 year old boy and that’s the kind of name a 6 year old boy would come up with!

My wife named hers Baby - I think because she’s smaller than Kung Fu-y (who we got at the same time).

When we were going to get a replacement fish for my daughter after the unfortunate death of hers a few weeks ago, I asked her on the way there what she wanted to name it. She said if it was a white one (like this) she’d name it “Princess”, if it was a gold one, she’d name it “Lea” (pronounced “Lee-a”.) When we got to the pet store, she found one she fell instantly in love with, one that was white on one side, gold on the other. (I really hadn’t seen another fish like it, although this comes close). I suggested “Why don’t you name her “Princess Lea””? As soon as the words left my mouth, I hoped and prayed that she hadn’t heard of Star Wars. She liked the idea, and felt I got away with a great joke that other adults would get and not her. I felt guilty a few days later and asked if she was familiar with Princess Lea from Star Wars, she replied nonchalantly that she was, but that her fish was pronounced different (as I pointed out), the Star Wars character is Princess Lay-ah, the fish is Princess Lee-ah. I have to work hard to pronounce the fish’s name right.

Finally, mine is named Wanda. Absolutely no explanation necessary, and is now my go-to name for fish (in fact, the current one is Wanda II. You need a damn good reason for me to name you anything besides that because I am witty, but highly uncreative.)

Other names we’ve used were Louie (a rare Wanda departure for me - Louie was a calico goldfish with noticeable blue speckles on him. The kids called him “Blue-y” when we bought him, and I thought that “Louie” was more serviceable), Al (for an algae eater), Sport and Super Sport (6 year old boy again), Betty (a Betta fish, and no, we got her almost a year after Al died, to prevent questions), Goofy (because from the time we saw him at the pet store to the time he died he always behaved very crazily and was good for a lot of laughs) and other, more prosaic names.

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Oh gosh!

No, it doesn’t have to be limited to cats and dogs and thanks to all of you who’ve responded about this!

ANY pet, PLEASE!

Sorry, y’all! Please let it happen, and thanks for pointing this out!

Q

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BTW Quasi,

Thanks, but no kudos needed on the rescue thing. They make THE BEST pets. I have had more than a few purebreds, bought from breeders, in my life. Rescues are the coolest. If I could take em all in, I would. BUT…I just don’t have enough furniture for them all to sleep on. :smiley:

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My dog’s name is ** Calyxa**.

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My cat’s name is Willow because she has long, gray, extremely soft fur like a pussy willow.

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I like Calyxa. Can I steal that one?

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:):):):)LOL!:):):):slight_smile: at loshan! :wink:

Sorry! There isn’t a “heart” economicon, or whatever you call these things on the side here, but you know all of us in animal welfare love ya’, right?
:slight_smile:
How about y’all just get rid of all the furniture and just put king-sized beds in every room?

Just kidding, but thank you and yours for caring about the 4 footed ones!:slight_smile:

Q

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You’re the coolest.
I swear, If I could afford and guarantee(vet bills, food, love and happiness for all) 30 more rescues…they would be here. Now.

BTW… I also have goats. They are TOO cool. The first three…rescues. Then two bought and paid for. The rest…babies. Goat babies are Sooooooooo cute.

BUT… big trouble keeping dog rescues and baby goats apart. Has led to some really not so good moments.

I can’t take them all. Though I would love to find a system where I could.

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It doesn’t, and I’m sorry I let my (what?) “prejudice” (can’t think of the right word right now, sorry!) show. ALL pets are welcome in this thread, of course! :smack:

I have a few questions, though, if that’s okay?

  1. Are goldfish “fighters”? Kung-Fooey’s tail looks like a combat-fish. (Sorry, but I forgot what they’re called)

  2. It sounds like yours have lived and enjoyed a long life. Being an idjit about fish, I always thought they had a short life span, and wound up being flushed down the “terlet”. Apparently you and your family have disproved this “myth”.

