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At the boarding kennel where I work PT we have a regular client. He is an engineer, and his cat's name is Benzene. :D
There was a lively and irrepressible orangie named Wheels, too! If I think of any others, I'll post them here.
My sister swore that she talked to a guy years ago who named his two cats "Hey You" and "Who Me". :D
As a dog groomer, I see a lot of pet names.
I like the creative ones.
I think about every third dog we groom is named Gizmo. It's getting really overdone.
Pet names are like kid names - trends come and go. Over the last few years we have groomed a LOT of dogs named Zoe and Chloe.
I personally don't like the movie names. Understandable if you have little kids, I guess, but still .... I have groomed dogs over the years named Ariel, Aladdin, Mufasa, Simba, Buzz, Woody, etc. Of course, right now every other dog is named Marley. I just groomed a dog named Miley. :rolleyes:
When I was a kid we had a dog named Blood. Definately unique. (I didn't name her.)
Of my nine dogs, I named exactly zero. My son named Zeke, Vanilla and Sequoia. Rocky, Iggy, Gia, Lucky, Pepper, Georgie came with those names.
My uncle had a dog named "U-Back." He said he would let the dog out, it would run around for about 30 seconds then come stand at his feet. He would always say, "You back?" It stuck.
My current rescue pom was named Bandit. Lame, IMO. One of my groomer's three year old son thought we were calling him Bandaid. Funny. And my groomer says, as she tries not to step on him, "You are always underfoot, Sir!" So his new name is Sir Bandaid Underfoot.
I've never been very creative with pet names. Storm, Pearl, and Ziggy Stardust were already named and I liked the names so I kept them. Sky was named Herman which I couldn't stand so I looked at his beautiful blue eyes and he became Sky. I was also going for a weather theme at the time because I had Storm, Sunny, and Cirrus before I adopted Sky.
My RB Pepper was named Chocolate before I adopted him but it didn't suit him so I named him Pepper because he was black, full of energy, and he would sometimes sneeze. Little did I know how common this name was. I named my RB Sunny even before I adopted him because I always wanted an orange male cat named Sunny and it went with Storm's name well. I named my RB Starr this because it kind of went with the weather theme again.
Growing up we actually had a female dog named Lucky. My mom named her because she was born on Friday the 13th which is supposed to be unlucky. She never ended up having any weird illnesses since she was named Lucky and she lived a good long life.:)
I named the family cat Puff. I was only 8 years old at the time and she was a fluffy orange cat. Another cat we had was already named before we adopted him and he was a large gray cat and you guessed it his name was Smokey.:)
We named one of our rats Quincy and I named another one Michelle. We also had two guinea pigs named Ann and Dan. We had two mallard ducks for a short time and we,the kids, named them Pecky and Quacky. How original and pretty embarassing now.:o
The best and most fitting name I've ever heard for a pet was an adorable little long hair doxy named "Link". I loved, loved, loved that name. I don't plan on ever having a Doxy, but if I did, he/she would be named Link.
Kersey was actually named "Kersee" by her foster parents before I adopted her. She was named after Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the Olympian, due to her amazing athletic skill of leaping effortlessly over a chain-link fence w/ a single bound. I loved the name Kersee but wanted to make it my own, so I changed the spelling. Boone was named after the super hot guy in the show "Lost". I liked the name (and the man playing Boone was SO good looking) I decided to name my puppy Boone. Graham (my RB Aussie mix boy) was named after the cereal Golden Grahams, because he was about the same color as Golden Grahams, and at the time, it was my favorite cereal hehe.