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What is Your Pet's Name and Why?

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Lostintheglades
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07-10-2000

Sunday, June 27, 2004 - 6:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ethel - 14 years. She's a pound puppy and I have no idea what mix she is. Basically just your typical Florida cur. Named after Ethel Murman because of her huge loud bark even at 8 weeks old.

Millie - Jack Russell, 4 years. My youngest daughter named her after Tiffany Milbret, one of the soccer players on the Womens US Soccer team that won the Championships in 2000. I wanted to call her Lucy so I'd have a "Lucy and Ethel". In the end she became Millie, but I call her Lucy when she gets into trouble. She answers to both.




Jenniferlove
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07-05-2004

Monday, July 05, 2004 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have the fat cat, Ted (AKA Teddy Cheddy) He is named that because his foster meowmie thought he looked like a Teddy bear. Heidi, the scaredy cat was named by my (then) 4 year old niece..."because she HIDES...LOL

Charlie (the wonder dog) was named by my DH's ex-GF's kids after the "All Dogs Go to Heaven" dog. Thelma (senior dog, deaf as a post-black labrador) was named that when we got her from ARF...her sister was named Louise.

Beckyann
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06-23-2004

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have 2 dogs:
Pokey (}5 years old) a (stubborn) basset hound - named after the "The Pokey Little Puppy"

Bink (4 years old)a white Maltese - Named after a character in a book that I was reading when we got him.



Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have 3 cats and I got them in the following order

Moya - (female) Was the name of the spaceship from the Sci-fi tv-show Farscape.

Talyn - (female) I got her about a year after Moya and low and behold on the tv-show the spaceship Moya gave birth to a little spaceship named Talyn so it seemed to fit. (its sci-fi anything's possible!)

Whopper - (Male) I got him about a month after Talyn. My brother was feeding two stray cats at his home who were pregnant and gave birth in his garage. When they were old enough I went to take them to the Humane Society to be adopted and there were six kittens and my nieces named the biggest kitten Whopper and he was sooo adorable I had to keep him and the name fit, He is now a 16 pound Whopper. I would have known his personality more I would have named him Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies, because he is the biggest, sweetest, dumbest animal I have ever owned!!

Jadarville
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07-01-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gandalf is a white faced cockatiel and at the time we got him The Two Towers had just come out, we'd seen it about 4 times and he is gray with a white face so we figured Gandalf the Gray or Gandalf the White worked well. Legolas is a golden pearl cockatiel and we decided to stick with the theme and since he was (mostly) yellow (blonde lol) we named him Legolas. Strider is a Quaker parrot and since he's green and by this time were committed to the whole Lord of the Rings theme he was named after Strider/Arogorn who wears a green coat in his ranger persona. next came Merry who is a Sun Conure and Pippin a standard gray cockatiel. We want a blue Quaker at some point in the future, so we'll have to think which character fits that coloring. Galadriel I guess, but that's a mouthful. glad for short? lol

Suitsmefine
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07-29-2002

Friday, August 06, 2004 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We adopted a sweet baby girl puppy over the weekend who is SOOOOOOOO sweet and so caring that we HAD to name her TESS!!!!( I love ya Tess!!!!)
She is only 7 weeks old and she is so obedient and so sweet that NO other name was fitting...
...I am sitting here on the puter right now and she is sitting in my lap watching the screen like she is in "Dog...re or Hog Heaven!!!" I LOVE PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!"

Roppiepie
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05-06-2004

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My 4 1/2yr old boy is Scooby. I call him Scoobs.He came from a no-kill shelter. I've had him since November.He is only the 2nd dog I've ever had! My 1st was a BD gift, an old, deaf, half blind Sheltie! I loved her to pieces! Scoobs is chihuahua/terrier mix.X-tremely protective of his Mom and yard!

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a parrotlet named Beaudroux. I mostly call him Bou Bird. Just wanted a Louisian' / Cajun kinda name.

Parrotlets aren't known for talking, but I think Bou Bird is trying. The actual words aren't there, but intonations in sound certainly are -- so I think he's trying. And he has picked up a sound or two that I make. And he has taught me some sounds. So we converse.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ack!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<spins head backwards>



Tess
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04-13-2001

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 1:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Suits!! You really have a puppy named Tess and there's no photo yet? I'm aghast!!.....and a bit teary-eyed. Uh, I hear that I was also very obedient at 7 weeks of age. really not sure what happened after that......