So how do you keep 'em alive from baggie to bowl and beyond? Would they get along with a Plecostomus (sp. Wife knows more than I do about fish and aquariums) who keeps the side of the aquarium clean?

  1. I think it’s pretty damn cool to call your wife’s fish “Lee-ah” and you remembering the pronounciation! Sounds like you’re “tamed”, buddy! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the pics and the names, dhkendall!

Quasi

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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.

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Well, then…

We also have two female guinea pigs that came from a shelter at 6 months old, but they had no names that we know of. The black and white striped one is “Stripes” and the brown one that was shy and hid under the blanket for days is “Hidey.” Named by a smallish boy.

Finally there are two male gerbils that live in a pink cage (cage came before gerbils). They are “Whiskers” and “Benny.” No idea why on the Benny. Named by a smaller girl.

Dog, cats, guinea pigs, gerbils… We call them the food chain…

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When we got our cocker spaniel in 2002, we initially considered Muffin (my wife) and Shostakovich (me) as names - fortunately, we settled on Jazz.

Picture.

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Three dogs, which I’ve talked about on the Dope ad nauseum, I imagine.

Blaze - aka Cherokee Blaze. That was his name on his registration papers. He was a purebred Shetland Sheepdog. I had to put him down last year. He was 14.

Lucy - the black lab in the video. She was a stray I found near this duck pond by my house. She actually adopted me by jumping over my lap and into the passenger side of my car. “Take me home!” she said. I don’t know why we named her Lucy, it just seemed to fit.

Ernie - the white Bichon Frise. He was originally owned by my neighbors down the street, who are Hispanic. They called him Chikki. When we bought him from them, we renamed him Ernie. That was the name of the adopted kid on My Three Sons. :wink: (He was the third dog - gettit?)

Dipsey - the brown long haired dachsund/chihuahua mix. You all know The Saga of Dipsey, right? He was named Depse by his previous owners. We tried calling him Nipsey and Gypsy, but neither stuck. Dipsey is his name.

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Way back when, I had a lilac Siamese who was abandoned by its mother and raised by a dog with puppies, and ended up thinking he was a dog. His original name was Lilac Lou, but one day my then husband said “We really got a weird Puppy-Cat here” and the name Puppy-Cat stuck.

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Actually, none of the pics I linked to are pics of my fish (they’re merely Google image results that come close to what I want to illustrate), I haven’t been able to take a picture of them (right now, reason why is camera isn’t working). (Strange that you’d think that one of those is Kung Fu-y, though, as there were no pics in the paragraph describing him).

But, to answer your question, goldfish generally aren’t fighters, but the odd time we have had to take a fish back because it’s been too aggressive (possibly because it’s two male fish fighting over a female - and no I have no idea how to tell the difference, we basically call them “he” and “she” based on the names they have been given.)

Wish that were true. The names I’ve mentioned (and plenty I didn’t) were all the fish we’ve had since March, 2008 (our first fish). Average lifespan of about 2.5 months, I’m estimating, but we are getting better with them, we learn from the death of previous fish what works and what doesn’t. (It is really heartbreaking to the kids especially when one dies, but they get over it quickly, especially when we go and buy a replacement one.)

As I said before, trial and error. I have no idea what a Plecostomus (I wouldn’t even know if that is the correct spelling), but usually we just play it safe and put them in with others of their kind (again, learned this from experience) - rule of thumb, only let it live with fish that you see them living with at the pet store.

Actually “Princess Lea” is my 8 year old daughter’s. (“Baby” is my wife’s). She’s in the “Princess” stage, so …

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OK, if you want pictures, I managed to get my camera working enough to take a picture of dubious quality of my fish. Seen here, Kung Fooey (I like your spelling, Quasi!) is on the bottom left corner, facing away from us; Wanda is in the centre, again facing away from us; Princess Lea is below her, and is a good depiction of her gold half (the left side as you’re looking at her, her right); and Baby is on the right hand side.