elise1mds Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I am loving reading all of these... it's good to know I'm not the only one with freakishly awesome animal names! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogs4 Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 my father had a cat named nameless, pronounced "nuh-mel-uss". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassenach Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Oh, I forgot a couple. Our friend's yellow lab was named Yellow Dog (may he rest in peace). My 4yo called him Lellow Dog. And another friend has a cat named Sushi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon in MD Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 In the past we have had : A brother & sister dog ( a form of hunting dog, whose name escapes me at this point of time). Their names were : Razza and Matazz Our cats, who are litter mates, are black and white tuxedo kitties....named Razzle and Dazzle! We also had a hamster who excelled in escaping and liked to visit the kitty dish to sample the kibble. We nick named her TBS....Two Bite Snack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 I don't know if this counts as silly, but I used to have a pet rat named Pestilence. Pest for short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Our cat Robert J. Buttons died recently. He went by Bob. Our dog goes by Trixie for short, but her given name is Trixie Petey Pilkington "OurLastName". She is lovingly referred to as "Mrs. Pilkington" and you can see her in the avatar. (She moonlights as a librarian) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 (edited) I once met an unfortunate-looking terrier (it looked like an oppossum) named "Marsupial" and a rather freaked-out, bi-polar cat named "Cockroach". I still smile when I think of them. Geo Edited July 5, 2009 by Geo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandellie4 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 We have an elderly blind shepherd named "Mr. Mammoth Pants." My daughter named him. :tongue_smilie: We used to have a rabbit named "Rabbit E. Lee"; a dog named "Bug Boy"; and two rats, one named "Pyro" and the other named "Dumbo" (the latter had dumbo ears). As a child I had a black cat named "Rorschach" and a tabby named "Timothy's Tooth" (he ate my neighbor friend's, Timmy's, tooth; we'd only had him home from the shelter for 15 minutes). Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibraryLover Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 When I was first married, we cared for two strays we named Sappho (sic) & Vanzetti. We found them homes, and their awesome names were changed!:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-FL Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Our former neighbor had a dog named Bonehead. Friend in the 80's had 2 Springer Spaniels named Peaches & Herb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I wanted to name our last (male) cat Jeremiah Fuzzynuts. I have no idea why, but it popped into my head, and I liked it. DH wasn't jazzed about it so we named him Dusky, but somehow he got the nickname of Doodle, and it stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 (edited) About 6 months ago, we bought a pair of budgies and named them "Stevie" and "Zelda" but have recently renamed them due to emerging personality traits. Zelda has become so bossy and dominating over Stevie that we have changed their names to "Jon & Kate". It's really sad to watch. Geo PS: Did you know that "Budgerigar" is aboriginal for "good to eat"? Edited July 6, 2009 by Geo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 When I met my dh, he had 2 cats. Their names were Sniggs and Moonrock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillfarm Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Many years ago, when dh and I were grad students, a friend in the psychology department had a lovely Persian cat named Psyche. Psyche had three kittens so she named them for Freud's ego, superego, and id. We took Id, but since we lived in Tennessee at the time, people thought we were saying Ed, so we ended up with a lovely calico Persian female cat called Eddie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 My sister had two labs named Edison and Einstein. They, unfortunately, did not live up to their names. For labs, they were surprisingly stupid. The would chase cattle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesloonybin Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 We have a pug named Buddha and a cat named Watson. We also have a cat named Misha but she already had that name when we got her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 We have always named our animals very prosaic, predictable pet names. Boring, I know. Things like Trusty, Muffin, Misty, etc. The funniest names I've heard for pets have been in movies. There's an old 30's movie called Merrily We Live with two large dogs (Great Danes perhaps?) named Get off the Rug and You, Too! Then there's the little Pekinese named Tricki Woo from All Creatures Great and Small. As a child we had a German Shepherd named Julie Andrews. I think we had just seen The Sound of Music when we got her.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in KY Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 :lol::lol::lol: I thought you were talking about pet names people give to other people, not names for household pets. Along the lines of the former, dh calls folks all kinds of strange things, usually taken from long lists of Old Testament names. The worst he ever called me was Binnui.:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzyBee Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 When I was really young (maybe until age 5 or so), we had a pure white German Shepherd named Ichabod Crane. We called him Icky for short. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhondaM. Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Name-o. Because Bingo was his Name-o. My oldest who was 4 at the time picked that one. :-) RhondaM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Fish. My BIL had a dog named Fish, that could climb trees. :lol::001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncmomo3 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 A dog (not ours) named DOG-spelled DOG. pronounced 'dee-oh-gee' (soft g) emphasis on the 'oh' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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