Explain your pets names!

[molucass]

There is a thread like this on 2 other forums I go to, so I thought it would be interesting to do it on here too.

Basically, just explain how you came up with your pets name. Was there anything specific that made you choose his/her name..



Dogs:

Molly-- Not sure... After I found her, we were trying to come up with a name for her, and I suggested Molly.. My mom liked it, and it fit, so there ya go.

Annie-- She was already named this when I got her... I didn't like it at first, but it suits her.

Bailee-- I went through several names and tried calling her the different ones I picked, but finally my mom and I settled on Bailee... No reason behind it, just think the name is cute, and fits her cute personality.

Felony-- Again, no real reason. I just like the way it sounds, and its unique.. You won't find too many dogs walking around with that name.


Cats:

Angel-- She was the sweetest kitten in her litter, and my sister always said "Shes a little angel" so thats what she named her.

Lucy-- She's a very 'funny' cat, and shes a loud mouth, like Lucille Ball was... My mom and I like the show "I Love Lucy", so we decided to call her that.

Lilly-- She showed up at our doorstep around Christmas time, and she is tabby (tiger striped), so I named her Tiger Lilly. We shortened it.

Umm yeah... We aren't very creative... =P

[Glacier]

I didn't get to name most of them, but here are the ones I did:

Dogs:

Muskwa--his name means "bear" in cree. He was actually nameless for several months as we couldn't decide. An old medicine man who was friends with my hubby told us that the dog had a bear spirit (as does my husband) so he got his name. he still answers to "HEY YOU NO" pretty well though.

Earle--Named after singer Steve Earle, because I am obsessed!

Hoodoo--my bridge baby. He got his name when he learned to howl at three weeks old and decided to practice alot in the wee hours of the morning. The owner of his momma (Muskwa is his daddy) was always asking him "who do you think you are?" the first part stuck.

Kayleigh--arrived being called Cowley. Which I hated. I kept calling her Kayleigh so I figured that must be her real name.

Heyoka--was called Nanook by the shelter. I just hate that name for northern breeds, cuz everyone uses it. My hubby called him Heyoka, which is Sioux for a clown who teaches through his antics. It's a perfect name for this dog!

Preacher, Franklin, Raven, Pingo, Sleet, Bandit, Delta, Antare, Founder, Chase, Pacer, Hobo, and Goldie all arrived named and I just left them as they were.

Cats:

Glacier--is named for his icy blue eyes. They remind me of glaciers.

Pete--was supposed to be Pierre, but my hubby protested and he became Pete which suits him better anyway!

Dominique--walked into our house at five weeks old and very tiny. She promptly beat up the two adult cats already with us and claimed her place as the dominant cat--hence a dom name!

Ivy is named because her eyes are the color of an ivy plant.

Polly Paws is named for her many extra toes--polydactal=Polly Paws.

Onyx is named for his solid black coat.

Felicia--well, this weird. I met her at about 4 weeks old in the shelter. She was quite sick as her momma had rejected her and she has deformed front legs. Another momma cat at the shelter accepted Felicia and saved her life. I knew that little kitten was meant to be mine. The first time I held her I heard her say her name was Felicia, not Stardust as the shelter named her. Heard it as clear as day and that's been her name every since.

Twicket came named. I wish I knew the story as it's a cool name, but no such luck.

[Tonya]

Cats:

Raven....A woman at the pool at my old apartment complex had a newborn girl named Raven and I loved the name.

Ron....I wanted another 'R' name, so I named him after my biological father who died when I was a baby...Ron....

Dogs:

Dusty...His name was Ajax, and I was just in a hurry to change that dumb name...Dusty was the first to come to mind.

Roxy....Her original name was ChaCha, so same as Dusty...just in a hurry to change it, I thought Roxy suited her well.

Sarah....my 6 year old son named her after a girl in his class.

[Uabassoon]

Corkscrew- He already came with that name and i thought it was great so I kept it.

Tibby- the night I got her she meowed all night, so I thought I should name her after an opera singer. My favorite is Renata Tebaldi. So after messing around with the name a while I came up with Tibby and Tibby seemed to fit her perfectly.

[Blustang24]

Well I'll include a few recent RB animals.

Mittins- He had little white paws and a little white on his chest and the rest of him was gray. My best friend's mom thought of the name, so I had to be different and chance the "e" to an "i". lol We had to bring him back with Michael because my brother was thought to be allergic to cats. We realized it wasn't that (dumb doctors) and Only Michael was there and another ALL gray (no white mittiens) so we got him and called him Mittins anyways.

Michael- AKA Katelynn. They told us that he was a "she" and when we got back from the vets we found out it really was a "he" so my brother just changed his name real quick. No real meaning behind either of those names..he just liked them.

Rudi- Our pug, we got her from her previous owners when she was 4 years old. They didn't want her anymore and we adored her sister who lived in our neighborhood so we took her. NO offense to anyone, but they named her Rudi from the character on the Cosby Show because the kids of the other family thought the black pushed in noses resembled each other. So that's how she got her name

Jessie- No peticular reason...again my brother wanted a pure black lab and stuck with names that just popped into his head. I call her Jessie Lynn though. Also, J.J.

Cleatus- I got him when he was five monsth old. His original name was Cane, then later names Cleatus. Within the five months of his life, and to my knowledge he had lives in the SPCA once, Humane society twice and had 3 other "Homes". When I got him his name was spelled "Cletis" So I didn't want to make him go through any more changes so I just changed the spelling to "Cleatus". I played softball alot and like the "Cleat"us part of it better.

Honey- She came with her name..I suppose she was named that from the color of her coat. My boyfriend and I were going to change it to "Hunnie" because I think Pooh spells it that way, but then decided against it for some reason. Not like she would know the difference.

