30 Pet Names That Members Of This Online Community Have Encountered And Found The Absolute Worst

Mom owns a vet practice so had a lot of these.

Best/worse pet parents named their cat D.O.G. and their dog C.A.T.

James Bond was my favorite doggy (Pekinese). He was hilarious.

There were so many Mittens, Fluffys, Spots and Buddy's they got lost in the sea of animals.

Worst story was a rescued golden retriever who was so malnourished they nick named him Pancake. Sadly, Pancake's kidneys were done so he dies 2 days after he was rescued by the local animal control. The two days I got to feed and spend time with him made it all the harder to realize he could have been saved if his family had let him go instead of leaving him chained up in the yard before they left.

I hate people a lot of the time.

Edit: Thanks for all the love friends! I still have a picture of him on my phone. Won't forget him like his owners did.

Notorious P.I.G. aka Piggy Smalls for a Guinea pig

On second thoughts, add that to the best name ever encountered!

Not a vet...

Growing up, I had a friend who owned an iguana named TDI.

That Damn Iguana

(named by his mother who haaaaaaated it, as I recall)

Edit: I'm cracking up that my highest rated comment has to do with That Damn Iguana 😂

conversesap wrote:
When I adopted my two cars from the shelter, the staff had named them after internet browsers and search engines. I got Google and Explorer. Another couple got Firefox and Bing. Mine were promptly renamed.

Desmond_85 answered:
It’s good that you’re adopting your cars instead of buying the cars from a breeder. Man I hate BMWs

I was once at the dog park and this lady kept yelling at her dog. "Kevin! Get over here Kevin!" "Let me take your picture, Kevin!" "Kevin!" Kevin was an old, overweight black lab. I still laugh when I think about it.

So I’m not a vet, but I’m deeply involved in the horse world. There’s a “discipline” called halter, and many of the horses are genetic atrocities to begin with. They’ve been bred to the point of uselessness.

When naming quarter horses, many breeders like to create a registered name that incorporates the parents’ names and bloodlines. So, somebody bred together the stallion Kid’s Classic Style and the mare Lookin’ Touchable. The best name that the breeders could come up with for the foal?

KidsLookinTouchable.

Yeah. That’s the best they could come up with.

On the reverse side of this, a vet told me she thought my cat’s name was weird!

My cat’s name is Ozark, which might seem strange since I’m a maritime Canadian. She’s not named after the show or the mountains really, but rather after the Ozark Howler, which is some kind of devil cat/bear cryptid thing in those mountains that screams a lot. My cat likes to yowl when we’re not giving her attention, so I thought it fit.

I used to walk a dog named Julia Child.

Every time I came over, I would open the door and go "Ms. Child, your 2 O'clock is here." And neither of us would laugh, but hey that's showbiz.

Not a vet but we rescued a chihuahua and ended up naming him “Lil Man”

Now he’s overweight and I call him Medium Man

praisethehaze wrote:
Old neighbor lady had a cat named “face”

because it had a beautiful face, she said.

rustydomino commented:
that actually works great if she has three other cats named Hannibal, BA, and Murdock.

AnonEMoussie added:
BA: “I pity the fool who tries to get me in that cat carrier.”

Murdock: “have some milk, BA”

BA: “Milk does a body good, fool! thump snores

Runzwitskizzors added:
Not a vet but I took in a cat from a family named Lord Whimsalot III. Yes, there were previous Lord Whimsalots. We nicknamed him whimmy.

JPrimrose commented:
What a whimsical name.

My brother in law named his cat Salad.

My dad has always wanted a dog named “askim” so when someone asks what your dog’s name is you can just say “askim”

One of my boys wanted to name one of our dogs Meat Stack. (My son was 6 when we adopted the puppy). Same kid wanted to name his brother Turtle Flower when he was born. Needless to say he is not in charge of naming things in our household.

foulinbasket wrote:
Not a vet, but I lived in the Marshall Islands for a few years and I noticed that all black male dogs are named "lakilimej" (black boy), all white male dogs are named "lamoujouj" (white boy), all brown male dogs are "laburaun" (brown boy), and all black and white dogs are named "oreo"

amethystjade15 added:
We adopted a black and white bunny named Pickles. The rescuer we adopted from told us later that his previous family had called him Oreo, but "every damn black and white animal gets named Oreo."

Not a vet, but my roommate's cat is named Feline Dion. I wanted to call her Chairman Meow. I ended up calling a stray in the neighborhood Chairman Meow instead and the personality matches.

My grandmother's jet black and incredibly angry cat was called Rainbow.

Edit: I'm not a vet either.

prouvairee wrote:
Sexy - for a chihuahua. Just made the whole consultation very awkward.

Opening-Thought-5736 added:
If you could just lift Sexy up here please, thank you.

Now I might need your help to hold Sexy down.

I'm going to put this in your butt Sexy but I'll be quick

(Obligatory "not a vet", but...)

One time I was taking my dog to the vet for a check-up cause she had an ear infection. While waiting in the lobby, an older woman comes in with a dachshund in her arms and lets him sit on the counter. (This isn't a problem for the staff, as they love dogs, especially small dogs).

The receptionist asks for the woman's name, reason for visit, then finally asks what the dog's name was. "Dachshund". The receptionist says "Oh, I know his breed, but what is his name?".

Older woman looks her dead in the eye and in a slightly quieter voice she says "Dachshund" again. The receptionist looked confused for a second and the room was dead silent, so when the amount of laughter enraged it was hard not to as well.

Receptionist asks the woman why she named her Dachshund, "Dachshund", and the woman was quiet for a minute before replying: "...He likes it". His little tail was wagging the entire time.

Queue more laughter from all of us

My cat's name in John Hinckley, Jr., because he was a stray that stalked me for a year and killed things to give me as offerings.