Hey Pandas, What Did You Name Your Pet And Why? (Closed)

Cat. It’s functional, accurate, and not like he responds to it anyway.

I named my cat Wednesday after Wednesday Adams because he is a black cat and is very grumpy.

My in-laws were adopted by a cat from up their street. They were told by neighbors that this cat was being left outside to eat rodents by its owner. This big black feline had other ideas - like a warm bed and laps to nap on. His new name became INOC (pronounced: eye-knock) which stood for It’s Not Our Cat. Best cat ever! He never wandered far from home.

My parakeet is named Ruth Bader Ginsbird for obvious reasons.

I named my husky Loki because I love Norse mythology and am myself a Norse Pagan. Also, I love Marvel.
His name really fits his personality because he's always playing tricks on us. I call him The Dog of Mischief.

Our Maine C-o-o-n cat is named Perry, after the Perry the Platypus character in the Disney cartoon series “Phineas and Ferb.” When we can’t find him, we obviously say “Hey, where’s Perry?” He tends to follow me around, which elicits “Ah, Perry the Platypus, how nice of you to join me.” Being a long haired cat, he sheds lots of fur, so we call them platypuffs. And when he uses his litter box, he deposits many platyp... well, you get the idea I’m sure.

My beagle girl was going to be called Lola, but because of too much wine the night before I collected her, in the morning I was feeling a bit "fragile" and that became Fraggle and that's what I named her and it suits her because well, Fraggle rocks!!

My black cat has two names. Her formal name is Michonne, after Michonne from the walking dead. That's because she is not declawed (and never will be even though she's destroyed some wallpaper) and has sharp murder mittens. Her other name is Peanut. Because she was a literally a starving 5 week old kitten who ran up and was eating the peanuts we threw off the front porch to feed the birds. This was a cold April night. We fed her two containers of wet food and took turns keeping her in our jackets to warm up while the other one finished smoking. She had a pink, very tight collar on that would have choked her slowly to death as she got bigger (that got cut off pretty quick). She came in with us that night (which made my other cat pretty mad). Next day she went to the vet to take care of fleas, ear mites and other assorted parasites. Later had her spayed. She is now a fat, super affectionate lap cat who will still actually eat a peanut if we happen to drop one.

We got two rescue cats called Buffy and Willow.

Seven years later we rescued a kitten, so we had to call her Dawn. Very few people get it.

When we got a new kitty we offered our 7yr old a list of names to pick from. Kirby was on that list bc kitty has a very pink nose. We thought FOR SURE that she’d pick Kirby bc it was her favorite game. No. She picked Lupin. Not because of Harry Potter... which was why I chose to put the name in the list... but because “it sounds funny!” Two years later, daughter finally realizes there’s a Professor Lupin in Harry Potter, can’t believe the coincidence 😐

Petrushka, after the Stravinsky ballet wherein a puppet comes to life to woo a ballerina. He was the kitty love of my life and lived for 16-1/2 years. I still miss him.

I have a small herd of goats with musical names (Treble, Aria, Sonnet, Melody, ect). I had originally wanted to start a goat milk soap company called The Lyrical Goat Soap Company, but babies are required for goat milk and it turns out I have a really hard time selling my goat babies. So now I just have a bunch of interestingly named pet goats.

My cat stopped growing when she was 6 months old, so she's adorable. When you're adorable, you can get away with more, and when you can get way with more, you do more.
I named her Minerva because she gets on my nerves (mi-nerve-a).

Thor is my dog's name.
He's a golden/Basset/husky mix, low and long and 100% black. As a pup he looked like a loaf of pumpernickel and the name was a bit of a joke.
He grew into it, though. He's quiet, but when he does bark it turns heads. He's the biggest small dog you've ever met and the best good boi.

I wanted our third rescued special needs cat to be called ‘Rain’ but my husband said he was sick of hippy-dippy names and wanted something more butch. We finally decided on ‘Regen’ after my suggestion and it wasn’t until she’d been with us for a few weeks that someone told him that Regen is Dutch/German for rain....lol

I named my Poodle Noodles, because he looks like the cutest bowl of noodles!!!

Named my fat red capped oranda goldfish Macncheese because it was the last thing I ate at the time.

I named my cat Ringo because: he has rings around his body, he had rings (I think), and because of Ringo Starr.

I know I am a little late to this post, but here it goes.

We had an old, black cat named Doobie. He was a great and affectionate cat that I had had since I was born. Anyways, one day, a dog got into our house (friendly to kids, so we were safe). Then my cat went down the stairs. The dog, as we found out, didn't like cats. Our cat died later that day to wounds. We got a new cat a year ago and named him Dubbie, after Doobie.

**He is nowhere near as nice as Doobie was**

His name was FatManWalkin. He was a chonk and a half. My bestie, RIP