• silverwhisper said on Nov 09, 2007....

  we had a little german shephard puppy we named sasha when i was in middle school. sadly, she was accidentally struck by my dad's car when he came home one day and someone [glares balefully at grandmother] left the garage door open.
  
  our first cat was named roscoe. i miss him sometimes, he was 16 lbs, a mostly-gray tabby w/ white socks and mittens and a great big white tummy. he was a riot! :D
  
  ed

• evil_twin said on Nov 09, 2007....

  When I was a kid, we had a cat named Kitty. We couldn't ever think of anything to call her so we just called her Kitty for awhile, and soon that just became her name! And one of my old cats, I named him Spike. He was kind of a tough cool kitty, and I wanted to name him after a character on Buffy :-P
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Jeez, where to begin?
  
  Cats (some of the more interesting/stupid names): Mama Cat, Gray Cat, Smoky, Kitten Little - all of those were names I bestowed as a kid. :-p
  
  Dogs: Luke (my mom was continuing a certain theme of names that was going on in our house - liked it better than Matthew, I guess), Chrissy (short for Crusader - I named her that because when we first got her, she walked the perimeter of the yard all day), Beethoven, Yukon, Denali, Juneau (the last three are my mom's current dogs - she and my stepdad honeymooned in Alaska)
  
  My horse's name was Sunshine (aka Sunny or Big Boy) because he was a palomino...My dad has other horses, but I don't think another animal will ever capture my heart the way Sunny did.
  
  Fish: Silvos, Tahngarth, Crosis (named for M:tG legends), Inuyasha, Kaede (you know, I never did completely catch up on that show), Squee, Merlin, Boolean (that one oughta make a few nerds grin - he was smoky gray, almost black, with white/clear fins), etc.
  
  And we currently have no pets - can you believe that?
  
  ~Infernal
  

• more2methanthat said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Hmm...lets see.  I used to be real creative with names for my pets, they usually havea story or some significance to them.  One of my cats is Goliath, because when I got him his was small enough to fit the palm of my hand, but had an attitude like a giant.  My other cat is Scarlett, well her full name is Katie Scarlett O'Hara Hamiliton Kennedy Butler (yes GWTW is one of my favorite books and movie)  Her attitude was exactly like Scarlett O'Hara.

  My dogs I let the Kids and Husband name.  One dog is Aurora, but my daughter at the time wanted to name her Sleeping Beauty (her favorite Princess) and hubby named the other Kingston, since we love Jamaica.

   

• Actorguy said on Nov 09, 2007....

  When I was a kid, our first dog was named Nipper.  He was named after the dog who is listening to the Victrola in the old RCA Victor logo ( I bet you didn't even know that dog had a name, did you?)

• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  
  
  Ok, so the very first pet I had was a cat. I was maybe 3 or 4 years old. He was all grey and we found him on our ranch. He was pretty wild, so we named him Tom Tom, as in a Tom Cat. Well, that didn't work out too well. I loved him so much, but I couldn't hold him, pet him or really sit near him without him scratching me or something :( It was so sad. My dad ended up chasing him out of our house one day because he had scratched me yet again... He never came back :(
  
  
  Then there was Max. Max was a red-eared slider... Yeah, a freakin turtle... that was the only pet my mom would let me, my brother and sister have at the time. We were excited at first, but he was the lame-est pet ever. We ended up giving him back to the aquarium, lol.
  
  
  And now, I've had my pup Roxy for 4 years. My boyfriend rescued and bought her for me at the pound on our 3 year anniversary and she has the most precious face! I don't really know why I named her that, it just kind of fit for her. She is a German Shepard/Boxer mix and she is hands down the best gift I have ever gotten! I'm trying to upload a picture, so hopefully it works!
  
  
  
  
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• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

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• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=80ue99h&s=1

• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Damnit I give up!

