Pet names you've inflicted on your poor companions…

[Pegasi1978]

We had a keeshond named Spike. I think the full registered name was Sir Pieter in Kees Elite. If that wasn’t his name than my dad made it up as a joke and it stuck with me all these years.

Before I was born my parents had a poodle named Litlin (?) named so because there were only two pups in the litter a “Bigun” and a little one. You can guess which one my parents had. 😆 They gave him away while my mom was pregnant with me because he snapped at my older brother.

At one time I had a pet turtle rescued after a 100 year flood in Tulsa, OK. I called it Ellen, but my family called it Tripod since it only had three legs. At the same time I also had a goldfish named Lucy.

[twindragonsmum]

Mice:
Curiosity – play on words/phrase “Curiosity killed the cat…”
Mus Mus – short for Mus Musculus latin for common house mouse
Spike – sharp toe nails
Rodent – because he was one

Dog:
Ben

Cats:
Cheaper-than-mousetraps – we got her for free and she caught all the mice; later changed to Mom Cat
Show Off – because she was one; also called Baby Cat/Baby
Grey – he chose us and came with that name
Oreo – he looked like one
Random Numbers/Randi – dad said he must have a head full of random numbers instead of a brain
Mugsy – came with that name
Fred – short for Freddy Kruger; finally had to have him put to sleep because he attacked people and at almost 30lbs. he did some serious damage
Abby – short for Abbysolutely No Tail she’s a manx
Pixel/Pix/Pixie Girl – dark tabby whose stripes are more spots than stripes with a white spot on her chin and one on her chest
Loki/Lokomotus/Lokutus of Borgdom – named for Scandinavian god of mischief; need I say more

disclaimer: all names subject to change without warning and for no reason whatsoever

twindragonsmum

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[Mirrako]

current ones:
horses: Mirraj (pronounced Meer-raj) black bay Arabian mare; her steel gray son, Jeran; chestnut Quarter mare, Trouble. 🙂

attack cat: Charlie (awesome 16.5 pound guard kitty) 😈

chicken dogs: Rowan and Amberle (both rescued, and won’t get near strangers…) 😳

my truck is Dax 8)

past loves:
horses: Smoky Skip, Scout, Co Ment (Jeran’s daddy), Konda, Char Mar Mari, Tahara Shahraq, Cassidy, Tisha, Brandy, Tabby, Tandy, Chocolate, Penny, Mayday, Dayne, Mar Co, Barnaby, Cricket, Quico, Mirrako, Peso.

cats: Butch, Phantom, Nappy (was Nadia, but she was always asleep), Merlin, Jinx, Amber, Brin, Garfield, Gemini, Shiver, Kaybra, Tribbles, Brat.

dogs: Scruffy, Deputy, Sabrina, Mielikki, What A Hoot, Scooter, Magda, Kip, Critter, Dallas, Sam, Ashleigh, Shadow, Winter.

My screen name is Jeran’s sister’s name…

[darjeb]

When I was little we had cats named Buster, Nosey (for obvious reasons) and Christopher. I have had a cat named Panther (black), and dogs named Kwan, Starfire, Hope and Tristen. Tristen’s breeder stuck him with a name – Pineacres Legend of the Fall but called him Tristen. My b/f calls him pooch or mutt.

[littleironhorse]

Oh! I didn’t think of nicknames!

Scram also responded to Chien Laid (Ugly Dog) and (Chien Stupide) Stupid Dog (just laughing at him because he must have been the smartest dog we ever had and he was very cute)

Gamine also responds to Face de Poil (Fur Face), Guidoune (Tramp-she really is one!) and Gougoune (can’t remember the translation, it’s summer footwear)

[Jasmine]

My Cats:

Tarma (was one of two, Tarma and Kethry from the Mercedes Lackey series) but when I broke up with that bf, he got Kethry

Loki, the Norse god of mischief-also called, You pain in the a##, and Ow, quit biting me!!

When I was living with my parents:

Tebby, Kitty Cat (original yes I know, I didn’t name him), Mousie. All deceased now… 😥

Is it weird that my parents will send me pictures of their new cats but not their grandchildren??

[Travistie]

Well, when I was little we had a few Labs and bulldogs. The black lab was Czar, and the chocolate lab was Reggie. Bulldogs were Jake and Louie. We also had 2 parakeets named Peewee and Terry. I loved Peewee’s Playhouse when I was little… so of course I named the birds.

My Boston Terrier, which only lives with my parents now since I moved away, his name is Deuce. He’s my favorite dog. I just got to see him over the weekend for the holiday. He got fat since I last saw him… but he’s a cutie. My current dog here with me and my husband is a Bassett named Schatzie… which isn’t a bad name. I think it’s pretty, and fits her well. She can be a little terror sometimes, but she’s growing on me. She’ll be 1 year old in another 2 months.

