Do you name your pets weird names?

[bassdude51]

My 45 yr old son has a little dog that he got a couple of years ago. And, it has an official name. But, for some reason or another, I call his dog by the name, Dawg-Dawg.

I don't know why. I just do.

 

[CoryB]

My wife got two kittens from the shelter and they were already named - Porsche and Lamborghini. Their mother, Ferrari, was already adopted, as were their sisters, Bugatti and Aston-Martin.

We kept the names but I call them Petunia and Hortense just because.

 

[Zooberwerx]

Both my cat and dog (rescues / re-homes) came fully-equipped with names....Daisy and Winnie. The adoption fee for one dog was $200 and, for that kind of money, they better include a name.

Riis

 

[sleddogn]

Malin
Boston
Gus
Reggie
Kimba
Bella
Riggs
Cammy
Tweed
Mora
Dawson... our dogs over last 30 years, miss the ones gone, dearly

 

[el jeffe bass]

Dog named Cozy, cats named Monkey and Butters

 

[El Trueno]

Completely normal pet names here. My dog is Mr. Pickle and my parrot is Pablo Escobar. Turns out the parrot is female but it’s just too late to change the name now.

 

[cymbop]

My bandleader has two little shi tzu's named, I kid you not, Bob Seeger and Tom Petty.

 

[shadowtippy]

I had a cat once named Dinka’s and a dog named Peabody as he resembled the Peabody of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. But have been pet free since 1994.

We recently sprouted a mango seed into a house plant we named Bob, if that qualifies.

Bob qualifies as a pet if you take him for walks or clean his litter box.

 

[Pocket Dave]

We've been a dog family - those that came to us pre-named usually got to keep those names. We figured they'd already been through enough trauma.

The one exception was a Shepherd mix pup we got through a rescue group whom they'd named "Jake". He just wasn't a "Jake". My then-5-year-old son named him "Ranger", after the baseball team.

Otherwise, we'd try to wait until a name came to us that seemed to match their personalities. Grace was a Doberman who was anything but graceful, Birdie, our current Dutchy rescue, is short for s***bird.

Hilda was another Dobe whom the rescue group named - they were running out of names and were going through staff member's elementary school teacher names.

We named a Shepherd-Rottie mix we had when we were first married "Monroe". It was not pronounced Mon-ROE like you'd think, rather it was MUN-roe, like locals pronounce the town in N. Louisiana (my family's from all over Louisiana). Turned out to be the most perfect, fitting name for him - such a lovable goof.

Our current Rottie came pre-chipped through a rescue group as "Jacqueline" - She's "Jacki", sometimes "Thang", or "Thang-Ray" or "Thang-Ranion" - She and MON-Roe would've gotten along great.

Our Belgian Malinois was dumped the next street over - neighbor's called her "Shady" because she had a particular oak tree up on a hill she liked to sit under and watch the whole block. When we finally got her corralled and rescued, the name just stuck - she's kind of shady. Plus, the neighbors already know her name, so it keeps things simple on walks.

May I put a face with a few of these names?

Ranger (aka "Hootie") as a pup

A young Hilda:

Birdie:

Jacki:

Shady:

 

[SteveCS]

Many years ago we had two pairs of rats!! The first pair were Lenny and George, after the main protagonists from 'Of Mice and Men'; The second pair were Jack and Walter, after Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau from 'The Odd Couple'. Our cat is 'Syd', after Mr. R.K.Barrett.

 

[mambo4]

Our cats have normal names that we never call them, and absurd nicknames we use all the time.

 

[steve_ss]

My first cat in 1979 was named Tiddles. It came from the name of a cat in a play I was doing at the time.

I wanted to call this guy Big Giant Fluffy Kitty, but my wife said that was too long. So we chose Blarp from the cute alien critter in the Lost in Space movie.

 

[bwildt]

Not an animal, but may brother's teddy bear. He was probably 2 or 3 years old when he got it. Mom asked him what name he was going to give it. He didn't know. Mom said name it after something you like. He responded with "Jellybread".

Jellybread hung around for a number of years.

 

[Gaolee]

My wife is deathly allergic to cats and gets spooked by dogs. So, no pets. Although we did have fish for a while. They didn't have names.

We did have a cat early on. He was a perfectly symmetrical tuxedo, and when he was a tiny kitten, probably just weaned, he came through a window and picked out my wife as his human. She was so charmed that she tolerated the allergies. He had been adopted by a guy next door, who couldn't spell closet, let alone be in it. He worked in a bakery that made chocolate body parts. He thought the kitten was female and had named him Serena. He also decided that Serena had picked my wife and that was the end of that. So, we had a cat. I'm from a rural area and knew immediately that Serena was actually a boy. My very proper English wife, without cracking a smile, said that we should call him Dick. That way nobody would ever mistake him for a girl. He was Dick The Cat after that. He lived about four years as an indoor and outdoor cat. Feline leukemia got him when we couldn't take him to the vet for shots for a while. He was a very polite cat. He didn't make messes, picked out one place to shed, stayed off countertops, didn't knock anything over, didn't go upstairs, and was all around the perfect cat. Almost 35 years later, I miss Dick The Cat.