• silverwhisper said on Nov 09, 2007....

  brunette: if you want to embed pictures, you will need to use the HTML code and upload the pics to flickr or glowfoto. :>
  
  ed

• Fallyn said on Nov 09, 2007....

  ferny....boolean...that is funny.
  
  more2me.....my daughters name is Aurora..*laughing*and yeah..i admit it...as a little girls sleeping beauty was my favorite movie....i named her that BEFORE the whole disney princess marketing thing was all the rage.....*frown*
  
  Okay, i've a whole slew of crazy pet names. i was just too sleepy last night to post them all....
  
  my favorites....of the 50 or so diffferent pets we've owned.
  
  my first dog was named Miranda Licorice......cause she was black....and she licked you a lot.
  
  My first cat that was actually all mine i named Tiger Kelly Washrag
  He was an orange Tabby, and his face reminded me of this little girl at church who's name was Kelly....and he would lay on the kitchen floor and roll around.....like a washrag??? i have no idea. i was 10.
  
  My favorite Dog in the whole world that we ever had.....he was half Siberian Husky and half Coyote. he was soooooooooooooooo soft......and HUGE.
  his name was Dandy Kabump. cause that's what he'd do...he'd hunt small animals like a coyote....and do a great big pounce on them......yeah...i know...retarded whatever. *grin* .....
  
  The cat i had a few years back....she was Princess Kitty Kelly Dishrag.
  i have no idea......don't look at me that way. *laughing*
  
  um....yeah.
  
  
  

• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Thanks ed! So I uploaded onto flickr... what do I do now??? I'm such a fool when it comes to this sort of thing...
  
  
  
  
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• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Those are all very unique names Fallyn! Really cute!
  
  
  
  
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• Fallyn said on Nov 09, 2007....

  ed...that's so sad about sasha.......losing pets SUCKS. especially when it's one of your own family members. ...that's what happened to Mimi....it was my dad.
  
  ET....i love that. *laughing* as you can see just above i too had a cat named Kitty....but..well.....umm.....*embarrassed*
  
  actorguy.....i did know that....i'm full of trivia. :P
  
  brunette...i've actually known a few boxers named roxy.......interesting.
  
  

• LadyGamer said on Nov 09, 2007....

  My baby boy chihuahua is named Murphy. After Murphy's Law. Because that force is strong in my life, even when choosing pets.

  Murphy's original owner waffled back and forth over giving him to us for so long it drove us nuts. When he finally was brought to me, I was at work, couldn't leave, and it was a Friday the thirteenth of a full moon.

   He spent the last two hours of my day in my apron pocket peeking his tiny fawn chin over the edge.

   

  The cat Mist is white and gray and when we rescued him, he was all fur weighing no more than mist.

  Our orange tabby is named Mina because we THOUGHT and were told he was a she and Mina fit with Murphy and Mist and just seemed to suit the little thing.

   Now he is MeanER and THAT suits him perfectly as he's about two years younger than the other two and is a pouncer. A claws to wall pouncer!

• silverwhisper said on Nov 09, 2007....

  brunette: OK, go to your flickr account and look at the individual pics. there should be a window that creates a bunch of HTML--it'll be very long. copy & paste the entire thiing.
  
  then post it in a comment.
  
  alternately, there should be a button that looks like a camera, labeled "picture" or "flickr", i forget which: just copy & paste the picture's URL.
  
  ed

• secretlife said on Nov 09, 2007....

  when my oldest daughter was 4, we got her a bunny rabbit from the 4H fair.
  he was all white and she named him fluffinutter.  he lived to be 13!
   
  when my middle daughter was 4, we got her a bunny.  she was the color of a wild rabbit, and my middle daughter decided that because she was fluffinutter's mate, she should be named peanut butter.
   
  when my son was 4, we got him a dark brown lop ear bunny.
  he named him chocolate because he thought that chocolate would go well with the other two!
   
  our puppy is oliver twist. 
   

• Brunettebmshell said on Nov 09, 2007....

  OK! Thanks so much ed! Here she is everyone!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Isn't she precious? :D
  
  
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• satyr said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Fallyn, we've had so many pets I couldn't even begin to name them all.  I grew up with a dog.  I'm a dog person.  My wife is a cat person, we've had at least one dog and as many as 3, and at least 2 cats and as many as 7 since we've been married....which was after the Ark but before the Middle Ages, LOL.
   