[Maebnus]

Current:
Cat – Brago (after this anime chara)
Ball Pythons – Memnoch (he’s mine, but lives with parents) and Lilith (she’s a Rescue & not socialized that well… not mine, but I named her)

Past:
Cockatiels – Dagwood & Blondie
Canaries – Spot (because it had one) & Spot (because it didn’t)
Parakeets – Magic (there were several incarnations… all blue)
Cats – Jumper (first thing he did after bringing him home was jump over our barricade) and Punkin (orange tabby; we couldn’t think of a better name than what they dubbed him)
Dog – Jasmine (wanted something Disney [I was 13] & nothing else seemed to fit)
Rabbit – Buttermilk (looked just her)

[lamortefille]

Childhood pets:

Noel (Christmas cat)
Sir Kavic of Burlington (his breeders named him that and we stuck with Kavic)

Through the years; most have passed on 🙁 :
Ozzy (parakeet)
Ace (cat)
Frick and Frack (pair of rescued pigeons)
Ralph (female cat my Mom rescued)
Tom (outside cat my daughter named)
Splash, China and Platinum (cats – first husband was a drummer and they were named after cymbals)
Pagan (all black cat)
Bear (huge black cat adopted out)
Max (another misnamed female cat lol adopted out)
Undertaker and Kane (oscars)
Tasselhoff (Tass for short. He is a gold capped conure that was abused before we got him…he ended up going to a breeder and is happy there)
Brett (rosey bourke)
Phoenix (red factor canary)
Baby and Lacey (cockatiels adopted out)

[wolflodge100]

current
cats, Tricky aka twicky tweet, Tippy, Ditto, Hooker, Gotta go, Sega, Mugwart, Fireball, Pheonix, Little bear, Taz, Bandit, Misha.
dogs, Tisha and Flicka

Past cats, Tenacious, T2, Leaper, Mercades, Duecenburg, Keeper, Waiff, Prodegy, Baby boy, Baby pec, Turd, Sebastion, Groucho, Stupid Kitty, Itty bitty kitty and many more.

My first pets ever were a turtle named toot, a parakeet named Richard the lion heart 2 cats named Romeo and Julliet a dog named Rocco and my brother had a chipmunk named Charlie, we also had a duck named Linden Banes. My dad ate him! 😯

[Starbreeze]

Two Pugs:

Munchie (appropriate, she eats everything in sight)
Crooky (named after one of William Wegman’s Weimaraners)

Betta:

Spartan (my son got his name from the game Halo)

[mikki]

nothing too strange here (past and present)

Max – doberman/lab cross, also called Maximus Stupidicus or Weasel

Blitzen – Dachshund cross

Suki – doberman (distemper survivor, runt of the litter) aka Sukiyaki

Wyatt – Brittany Spaniel aka Wyatt Urp, when my brother bought him as a young pup he had to endure 125 mile drive home, yup, he got sick a few times on the way. Now he loves to go for drives.

Callie – calico kitty, aka Squeaker

Speedy Gonzales – desert tortoise rescued from the middle of a construction site many many years ago

Socrates – white mouse named for the white rat in Willard.

[Patricia]

Goodness, I’ve only had dogs. We may be a little unusual then most as we give them middle names. (Though we didn’t always use them.)

Past family…
Griffen – aka griffenski, griff (He was a great dog and protector)

Becky Elizabeth (She was our little lady. Though she could play a mean game of catch)

Current Crew
Katie Lousie – aka kater, sweatie, cuddler (currently asleep in my lap)

Nicolas Alexander – aka nicky, nicolai, nickoli, troublemaker, little devil (I bet you can guess what he is known for. He is only a little over a year old.)

While hiding somewhere in my head I'm on the lookout for white oriental dragons! Please let me know if you know of any available. Thank you!

[Jamie]

I think I ran through all the common names and characters growing up with variety of dogs, cats, birds, and the “misc”
These are the better ones 😉 :

Cats:
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Lassie (Why? Ask my brother)
Corona, Budwieser, Zima
Nero the Hero
Harvey Birdman
Tuna Guitar
Samwise Gamgee
Gwen, Trinity

Dogs:
Boogey-Bear, Rebel, Arwen, Clute
Lenny, Peggy, Kira
Dilemma (Lemma for short)

Birds:
Gandolf the Grey (cockatiel who lived 27 years)
Cinnamon Pearl, Classy

Snake:
Hector .. Troy! 🙂 (Cornsnake)

Turkey:
Stretch (from Garfield, lolz)

[Kasie]

Dogs:
Broozer – Boozy Woozy – Boozer Woozer – Booze.
Spike – Spiker Wiker – Bubber Wubber – Spikey Wikey -Bubbers – and for some reason, my dad likes to call him Ralph.
Marney – Marney Moo Bear

Cats:
Kitty
Corbin

Soft Shelled Turtle:
Elmer

Bearded Dragon:
Bo

Fish:
Jacky
Jewel
Homer

Birds:
Heckle
Jeckle

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