Obviously....

[RICHARD]

Before I read the article? I knew the answer to the 'worst name for a pet'....

Guess, then read....

http://www.pawnation.com/2010/05/14/...d-about-you%2F

[Marigold2]

Good read Richard. I have always named my pets people names for they are my children. Boscoe, Kei Kei and Clover already came named.
I do think Boscoe is a great name. My daughter usually does the same thing except for her two hamsters one was named Lint, the other Cougar. I loved the name Lint, it sounded so English, they have the best pet names like Toast, Bubbles and Wicky.
My husband meets lots of pets in clients homes. One he remembers fondly is Moose the basset hound.
When I was a kid we had a cat called Fastback, he would climb on up your back and sit on your shoulders and neck all day if you let him.

[Catherinedana]

One of my Quaker Parrots was named Beekman and my vet told me that he loved that. She was actually named after a character in a book. So is Teacake, my lovebird.

Our other lovebird is called "Edla", named after the script supervisor on Gunsmoke (my husband is a big fan). Unfortunately, he is a male!!

[wombat2u2004]

I had a budgie once called "Cheeky Chops".
That's because every morning I would say to him "get lost squirt", and he would say it back to me.

[wombat2u2004]

At the moment I have my two Borders...."Bear" and "Ruby", a King Charles Cavalier "Shirley", two budgies "Fonzie and Babe", and my daughter has about 10 goldfish whose names range from Sebastion to Milo.....hee hee.

[smokey the elder]

I tend to give my fosters very geeky names at times (and even my own cats.) RB Mobius got her name because she twisted like a Mobius strip when she was a kitten. CB, short for Carbon Black, was a black kitten. Quark was another black kitten that I swear could go invisible. (A "quark" is a very elusive subatomic particle.) A friend of mine had a cat named Sohcahtoa. This is from a trig mnemonic!

[wombat2u2004]

A friend of mine had a cat named Sohcahtoa. This is from a trig mnemonic!

Hee hee....reminds me of when I was a surveyor years ago.
Maybe I should have thought along those lines when naming my pets, and called my dog "Azimuth"

[happylabs]

Love it! The name Meatball made me laugh. The mule in the old Little Rascals show was named Algebra.

Casey's full name was Rosey Nosed Quesadilla Jones. She was almost Rosey for short but Casey seemed to fit her better.

My Black Lab we had years ago was Herbert T. Hoover. My ex loved the name Herbert and Hoover was because of the way Labs tend to vacuum things up.

And...last but not least....our Chocolate Lab Maggie was Brown Sugar Magnolia Jones. Sugar Magnolia was the name of a Grateful Dead song. Mr. Wonderful loved the Grateful Dead.

Jones is not my last name. That part is a long story.

[gemini9961]

My 3 dogs have "people" names. Sadie, Maggie and Grant. My childhood cat was Smokey and yes, she was gray. My brother's cat was Midnight and she was black. We got them as kittens we my brother and I were little so creativity was not our forte.

[Twisterdog]

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.

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.

[RICHARD]

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/05/20...ter-the-dog%2F

Seriously?

[krazyaboutkatz]

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.