  The first cat that came to us was a stray that lived in the alley out back of our apartment.  Somehow, my wife decided, being the thoughtful person she is, said stray was hungry and left a bowl of milk outside.  Then it was a bowl of food.....you get the picture.
   
  When we moved we took him with us.  His name was "Ki'y Kat" (key cat...like trying to say kitty cat with a mouthful of marbles).  I have to say that this stray changed my opinion of felines.  He was a nice animal. 
   
  We usually give our animals people names or something the animal deserves.....
  so we currently have two dogs, Trudy and Ladybug, and 5 cats, who's names are Lillie, Nick, Silas, Zorro, and Mayhem.  Mayhem comes by her name honestly.  Zorro is black with a black and white face and head.  The way the markings go, it looks like a mask going around his head. 
   
  LOL - did I mention we usually pick our animals' names after we have a couple of beers?

• uniquely-ironic said on Nov 09, 2007....

  I had a black lab as a kid we named poncho, no idea why.  Then we had a cockatiel named BJ after my sisters given names.  My first pet on my own was a wild cat that we called Cheese Puff or Puff for short since that's what we used to lure her into the house and tame her.
   
  My last pet was a cat we called Miss Lizzie after Lizzie Borden.  This little runt used to hunt down my daughter and attack her heels.  She'd get that crazy look in her eye.  She's with the kid's dad and getting older, but she still gives birds, lizzards and bugs a run for their money.  (no rats though, she's scared of them)  She is also very territorial and will chase other cats out of her yard and the yard on either side of her house, whether they belong there or not.

• skald said on Nov 09, 2007....

  My parakeet was Geysli it means a ray. Lie a sun ray. He also was his wife was Perla meaning a Peal. My aunt had a dog Skotta and I was horrified at the name at first as a famous ghost had that name but it had to do with her tail which is skott in my language and she was such a Skotta meaning she was such a joker. I could go on but all the names are so foreign and unexplainable to the English speaking.  

• truthsayer said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Wow.  Nice post Fallyn.  Fun descriptions.

  We have now, and have had so many animals in the past...not including ones I that I owned before marriage and in my childhood...hmmm.  I must be selective I see ; )

  My first pets came when I was less than a year old.  I named my big gray cat Smokey, although not for his color...but for my favorite song at the time..."On Top Of Old Smokey"!  My dog was a Weimeraner named Ike.  I took my nap on him everyday.  There are photos somewhere to prove it : )  I also ate dogfood with him, however that has not been recorded for posterity! 

  He also ran out to greet the milkman every morning.  He and Ike were buddies : )The milk trucks didn't have doors (on the street side anyway) and Ike would jump inside of the truck to eat an already open pint of vanilla icecream that the milkman had ready for him.  He would eat the icecream and jump out on the next block behind our house and run down the hill to our back yard! 

  As to HIS name...My Dad did helped me.  I was too little to be a registered voter and he was named after President Eisenhower.  : )  You know, "I like IKE"?  : )

  We have five new heeler pups (we breed heelers) now and I think we have most of them named, even though people will rename them of course ; )  But NAMING is so much fun...as this post implies!  My favorite is the little runt, Blossom.  So named for the bright orange spot on her rump right under her other wise blue heeler tail!  I have never seen a puppy with a cute petootie!  She will go for top $

  My spouse got me a long haired chihuahua for my first birthday after our wedding.  We named her Ruby Begonia.  I too once had a big fat cat named Roscoe.  Some names just seem to fit.

  Some names do not seem to fit ; )

  In the 60's my middle brother, 10 years my senior, lived in a big old hippie house downtown.  They gave me a kitten.  I named him Love, of course ; )  Love grew up to be quite the bruiser!  Very intimidating!  It must have been his name...kind of like "A Boy Named Sue"!

  My children gave me a parakeet three years ago.  He is blue with a yellow face, so, for that reason, and because I loved the song:  His name is Moon Shadow.

  Great post.  A really fun read Fallyn.

  Truthsayer

   

   

• Eilan said on Nov 09, 2007....

  My first pet was a beagle we named Snoopy.  How original.

• rupert7 said on Nov 09, 2007....

