Favorite Pet names. Your critters, or others...

[electric_blue68]

What are silly and good, apt, beautiful, clever names you've heard.

Only had turtles ask a kid. Only named one - big boy (real original 😄 ); I think because he actually lasted, and grew. Gave to friends after he got to 2+ inches, they kept him for some years untill 5 inches! They gave him to the well regarded Statan Island Reptile Zoo.

I thought of this bc I was on Google feed, and realized I hadn't seen a particular cockatoo video's being shown in a while.
It's named "Cumulous" (after the puffy white clouds). When they puff up their feathers; it's a pretty apt name. 👍 I love it.

Then a cat fosterer named an orangey kitten - "Bagel". Idk why I found that hilariously delightful!

These are the two I remember.
What about you?

[Ocelot II]

1. When I was very small - about five - I had two red-eared slider turtles,

and I named them Myrtle and Fertile. I once had a calico cat named Spot, but all my other cats had human names.

[electric_blue68]

5. 👍 How did toi come with "Fertile"?

[Ocelot II]

7. I was a precocious child, and it rhymed with "turtle."

[electric_blue68]

11. 😄

I figured the rhyming part 👍

[NJCher]

52. shoulda' spelled it

Fertyl.

[1WorldHope]

2. I have a border Collie named Booger.

He really grew into his name too.

[electric_blue68]

3. 😄 👍

[DBoon]

54. My wife and I had a black female pit bull we nicknamed "Booger"

as in "Booger just ate one of my shoes"

She was playfully mischievous

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Names but also nicknames. Don't we all have them

for our pets
Bismo- a goofy orange peach kitten, named after pepto bismol. It just fit.

Another peach cat named Peter Lorre and I kid you not, he looked like him!

My beautiful charcoal cat with a silver undercoat - more commonly referred to as the handsome boy, but the rotten child. He outlived them all at 17 and most definitely ruled the roost.

[electric_blue68]

6. Bismo 😄

Your charcol+ cat sounds gorgeous

[JPK]

8. We named our current dog

Jeep. He's named after the Popeye character from the 1930's. I do happen to own a Jeep but the name seemed appropriate because he's a Cocker Spaniel. He is a magical creature. We also named a cat I found that was emaciated, lying in the street on Christmas day. I took her home and we have been nursing her back to health. We named her CD for Christmas Day.

[electric_blue68]

9. The popeye character I don't know. I love why you named your rescue cat CD.

Hopefully she'll grow healthy, and perky under your care. Good on you! 👍

[JPK]

46. You are probably too young to know

Just do a google search for Popeye's Jeep. Many images of Jeep will be found including a funny animated cartoon of when Popeye received Jeep.

[electric_blue68]

69. Yup too young. i did look Jeep up

[AllaN01Bear]

10. dog, huskey mix bandit.

[electric_blue68]

80. Love huskies.

[odins folly]

12. Yellow lab and a BIG Golden

The lab was our first fur baby: Zoe. Became Zozo, then Dodo, then Dodo bird. Beautiful little lady.

Golden was Angus. He became Gusgus almost immediately. Googoo. Gu Gu. Goo. Boo. Booboo.
Most warm and affectionate boy doggo ever.

🥰

[electric_blue68]

13. I like your name transitions 👍

[surrealAmerican]

14. One of my current dog's nicknames ...

... is "Limbo". She has that low walk when stalking rabbits and squirrels.
Her other nickname is "Mario" because of her joyful jump.

[electric_blue68]

19. Limbo 👍

It's interesting to watch how various animals move

[Midnight Writer]

15. He's not mine, but I always got a kick out of "Chief Inspector Murphy".

[electric_blue68]

20. Someone's pet you know, or a TV, movie character?

[Midnight Writer]

23. I think someone on this site (DU) has posted pictures, but I don't remember who.

[Rizen]

16. My cat's name is Arwen but I call her baby a lot.

I want a real baby but that doesn't seem to be in the cards so I have a cat.

[electric_blue68]

21. A serious dream to lose... so gentlely smother your furkid w....

love.

[piddyprints]

17. Current kittens...

Found with their dead mother at 1 day old, rescued, bottle-fed, expertly raise until time for adoption. One has a little black mark beside her mouth, so they named her Marilyn. Her brother, of course, was named Monroe. We decided to keep the names. When we call them, it’s always, “Marilyn, Monroe…” Somehow it just doesn’t feel right to call them the other way around.



Other favorites were Satchmo and Sophie, although it gets hard to choose among all the fabulous past pet names we had.

[electric_blue68]

22. Awww, luckily for them you found them...

and did lots of TLC!

Also like your naming ones you currently caring for w the same first letter.

