General Chat

We were talking to somebody the other day about our 2 dogs names Mini and Minx, now I can´t remember why they thought they were called that but Mini was already called it when we got her and Minx came along because OH was a Beano reader and we needed a name there and then. Since that day mind we could have called her many things more apt, not does it help I call them Mini mo and Minxy mo so they both look at MO.

Going back on pet names I called my pigeon Walter, My Rabbit Sarah (after a greyhound called Sarah´s Bunny) my magpie Monty. Greyhounds all had 3 names kennel names, NGRC names and flapper names the best was Rarey. Why because we had graded him in at a distant track to sell him and it´s a long way to tip a rarey !

I also had scragg end and whinge bag (my cats). Gemma the goat who was named that when we got her but my goddaughter is named after her !!!! and yes I have told her. There was Spas the chicken who used to live in the rabbit hutch.

Why did your pet get the name they have, and if you named as a young one would you change it now if you could to suit their personality ?

my 2yr old cairn terrier is called kulli ,we heard the name on midsummer murders his daughter's name , hers is spelt culley,,i love the name and it does suit her,
she answer's to a few other name's but I will not put them on here.
my dog before her was called kizzie and that name suited her,
my first dog was called skip,suited him he used to clear our 5ft fence and he was a cairn terrier also.

Got a Jack Russell called Charlie.

SHE was named by the kids, I think they had a perverted sense of humour!

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I have two cats (Siamese cross) called Geraint and Siwsi. Now they are older I still call the boy Geraint. But the girl tends to be called $&^!!)(& $%^*^

We don't have any pets now but we had a small black poodle called Minty (she was a miniature crossed with a toy).

We had a cat called Josie, because we liked the name.

We had a apricot toy poodle called Gemma again we liked the name.

A black female cat called Sammy, it suited her and a rescue cat called Holly, already named, born at Christmas or there abouts..

I have 3 cats, born on the day of a distant world cup, and initially named (by my adult daughter who was living with me when they were born)
Gi-Gi, (after a player I believe), Jelly Bean (because of her pink nose) and Mister something or other - can't remember, but it was another world cup player.
Daughter moved out a few weeks later. For the past 6 years, they have been called George, Betty and Mister.
Mister sometimes has 'No' or an expletive added to his name, as he can't retract his claws and uses them to get attention!!!

My Westie is called Rory..OH chose his name and
sometimes we call him Twinkle cause he's a star.
My son's schnauzers are called Ziggy,should be
Old Man and the pup of a few months is called Gigi.
My daughters Staffie is called Butch should have been
Big Softie.

Emma :-)

lol @Sue , Motown and Maggie.
Ann kids often do give sensible names but I like the Minty name. I would say I will remember that but we are having NO MORE pets. ;-)

John my boarding school mistress had a Siamese can´t remember it´s proper name but we called it meto as that is what it´s call sounded especially when bratty son was home and cat had to hide in our dorms. It became the only name Meto would answer to. ! :-D Brat wasn´t impressed, housemistress found it funny and called her the same.

Missed ya there Emma could you imagine calling big softie in the street ?? Animals are funny things

cat called "stray" after a joke about my board name stuck, but silly as it sounds i think she suits it haha

i have a tortoise called tennyson littleman named it after his favorite program at the time, ben10,
Iggy the ginny pig, his favorite moshi monster at the time,
Yoda the rabbit, again his favorite film at the time,

theirs a theme going here ;-) when we get new pets he gets to name them, and always names them what ever he s into at the time,

Daughter's Staffie is called Betty :-D

When grandson was young he had a golden hamster and named it Daffodil... Why?
'Because I like daffodils' we were told.
Later he had 2 guinea pigs, Benjamin and Stuart . Benjamin was mostly brown and named after one of the brothers in a musical he went to see, -Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. He wore brown trousers.
Stuart was mainly white and named after Stuart Little in the film out at that time. The fact that ours was a female didn't seem to matter.

We once lived next door to a Siamese cat which we thought had rather a grand name at first,- Cepher,until it was explained that they couldn't think of a name so named it as a variant of C for cat.
It suited him.

Gwyn

Over the last 30 odd years my parents have called their Siamese cats Genghis, Kubla. Ling ling, Yentl, Thai and Tang which suits the breed...although the first one they had, they called Bluey.....My siamese was called Shere Khan... Cat I have now just an ordinary moggy was already called Shelby so we kept the name but I often call her twinkle or fluff, she doesn't mind :-)

Maggie I wont ask why Betty because I have the Lynyrd Skynrd Black Betty is mind.

As a child my 1st dog was called Tina because her full name was Tina Sukis Black magic. My budgie was Joey. My guinea pigs were called whisky and dry, the hamsters well one was nuisance the other was blue. Tortoises well Fred and Doris (don´t ask but they were the oldest couple in the village) I always had 2 of each animal because sis wanted one also but never looked after.

I have had this RR'd before but I had a big black tom cat, a stray, that I called Idi after Mr Amin.

The spooky bit was that they both died on the same day.

Richard Digance sang a song about Fred Fuffy Cloud who punched Desmond Dark Cloud who didn't half cry.

Well, my cat is fluffy and the same colour as a thunder cloud so he is Desmond but we call him Mond, Mondley Bond of whom we're fond.

The first cat I took in was Cooking Fat.

The first hedgehog I wintered was Widdy, hog = pig = piggy- wiggy = piddy- widdy= Widdy.

The next was Polly because of something she did in the corner when she got out.

From Widdy, the little lad who had lost some toes was Wilfwid.

pmsl @ Sharron love it !
I couldn´t begin to explain my greyhounds names apart from Rocky (after Rock Hudson and no I wasn´t a fan)
apart from Jim Bob (kennel) , peruvian gypsy (NGRC ) or Zebedee boing

my two cats are pepper and pickles dog is pluto former cat bubbles and squeack bill and ben poppy he was male but he did not mind :-S

dogs Thomas and Trixie

not very inspireing but loved

sally w <3

Uzzi, Betty the Staffie is brindled. She's a rescue dog and was called Betty by her previous owners. The name suits her.

She's so vicious, she won't go out in the rain - though her and the 3 year old grandson do have the odd tussle over the cucumber end :-S

My sister had a white cat, she named it Sammy after the one on the TV that advertised cat food, (named Arthur till it was realised it was female).
We had a white boxer dog we named Henry after Henry Cooper.

My children had two guinea pigs when they were young. One looked like an explosion and was called Napalm for a few weeks, then taste took over and he was renamed Pickle.

Grand daughter had a rabbit for her 5th birthday (around Easter).
She called him Jesus. Daughter insisted it was pronounced Hesus, to avoid offending the neighbours :-D

Daughter had a GSD in her youth called Hecate - it suited her :-D

As a young child, we had a cat that was really called Korky - it wasn't black & white - it was Tabby :-D