Stupid names people give to their pets !!

Isabella4 · March 2007

Today I sold a little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy....nothing new here...except the new owners, when asked what they were going to call the new puppy said.....
Misha Maud Muriel Mabel.
Sorry, too much of a mouthful for me. I'd just shout 'M'
Years ago I sold a little dog puppy, and asked the name question, and was told Laughing Gravy....another stupid name, (something from Laurel and Hardy, apparently !!)
Know anything as stupid as these two ?? surely somebody will !!
Isabella.

Made · March 2007

I'm ashamed to admit I named a mutt David Addison after Bruce Willis in Moonlighting years ago. Boyfriend changed his name to Ding and I knew he was a keeper. 17 years later (I married him) I'm still not allowed to name our pets

LuAnnH · March 2007

I named my dog Cosmo, got it from Kramer on Seinfeld!

kats · March 2007

I worked as a Vet Tech for 16 years and you are so right Isabella people do give their pets some strange/stupid names.

How about:
Toe Jam & VaJayJay (as in the way Oprah says 'vagina'). I have always remembered those two.

For me it's people names (with the occasional exception):
cats: Oliver Al Sam Lee & KC
dog: Chuck
rat: Jane

gwenn · March 2007

Im sorry but I love the name toe jam! That one's got me laughing.

jasmine · April 2007

I named my dogs Poppycock and Sassafras.

DragonladyTina · April 2007

We have 2 cats, Mama Kitty and Baby Kitty, not too original, not even related but when we got baby kitty that was the only way we distinguished them. The mother cat and the baby cat

Tina

livesstrong · April 2007

I have 3 dogs:

Nellie - Cheasepeake Bay Retriever
Cody - Husky/shephard mix &
Delbert - Bloodhound - named after the singer Delbert McClinton. I actually got to meet Delbert the singer and told him about Delbert the dog!!! My husband wanted to name him Cheeseburger!!

Valerie

iodine · April 2007

Our kids hated the names we had for our siamese cats:
(I'll include the ones they named their cats when they started their homes, too)

Yobo(slang for korean ladies of the evening)
MaiTai(the drink)
Kimchee(korean cabbage that's aged--ewwww)

Charles Dickens
ChinChin (Brit drinking toast)
Clancey
Beauregard(turned out to be a girl, Beau Kay)
Scarlett
Riley

Yeah, we love cats and have a bunch among us.

NancyLee13 · April 2007

My mom and I named our cat Opie Taylor or Opie T. for short because he looked a bit like that scruffy little Ronnie Howard on the Andy Griffith show. Now he's a big honking cat, but the name has stuck. Our dog is Dash because he came into the airport on a Delta Dash flight and it said Dash on the cage and he is a black border collie with this little white line on his rear above his tail that looks like someone put a dash of paint there with a 4 inch wide brush. He also dashes around all the time so the name fits him.

Life is Good Smiles NancyLee

acgw · April 2007

What a fun thread!

My husband and I had
Idaho, a smooth coat collie look alike
Chebacca, an English mastiff
Mr. Scruffy Bumpy, a foundling; a one eyed, deaf bichon frise

Sadly, they are no longer with us but we are blessed with Gus. He came with the name and, although I wanted our next mastiff to be named Atticus, he really is a Gus.

Thanks for the smiles

BMD · April 2007

I named my dog Kes after a character on Star Trek Voyager. I was pregnant at the time and wanted a girl so I could name her Kes. When I found out I was having a boy I got a female puppy to name. I just liked the name. She is part german shephard and ridgeback or something.

JoanofArdmore · April 2007

Hi Isabella!
I love dogs and always give mine human names-to me they ARE people, and lovely ones, too.

As a girl, I had a lovely English Cocker.He was Nick.

As a young woman, I had a brown, black-masked Cairn Terrier.Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.We called him Bobbo.

Later there were just-born puppies whose mother had just died at the animal shelter.The workers were feeding the teeny scraps non-dairy creamer off their finger tips.("Come on Little Puppy!").I said "We can do better." My daughters, 7 and 12, and I fed 2 teeny, eyes-and-ears-closed puppies round the clock with Embimilk.The scraps grew into beautiful Golden/Collie-looking dogs: Quentin and Angeline.

Then there was a brown Staffordshire Terrier:Augie

And then there was my late Rupert.So named because when retreiers are happy, they say "Roo!Roo!Roo!"
We Rooed for 14 wonderful years.

I hope you dont think these were stupid names, because I'd never name so noble a creature something that might be perceived as stupid!
love, j

Sierra · April 2007

I love to hear all the different names
people use. If they like them,
fine. Guess everyone likes something
different, but that M name you post
is quite a mouthful

Dotti: I like the MaiTai name
it really is cute

I had a cat named:

BABY TOPAZ Persian
eyes were as topaz

)

nancy75 · April 2007

I named a hermit crab we use to have, Boss...

ADK · April 2007

Okay - We have had 7 cats in the time DH & I have been together - we try to have three at a time, these are our cat's names:

C.P (short for couch potato)
Sushi
Shady
Sashimi
Miso
Tobiko
and Hamachi (my avatar)

We got on the Japanese food name kick and we will probably continue with it. It is funny to see the folks at the vet's try to pronounce them.

myrenewal · April 2007

All our cats have had cat names, KATrina, Hobie KAT, Kitten Kaboodle, you get the picture! Anyone have a good KAT name for our next cat?

lke · April 2007

I had 7 at one time:
Tuck, Tom, Toby, Blackie, Little Tuck, Sissy, Little Girl

shokk · April 2007

My oldest daughter named one of our cats "Flashlight" because she was living in our garage and we didn't know it and the only way you could see her was with a flashlight....she was wild but my daughter finaly tamed her and now we just call her "Flash"

teacheng1 · April 2007

My sister-in-law got my brother an English bull dog. They named him Britain and since their last name is Hill they gave him a middle name, Church, so the puppy's name is Britain Church Hill!