[piddyprints]

25. The rescue found them and raised them.

We didn't get them until they were 12 weeks old. We were looking for a boy, but couldn't separate them after hearing their story. They are bonded for life. Plus, they were born on my mother's birthday. My friend calls them the M&Ms. They're rambunctious almost-6-month-olds now, and very sweet.

For a long time, all the pets had S names. Something my daughter thought up. Then, after my brother died, I brought home his cat, Kyra, and the pattern was broken. She lived to be 21. We had to let her go on New Year's Eve. Marilyn and Monroe are doing their best to help it hurt less.

Funny... I just noticed that we seem to be going alphabetically now. Kyra, then Luna, and now Marilyn and Monroe. The next one will have to start with N, I suppose.

[electric_blue68]

31. Got it re the rescue...

The "M&M's": that's adorable! 🥰

Sorry for the lose of your brother.
Kyra is a nice name. Sorry she's gone, too. 21 is quite an age.

"N" 🤔 Let’s see...
Nugget, Nifty, Noodle, Nancy, Nick, ....
🙂

[likesmountains 52]

18. A client's Pit Bull (very sweet doggie) is named Mayhem...

[pansypoo53219]

24. i named my new black kitten cosmo, years before seinfeld's kramer. then my next one basil + then dr who said his name

was basil. next pair i plan on chester + percy(persephone). i was five when i named whiskers. black cat w/ 1 white whisker.

[electric_blue68]

32. Cosmo for a black kitten is great.

Seems you had predictive skills. 👍

One white whisker - interesting!

[get the red out]

26. Retro Man

Called Retro for short. And short he is, he is a 3 yr old mini-Aussie. He keeps me on my toes (and pisses off my 15 year old Border Collie, who lets him know it).

[electric_blue68]

33. Looked him up: very cute dog.

I would guess your border collie has gotten slower, while Retro is full of energy.

[SARose]

27. Pookie and Sweetie

Our Felix was always called Pookie. Named after Garfield’s teddy bear.

Oscar is called Sweetie because well that’s what he is! He is a very laid back Joe Cool type.💕

[electric_blue68]

34. I'm glad you still have Sweetie.

[bif]

28. We had two cats: Smike & Satchmo

Smike after the Dickens character and Satchmo after Louis Armstrong. Before that we had a cat named Kaline after Tiger great Al Kaline. And he actually fetched like a ballplayer. After that we had a can named Buster because, well, he was a tough guy.

Our current cat is an Abyssinian named Lizzie after HRH Queen Elizabeth.

[electric_blue68]

35. You've had a nice batch over time.

Abyssinian's are so pretty!

[Dorothy V]

29. A sweet little cat my Hubby named Bosco Pasquali. And yes, she's a girl.

She was an absolute doll and so friendly!
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[electric_blue68]

36. Aww, Hi Bosco! Love black cats.

[Clouds Passing]

30. Puffer. Childhood cat.

[electric_blue68]

37. Unique name!

[Clouds Passing]

38. He was a unique cat.

He would leave for months at a time and then come back home all bedraggled for rest and rejuvenation. He had puffy fur.

[electric_blue68]

41. Wow, he knew where he could return to. Puffy fur!

[CTyankee]

39. Marvie Dog.

short for Marvelous Dog. We found her, a stray. I cried my eyes out when we had to take her to be put down. She died in my arms. It comforts me that she died knowing how much she was loved.

[electric_blue68]

42. Ohhh. The last Loving Kindness you can do for them. 🩷

Marvelous dog. 🥰

[KitFox]

40. Our German Shepherd, Gunther we adopted from a friend who had passed away. He

had the sweetest disposition. Had a rooster we named Gallo del Cielo (from the Tom Russell song) because he was so feisty. We had a huge white cat my kids named Mickey and soon became MickeyCat. Had 2 angora goats, Wilma and Molly and a huge sheep the kids named Lance. They even named the koi in our pond: Elvis, Calico, Cinderella, and Boofer. I could go on and on. We had quite the menagerie over the years. Fun post! Thanks. 😊

[electric_blue68]

43. What a parade of critters! Glad to Bring Some Fun here! Yw.

Oh, angora goats! Is their fur as soft as they say, or am I rhinking ?angora rabbits?

One of my favorite videos besides kittens are the baby goats jumping around! SQueee! 😄🥰

I love koi. In our Botanic Gardens in the pools for aquatic plants (lotuses!!!) they have plenty of koi. So varied, and pretty!

