Explain your pets names!

[bluekat]

Blueberry- Because he's a blue point Himalayan, and my favorite color is blue, we just started thinking of names with the word "blue" in it

[Cincy'sMom]

Sadie:
Before we got Sadie, we knew we were getting a black and white lab/dal mix and started trying to come up with names. I suggest Panda Bear, Ralph suggest Sadie, which was his neighbor's dog's name growing up. When we met her we knew she was sadie (which means princess, and yes, she is!)

Cincy:
We hadn't really talked at all about names before we went to get Cincy. On the drive home, we were trying different things and trying to think of something that sounded good with Sadie. I suggested Cincy becuase Ralph and I met at the University of Cincinnati. And has fit her very well...she is our roly-poly Cincy Bear (the UC mascot is the Bearcats)

Spot:
Was named by his former family. We thought about changin it, but but is fir with our "S" sounds, and he responed well to it. Becuase the little girl who had to give him up named him and even though she won't know, we sorta left it for her becuase she wrote a sweet note to whoeer adopted Spot.

[Twisterdog]

Lacie - Named after Lacey J. Dalton, the singer

Queenie - Named because she is an Australian cattle dog, which used to be called Queensland heelers

Keito - Named after Taquitos from Jack in the Box, which the spelling altered. (Don't ask!)

Vanilla - Her name was Priscilla when I got her, and I know this totally flaky lady named Priscilla so that would never do. I asked my son to think of something that sounded like Priscilla, so she wouldn't be too confused ... hence, Vanilla.

Basil - Named for Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes ... because he is a nosy, snoopy English gentleman, always investigating.

Wishbone - My son named him after Wishbone on TV.

Lucky, Jack, Pepper, Georgie, Twister - already named when I got them

[Toby's Mommy]

Dogs:

Maggie: She had that name when we got her. I was going to change it to Lucy, but she already knew her name so...

Boo Boo: When we got him all I could say was Boo Boo so thats what we call him!

Cats:

Cassie: My mom named her

Mittens: She has all white paws so I named her Mittens

CP: She easily got her name!(stands for Constant Pain)

Horses:

Thumper: Name when we got him

Austin: We were going to change his name to Dakota Jazz but he came running when you yelled Austin.

Ducks:

Ceaser: Beth named him! I don't know where she came up with it!

Romeo: Duh! He is Romeo!

Fish:

Dodge: He dodges everywhere.

Jamba: Named after Jamba Juice I love that place!

Suave: My friend Rachel's nickname.

Slick: Emma's nickname

Sherman: A kid at my school's name is Sherman and he was there.

[Kfamr]

Simba and Nala were obviously named after the Lion King -- my favorite movie.

My fish's official name is Earle.

Named after "Earle's spot" at school. My friends and I hang out there at lunch.

It came about as "Earle's spot" because we were standing in a random spot at school, and my friend Gina said "Lets go to our old spot" and it sounded like she said "Lets go to Earle's Spot"

[jenfer]

Gigi: I have this name on my mind before I have her. I think it suits her.

[DogLover9501]

Mine should be interesting

~Dogs...

Piddle- His REAL name was first Mickey, because I loved it, but he would pee alot as a puppy, and my mom started calling him Piddle lol and it stuck...

Wiggles- She wiggles when shes excited, need I say more lol

Jasper- Well his name sort of switched, I had a different name in mind the entire time and about 6 days before I got him, I changed it to Jasper, I think it sounds really cool

~Cat....

Tigger was a stray, and we got him and had him in the house and were looking at him, and my dad and I were just throwing out name suggestions and my dad said Tiger and I said I like that..hmm no wait....TIGGER!! And that stuck!

[Moose]

We got the name Moose because the poor guy's name at the shelter was Bullwinkle. Ay, poor guy...we all feel for you. There was no way I was keeping the name Bullwinkle, so we opted to go with Moose. At first I didn't know what to think of it, but after awhile it grew on me. Plus, it's pretty unique so that's all the better.

Zoey we got randomly...I was going through various names in my head and was writing them down. I always promised myself I would name my next dog Laika, but it just didn't fit her. Zoey was sweet and cute, but at the same time sounded a little bit feisty and tough. Plus, I can call her Zoes [pronounced like toes] for short...and what could be better than that?

[apcrs5122]

Alex- He already had his name when we got him, and he responded to it and had had it for 9 years, so we couldn't change it

Phoebe- We got Pheebs when I was about six, so I had no say in the name But we named her off of Phoebe on the TV show FRIENDS because of the sone 'Smelly Cat' that she sings. I think you can probably figure it out from there

Cleo- I'm not sure why my parents/sister name her Cleo, I was five at the time.

Rolo- It took me a long time to come up with a name for Rolo. I tried so many things from Rodeo to Z. He's dark brown/black with an orangy-caramel color, so he looked like a squished Rolo candy. I started calling him that, and it stuck.

Scooter- The day I saw Scooter at the shelter I started calling him Scooter. I told my mom that if I ever got him that would be his name. I don't exactly know why I picked that, but I did.

Holly- My cousin/aunt/uncle named Holly when she was five days old. Her registered name is Barrd From Hollywood, and they called her Holly. And supposedly it's bad luck to change a horse's name, but I like it.

