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Question: Pet Names

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Thursday September 21 2006, @04:36PM
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Inspired by Fun Guy's mention of his dog Fezzig (which is SUCH a totally awesome name for a dog!!) I thought I'd put the question out there: What are (or were, if deceased) your animals' names?

I'm sure that among this group we'll have some awesome ones. :-)

(Oh, and in case there's some privacy issue involved, AC posting is enabled. Not so important to know who belongs to whom -- I just wanna hear what cool name you picked out for your pet.)

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  • When i was growing up my brother had an awesome pheasant hunting dog named Buck.

  • My sister got a cat earlier this year. She wanted to name it after a native american name meanig "white paw". I paid some indian reserve 10$ for the information and the cat is now named "Apeeka", which means "white paw". The fun part is that the cat was

  • Deceased:
    Dog: Dusty (Collie/Shepard mix)
    Cats: Dusk and Egypt
    Bird: Pete (parakeet)

    Left with the first wife:
    Cats: Smores and Snickers (no, seriously)

    Alive and kickin': nicknames in () are because of their personalities and/or appearance
    Cats: Ozzie (cat-dog,

    • Dog: Dusty (Collie/Shepard mix)

      We had a cocker spaniel (American cocker spaniel, more specifically) by that name when I was a kid. Another one (over the course of 10 years, we had four American cocker spaniels and one English cocker spaniel) was named

  • Snowy - She was white stray cat we picked up when we were living in Monterey, California. I was about 4 or 5. She was passingly relatable, but being a stray she had a fairly visible mean streak when she wanted. I don't remember why we didn't take her when

  • Deceased dogs: Amber, Ryder, Mouse, Joey, Mariah, Bibit, Jacques, India.

    Dogs we found new homes: Keyser, Romulus, Bishop.

    Deceased cats: Missy, Taz, Smarty, Chinchilla, Sans (kitten), Sam, Ariel, Callisto.

    MIssing cats: Mr. Foo (come back, kitty!).

    Cu

    • My mom's dogs when I was a kid: Sojo (my parent's initials) Soko (mine and my sister's initials), Skoshi (pekingese)
      Our cats when I was a kid: Danny and Fantasia
      My dog when I was in jr. high/high school: Targa (I was looking at some puppies and this partic
    • So are you feeding the dogs and cats to the ferrets? You seem to have gone through an awful lot of them.
  • Current:
    • Cat: Loki
    • Cat: Sleipnir
    • Cat: Heimdal
    • Cat: Sigurd
    • Cat: Skadi
    • Cat: Thor

    Former:

    • Cat: Gizmo (belongs to an ex)
    • Cat: Louie (belongs to an ex)
    • Cat: Mogwai
    • Cat: Astra[1]
    • Rat: Ratty
    • Rat: Thunder
    • Rat: Lightning
    • Rat: Stdio
    • Rat: Ioctl
    • Rat: Stdlib
    • Rat
    • I see a theme in your current naming convention. Let me know if you need more Nordic names for future pets.

      My daughter named her cat Leia (after Star Wars) once we told her it would not be the name of her at the time future sister. We also have a cat call

  • We picked that name because when we got him, he was 4 months old and already 45 lbs. We knew he was going to be big, so we considered various names of giants... BFG [amazon.com], Titan [wikipedia.org], Jolly Green [wikipedia.org], and others before settling on Fezzig - a very strong, very powerful, g
  • Cocker Spaniel named Gigi - one of my earliest memories, crying in the car as we gave her up to move house.
    Couple of mutts my sister and I took care of as children while living in Saudi. Mine was Concorde, hers was Piggynose

    With my wife and I, we've tr
  • Our german shepard mix I named Alexandra, cause my wife wanted to name a daughter that name, and I didn't like it ;)

    When I was growing up we had a dauchaund named 'Brunhilda', which we called 'Bruny' for short.
  • From Childhood:
    • Twinkie - Rabbit from when I was really young
    • Cupcake - Rabbit from when I was really young
    • Muffin - Rabbit from when I was really young (who survived the attack which claimed her siblings and lived to be like 18!
    • Sunshine - Lab/Mutt mix w
  • Ok, here goes (I'll leave out the current ones):

    Cats:
    • Willie (short tailed)
    • Sven (gray & longhaired)
    • Scrappy (classic "Sylvester the cat" markings)
    Dogs:
    • Kelly (black Labrador)
    • Pepper (chocolate Labrador)
    • CC (chocolate Labrador) (The name is an abb
  • Recently deceased fishtank dwellers:
    Casper, (some other goldfish who wasn't with us long enough to be named), shrimpguy 1 and shrimpguy 2

    Current cats:
    Torrie (aka Stinkerbell) and Lilly (aka Psycho)

    "Missing" cats:
    Blackie, Whiskers

    Long departed dogs:
    Inyate (
  • Aww, love them all. Hard not to write eulogies!

