Pet names

Started by Synerjee August 23rd, 2014 1:14 AM
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Synerjee

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Seen May 28th, 2016
Posted February 25th, 2016
2,901 posts
10.6 Years
For those of us who own pets of any species, be it dog, cat, bird, reptile or arachnid, naming them has always been an important step of integrating them into the family household/telling them apart from one another/creating bonds between human and pet. It's always interesting to see what pet owners name their pets as well as the reason behind the name.

This leads to the following questions:
What pet(s) do you own, what did you name it/them, and why? :]

Firox

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Age 37
Male
Seattle, WA
Seen September 15th, 2021
Posted July 17th, 2020
2,585 posts
11 Years
I have an albino ferret that lives with me, and I named her "Kojofu", I named her after Mienfoo's Japanese name (love that name), and when I'm playing with her, the way she holds her paws up reminds me of the way Mienfoo does in the games (at least in Amie).
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Age 31
Male
Fortree City, Hoenn
Seen December 6th, 2017
Posted November 14th, 2017
1,276 posts
9.5 Years
I have an albino ferret that lives with me, and I named her "Kojofu", I named her after Mienfoo's Japanese name (love that name), and when I'm playing with her, the way she holds her paws up reminds me of the way Mienfoo does in the games (at least in Amie).
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Age 36
Female
Australia
Seen May 21st, 2016
Posted May 18th, 2016
458 posts
9 Years
I own two cats: Porsche and Aston. We also had a third, Lotus.

I'm terrible at naming things so when we originally adopted our first two kittens and my husband named his Porsche (he's a fan of their cars) I just followed suit with my favourite car brand.

We then adopted Aston about a year later and decided to keep with the theme.

For a while I really badly wanted a german shepard x husky (they're so pretty with the husky colouration) so I could name her Femshep.

Now I just plan to get a regular husky and name her Cerberus. It still has a Mass Effect flavour, but also awesome dog related.

Kotone

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Female
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Seen June 29th, 2018
Posted June 14th, 2018
2,787 posts
14.1 Years
I have 3 dogs; mopsy, blizzy, and bella.
idk they just seemed like good names. my family agreed on them.

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Juno

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Age 28
Female
Seen 2 Days Ago
Posted 1 Week Ago
4,561 posts
9.5 Years
I never got to name my dogs - our first dog was in our family before I was born, and my mom called him Nicky, sort of after herself since her name is Nichole. Our current dog was adopted and she answered to the name Mocha. She was 1 year old when she came to live with us so we probably could have changed it, but it didn't occur to us at the time so we just stuck with Mocha.

Personally, I like giving dogs proper human names, so if I ever get to name my own dog they'd be called something like Oliver or Sam.

Captain Gizmo

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Age 29
Male
Canada
Seen 2 Weeks Ago
Posted 3 Weeks Ago
4,842 posts
10.7 Years
My dog's name is Snappy. The friend of my girlfriend's small sister was giving away a dog and that was the name they gave him. We just kept it like how it is :)
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TwilightBlade

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Age 31
Female
Florida
Seen 10 Hours Ago
Posted 6 Days Ago
7,098 posts
16 Years
My dog's name is Zack. I didn't choose the name. His dad's name was Gohan and his mom's name was Precious. The previous owners tried to name my dog Vegeta before giving him to our family when he was several weeks old. hm. that doesn't even make sense. Yet all of their own male pitbulls had a name from DBZ.

Meganium

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she/her
Houston, TX
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 1st, 2023
I named my first cat Anastasia after the movie Anastasia, I love that movie, so I wanted to name her after the character in the movie. (rest in peace, little girl).

Then I named my oldest cat Serafina, because at that time I had no idea WHAT to name her after. So I did the "baby-name" searching thing, and found Serafina.

Her daughter, Mikaila (Miki for short)...heh, it's a funny story. When she was born, I thought she was a male at first. So I kept calling her Mike. xD

My little sister was the one that named my oldest doggy, Abby. Abby was her best friend from school.

Then, last but not least. My Chihuahua, Bentley, is named after country singer Dierks Bentley. His song "Tip it On Back" was playing while I recieved him for the very first time.

Dustmop

Fight for what makes you happy

Age 30
Seen November 27th, 2022
Posted September 7th, 2016
932 posts
9.2 Years
I have two kitties. My little boy is Sergeant Dustmop I wonder where my username came from and my little girl is Bandit.