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, August 23, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a 17 year old cat named K.C. it stands for Kitty Cat. He was the first cat I ever got, 2 others have since passed. I found him in a furnature store at lunch one day with 3 co-workers. On the way back to work with him along, we decided he was mine. He's always been an indoor cat. And although he's old, he's healthy and very, very loved!



Cher
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08-18-2004

Friday, August 27, 2004 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a Walker Hound we adopted from the Humane Society - he was four when we got him. His name was Rocky so my son now has added a middle name Road - so it is Rocky Road. He is spoiled rotten sleeps on the beds, couch and now the recliner!

Trini
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07-06-2004

Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 7:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cat named sheba because I had a dog named Sheba when I lived in The West Indies, it was the hardest thing to leave her. Now I have a (spoiled) cat and I call her sheba

Graceunderfyre
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01-22-2004

Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I feel like I still have 4 babies (plus the human) but sadly, 3 died over the past year :-( All of our furbabies are adopted from a shelter so they had names when they came home and we try to stick with them for the most part.

My remaining one; Hershie was actually named Sherie but we thought it was a silly name. We spent a few weeks trying to come up with a different one before settling on Hershie because she is part chocolate lab and part bull terrier. But mainly because she looks like a pretty boy and my husband kept forgetting she was a girl, so he said let me call her HER SHE and maybe I'll remember. It didn't help.

My other 3; Spud & Sparky and Dylan were my dearly beloved ferrets. We kept Spud's name because for a ferret he was large and he loved to steal french fries. His sister Sparky was actually named Princess and though she was very regal, we felt Sparky was more like it because she lit off as soon as anyone came near her. The 3rd ferret, Dylan was an abused pet that came home with us one day from the shelter. He looked just like Spud and it was hard to tell them apart so before he ever got checked into the shelter we took him home before Spud got checked back in. I'm not sure if we ever knew Dylan's name in his abused life, but we named him Dylan because whenever we wondered where he was in the house "the answer my friend was blowing in the wind." No matter how many baths he got, that ferret always had his wonderful musky smell (wonderful to him that is).

Missio
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09-16-2004

Friday, September 17, 2004 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cheyenne is our 7 year old yellow lab. I was scratching my head trying to come up with a "different" name for our new puppy. I happened to hear someone mention the name and just loved it. Cheyenne she is. Such a good old girl

Llwynn
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07-19-2003

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 10:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have three babies. My oldest is Morgan(12), my very fat and very sassy cat. Morgan means sorceress, which she certainly is and that is how she got her name. The baby of the family is Willow, a tiny kitten that was a birthday gift two years ago. She is a troublemaker, but never actually gets in trouble cause she is just so darn cute. I got Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course. Finally, about a year ago, I adopted a poodle-schnauzer mix from the humane society. His name is Herman. He is 4 years old and he responds to it, so I guess we are stuck. My mom calls him "Sherman" because she thinks it fits him better!

Sweet_tooth
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01-25-2004

Saturday, September 18, 2004 - 10:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have two cats and a dog. One of my cat's names is Pheobe. She got her name off the character Pheobe, on the show Friends. My second cat's name is Smokey. She is very black so the name Smokey fits her perfectly. They are 9 and 8 years old and so precious. My dog's name is Speck. My son came up with it because whenever we got Speck, he was so little...it suited him well.

Nancypj
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08-17-2001

Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have three cats -- Isabo, Marble and Chip.

Isabo is a 12-year-old long-haired gray-with-some peach-kitty, named after a character in the movie Ladyhawke.

Then there's 5-1/2 year-old Marble, who I adopted when her "parents" moved from my apartment building and couldn't take her. She was 1-1/2 at the time and had given birth to five kittens two months before I agreed to take her. Her former "dad" said that all the kittens were spoken for and would be gone by the time they moved. So, they leave, I go down to show Marble to her new home, and here she comes out of the bushes, followed by a miniature version of herself.

I had no choice but to name him Chip. :-)

Nana
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07-24-2004

Wednesday, October 13, 2004 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Buddy gray cockatiel 6 mths old when I bough him in 1986 he says Good Buddy, it’s a beautiful day and luvy luvy luvy, Love you Buddy, and thank you.

two years later My girls wanted a girlfriend for Buddy we were given a baby Cockatiel it turned out to be another Male, we named him Ruddy… they are best friends and Ruddy says the same things as Buddy it is hard to tell them apart.