    Cat: Squeak, for the sound he made when he was little, he was the runt of the litter.

    Dog: Tyke. :)
  • None had particularly interesting names, but....

    Hermit Crab - Henrietta
    Parakeet - Happy
    Rabbit - Oliver
    Dog - Brenna
    Lizard - Larry

    I had another parakeet in college named "Syd", but he needed a better home than I could provide. The girl I gave him to renamed
  • Cats:

    "Doctor Livingstone I presume" (doc for short)
    "We the people" (Weether for short)

    Birds:

    "Bird" - albino cockatiel
    "Hagii" - cinnamon cockatiel
    "Xeno" - grey cockatiel

    Dogs:

    "D O G" (sounds like DeeOhGee -- Deeoj for short)
    "JayWalker" (jay for short)
    "Numbe
  • (no, he wasn't spotted)0

    and currently we have a cat named Jazz (who was actually named for her appearance -- non-symmetrical splotches)
  • My dad has allergies, mostly related to cats (my mom had a cat, Beagle, when they got married and had to give him away) but we never had pets except for a year when I had a pet toad named Bob. Bob had a heat rock and I fed Bob crickets. Bob lived well.

    Of
  • Deceased/Unknown
    • Lady, dog
    • Fido, the busch light drinking coon-hound
    • Amber, my chow-english shepard mix, (1986-2002, RIP)
    • Velcro, cat
    • Tuxedo, cat, perfect Sylvester color patern, had a bad squirrel nest raiding habbit
    • Two early rabbits, don't remember the

  • Current dogs:

    1. St-Bernard: Heidi (that was her name when I got her)
    2. Newfie: Bear (named after Bear #1)
    3. Husky-Collie: Toby (that was his name when I got him) - a.k.a. FUGLY - because he's so f*ing ugly!!!

    Deceased dogs:

    1. Newfie: Bear (the original Bear)
  • Favorite Pet Ever: The Dog, we called him TD. I was 10 when I named him.

    Cats: Sophie, Nox, Socrates, Diogenes, and Apex.

    Dogs: Sir Cashew Nut III, Boots, Tobias

    Ferret: Lucinda (Lucy) until it was discovered that she was a guy and was renamed Lucious b

  • Growing up: (all deceased)
    Jake (parakeet)
    Jessica (parakeet)
    Kelly (parakeet; family thinks I'm imaging him)

    Sister's (because they feel like mine):
    Sandy (lab/collie; deceased)
    Meeko (siberian husky)

    Roommate's (because I live with her):
    Lucy (cat/goat/raccoon;
  • Cats:

    Itty Bitty (black & white female with a birthmark spot just like Marilyn Monroe)
    Toby (male tortoise shell tabby)

    Snakes:
    Slytherin (male) and Ssebrina (female) both ball pythons

    My past pets:
    Max and Fish-er-cut (both betas)

    My first cat was named Idj

  • And he garnered for himself the name "Stinky the Wonder Pig", due to how often his cage required cleaning.

  • Ozzy - my wife suggested it when we got him shortly after our wedding. I think she did that so I wouldn't be tempted to give that name to one of the kids...
  • My current Catahoula Puppy [flickr.com].
  • When I lived with my folks:

    Raiza - Saymod (russian dog breed) - Gorbie's wife's name
    Sooty - Hymalain (sp?) cat - Looked like a white cat that had slid down a chimney

    My wife and I:
    Milda - mix cat - Character from a video game (Grandia)
    Clamity Jane - 1/2 rus
  • Lady Aleksandra and Lord Nikolas are the two adopted felines -- generally they're Alex and Nicky which confuses people about their genders.
    Clarissa Dalloway is the pet rat.

    In deceased pets, we have "Harvey the Wonder Hampster", later changed to "Harvina th
  • I had a silver tabby named Thanatos. He was awesome, smart, and very mischievous. He was the only cat I've known that would actually fetch things you threw for him. And whenever my ex- was being a pain, he'd lock her out of the house, when she was outside

  • My roommate has a cat (a Russian Blue) named Insight. My last dog D`Argo. His full name was Kai's Ka D`Argo. Kai's because he was mine and Ka D`Argo after the Luxan on Farscape. His nicknames were "little shit" and "sweetest puppy ever" because he did

  • we currently have two cats, loki, and brio. loki usually just gets called by his name, but brio's collection of nicknames continues to grow: stinky, stinky-bean, beansie, beanie-bot, punky.

    i've had dogs in the past, but they're all deceased now. thor, fi

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