Sergeant Dustmop earned his name.. from my ex. Lol. As soon as I picked up my little fluffball, he requested I name him Dustmop. I told him he needed to be a Sergeant - he was a very vocal and demanding kitten. Seriously, he used to climb all over my head in the morning and scream in my ear to wake me. He actually used to just scream at my curtains. I don't know what they did to deserve it, but they were told.
So he compromised, "Name him Sergeant Dustmop."
"Well, okay."

Bandit got her name through behavior. Of course. For the first two weeks I had her, she decided it was of the utmost importance to rearrange my bedroom. Or at least everything in it that she could fit in her mouth. She 'stole' and 'hoarded' everything into this dark corner, under my bed.



Though you could say we have an awful lot of cats now. Just a few days ago, my father decided we should 'officially' become a feral cat colony. Now the SPCA will drop off TNRs here, and sometimes even food. It's kinda neat. We've taken the liberty of naming them, of course. They may as well be part of the family - we feed them, 'house' them (they took over my dad's shed/workshop), and play with them.

Spoiler:
The first mommy we had show up was just named "Mama." Super creative.
She had a little girl that the SPCA named Tink after we had her picked up to be TNR'd, and a little black male boasting the all-too original name, Shadow.
Mama's second litter was all males - Commander Boots, Pickles, and Spock. Spocky is my favorite. xP
We think something happened with Mama's third litter - she only came back with one kitten, a little boy who looks just like Boots, from the previous litter.. so dad named him Socks. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the little fella has some brain damage... :c

There's a super tiny grey and white female, aptly named Peanut for her size.
She had a litter of three. One was an orange, gray, and white female that I have named Ghost. She has a twin (gender still unknown, but presumably female because of the coloring) that we have no yet named, and an orange/grey mackerel tabby brother, also unnamed.

obZen

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Age 32
Male
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Seen January 1st, 2021
Posted December 27th, 2020
397 posts
17.5 Years
I currently have two dogs, but here are all of my pets combined thus far:
Tazzy (Rottweiler / German Shepherd mix), I got her when I was 3 and don't remember why she got that name
Xena (warrior princess), a Shih tzu
Cloey (Yorkie), my mom gave her a "fitting" name
Lily (black Poodle) She was my cousin's, no idea. She was born the day my uncle (her father) died
Finneon (Betta fish) Seriously, it looked just like Finneon!

And like 10 stray cats outside, all of which have names. My mom names them based on appearance


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Corvus of the Black Night

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Age 30
Non-binary
With the Birds
Seen January 9th, 2015
Posted January 9th, 2015
3,416 posts
14.3 Years
I have these little ****s



This is CREAM. He is named CREAM because he looks like a dessert. He is a little prankster. I think he's secretly a Murkrow.



These two are FLEET and SPEEDY. FLEET has spots and is fairly reserved. SPEEDY has no spots and is on birdie crack.

El Héroe Oscuro

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Male
Chicago
Seen April 10th, 2022
Posted August 21st, 2021
7,237 posts
14.3 Years
Sergeant Dustmop earned his name.. from my ex. Lol. As soon as I picked up my little fluffball, he requested I name him Dustmop. I told him he needed to be a Sergeant - he was a very vocal and demanding kitten. Seriously, he used to climb all over my head in the morning and scream in my ear to wake me. He actually used to just scream at my curtains. I don't know what they did to deserve it, but they were told.
So he compromised, "Name him Sergeant Dustmop."
"Well, okay."
How...exactly does a cat scream? I don't own a cat but it sounds...ugh.
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Dustmop

Fight for what makes you happy

Age 30
Seen November 27th, 2022
Posted September 7th, 2016
932 posts
9.2 Years
How...exactly does a cat scream? I don't own a cat but it sounds...ugh.
Haha, it's actually kind of cute when he does it! His voice has always been kind of high-pitched, but really soft and meek. It's almost like he can't carry it for long, it cuts in and out. Even his purr is really squeaky, like it's breaking up.

When he screams it's usually just this quiet, squeaky little, "Maa!" and then it cuts off. And then he readjusts himself, as if he's putting his foot down as he does it again. And again. And again. lol.