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How does that nursery rhyme go? Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me?
Well, tell that to the hordes of aggrieved pets living with the outright obnoxious names their loved ones have given them.
Cats:
Chicken Nugget
Meatloaf
Bluecifer
Mr. Chickenwig
Laundry Blankie
Mr. Milky Mouth
Fresno Fair Zucchini Corndog (aka, Zuk)
Toby Toes McPurr
Bucket Sprouthead
Pussy Moo
Baby Jesus
Reverend Phatty
McBisquit
Fluffy Fusty Feather Fungus
Dory Fluffenheimersheim
Mister Tsuemo Bangkok Hipszer
Yardsale
Darth Kitty
Dogs:
Barryzander
JaMocha Frappuccino
Kowalski
Sir Freaks-a-Lot
Antobia Bandogas
Portia Snicklefritz
S.A.M. (acronym for Shes a Mutt)
D.O.G. (pronounced Dee-OH-gee)
Nematode (a veterinarians dog, of course)
Yo Quiero
Foodworld
Snarfpolas Skinks
Easy Wheat
Snack Attack
Rabbits:
Poop (Maybe its just me, but how can you not love this name?)
Ferrets:
Schnaggle
MacWeezal and Scarlet MacWeezal (lovers, no doubt)
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Myrina
(12,296 posts)... that I'd named 'Ike', and renamed him "Deuce Beagalo".
Rhiannon12866
(205,365 posts)It has to affect the poor pet. Mine tend to have "people" names. Here's my Jack:
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Toby. Petey. Cocoa. Charley. Skittles. Moose. Smudge. Mildred. O'Malley. Rat Face. . . .
??
edit: Jack looks like he's a lot of fun!
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)And people frequently call me Toby. Jen got the cat before she got me. She got the idea for the name from Tobi's white toes.
JitterbugPerfume
(18,183 posts)it is my given name and I have always hated it, but I have an acceptable nick name. i 'll bet she is an awesome cat anyway
my cats are cat-Mandu and Lilith Ashlee
WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)Cats:
Star (black cat with a white mark on her chest, she was named by the lady who had her originally and had to give her up when she found out she had cancer. We thought it appropriate to honor that.)
Cider: Orange and white cat. Got him at the shelter in Iron River, MI. One of the volunteers accidentally switched the cat we had adopted with this one. By the time we got there to get our Cider an elderly couple had adopted him. The shelter felt horrible over it, but we still ended up with the other Cider.
Dot: Looks like a mini-cow. White cat with black dots. Also named by the shelter.
Toeby: He's a polydactyl kitty. We just thought the name was amusing.
Dogs:
Bailey: Original name was Basil. Didn't like it and one of the girls at the shelter said she had heard we were naming him Bailey. Beagle Bailey worked for us.
Sadie: Such a laid back dog never lived. She was a rescue that we adopted. We're pretty sure she was kept crated constantly because she's more comfortable laying in the corner and rarely gets excited (unless it's dinner time). We've never been able to get her out of her shell, despite all kinds of coaxing.
Brownie: Originally named Tula by the next door neighbor who had her. Can't stand them and renamed her Brownie. Like the dessert she's sweet, but a little nuts.
Kory: Original name was Libby. Enough said on that one.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)a.k.a. The Fluff, a.k.a. Miss Kitty, a.k.a. Das Fluff, a.k.a. Fluffy, a.k.a. Fluff.
She's a bit fluffy. :-0
dana_b
(11,546 posts)Phatty Cakes and Tarjhay (like people who pronounce Target - 'Tarjhay'). Those are some of the names that I have come across in the last few years for various dogs that we've met at the dog park. The last name was for a bull terrier that looked like the dog from the Target commercials.
Personally I will stick with Marlow and Kaloni.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)He named him Molson.
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Esme, or Ezums, for short. Lady cat born to a feral mama under our front porch. Elegant long haired tabby. Very Victorian looking...hence, Esme. Splotchpaw is fairly obvious. (pale peach splotch, right front paw.) Bobcat for her wild origins. Nicole Kitman, her feral mother, who lives in a heated cathouse (winter) on our deck and allows me to pet her when I feed her, is so named because of her pale strawberry blonde coloring.
I have four other cats in the house plus a long line of Great Pyrenees area rug impersonators, but I'll save their names for another time...
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)...when I told her my two girl's names (cats), Snoopy and Squeak. I told her, "Be serious. I'm sure you've heard much worse." Their brother is Chili Pepper.
Squeak got her name because she didn't start meowing until she was over 2 years old...she'd squeak like a kitten. She has some brain damage and developed way, way slower than her brother and sister. Now, she meows non-stop.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)She was very musical.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)That was her official name on all her records.
If he ever has a dog, he'll name it Phydeaux.
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)Sporkweasel, grey tabby male, head cheese cat, much like the late, great, Matty, the wonder cat.
Basket, grey tabby female, rescued from a trash dumpster as a kitten
Binger, Black and white female Manx
Cheddar, orange male, newest cat, still a baby (9 weeks old)
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)Since my job takes me on the road for long periods of time, when I am at a point in my life to have kitties again, I want to name them after the places I've been.
So far I've worked on campaigns in Lexington, KY (Lexie), Green Bay, WI (Packer), and Atlantic City, NJ (Nucky)
She thinks I am cruel to consider naming a cat Nucky. She has no problem with Lexie or Packer.