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.