  When I was a teenager I owned a horse called Rebel. He was a cunning devil! When I went into his stall empty handed he would head butt he and try to knock me over! Don't you dare come in here without an apple!!
  Sometimes when he saw me coming with a saddle he would start to limp! Who rides a lame horse?! I used to take him home on the weekend and he would stuff his face on the back lawn grass. Made a change from the stubble and oats/molasses diet of the stables. 15.5 h.h bay gelding, I miss the old feller sometimes,even now.
  
  Now we just have a cat..... not just any cat! a paranoid psycho cat!! She is 11 years old,jet black and totally insane! In that way is  rumored to take after me- just not so!
  Her name is Ruby and we love her! Despite her sharp claws and big teeth! lol
  

• tbs230 said on Nov 09, 2007....

  We had a cat named Michelle, and turtles and fish galore!
  
  Let's see, all the turtles were red eared sliders: There was freddie and freddie jr. Sexy Donatello Rafael Herbie Franklin (all one name) and his tank mate Cassidy. Currently I have Hollywood Whalker and Juicy Couture.
  
  The fish (that I can remember): Tupac, Biggie, Mary Kate & Ashley (they were small and looked alike) and Christina Aguilera
  
  We have two Pomeranians: Ursula and Gemma
  

• tbs230 said on Nov 09, 2007....

  Infernal: Inuyasha huh? I love that show...I haven't managed to catch up either.

• Fallyn said on Nov 10, 2007....

  lady gamer...in my experience there are NO female true orange tabbys...but i might be wrong...
  
  brunette she is ADORABLE!
  
  secret...i love that fluffinutter peanut butter and chocolate!
  
  satyr....mayhem is awesome. *laughing*
  
  UI lizzie seems a fitting name then. :P
  
  skald...interesting names....definitely foreign to my ears.
  
  truthsayer....i also had a weimeraner...his name was Amos. i trained him to follow hand commands....it was very cool.
  
  Eilan. *grin* ...my ex....his name is Todd.....he got a beagle pup for his birthday named Copper.
  
  Rupert. *laughing* wow....sounds like a SUPER smart horse! *grin* that's so cool though...even if it was irritating!
  i've had my fair share of psycho animals. yeah.
  
  tbs....wow.....why all the celebrity names?
  
  
  

• Fallyn said on Nov 10, 2007....

  A friend i used to work with. She and her brother found a stray cat and adopted it.
  they thought it was a boy....
  
  and named it Felon.
  
  *laughing* later it got pregnant.....*giggling* ....so they changed it's name to Felony. *snickering* because felony sounds more feminine.
  
  when it had kittens....they named them Misdemeanor, Warning, and Parking Ticket.
  
  sorry, i'm laughing so hard right now remembering.
  

• destinydiva said on Nov 10, 2007....

  I did something something similar, I got a kitten and called it megan (the kids chose it) then when I registered it at the vet I found out it was a boy!! we re named it jack :-)
  
  I have a yorkie now called bailey.......after my favourite drink!!  :-) xx
  

• Fallyn said on Nov 10, 2007....

  aww, that's cute des.

• tbs230 said on Nov 11, 2007....

  Fallyn, I don't really know...the first fish I had was a goldfish, and it was huge, so I named him biggie. Of course, when the next one was bought, I had to name him tupac. You know, 2pac and B.I.G...then I had to beautiful ones that looked exactly alike, and the Olsen twins were at my school, so I named them Mary Kate and Ashley. And since they all had celebrity names, I had to name the last one for a celeb too. So I chose Christina Aguilera, cuz it was the first name that popped into my head.
  

• PassionTraveler said on Nov 15, 2007....

  Pepper: First pet. A small male dog, no clue what breed, but was white with black spots. Grandparents named it, I think.
  
  Tianna: a female Siamese cat. Named by my cousin who couldn't keep her. I got to keep her during a moment of weakness on my Grandmother's part. She regretted it soon after when we learned she was pregnant. But then she came to love her and her kittens and liked to watch them "playing basketball", as she called it. they would bat around leaves while standing on hind paws.
  
