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I believe it to be terribly degrading when i see pets with names like 'fluffy', 'scruffy', 'rover' etc.
Pets should have normal names like Gary, Alan, John, Lorraine etc.
I also think people should have more silly names.
(?) Alan Dog
http://www.ideagate...es_home/alandog.htm
[benfrost, May 04 2001]
(?) Sensible names
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3450/
'An online help for parents looking for that distinctive name that says "I'm a Utah Mormon!".' [angel, May 04 2001]
U.S. trends in naming children
http://www.casperkitty.com/nametabl.htm
Top ten boy's and girl's name (USA, by year, 1880-2000) [supercat, Jan 09 2002]
(?) Annabelle
http://moniplex.com...ndar/Annabelle2.jpg
And we had a rabbit called Gordon Bennett and another called Bentley. Pretty darned sensible, I think you'll agree. [DrCurry, Oct 07 2002]
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Quite right. Some of my favourite cats have been called Ralph, George, Larry, Louis and Barry. Of course, I've also been associated with Fluffy-bunny, Lupin, Lump, Ratty, Biff and BamBam. But I'm thinking of changing Lump's name to Colin. |
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even better if you named them after famous people; "Arnold Schwarzenegger! stop peeing on the rose bushes, you naughty boy!". Endless amusement |
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We had a cat once which we called...... well, Cat actually. As for silly names for people I once used to call myself Wombatt. Come to think of it, I still know somebody called Wombat. Not sure on this one. Some of the people I know get a big bang out of calling me silly names e.g. F***wit and Airhead. I'm not up for making a rod for my own back. |
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The current Russells: Woodrow Tiberius (Tyler for short), Beauty Queen, Valli Girl, Twinkle Belle, Dottie Dot Com, Winnie Poohkie Bear, Button Button, and Cookie Monster. |
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The cats: Magickal Merlin Windsor, Sasha Marie Puddin' Head Finklestein (she's Jewish), and Dionna the Devil Cat. |
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Horses (some of these names are NOT my fault) : Kissmylips, Lovuso, Native Robbysue, Native Sadiesue, Native Sophiesue, Native Susieque, Second Chance Blues, Kymberlin, Bid On Bingo, Chlorie Belle, Blue Light, Jabberwocky (yep, that one's definitely mine), Centerfold Rebel, Texas Marathon, Ghetto Georgia, Luvagoodjoke, Singles Last Kiss, Miss Ora Dell, and the stud, himself, Sir Riddle. |
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My four cats' names are Phuc Nguyen, Eric W. Gunderson I, Lousynogoodsonofabitchyoullneveramounttonothing, and Rover. |
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I'm thinking of getting a Maltese Dog- they grow to @ 5" tall & hopefully naming it 'Killer' regardless of sex. |
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That's one tiny little doggie, there, thumby. Never seen such a tiny li'l dawg. |
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When Gerald Durrell lived on Corfu as a boy he received two puppies: Widdle and Puke. Perhaps they got other names once they outgrew their puppish incontinence, I don't remember. |
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"Sic 'em Killer!" ...Just checking to see if anybody's paying attention... Actually they're 10" height at most and usually 4-6 pounds with 7 being considered overweight. Makes a Chihuahua look enormous by comparison. |
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I knew someone who had a cat named 'Woof' and a dog named 'Meow'... |
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Our current cats are Katharine and Natasha. Our previous furball was Tela (named after Tela Brown from Niven's books) |
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If it's the one from the Ringworld series, it's "Teela". |
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My two are Bastet and Tora. My brother's is Kaia, and the sort of half-house cat is Stumpy <A manx with no obvious tail.> |
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I personally preferr using short Germanic names for pets - Uve, Inga, Axel, etc. Easy to "bark" out when doing training or commands. |
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I COMPLETELY disagree. I think pets should have pet names, not people names, or at least not common people names.
My dogs names are Pip and Pico. Cat's name is Tuck. Rabbit's is Chitch (the fireball) and a rat named Loops |
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I'm with you, bristolz. The closest thing that I've got to a pet (my computer) I've named ELOOBU, which is an entirely random (in English, anyway) string of letters. Were I to have a pet, I would want to make sure that its name is at least as nonsensical. Any combination of plosives and/or long vowel sounds works. |
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absterge, With you on this one. Throw in numbers and some of the characters from the symbols chart on Word and you're on to a winner. Could also take the strain out of naming children. Regards, 9*%>+&£4~] |
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For the record, three cats: Lilly, Jasmine, and (another) Tuck. One dog: Boon. Also, I believe the original subject was whether giving people names to pets was good or not, as opposed to what all of the halfbakers' pets' names are. I like the dog named Zuul, tho. I think we have to give our pets outrageous names because we can't give them to ourselves or our kids without them losing face. I'd be (even more) messed up if my parents had names me after that redheaded kid from Children of the Corn, or CarrotTop. |
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Mephista, I have to say I've resisted saying anything in the past, and I don't want to appear rude or anything, but exactly which planet is it that you inhabit? |
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I definitely disagree. Giving our pets stupid names is a great outlet for all the frustration and anger that everyone has for the world but society won't let us. Besides, if we're forced to give pets normal names, people will start to call their kids Rex, Blackie, Rover and Felix. You've got to feel sorry for those kids when they reach school age. |
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By the way, my cat is called Monty and the house fish is Mr. Furious. At least he was until we forgot to feed him. D'oh! |
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A friend has a cat called Naplam. |
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I can't abide dogs called Dave. |
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I think we should try to stop giving people silly names first (PeterSealy, yeah). We should just ban English names outright (in Hong Kong), and pass some kind of law in Singapore (they will obey...). |
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Evidence:
Men named Dixie and Paronel.