Reno a golden setter my hb dog. He was two when we purchased him from his previous owner. First time we ever purchased a dog that was not a puppy He is the second Gordensetter we have had 1rst was Jack and he passed a couple years ago at the age of 19 he live a long life for a Gordon. Reno had a hard time when Jack passed... he missed him so much that he cried like a baby.

Buck Two is our Golden retriever, he is my sons dog he is name after our first golden retriever named Buck… My son has the same color hair as his retriever; my boy was 9 years old when we purchased him. Son now 13... Buck is a Big dog, he tends to dig his way out of the kennel and manages to eat through fences... he is so loveable… sometimes when he gets in to mischief we call him Clifford..

Minnie Soda we call her Minnie…my son’s Siamese cat… My son named her... she is about 6 years old.

My son has a Bata fish hw calls him soda pop,, he manages to keep them alive for about 4 years and when one passes,, he will get a new one with the same name…Soda Pop…




Teddybear
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08-02-2001

Friday, October 22, 2004 - 7:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Two cats:

Cher.. female.. named after the singer of course. My cat has long black hair and meows alot, so I say she is singing.. so Cher is the perfect name for her.

Ally.. female.. my mom actually found her as in a drainpipe downtown, close to an alley, at first I didnt know if I was going to keep her so I kept calling her Alley Cat. I took her to the vet for her shots the next day and had already fell in love with her and the name Ally stuck. I just changed the spelling.

Westtexan
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07-16-2004

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 - 9:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Samantha, or Sam: Very unoriginal I later discovered as that is the most popular name for cats. Anyway, she is solid black and reminded me of the opening credits of Bewitched so of course I named her Samantha and go back and forth with that name and the shorter version Sam.

Shadoe
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11-04-2004

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 5:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I cared for my mother's cat Poppy when she passed away until Poppy became ill and I had to put him to sleep.
I was devastated by this second loss, so I got a 3 year old big black persian from the Humane Society. I named her Precious as she was just that to me: filled a void.
I felt guilty that she was alone all the time when I was working, so I got a 2nd kitten to keep her company. Quite quickly, I settled on the name for the kitten: Booboo. Precious took a very long time to stop hating me for bringing home this kitten.
When I found a new home for Precious (she was never an indoor cat and had trouble adapting), Booboo was alone.
So, I got Booboo a friend. This time I bought a tiny grey kitten to keep Booboo company. Her name came easy. She was very timid and hid in the shadows, just watching everything.
Booboo - a mistake according to Precious.
Shadoe - just a different way of saying shadow.
And thus, my name in here.


Costacat
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07-15-2000

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Costa, my little man cat, was originally named Charlie when I adopted him from a shelter. Charlies was, in my opinion, too boring for such a character, so I renamed him. Costa is Greek for Charlie. Costa's nickname is "Bug." He inherited that name when my mom's Welsh Corgie, Rusty, died. Rusty was always the Bug, and now Costa is.

When I adopted Kassie, my little girl, I wanted to keep the Greek theme. Kassiopeia is a Greek goddess (the mom to Andromeda and wife to Cepheus). In Greek mythology, Kassiopeia was vain and arrogant. Much like my little princess! <grin> Kassie's nickname is Baby, or Mouse. Not sure why for the latter.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 2:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
We have a new kitten. His name is Frank. How appropriate, right? It goes right along with is older and much larger buddy Beans.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How cute Escapee. My tuxedo's name is Buddy, but lately for some unknown reason I started calling him Mr. Bud and he seems to like it and come quicker when called that!

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 6:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My current cat is Spats, named because of her four white paws. My first cat was Psycho, named before I realized all cats were a little crazy.

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 11:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Prisonerno6 I had a family cat (Black, Long-haired) we named 'Psycho' too!! Seems like most black haired cats are a little off the wall. As she got older she tamed down then we started calling her Selima. She passed away peacefully at the age of 18!!

I have another long haired black cat now who's 11 years old. Her name is Pagan. I wanted to call her Magan but it sounded too much like a people name.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

Monday, January 31, 2005 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Psycho Kitty was all black (with emerald green eyes)! Spats is more of a gray tuxedo cat, with the white bib and paws, and a nose that is half black and half pink