Dora & Blue- Since the girls were going to be in a preschool classroom that my mom teaches in, we decided that their names would have to do with something preschool-ish. Blue is a gray color, so I thought of Blue from Blue's Clues, and Dora from Dora the Explorer.

[Aspen and Misty]

Nova- She is a yellow color and my shinning star (Nova means Star)

Breeze- Is a foster puppy and when I called and left name suggestions on her machine I said "Bree" but she thought I said Breeze, so Breeze it is.

Julian- Julian's name was Jillian (mjy fav Girl name) and we called her Jilly Bean, but then Julian became a he and we changed his name from Jillian to Julian.

Jaxom- Is my Fav. Dragon rider from the series By Anne McCafrey.

Peaches- My sister named

Tundra- She is white like the Tundra

Brook- Named after my old best friend

Butternutt- Was the name everyone wanted me to name Jaxom, but I deced on Jaxom, but deced to name my lil rattie girl who has a nutt color on her.

Lillian- I got her around easter, she is all white like the flower Easter Lilly's

Misty- I forget, we got her like 10 yrs ago!

And then I'm not gonna mention the fosters (LOL)

Ashley

[wolf_Q]

Nebo--it's a mountain in Utah. It wasn't really one of the names I was wanting to use (I wanted to name a husky Koda) but I thought of it...liked it...and it just seemed to fit the brat boy.

Reggie--All I remember was that my brother suggested it when we had him as a pup. My mom didn't like it but the rest of us did. I think I wanted to name him Lucky before that lol.

Smokey (RB)--I was 2 when we got him so I don't think I had much choice in the matter. My parents let my brother and sister name him. My mom wanted to name him Nibbs.

[Vio&Juni]

Originally posted by wolf_Q
Nebo--it's a mountain in Utah.

I wanted to say that Nebo in Russian means Sky - I love it . And this fits Nebo's blue eyes.

Juni is short for Junioara. When she was just a wee kitty that could fit in my palm, we didn't know if she's a girl or a boy and decided to call her Juni - a short name from Junioara (female) or Junior (male) - then we would call her by the long name, which we never did. In time, the name Junitsa stuck to her. Or Juneasa. Or Printsesa. Or Dulcheatsa. Or Alintushka. Or Tsushka

Pichu's long name is Pichu Gudurichu - Cuddling Kiddo. He doesn't look anymore like a Pichu, he's more than 5 kilos at 1 year old. Now, we call him Pichu or Pichiosu, or Pichishor, or Pichulets, or one milion other cute names

Juni will be 4 years old tomorrow and Pichu will be one year old.

[cali]

oh boy I will go through some names this morning lol

dogs:

Happy-this was her litter name and it fit her so we just kept it.

Misty-misty is short for mistletoe mischeif, the mistletoe because I got her at christmas, and well the mischeif was supposed to be christmas, but as soon as she was in the van she was getting into EVERYTHING, so very quikley the chrismas became mischeif.

Shadow-well I was in kalowna when my dad got her, but he said he named her shadow because everytime he took her for a walk she would walk under his feet like a shadow

Perky- well she came with the name biscut which we did not like at all, then her name was Roxy for a little while but she was always so perky that we changed it to perky

Ripley- he was terrified of the name he came with(roscoe) and we had been watching Ripleys believe it or not that night lol

Blair-lol ok his name is a joke. blair was his litter name and you have to know that my mom once had a boyfriend named blair. now when blair was given to us my dad had just moved out, my mom thought this was just plain out funny, so his registerd name bacame "Weskys my boyfriend blair"

[EssTer]

Originally posted by Vio&Juni
I wanted to say that Nebo in Russian means Sky - I love it . And this fits Nebo's blue eyes.

I can speak russian, but I've never thought of that LOL...I really dont know why.. But really nebo in russian means sky

Kona&Oreo's mom - did you know, that in Icelandic "Kona" means "woman"???

[lizzielou742]

Tito: (Cat) When I adopted Tito from the shelter his name was Ashton. The girl at the shelter named him that after Ashton Kutcher. Well I don't really give a crap about Ashton Kutcher and plus my boyfriend refused to call the cat if he was named after Ashton Kutcher (guess he thought it was lame too). So we spent five days kicking around names. I really wanted to name his Sascha but Boyfriend said that was a girl kitty's name. I thought it was kinda unisex. Finally, it was the night before I had to take him to the vet to get some shots. I knew I couldn't bear to take him as a no-name kitty!!! So Boyfriend starts throwing out crazy names...and out of the clear blue sky came "Tito Magoo." We cracked up laughing and it stuck. We dropped the Magoo part out of laziness. We almost named him Toonces b/c he looks like "Toonces the Driving Cat" from Saturday Night Live but I didn't think that was original enough. So Tito it is. It fits him perfectly, if you could meet him you'd know!

Swimmy: is a fish. Enough said. A beta actually.

He-Man and She-Ra: Two other fish (tetras). I wanted to name them after a famous couple since I got them together. Later I found out they were both males. I guess She-Ra is having an identity crisis. But it's OK since he's a pink fish and pink is associated with girls so much!!!

Dixie: (Dog) Was named after a street near my parents' house. She still lives with my parents.

Mushka: (Cat that has since gone to RB) Have no idea what he was named after. But it's a cool name!