Women named Disney. |
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The problem with Chinese people taking English names is that they tend to take names that haven't been used by anyone English since the 1800's. |
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There were two Chinese kids in my school called Clarence and Sinclair. Sinclair is surely a dodgy computer from the 80's, and Clarence is without doubt the best name I have ever heard... for a cat. |
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My grandmother had a cat called Michael which she would dress in doll's clothes and take out riding in a pram (baby carriage). My brother had cats called Number 3 and Zanussi. I often wonder who was dafter. |
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i disagree... my dog is called Scrabble, and she doesn't care. She will answer to anything.
And I know someone with a dog called Gerbil |
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The current contingent of cats are Maggie, Jake, Zeke and Alex. The Rottweiler is named Roxy. I have always leaned toward the respectful names for pets. Besides its a little easier to take where youre outside at midnight looking under bushes to mutter 'Come here Jake" Than it is to scream for Fluffy over and over again. |
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Pets should have pets names, humans should have human names. What's the fun in having a 'sensible' pet name, eg George? Theres no harm in a 'silly' pet name. Pets should have names that suit their personality. |
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To add to that, I know a family with a boy called Dave and a Dog called Dave. They couldn't call one without calling the other. Definitely a problem. |
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a cat will answer to anything ending in -y as it knows your voice e.g. fluffy, polly,scrubby, cosy, missy, |
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a dog will answer to anything as long as there is food or a ball involved |
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cats are clever - dogs are stupid - gerbils are incestuous |
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//That pickaninny, that nigger baby?//
where do these pickaninnies and babies reside? all over the planet or in a specific region? |
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If you go around giving pets sensible names, there'll never be any amusing 'porn star' names again. |
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(If you don't know how, find your own porn star name by combining your first pet's name with your mother's maiden name. Mine's "Scrambler Lorantos") |
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Or, alternately, for the surname, the street on which you first resided. -- Lucky St. Charles. |
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My current cats are Samantha and (boringly) Tiger. Previous pussies were Lucy and Seven-Up. Incidently, my porn star name is BooBoo Danton. |
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When I said "current cats", I mean the cats I have now, not cats made of currents. |
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I like cat names that get your
attention, like Squishy, Sushi, or
Chihuahua. It confused me good
when I first heard those. You can
call them Squish, Sue/Sush
(pronounced "soosh"), or Chi Chi
for short. What boring lives those
pets would have if you didn't give
them something interesting, like a
good name. I've never been
impressed by any pets named Tommy
or Frank. |
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PeterSealy :yes exactly,good point,so my parents[mostly my dad]decided to give me a sensible name |
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"The problem with giving your human child a silly name is that your child will never forgive you." |
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Most of the people I know with conservative, sensible names can't stand them, and many of them have nicknames or use their (more unusual) middle names instead. The few people I have met with far less conventional names loved them. |
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Admittedly, not many humans would appreciate being called 'Fluffy'. I s'pose my point is, an unusual name isn't necessarily a silly one, and that applies equally well to humans and animals. |
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You HAVE to read "Fluffy the Porcupine...."
We tended to have human names for pets. Emily, Penelope, Sylvester, Luke...I had a dachshund named Florenz who regularly shat in my Bass Weejuns. I currently have a reptile: Nyda, the Iguana. He's defrocked and all the lady lizards have a thing for him. |
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Warsaw said: "I personally preferr using short Germanic names for pets - Uve, Inga, Axel, etc. Easy to "bark" out when doing training or commands." Which made me laugh because my dad's business partner was a Danish man named Axel and his wife was named Inga. And they never did learn to heel. ;) |
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I vote for the sensible pet names. I much prefer leaning out the window and yelling for "Chloe" to come in the house, than calling for Fluffy or Puddles. |
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"Puddles," heh - that makes me think about a joke with ducks in it.
Had a friend that had a dog named DeeOhGhe (pronounced as 'D'-'O'-'G'). I had a cat named Ford (as in truck) and Catarina and a dog named Will. I also had a black cat that we almost named Snowball, ended up nameing her Majic instead. so I guess I've had both. |
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Why can't we both have silly names and serious names? I want to be Dub-Dub Sampson Barnes, III or some such. |
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I had a friend in high school whose family named their cats after real people with funny names: Talulah Bankhead, Pasquale Boobah (sp?). |
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Friend of mine has a huge male Rottweiler called Pansy, and his daughter's hamster is called Satan. |
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Call your dog Jim. Walk him in the park. Let him off the lead. Call him. Watch half a dozen bunnet-clad old men's heads snap round.