My son wanted a dog but could only have a cat (which he really does adore) in his apartment, so he gave the kitten a dog name, Jack.

My own cat's name isn't too original, Miss Kitty. She isn't just one of the family, she's queen of the house!

Teresa

P.S. I've always thought that animal people are good people.

SheriH · April 2007

When I was a kid we got a pure white cat we named "Fluffy the Snowball" and called him Snow for short.

We had a collie before the Disney movie "Fox and the Hound" came out named "Copper Lady" we called Copper. We were proud of ourselves to be ahead of the times.

A few years ago we got a baby black lab from the animal shelter that our youngest who was only 4 named Mario after the character in the video game. Sadly, he died a week later from parvo.

newter · April 2007

It is not the names that are weird but the nicknames I give my cats. I used to have Helen and Stanley and their nicknames were Newter and Frewter.

Now I have a new cat named Blueberry and her nickname is Blewter. My other cat Oliver is too mean for a nickname.

My husband will not honor the nickname or the regular name but my kids have come around and Blewter it is.

ravdeb · April 2007

Oh gosh we've had lots of animals in our days....
1. Kelly... which was short for "kelev" which is Hebrew for Dog..very original!
2. Gimpy...for a cat who limped.
3. Oliver Boliver Butt...for a dog..name is from a Dr. Seuss book..kids were little then!
4. George Plukey....for a cat. My kids were 4 years old and 2 years old. The older one decided on George and the younger one cried that he wanted to name the cat, too. so, when I asked him what name, Plukey came out..so we kept it!
5. Britney after Britney Spears..for a skinny dog
6. Stephanie for a fluffy white cat..named after Stephanie in The Bold and the Beautiful.
That's all I can think of that are silly...

mags · April 2007

Hi ladies, I have cats called Lady, Popeye (who is a girl lol), Tigger who is ginger like the tigger in Winnie the Pooh, Magic cos she's black, Minxy and Bunting from the nursery rhyme Cry Baby Bunting. For nicknames they nearly all get called boo boo bear at some point or other.
Hugs
Mags

lzcait · April 2007

Henri David Thoreau, shortened to Thor, for a cat that lived at a bookstore I owned.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for a stray we saved at the bookstore, shortened to Henry
Edgar Allen Poe, for a second stray (jet black!) that we saved at the bookstore, shortened to Edgar unless he is on top of the bookcases and then I yell his entire name to get his attention!
Grizzabella, for Cats, then it was shortened to Bella and then because she is FAT, we just call her Belly
Precious, because she is the sweetest most precious cat
Wolfe, who is 15 and female and a cat...I was reading Women Who Run With the Wolves at the time!
Zoe, which is Greek for life, for our dog
We've also had an Apricot, for a calico cat
Catfish, for a cat with extraordinary long whiskers that didn't stick out, but swept back, just like a catfish

Made · April 2007

We currently have a cat called Summer ( a tortoiseshell) - named in honor of a tortoiseshell cat called Autumn that died after 14 years (following the season theme) by my then 7 year old middle daughter and a long haired german shepard named Southern's Jake by a jerk that kept him outside in the midwest his first 8 months - we just call him Jake. We had a doberman named Asia Blue and a hamster named Sly but both have gone to pet heaven.

newvickie · April 2007

As kids we had a male and a female terrier mix...
named them boy and girl!!!

luckymel · April 2007

A number of years back two kittens adopted me, and came to be known as Sponge Marie and Veranda. Veranda was because I already had indoor cats and these two were going to live on the porch (didn't happen), and Sponge because my little neighbor girl wanted to call her Smudge, but kept mispronouncing it as Sponge. That was my favorite cat name.

barbara913 · April 2007

my bf's dog's name is dancer, she was born on christmas day several years ago, and the litter was named after santa's reindeer, so he kept it. i had a neighbor when i was growing up that named their cats after whoever won the world series, so i remember a cat called pittsburg.
barbara

Muffett · April 2007

Well, our 14 1/2 year old rescue pug is named Buddy. It had to be. My husband's pug, years ago, was Holly. We have Betty, actually Black Betty Bam-A-Lam, our black pug girl, after the 70's song. And then we have Bernard Pearl, Berny, our pied French bulldog, who has both our middle names. Our cat Cleo is named Cleo because we had a cat named Theo, and my husband's mother always thought his name was Cleo.

We always name our bettas. This one is named Jack because he is red, and he looks like a ruby, but we couldn't name him that since he is a male.

I think dogs should have human names. They are, after all, parts of our families.

Glenda

PS: Friends just named their cat Crash, because he crashes around the house. He's only 5 months old. He may calm down soon.

rferraris · April 2007

Last summer after my mastectomy we had a contest to name my prostheisis. Her name is "Gladys Gawn." When I have on a v-necked shirt and she shifts out of place my friends ask me "Have you seen Gladys lately?" That tells me I need to "fix" myself!

Rachel

Stupid names people give to their pets !!

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