'Dog names now same as top baby names'

pfff I named my firstborn after the cat

My dog is called Ruby which I'm aware is a popular girls' name but when I named her Ruby I actually thought it was a popular dogs' name...

I am calling my baby Fido...

Our dog has a human name.

We got her when two of my friends were pregnant and we thought we were unable to have children.

I think people are sneery about the 'dog as baby' thing because the perceived desperation makes them feel uncomfortable.

We were desperate though, and getting a dog to nurture seemed worth braving the sneers of those unimaginative souls who couldn't begin to imagine what we were going through at the time.

It worked too, and in fact I found my puppy much harder work than my subsequent newborn, and an excellent preparation for motherhood generally.

So really it's their fault for giving their children animal names.

I wout give a dog a name that I would give a child, but I expect a lot of people would give a child a name that I would give a dog.

I know plenty of canine milly, molly, maisie etc - I definitely think of those more as dog names. Have met lurchers called Norman and Stanley (found in Accrington) - both of which were thoroughly appropriate. I know rescues have a hugely difficult task in coming up with new, appropriate and memorable hound names so human ones are bound to come in from time to time.

Our current lovely lurcher is called maisie, and DH is stubbornly refusing to let me call our bump Daisy... I'm sure it would save time in the long run...

We had a dog called Lucy growing up. My mum has 2 dogs called Dill and Fizz (Fizz was already named when we got him). We've had cats called Truffles, Mozzie (short for Moriarty) and Rebel. We also had a pony called Isobella (already named so) and a horse we named Cloudy.

When I was 14 and got my own kitten I called her Molly, simply because it was my favourite name at the time and I was at the time still 10 years from having kids.

Currently DH and I have 3 cats called Meg (named after Little Women character) and Fred and George (named after the twins in Harry Potter). I dont think giving them people names shows a lack of imagination personally.

maybe the problem is people are now using dogs names as human ones ?!

My collie was called Molly - at a time when as a human name it was very old fashioned - how was I to know it would soon become a popular human name again. In my life we have had a Sue, Sam (x2), and Molly - all human names.

We had the devils own job picking a name for our dog a year ago - lots of the names we came up with also belonged to the children of people we knew and we didn't want to offend anyone by calling our dog their child's name !

I have never found this to be a problem.

I have often noticed that people use my daughter's name for their cat.

I have found the way forward.

I always call my Pets, human names but in a really dry sense of humour way... I had a Cat called Alan and intend to get a Dog which i want to call Steve or David.

Our cats are Amber and Loki, and the fish are Sundance, Chief II, Elmo, Danny x4, and the 'others'.

Love the name Amber, but my dad insists on calling her Freddie Both respond to Big/Little Fur and Fleabag!

cat is bridge, we always name cats in relation to the place we get them, mostly found them...
but, shamelessly, hamsters, both sadly deceased were stewart, male, and george (georgia, as female).
didn't think of them as humans or our babies, just fancy the names, they never made the shortlist for ds, though

Our dogs are called Molly (12 years old) and Bella (7 years old)

I've always used human names for pets but always choose weird ones that are unlikely to be used by friends or relatives naming their babies - e.g. my dog is called Horace.

A close relative has called her dog Lily and talks about her as if she's her baby . She even chimes in with 'I do that with Lily' when I'm talking about typical anxious parent behaviour such as constantly checking your baby is breathing.

Whilst I've always adored our pets and seen them as part of the family, I do stop short of seeing them as actual children.

Our three greyhounds were named when we got them. It makes life interesting as one is called Andy while DH is Andrew...

My B/SIL called their daughter Lucy (lovely name) after hesitating as that was already the name chosen by my PIL for their cocker spaniel. In the end they decided they loved the name, that they only visit the in-laws once or twice a year, and that Lucy will have her name a lot longer than the dog will.

So when they come to visit we use the names Lucy and Lucydog and everyone's happy!

Our weim is called Amelie, she had already started to respond to it so we kept it. Lots of grumpy looks from mums of under 5 girls in the park :o

My 2 are Archie and Dennis, and my mum's dog is Toby. Archie was originally Arthur, but ugh, that just didn't fit! And Dennis (the Menace!) very nearly got called Randy, but we fixed that!

But my MIL's choccy lab is called CoCo - he was once known as Bournville...! :o

Oops - guilty as charged!

I named my cat Harry, and previously named 2 horses I had, Jessie and Cleo. We also had a family dog called Daisy when we were kids.