For the see-through rain hat equivalent, call your dog Betty. |
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This reminds me of that Larson cartoon: The names we give dogs / the names dogs give themselves. Sorry I can't find a link but it's funny. So there. |
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No one has mentioned the syndrome I invariably run into: despite my intention to name a pet something, s/he always ends up being called something else. Our first cat I named Friday,yet she was indelibly called Poofer. I've no idea why. We did name a tiny orange kitten that meowed at the door Killer Wingfield [from The Glass Menagerie]. One cat I was smitten by, an adult male at the pound [we get all our pets from the pound] has always been so dignified we call him Mister. And our other currrent cat was already named Lola, yet it was somehow wrong. One day it hit me -- her name was Lulu [yes, I've called myself after her], the name of my favorite character from Louise Erdrich's novels: a greedy, sexy, and funny woman. P.S.: My husband has given me pet names many many times sillier than any pet names you listed. That's a good thing in my book. |
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How about islamic names for pets? I like the idea of a guinea pig called Sajiid. |
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When I went to buy my cat (a short haired English Blue) my wife called me to ask what he looked like so she could look for a name, I said "he looks like velvet", so she looks up velvet in the thesarus but saw the word velcro above it and chose that instead.
Velcro the cat, gets you noticed in the vets waiting room. |
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See T.S. Elliot's - "The Naming of Cats" |
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I've 2 fish called Gilbert and George |
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We have just taken in a feral 2 week kitten found in our back yard. It has been named 'Monkey', though i was pushing for 'Agnes'. |
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'Traditional' names go in and out of fashion quite a bit. "Samantha" is a fairly common name for a cat (alluding to a rather 'bewitching' Samantha Stevens no doubt) but it was never among the ten most popular girls' names until 1988. |
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I was just looking through the top ten lists of names for babies in the U.S. (see link) and noticing that some names seem quite 'plausible' for cats while others really don't. I can easily imagine a long-haired cat named Mildred (made the top ten human names list 1905-1925); Crystal seems more of a cat name than a human name but was #9 for babies in 1982. Mary, though, seems like a decidedly un-cat-like name even though it made the top ten list for human babies every year 1880-1972 (and was #1 1880-1947). |
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A hamster named Satan! LOL! |
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my newly acquired kitten has been named 'swiss tony'. someday he will be built like the alps and ridged like a toblerone. |
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my mom's neurotic boy cat's name is Cloe and my cat's name is Mojo. I wish my name was Mojo... |
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. . . Moxy seems like a good name for a cat. |
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I once had a fish called Swimmy |
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//I wish my name was Mojo//
as opposed to Mofo? |
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a friend of mine has a dog named Spooge... which is really fun when you're trying to call the dog in a public place.
my cat's name is Spike, which I think is perfectly dignified, thank you very much. |
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Name for a dog: Curiosity. |
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. . . or "Curio" for short. |
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//Name for a dog: Curiosity//
because he killed the cat? |
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I got a new kitten two days ago (now 3 cats mad) who says her name is Anastasia Katrina Popov... or Ana Kat for short. I think her last name may have something to do with one of my favorite bakers ;-) |
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i named my cat cookie cuz i was eatin a chocolate chip cokkie at the moment.
gues thats better than opposedto "buttmunch" or "STUPIDLOUSYSONOFABITCH!" |
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yes, much easier to scream out the back door. do you aim to stay fuzzy or just passing through? |
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It's really rather simple: all dogs-fido...all cats-dustin. (oops and one milo). |
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"Parallelogram" would nice for a small dog. |
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As of my birthday last week I am proud guardian of three Tomy Micropets: Sprocket, Yuk and Chumsley. Luckily they also answer to the names of "Annoying" "Crap" and "Stupid". |
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I don't like giving pets human names, probably because there seem to be far too many dogs and cows around with my name. My father named our old cats Nicholas and Alexandra after the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia. That always seemed rather morbid to me, but I still wanted to get a dog and name it Rasputin. |
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Currently I'm living with a cat called milo (which would make my porn name 'Milo Chamberlayne'). I named my previous cat 'pixel' (after the cat who walked through walls) and I plan to name the next one 'random numbers' or randy for short (also from Heinlein). Someday I'd like to get a miniature fox terrier and name it peanut. |
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I want a black Arabian mare and I want to call her Africa.
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I've thought about this, we had a rabbit called cameron,
and a fish called stuart. But if your calling your dog
people are gonna think your calling your kid. |
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We shirked from calling our minature Dachshund any germanic name (fritz, stroodle, etc), in favour of a proper persons name, James. James responded by becoming a proper person rather then a yappy germanic dog. |
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