General Chat

Our first cat was a stray and we named her Misty. I'm a Johnny Mathis fan, liked the name and it was not dissimilar to "mystery" - and it was mystery where she had come from.

The second was Oliver who already had the name when we got him. This invariable got shortened to Ollie - Ollie the Wally (and he was!!)

Our present cat is black and white and called Felix. He was a stray and when my mother in law took him in she decided he looked just like the cat on the tin. I often think he should be called Charlie - because he's a right one!!

We haven't a pet now but our Jack Russell was called
Hitchcock, and we still miss him

Our gorgeous blue/cream British Shorthair is Mirabelle. We got her from the cats protection at aged 7 months and she already had that name from the breeder. She is now 16,and going a bit senile like us lol

Our previous old ginger muggy was PussPuss .he was our daughters cat originally that she had from 8 weeks old . She didn't know what to call him and would say to him come on little puss or here puss puss when calling him and the name stuck . We took him over at .18months old when she moved into an upstairs flat in Wilshire when her army husband got posted there and PussPuss wasn't able to settle .he lived to 17plus

Scozz :-D :-D :-D (Paris)


A friend in Portugal picked up an abandoned Jack Russell type dog.
He's called Prickles, because, like Dick, the first, most notable thing about him was obvious :-D

Marie :-D :-D :-D It's always a good idea to say the names out loud.

Calling 'Mister' (one of my cats) could cause problems, but as I believe I'm considered a bit of a 'Mad old bat', my calling Mister's name at midnight results in the 'youff' running away :-D

Our two young Siamese x Bengal cats (twin brothers) are called Eric and Ernie because we couldn't stop laughing at their antics when they were kittens. Had we known how they'd turn out they would have been Ronnie and Reggie.

Our beloved ginger boy who died a few years back was Nuts (Gingernuts).

The highly strung white Angora cat was Princess Hissy Fit of Boxroom ('cause she had them and hid in there)

Years ago we had a little black persian cross that was called Minjella when we got her, we shortened it to Minj. Never realised that it had rude connotations until she fell out the bedroom window, landed in a bush and ran off in fright (unhurt). Mr C went out looking for her and was checking the neighbours gardens in the dark when one of them came out and asked what he was doing. "Looking for Minj" he replied. We changed her name to Betty.

You may (or may not) have seen our dog Dick, his photo was on here last week. If you looked at the pic you would understand how he got his name :-D

Friend has a beautiful Staffie, lovely nature. When she was a pup he couldn't think of a name for her, until someone said "she's so friendly, she'll go home with anybody"........... that's when she got her name........ Paris.

:-D

Does anyone remember, a couple of years ago, police were called, as it had been reported that, by the Thames, someone was heard calling for help.
Police turned up. Someone had been calling for Help - it was the name of her cat :-D

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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.

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 :-)

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

Daughter's Staffie is called Betty :-D

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,

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

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.