  Columbus: Male gray cat, found outside the office by my boss on her birthday which also happened to be Columbus Day. My ex-husband kept him when I moved to California.
  
  Sinatra: A male Siamese cat. Blue eyes and lungs - he cried a lot as a kitten. He was with me the longest, nearly 12 years. He moved with me from Louisiana to California and lived a full life. Stomach cancer got him in the end. Broke my heart.
  
  Siddha & Baby Girl: Sibling female cats found outside the Rite Aid drug store by Steven who begged me to keep them. Steven and I lived together for 4 years in Southern California. He was always bringing home strays. He loved animals and they gave him such peace and joy. I agreed. We decided one would be his, and one would be mine to name. These two have a very interesting story.
  
  • Baby Girl: Steven named Baby Girl, a gray and white tabby. He was from Hawaii and apparently it's common to throw "Girl" after pet names. At first I thought it was a dorky name, but we each got to name one, so I didn't say anything. Turns out she was absolutely the Baby of the family. It fit her perfectly. She was always in his lap begging for attention. He often referred to her as his "lover lover". (He called me that too. ;) ) Steven was killed a year ago in October in a motorcycle accident. Two weeks after he was killed, Baby Girl was found dead by a neighbor. Cause unknown. I was devastated. Steven was cremated and had several memorial and funeral services. One in California, one on the Big Isle of Hawaii, and one on Oahu, spanning a month following his death, before he was finally buried on Oahu. The day his parents returned from the final service on the Big Isle, they heard a kitten up in a tree over their house, a gray and white tabby. They did not know about our cats, but for some reason, they started calling the kitten Baby Girl. When I told his step mother that was the name Steven had given our gray & white tabby, she nearly cried. In that moment, I was at peace about our own Baby Girl's death. I knew she was with Steven.
  • Siddha: Sister/Littermate to Baby Girl, she was all black. (there were like 10 in the litter, and all were varying shades of white to gray to black to mixed of those three. These were ferrel cats, Siddha being the most wild between she and her sister. It took us 4 months to get them comfortable enough around us. Baby Girl would have taken much sooner, but was taking cues from her sister. For a while we had them corralled until they adjusted. I was trying to decide on names for her. I rattled off several cliche' names common to black cats: Merlin, Black Magic, Black Beauty, etc... hoping she would acknowledge when one was to her liking. When I had exhausted the list, I looked at her and spoke aloud. "Okay, what then? You don't seem impressed by any of these." Suddenly, she lifted her head, looked at me, and I swear to God, in my head popped the name Siddha. I had never heard of such a name. I was quite shocked and actually asked her "How do you spell that?"
    Okay, I'm asking a cat how to spell its name it chose for itself. HELLO... PSYCHO! But sure enough, just as the name popped in first, so did the spelling... "with an H"... Sidd"H"a.
    To that point, the only name I heard like that was Sidda Lee, a character from the book and movie, "The Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood." Set in my home state of Louisiana. This was not the spelling she meant. Totally flabbergasted by the experience, I went online to see if I could find the name. Sure enough, Ancient Sanskrit (Indian) that meant something akin to "fulfilled one". OMG. To this day, I'm still in awe at the thought of how she named herself. I still have her and another rescue kitty Steven found only weeks before he was killed, Lukas.
    
  Lukas: A male all black cat Steven brought home a few weeks before he was killed. He's all boy, and not shy at all. Ornery, mischievous, but absolutely lovable.
  
  PT
  

• Fallyn said on Nov 15, 2007....

  tbs...ahhhh, that makes sense now.
  
  OH PASH......*MASSIVE HUGS* ....i'm so sad for you.
  
  the story of siddha's name is so cool though.
  it really makes you wonder doesn't it.
  baby girl is what i call my littlest......when i'm not calling her growly bear, or clara the indestructible barbarian.
  

• karta.devera said on Nov 27, 2007....

  Blackie, me and my dad's dog, joint custody:))
  Ms Whitewhiskers, my brothers cat, my dad named.
  Bibi, my cat
  A Ray Of Light, AKA Ray, my dad's cat I named.
  Everyone but Ray is deceased now, I am sad to say!
  

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