Orion- He got his name because he looks like the cat from Men In Black....Orion's Belt.

Caeleigh- I was going to name her Caelyn, but decided against it and used part of my name and named her Caeleigh. Again, having to be different on the spelling.

Chloe- I came up with the name for Caeleigh, but it didn't fit, then I just said it again for Chloe and it just kinda stuck.

Stangly- He's my turtle. I drive a muSTANG hence STANGly. I then just wanted to add the "ly" to it.


That's it! LOL sorry if I bored you!

[sirrahbed]

This is interesting! I always wondered especially about "Felony" and wonder if there might be another named Miss D. Meaner

I majored in English Literature in college and always liked poetry so my three kittie are named for poets.
TS Eliot
Emily Dickenson
Dylan Thomas

Our RB bridge kitties were Bert and Ernie - from when the kids were small and liked Sesame Street

[binka_nugget]

Kai - We had Chip, Zeke and Blaze [for the blaze on his head] on the list of names as well as Keiko (because we didn't know if we were getting a boy or girl). I chose Kai because prior to getting him, I had just recently gotten back from a camping trip. One of my camp leaders was named Kai-Tech. I loved the name Kai so I just stuck with it. I've always loved K names.

Kaedyn - He was originally named Milo but he didn't respond to it when we got him back in September. He didn't look like a Milo to me and it just wasn't unique enough for me so I wanted to change it. Before we got him, my brother and I were brainstorming names. I said Cajun jokingly but then started fiddling with the word and made it Kayden. Then I came up with a few ways to spell it; Kaedyn, Kayden, Kaeden but Kaedyn just stuck out so I picked that. But for the first few days we had him, my mom and I couldn't decide on a name. We ended up calling him "Question mark" for a couple days.

[slleipnir]

Josie: Not sure. I think I was reading a book at the time I got her, and liked the name or something lol.

Zeke: From the show Tour Of Duty. There is a cool character named Zeke. That, and I love the name. I wonder if anyone has ever seen the show..

Kiba: I wanted a cool japanese name. Kiba was probably the easiest to pronouce out of the bunch I wanted. (It look my mom long enough just to remember this one lol) It means Fang..which also happens to be Kiba's fathers name....lol Tsume (claw) might have been more fitting, but it's kinda hard to pronouce properly..or awkward or w/e)

Smitten: Honestly, I mixed 2 diffent names together and came up with it..lol T-T I was a lot younger at the time and didn't even realize it was an actual word....

[ramanth]

Kia ~ Already named and I felt it suited her. Recently though, I've thought about calling her Illyria (Ill-Leer-E-ah) after the character on 'Angel'. Both have piercing blue eyes and act like they are top dog.

Zam ~ Named after a Star Wars character. A female bounty hunter. I figured Zam claimed my heart as a bounty.

Logan ~ Andy named him after he clawed me up. Said he was like a little wolverine and so he was named after the X-Men character.

Jango ~ My little betta. He's blue and Jango is another bounty hunter character from Star Wars with blue armor. It suits him.

[Ally Cat's Mommy]

Ally because we found her outside, so she is an Alley-Cat

Connor means "Most Wanted" and I really had to fight hard to keep him. The 2nd choice was "Brody" which means brother. All the good people in PT Land helped choose the name (Hubby wanted to keep his shelter name - Thomas)

[Amber]

Katie- Not sure why! My dad named her.

Maggie- Maggie has the letter "M" on her forhead. So we named her maggie

Elvis- My dad is a presley fan, and I wanted to name him elvis.

[lovemyshiba]

Originally posted by sirrahbed

Our RB bridge kitties were Bert and Ernie - from when the kids were small and liked Sesame Street

That had me laughing out loud!!!!!!


Kito --we knew we were getting him, so we were trying to come up with a name for a few weeks. The day came to get him, and we still had nothing. We got him, and were driving home (about 3 hours), still thinking, when I looked at his papers. His momma's name was Nikita, and we liked that name. We shortened it, and made an "o" at the end because we thought it sounded more masculine (lol), and that's how his name came about.

Abbey --she was already named at the beagle rescue, and she knew it. She had been transported from a shelter in Ohio with 2 others, and they had been calling them "A, B, and C" The guy in charge of the rescue here just gave them names. We figured she'd been through enough, and we kept it.

Riley --when I found him, the woman who had him told me his name was Dominic. He didn't respond at all to it, so we changed it. He was "the little one" for a few days, and my husband picked the name Titus. It didn't fit him, to me, so I kept searching. I looked through all of the old Dog of the Day names, and came up with two, and put a poll on Pet Talk--Riley won by a landslide!!!

Jada --we had no idea what her name could be when we got her at the SPCA. Since she was my husband's dog (he wanted a rottie so bad!!), he got the duty of naming her. There were a couple, but Jada was the one I liked the best, so that's her!!!

[EssTer]

Buddy's actually called Strakur, which in icelandic means boy or buddy...My mom called him like that.. in PT I just did translate it , so it would be easier for you

[primabella]

Mickey - We went through so many names and Mickey was the only one we all agreed on. We were going to spell it like "Mikee" which means bear in Inuit or something (I had looked it up once) but decided to keep it at simple spelling.

Rocket - My brother had a beanie baby puppet that was named Rocket and when we bought our birdie, they were the same color so my brother insisted on that name.

Sky - Was basically because of her color.

[Kona & Oreo's mom]

Kona was named such because as a kitten she acted like she was "highly caffienated," so I chose the name of a type of coffee.

Oreo already had her name when she found me, but I am certain it is because she is black with creme filling down her middle.