Why did you name your pet?

[fuzzybuddy]

I got two kittens. The boy wasn't the swiftest one in the litter, and "Pete" kind of fit. I couldn't think of a name for the female, till she was climbing all over me. I said, "you little turkey", so she became Turkey.
Why did you give your pet its name?

 

[Pinky]

Our first lab, that we bought from a farmer for $5.00, we named "Moe", short for Moses. Our second lab was a rescue that was called Max - we renamed him Mackie. Our last rescue was called Peanut, as he was small.

 

[Nathan]

Our dogs came with names, we adopted Angel from the Groomer's assistant. We got Rusty from a rescue, his original name was Rex but we changed it to Rusty as his coat is kinda of a reddish blonde.

 

[hollydolly]

We've had so many pets in the family ... the very first was a German Shepherd name King.. then there was a border collie, Jenny.. then a Jack Russell name Jess (nicknamed Jaqueline Russell) .. then there was Scruffy.. Stanley, Digs, Fizz, Rodders, Zeus, Pablo... minky... and now the 14 year old Pixie..

 

[Rae]

All three of my cats were names beginning with the letter S; Sonny, Stormy and Samantha. It seemed to make sense to us.

 

[RadishRose]

I like the sound of it.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Smokey Cat

 

[Tommy]

Someone once proposed naming their dog "Dee-oh'-gee" and their cat "See-aye'-tee".

 

[JBR]

Why? So he'd come when he hears that particular sound.

 

[JustBonee]

Why? So he'd come when he hears that particular sound.

Yes.

People are strange, we like to name everything -

 

[jujube]

My daughter adopted four Siamese kittens from the same litter. Two of them, Smokey and Spooky, were identical so they become "The Smookys". Rather than yell at the wrong cat, it was just "GET DOWN FROM THERE, SMOOKY!!!"

 

[GoneFishin]

I named my dogs Hay and Hey so when I said hay, hey they both would respond

 

[timoc]

Why did you name your pet?​

The best pal on four legs I once had, well, I couldn't keep calling him 'Sh*ttyar*e' all his life, he responded much better to Crapper.

 

[Lethe200]

We were adopted by an adult stray I'm pretty sure was abandoned. He only responded to "Gato" so his full name is El Gato Baphomet - the last name being from my spouse!

 

[officerripley]

Lucy. (Short for Lucifer. Ha.)

 

[jujube]

My first house bunny was sold to me as a dwarf female. I named her Beezus, short for Beatrice, in honor of Beatrice Potter.

When "she" turned out to be neither dwarf NOR a female, I renamed "him" Beezel, short for Beelzebub. It was an appropriate name as he was a delightfully devilish critter.

The next house bunny was Weasel, because of his coloring and because it rhymed with Beezel.

 

[Rossana]

Both our cats have names starting with the letter "E".
Elsa and Elliot.

 

[Buckeye]

Way back when, we bought 2 Siamese kittens on the same day,but from different litters - the first, a flame point that we named Newman, as in Paul Newman for his blue eyes, and the second became Asher, named after Dr Dan Asher, from the California Institute for the Mellow. (Doonesbury)

20 some years later, we got a Shih Tzu named Annie. Then 2 years later got a toy poodle, and named him Hoot, so we had "Hoot n Annie".

 

[VaughanJB]

My current dog came from Romania, and already had a name: Moto.

I had a previous dog that I didn't get around to naming, so she became simply "Puppy".

 

[PeppermintPatty]

The name just came to my head.
It’s a cute name that really suites him.
This is the first time my husband and I have had a male dog. He’s the 6th dog we’ve bought.

They all have their individual characteristics yet collectively do the same types of doggie type things. You can’t beat the love of a dog.