[KitFox]

44. Our angora goats had white, really soft curly coats. They were

so cute. The kids built some slides and ramps with scrap lumber leaning against stumps or the sides of the barn to see if they would play there and sure enough watching them slide and frolick around on and around them was delightful. Sometimes they would just be grazing or walking along and then suddenly jump for joy!😁

[electric_blue68]

45. Sounds wonderful! Hello, cuties! 🥰

[mucifer]

47. I was reading Harpo Marx's autobiography when I named my new dog at the time "Harpo"

She was a mutt from the city pound in Chicago. Harpo the human was a big dog lover. I thought if I named my dog Harpo she would be silly and quiet. I forgot Harpo in the movies had a loud horn. At the time I had a roommate who had migraines. Harpo the dog apparently remember that so she barked a lot with a big mischievous smile. Not the brightest pooch. But, she was very playful and her name totally fit.

[electric_blue68]

70. Right...the horn! Glad she was sweet

[JMCKUSICK]

48. Snuggles and Cuddles and Petunia

Snuggles and Cuddles were two kittens that my ex gf rescued on her mail route and I talked her into keeping them. They earned those names with their deeds. Snuggles passed last May and Cuddles is my trusty walking companion to the cemetery and the pond.
Petunia is my 15 y/o daddies girl shelter adoption and I mistakenly named her Petunia because I thought it meant a tiny flower and she had the cutest little pinhead proportionate to the rest of her body and so right or wrong, she has been my "Little Petunia" ever since.

[electric_blue68]

71. Rest in peace Snuggles. Hello Cuddles, and Petunia

[mopinko]

49. zipper

i named my 1st terrier after an amazing little poodle i knew. a zipper she was, so smart, agile and well trained. my zipper was the same.
when i got 2 more, my goth daughter wanted to name them after twin sister serial killers. i vetoed that and named them rags and socks. they were collectively ’the triumverat’

i had a boxer i named after my mom’s cousin/bff- puddy (pronounced poodie), short for puddin face, which was her dad’s nickname for her.

[electric_blue68]

72. Zipper, I like it! Oh goodness glad you vetoed your daughters' names! 😄

Aww, pudding face 🩷

[3catwoman3]

50. I had a black cat that I named Honky Cat. I liked the Elton John song.

[electric_blue68]

73. Ha, I know the song 👍

[The Blue Flower]

51. My daughter was an art history major

She named her cat DeClawed Monet.

[electric_blue68]

74. I'm an artist, great pun! 😄

[Tikki]

53. We brought home a three year old Russell Poodle mix last September.

He is quite the little meatball but such a love bug.
His name is Tio Dido which I believe means Mischievous Uncle.

This is the first time the family has two dogs living here.

It is fun for sure.

The Tikkis

[electric_blue68]

75. Enjoy your doggos!

[DBoon]

55. We were teenagers in the early 1970s. We had a cat named Alice

Alice was a male cat.

[bif]

57. So you're 150 years old?

Wow!

[DBoon]

58. No, but I have sometimes typed an "8" instead of a "9"

[electric_blue68]

76. I did see Alice C in Oncert once

[DBoon]

90. there is Alice Cooper and there was Alice Cat

[electric_blue68]

97. Ha... i saw Alice Cooper (not Cat) 😉

[Bayard]

56. Our current dog family were all named when we adopted them

Duke and Gracie, (the 2 Pyrs,) and Frankie, the Scottish Collie.

I won't bore you with the names of 20 barn cats, and 22 goats. My big Oldenburg gelding's name is Paco, and his mini buddies are Trigger and Thunder. The mini donkeys are Wendy and Roy.

Soooo very many animals over the years, but a few favorite names......my Borzoi girl, Jazzy (Jazzmine,) Rocket, the mini-doxie we lost several months ago at 17, Cisco, my Siamese, and Nigel, (best and dopiest cat ever!)

[electric_blue68]

77. Pyrenees? They're big, right? Oh, boy, a horse, mini horses, and mini donkeys?

Wow!

Love the minis, and regular size horse and donkeys.

Jazzy/Jazzmine is a great name for a Borzoi! Mini doxie - so adorable.
Love Siamese in all their colors.

[MLAA]

59. Many years ago a colleague named her two cats Simon &Schuster.

[electric_blue68]

79. As a reader I love it!

[Permanut]

60. Rags the cat..

Named after a doctor I worked with at St Vincent Hospital in Oregon

His name was Ugo Raglioni, but everybody called him Rags.

Got a cat during those years, and named him after the doc, but I never told him. Just seemed like a good name for a cat.

