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Pet Names - what's your choice? Hi, everyone I was talking to a friend recently about how we name our pets, and we recognised that there seems to be a clear divide between 'human' names and 'thing' names. As an example, I seem to have gone through two distinct phases. I started with 'things': Friday, Domino, Humbug, Willow, Bramble and Toff. More recently, I've had 'human' names: Beth, Fritz and Lucy. Anyone else wonder why this is? Anyone got a preference / rationale for our choice of names? |
Most of my pets have had human names....... there were a few that didn't, but even the horses we had when I was growing up had "call names" that were human. I can't think of a name that isn't human that would suit Shelby or Seymour.... |
rebel,gypsy holly,noel, meiling,Little louie, teddy, Ikaika, Nohea, |
Hi! it always takes me time to get to know my little ones!! then I decide!! If they are cheeky, sweet, or little monkeys!! the name then comes to you!! and fits thier personality, just perfect!!! Love WendyX Fifi:animal-pa And Lulu:animal-pa |
I always seem to go with off the wall names... right now I have Princess Jezebella Jambo and JuJu (my parrot) in the past I have had Countash, VaydaLynn, Dixie, Lucky, Maisy, Precious, Zamboni.... and I could keep going. lol. I like names that are unique :) |
Names My cats over the years-- Muffin, Puffy, Misty,Trouble, Pookey, Emily, Callie, Bad Kitty(named appropriately). My dogs-- Ralph (a rehomed little girl poodle, who came with her name), Frank E. Footer (Frankie), Bella, and in February or March a new little boy yorkie I want to name Snorkey (Family says I am crazy) LOL.:eek::aimeeyork |
I always prefer to name pets something that I would never name a human. Such as Rascal and Shimmer :D But I love all dogs regardless of their name! ;) |
I guess I lean mostly to human names. My first dog was a beagle named "Mike". Then we have had Bouncer, Roughy & Ready (sibling hounds), Sam, Trish, Camille, Heidi, Obie, Bruiser, Candy, Barney, and now we have a Mickey, Katy Lou, and a Sophie Mae. |
Most of my animals have had "thing" names... here is the list of the animals I've had in my life time that had names. I also have had frogs and lizards and other things that were never named. Cats: Squeaker Mojo Trixie Dogs: Spice Lancelot (Lance) Chip Smokey Hamsters: Taffie Biscuit Chessie Cookie Shadow Twinkie Bandit Aubrey Precious Evie Fish: 7 named after Little Mermaid characters (I was 3 lol) Nemo Rabbits: Hershey Marshmellow (Marshie) Mice: Zues Hercules |
Hmmm... I never noticed but all my dogs always pretty much had people names Prissy was a Pug I had The Toby was a Lhasa and Mike and Zach are my two Yorkies |
We have; Tyler- Basset Hound Tucker- Yellow Lab Taylor- new baby yorkie Gracie- bird Anna Bell - guinea pig |
Human names...I guess. lol Yorkie (Bella) Guinea Pig (Ringo...what can I say...I was young :p lol) Frog (Kermit) Lizard (Bob) And I plan to name my next yorkie boy Barkley |
Hmm... Current pets: Penny (Yorkie) Timothy (Siamese cat) Benjamin (cat) Past pets: Kelly (golden retriever) Jamie (cat) Pepper (cat) Ib (hamster) Kaiakua (fish) Kupo, Stitch, MaeMae, Noe, Whiskers, Stubb, Pippin, Merry, Ostrich, and Pudge (rats) Ping (mouse) Sydney, Chico, Rocky, Kiwi (birds) Dolly (salamander) ... I don't really have any sort of theme. It seems like things that tend to live longer, I give human names, while things that live less than ten years I get more creative with. ;) |
I was thinking mostly human names...but after going back in the past I'm realizing most are not human.... Current Pets: Yorkie-Gracie Aussie-Izzy Macaw-Tiah Amazon parrot-Chili Pepper Past Pets: Sheltie-Cassie Irish Setter- Brandy Irish Setter - Aragon Cat - Spook Cat - Clover Sheltie - Hutch Fish: Harley Goldie Hot Lips Zorro |
I had a Shih tzu, Casey, and my Yorkie is Lexi. For Lexi, I was thinking of all kinds of names, and I like clever or somewhat unusual - non-people names. I can only think that for me, I probably ended up with a people name because I knew she would be such a member of our family - like the other people in our family. Current guinea pigs: Chloe Cleo (short for Cleopatra, came from the rescue with that name) Claire (came from the rescue with the name "Skunky", but I had to change it!) Milkshake just passed a week or two ago. She was adopted, already named. Abby passed a year and a half ago. She was an Abyssinian guinea pig, hence her name! Past guinea pigs: Piglet (Piggy) Wiglet (Wiggy) Ziggy Oreo Sirena and too many others I can't remember now! Current bird: Kiwi Past birds: Jellybean Tweety |
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