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

My two cute guinea pigs are named cookie and bickie by me because one of them is mildly brown and white just like a biscuit ( In our family we always say biscuit as bickie ) so I wanted to call him that and for the another one I wanted in matching to bickie so I named him cookie

We had a chicken who could say her name: Barack.

I was adopting a Weiner dog and his name was Oscar. My last name happened to be Meyer, and I knew he was meant to be mine :) Oscar Meyer.

I have two cats (brothers) one is Milo and the other is marbles. My granddaughter named them. I wanted to call them Ronnie and Reggie as in the Kray twins. Oh well.

I named one of my guinea pigs Toffee, because he is the colour of toffee, and I named my other guinea pig Ginger, because he is the colour of ginger hair.

My male Siamese fighter / Betta splendens didn't have a name because, you know, it's a fish. Apparently this isn't acceptable in my house.

He (and every fighter I've had since) got the name "Flappy F**ker". Apparently that isn't acceptable either...

I named my ragdoll cat sumo because we all adore Japan, and, well, he's fat.

Bread Cat was a foster kitten and was always very scared so she used to sit on our laps and hide her face in the crook of our arms, making her look and feel like a little loaf of bread.

I got a 7 oz, 6 week old calico kitten who was the product of a feral mother. We got her in October so the wife named her "Punkin" (Orange, Black, White... you get it!) Everyone started calling her "Punkie" or "Punks" until she grew into a 17 pound ball of loveable hell with a head the size of a grapefruit. This "queen" of the house was affectionately (and now officially) called "Miss Punx." She's huge and she's bad a**! Oh and a water cat to boot. (Yeah, she likes water... and bacon, and ham... )

Dr. Sharkbody (After Dr. Chakrabarti on iZombie), Thumb-breaker Barnes (favorite iZombie episode), Gus (really called Mokey) & Tails (has no tail)

Snapdragon because I realized without knowing it my mom had started a tradition of naming female dogs after flowers. Her childhood dog was Rosy. Then we had Jasmine, next came Tulsi. Also, Snapdragons are my favorite flower.

Most of ours are where we got them (all rescues) Stewart the dog (from Stewartstown), Homer the cat (Homer City), Salem the cat (Salem Church Road), May the dog (Maytown), Shiloh the dog (Shiloh Township), Carl the cat (Carlisle Road). We also have Walter...from the book Walter the Farting Dog (even though he is a cat).

Many years ago, my sisters and I had a polydactyl cat. We named her "Twinkle Toes" because of her extra toes.
The cat I have now is named "Dixie." She was a stray but had a sophisticated "air." She reminded me of Julia Sugarbaker from "Designing Women" but didn't look like a Julia. I named her Dixie after Dixie Carter who played the role of Julia Sugarbaker.
Our dog is Darla. When we adopted, her name was Darlene. We live in a somewhat rural area but do have neighbors and I just couldn't see me on our back porch calling "Darlene! Darlene!" so she became Darla.

Nox and Athena

Spent three weeks in Athens, Greece in 2019 (will understand why I started with this). When Covid hit, I decided after 20 years of not having cats, that I wanted to adopt one. Found one that I loved the looks of online at the local shelter. Went down to see her, and she didn't want anything to do with me, however her brother, was begging me to take him home. So I did.

Athena was a name I had already picked out, but that didn't fit a male cat (a tuxedo at that) so after running the gauntlet of names a friend of mine in suggested Nox. Nyx is a Greek Goddess, Nox looks more manly but it is her Roman name - so my male cat has a female name :)

Since I didn't want to leave Nox alone when/if we went back to work at the office, I adopted a second cat. A female tabby, who automatically became Athena the moment I adopted her. (In hindsight, I should have gone with my gut and adopted Nox's sister the same day, but I wasn't sure if I was ready for two cats after not having any for so long). I wouldn't trade either of them for the world now.

People ask us why we named our dog Kodo. We explain that we adopted him from the Humane Society and we kept the name he already had. We decided he didn't need a new name. :-)

I told my clerk I was going at lunch to see two kittens. She was already looking through lunch menus, so she asked was I going to name them for food. I said, "Like what, Cupcake and Muffin?" She said she was thinking more along the lines of fetu and chini or maybe spaghetti and meatballs. So I said if it was gonna be food, I'd stick to Cupcake and Muffin. And I did.

Lorelei, a song by Cocteau Twins from 'Treasure'. I thought of this when me and my wife went to pick her up. But she does go by many, many other (nick)names.

My cat recently had kittens (they all got adopted!!!!) And she had 4, I could resist and named them after the golden girls, because I watched that show for a while and loved it.

Minnie, I was 2 and i loved watching minnie mouse. She was the best doggo ever but she really sick

We have two cats, brothers, who were rescued from a dump when they were only 5 days old. There were many suggestions for names, all very obvious due to the color of the coat or the circumstances in which they were found or even due to the behavior. So I decided to call them "Pintucchio and Shoxana" by the simple unusual names.