[electric_blue68]

82. A unique name origin!

[ILikePie92]

61. My Aussie

His name was Penske, after the moving truck that got me out of Raleigh.....hated that awful place.
We initially thought he was a German Shepherd so Penske, German, gsd....
As he got older he acquired the name Pensk-a-doodle and then eventually he became Doodleman. Penske Doodleman. Loved that little dude. Was a great dog.
I'm weird, lol

[electric_blue68]

85. That you had fun with the names, and loved your doggo is the good thing!

[ILikePie92]

98. Thank you electricblue68

I miss my little Pensk every day. He was my child.

[electric_blue68]

99. {hug}

[deRien]

62. A German shepherd puppy

Who kept yipping when we first got her… named her Yippee/Yipper🙂

[Morbius]

63. My sister had a cat with a mark which resembled a half mustache.

She named him "Dali."

My dog, which we adopted, is named "Dozer." I don't believe in renaming animals I adopt; I figure adjusting to a new home is enough of a struggle without a name change. Maybe I'm wrong about this, I don't know. Last dog we adopted had a name I hated: "Barkley" (lacks imagination).

[electric_blue68]

84. Dali! 👍 Interesting thought about adjust8ng also to a new name.

Barkley.... I see what you mean.

Although ...Barkster might have been a bit clever.

[Emile]

64. Yellow Lab named Dusty

He liked to roll around in the dirt.

[electric_blue68]

86. Lots of baths, I presume?

[OldBaldy1701E]

65. Well, they were not my pets, but...

Bandit - Johnny Quest's dog

Ace, The Bat Hound - self explanatory

Krypto - Superman's dog

Belvidere - Colonel Shuffle's dog

[electric_blue68]

88. omg! 😄 I've seen that cartoon (a gazillion yrs ago) but Not that episode!

[justaprogressive]

66. A friend of mine had a mix of Irish Setter

and Labrador retriever. Long haired dark dark brown. Very smart.

He named him Sauron (the dark lord in TLOTR)

[electric_blue68]

89. Sauron! Oh my.

[Nittersing]

67. Magilla Gorilla was my second black chow.

First was Fred and the one I have now is Monkey Face.

[electric_blue68]

93. Black chows are very cool looking

[womanofthehills]

68. I named my tux cat MrLucky

I live in the middle of nowhere- 4 miles down a dirt yard and he came to my house. First time I saw him he was attached to my dogs face as my dog was running across the yard.

Took him 3 months to come inside and a yr to climb upstairs to bedroom. I recently put him down - I had him almost 20 yrs.

His name “Mr Lucky” was perfect because he found the person who loved him like crazy -so he was super lucky. I have hundreds of photos of him -selfies with me, sleeping in my hammock, hanging out with the dogs, up in trees etc.

[electric_blue68]

91. Awww, rest in peace Mr Lucky. Glad you found each other.

[Grey5]

78. think my favourite is

a border collie nmed Banjo.. just a lovely dog.

[electric_blue68]

92. Banjo is a fun name.

[Capt. America]

81. Spike and Tyke

There was a dog in Tom and Jerry cartoon named Spike. He had a son named Tyke.
When our dog Spike had a daughter, we named her Tyke.

[electric_blue68]

94. Cool.

[Botany]

83. Caesar, Mac aka puppins MacGurk, Fluebie, and Pepita

They have made my life better. All retrievers … Caesar chestnut red golden, Mac yellow lab,
Fluebie black lab, and Pepita yellow female lab is snoring in my living room.

[electric_blue68]

95. You've made their lives better, too!

[wryter2000]

87. Casper

The friendly ghost corn snake

[electric_blue68]

96. I love snakes! (avoiding poisonous ones!)

When I was 8 or 9 on vacation we passed a Reptile zoo.

Got to feel the underside of a snake. The scales were hard, smooth and cool.
Not the myth of slimeyness.

[wryter2000]

100. corn snakes are cool pets

so are ball pythons

[electric_blue68]

101. Looked them up and saw why they got thst name. Beautiful markings!

A bazillion years ago friends of my mom (they had kids we hung out with) they found a little snake in their apt about the size of a pencil. I was excited but it disappeared before we could visit.

[Jeebo]

102. Riley, Rose, Tyson

I had a gray tabby and walked by him one day while he was napping on a corner of a bookcase. I thought, "This cat has people feeding him, giving him water, changing his kitty litter, opening doors for him, giving him affection, nobody is mistreating him, the little guy has a free meal ticket for life. He really is living the life of Riley." I was thinking about that radio show from the 1940s, "The Life of Riley", starring William Bendix as the title character Chester A. Riley. Riley really was the perfect name for that cat. It fit him to a T. He was Riley for as long as I had him. He wandered around the neighborhood a lot and some of my neighbors who didn't know his name had their own names for him too. Anubis was the name a mother-and-daughter three houses up the street gave him, for example. But most of my neighbors who found out that his name was Riley called him by that name, too.

