Do you think its wrong to name your pet after a bad person?

**LilacDragon** · 09-12-2006, 02:06 PM

It depends on many things, in my mind.

I don't have a problem with a cat named Hitler. I would have second thoughts of a pit bull by the same name. A chihuahua named Killer is cute - a rottweiler by the same name is not. You know what I mean?

**Karen** · 09-12-2006, 02:36 PM

My frien's mother, who was a Czechoslovakian immigrant, named the kids' hamsters Stalin and Kruschev - can you tell she didn't like them? It was mutual - they never bit Cheryl, but the hammies bit her mom every time.

**Vette** · 09-21-2006, 05:51 PM

I have mixed feelings like Jenluckenbach...
a name is just that.. a name... nothing evil about it.

however,, for someone to name something after them and think of 'them' as they are name picking.. is just..... wrong in my opinion...
but to name something because someone likes the sound of the name is fine by me.(hopefuly that made sense) LOL

**Zippy** · 09-21-2006, 06:16 PM

No one should name there pets Hitler,Satan,ect...IMO
They are alot of names out there that are not bad.

**BC_MoM** · 09-21-2006, 08:14 PM

I personally think a name is a name. It has nothing to do with the person.
On the other hand, that's just weird naming your dog after someone like "Hitler" because there is that connection.

**Barbara** · 09-22-2006, 07:29 AM

It is a common myth that a name says something about the owner and even influences the owner. So most names of e.g. biblical origin have a meaning and it is usually positive.
Although I know that is not true in a pure scientific sense I think it has a cultural value.
I wanted Tigris to have a proud name and Filou a mischievous name.

A cat named Hitler or a hamster called Stalin? I would think this would make the original bearers of these names sound harmless. So I wouldn't ever do that.

**Pam** · 09-22-2006, 07:38 AM

I would have a hard time doing that as I love all of my pets dearly and simply could not name the object of my love something with a distasteful connotation. Growing up, a friend of mine had a black lab named Devil. I was only a little girl but can remember feeling sorry for the dog for having such a name.