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

I wanted Tokyo so I could be Godzilla. My son wanted Sam, just cause. So he is Tokyo Sam (private dog-tective)

I always wanted to call a cat Pippin. I went to pick up an 8 week old grey and white kitten who was supposed to be a boy so he was definitely Pippin. I ended up taking one of the little black and white spotted girls too. On the way home I just kept calling her splodge due to her markings and it stuck because I couldn’t think of a name for her.

Eanie - she was from a litter of 4 rescued kittens who were given the names Eanie, Meanie, Minie and Mo. She’s a spotty one (5 dots) like Pippin (3 dots) and Splodge (4 dots).

Inkie - from the same rescue home as Eanie. She’s jet black and I wanted to call her Snowy. Wrote both names on pieces of paper, put them in a box and the one that came out was Inkie.

The others have normal names. Jasper, Walter and Smokie (she’s a tortoise shell but her nose is all grey).

Thanks to Huddersfield Feral and Strays for Eanie and Inkie. They do a fantastic job of rehoming surprise litters of kittens, cats whose owners can’t afford vets bills and ask for them to be euthanised, unwanted or dumped cats and the capture, neuter and release of feral cats.

We adopted a cat and her son, who we named Peanut and Snoopy, respectively. Sadly, Snoopy died a couple weeks after we got him.

I named my dog Athena, because in my family we believe in having strong names. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy in Greek mythology, she was a fearless warrior. So we named our snack driven, hyper, goofy puppy after her, it only made sense :D

Lollypup

We started calling our youngest cat "Fartface" because we weren't going to keep him at first. We kept him and the name.

We named my Kitten JellyBean, because my nickname includes "Bean" so its [My name] bean and Jellybean

Long story, but when we went to the breeders to pick our dog, my dad insisted on a male, because our family had 4 females, and he was lonely. After we chose our dog, we were debating names, and since we're all soccer fans, especially Real Madrid, we decided on Nino, little boy in Spanish.

Well, two months later, we go pick up our dog and found out that the breeder made a mistake, we got a female dog instead. Poor girl was called little boy

we named my black mini schnauzer mix oliver because of Oliver Wood from harry potter. We named my cream/ blonde colored mini schnauzer mix petra because of petra from jane the virgin who has blonde hair.

Dec 2019, we got an orange tabby kitten. My daughter named him Simba, but I mostly call him Orange Boy.

For Simba's first birthday, Sep 2020, I got him a friend, a female kitten. Looking for a name, I researched tabbies and learned that she's a "mackerel tabby" because of her stripe pattern, and she was a scrapper when the bigger one pounced on her, so she's Mackerel Scrapper, Mackie for short.

They are besties.

Gary the cat is named after Scottish Gary on Masterchef the Professionals. We just always loved the way the show announcer pronounced his name. We're not Scottish

I was on my way across several states to pick up my new Maltese puppy ( a barter, no cash ) and listening to a radio broadcast. The lady on the broadcast said Tseramilla was an ancient Croatian word describing how a soul felt when it found it's true home. The minute I saw my beloved Lady Tseramilla Bella, I knew it was the perfect name. Bella means beautiful. My beloved Millie passed away at the age of 13 & 1/2, just 4 days after the vet announced she was in amazing good health. I still cry.

My black cat is cricket because she hops around like a cricket. Her mom is Kit-Kat because we couldn't decide what to call her so the nick name stuck. For a few days we had a hawk we rehabbed and obviously called him Tony Hawk.

My daughters 2nd fish was named "Don't Touch".

We have four cats.

The oldest is Rory Sherlock Stormageddon (Dark Lord of All) named for Doctor Who's Rory (because he's got nine lives), Sherlock because he figured out how to open the cabinet doors to get the treats, and Stormageddon (Doctor Who again) because he thinks he's this big bag thing and in reality, he's a cuddly baby.

Then there's Tauriel Jane Romanov, named for the Hobbit character because of her ability to track down and attack her big brother anywhere, Jane for Captain Janeway of Voyager, because she does things HER way and doesn't care about what anybody else thinks. Romanov is both a reference to the Russian royal family (she's a little princess!) and Black Widow (again, she loves to attack her brother).

Loki James Velociraptor is the next, Loki because he's ALWAYS in trouble (and thinks he should rule the house), James for James T. Kirk of Star Trek (I swear 1/2 of that series is everyone going "Kirk, don't do that" and Kirk goes and does it... just like this fuzzy child), and Velociraptor because, well, he bites. Hard.

The last is Georgina Louise Babyshark. Georgina is for my grandfather, who found her all huddled by herself and passed away soon after. Louise is after the Bob's Burgers character - she's a sassy little thing! And Babyshark is both because SHE bites (she learned it from Loki) and the fact that the only way to hold her is to sing Baby Shark to her.

Spoiled babies.

My cat's name is Angel, and I got him when I was 6 years old. For some unknown reason, I DESPERATELY wanted a female cat, and was majorly disappointed when he turned out to be male. However, that didn't stop my 6-year-old brain from coming up with seemingly feminine names for him, "angel" being one of them. Turns out that name suited him anyway, because he is my little angel

I named my dog song hee cuz it means cotton ball in korean. I thought my dog looked like an little cotton ball when I first got her.... not anymore.

I adopted a 3 legged Hamster and named her Joy. Her missing foot does not slow her down. She may knock her chew pellets on the bottom or her tank at all hours of the day trying to learn Morse code and try to escape every which way she can but she is still the JOY of my life.

named my mini donkey Moose

My dog is named Deadpool because he has black circles around his eyes that uncannily similar to him.