With people Riley was really friendly and affectionate, but not so much with other critters. But there was one exception: There was a big, rotund, yellow tabby two houses south of my house named Pumpkin. That was a great name for him, because he did look like a pumpkin. He was the color of a pumpkin, big and round like a pumpkin. He was not my cat and so I didn't get to name him. He was my neighbor and my friend, though, a really good guy, and Riley liked him too. In fact, Riley and Pumpkin were best buddies. They wandered around the neighborhood a lot, and it was a really beautiful thing when I was in my front yard and here would come Riley and Pumpkin, trotting along to my house. It was in fact a beautiful thing, seeing the obvious friendship between those two guys.

Well, Pumpkin was a big, strong guy, but he had a high, squeaky meow that you would not expect from a big guy like him, so I started calling him Tyson. As I said, he was not my cat and so I didn't get to name him, but Tyson was my nickname for him.

I had a female cat, a stray, who took up with me. A kind of splotchy, black-and-tan-and-white with faint tabby markings. Until she settled down in my house after a few months, she had a bit of a wild streak. I named her Rose, because she was really pretty, but she had thorns. Rose was the perfect name for that cat, too. Coincidentally, the name of the veterinarian I took her to was Dr. Rose. An interesting coincidence.

Rose had a litter after one of her wanderings and I had her spayed. I have one of the cats from that litter now. His name is Fred. I don't know why I named him Fred; he just seemed like a Fred to me, for some reason which I cannot articulate.

— Ron

[electric_blue68]

110. Nice collection of cat stories!

Heh, life of Riley, indeed 😄

[Figarosmom]

103. My granddaddy had a bloodhound

Named JoJo and that seemed to fit him just right.

Of my own dogs Ralph was my favorite name. He was a Basenji and the name fit him too.

My last dog was. Muzzy. He was an Akita/ Shepherd mix. I liked that name too.

And I had a cat named Moo because her markings were like a Holsten cow.

[electric_blue68]

111. Jojo sounds like a gentle giant? Basenji looked up their vocalizations, ....Muzzy, i like that

Moo, sounds about right. 👍

[Figarosmom]

118. Yes JoJo was a gentle giant

But he also could hold his own with w bear if he had to. Ralph couldn't bark but he did know how to kinda yelp and he was good at whining when he wanted something.

[Skittles]

104. my favorite pet was a tuxedo cat named Riff Raff

[LiberalLoner]

105. Had a cat named PissNVinegar once

[electric_blue68]

112. Were they spicy, as they say?

[peggysue2]

106. We're dog people so we've named a number of pups

My favorites?

Breena, Ruffian and Kiera.

We also had a Winston, Misty and Benny (adopted and came with the name at the ripe old age of 12).

Btw, Benny's still kicking.

As a kid my favorite dog name was Bingo.

[electric_blue68]

113. Nice set of names.👍 Hi, Bennie 👋

[peggysue2]

120. Thanks, electric blue

Benny's waving a paw back.

[Runningdawg]

107. 25 years ago we had a cat named Apollo, the trend stuck

Now we have Athena the cat and Ares and Venus, pit bulls. What really funny is we had these pets before we moved to our current neighborhood and found out we have Zeus, Anubis, Morpheus, Cheron, Sybil, Minerva and Isis.

[electric_blue68]

114. "Mythological" animals! 👍

[chowmama]

108. Nicknames - Maui and The Big Island

Maui, a bichon, was actually Good Golly Miss Molly. Molly became Maui, with baby talk (DH had a young son).

Once Maui was in common usage, my beloved chow chow Autumn Bruin just had to become The Big Island.

They were also known as Pinky and The Brain. (Molly was The Brain.)

[electric_blue68]

115. Fun! 👍

[Borogove]

109. Once had two dogs that we named Bo and Diddley.

[electric_blue68]

116. A music fan 👍

[LudwigPastorius]

117. We used to have a big, goofy Siamese named Wimple.

...a runty little tabby named Opie (cause he had a big head compared to his body, like Opie Taylor).

There's currently a black and white tomcat hanging around that I started feeding. I named him Five-O, because of his cop car coloration.

[tavernier]

119. We had a dachshund, fat, spoiled, slowest dog in the world,

so of course we named her Cheeta, the planet’s fastest animal.

My daughter is terrified of snakes and discovered a large, pure black snake in the backyard of her new home. These snakes are known for eating mice and rats and scorpions, so I encouraged her not to kill it. I told her to name it and then it would be like a pet. She named it Spot. She actually cried years later when it was run over in the street in front of her house, even though they never became touching friends.