What is the best or most original name you have known for a family pet or other animal?

[WildRosie]

I used to know a yellow Labrador called Briggs. Admittedly, that was the name on the tag on his collar so was most likely the name of his family. But it seemed to suit him ( as far as I was concerned) so he was always Briggs to me, whatever his actual name may have been. If I ever have a male yellow Labrador, he will be called Briggs.

Dad has decided he will name my next cats - 3 of them apparently! I will be introducing them thus: this is my cat, Astrophy, another cat, Aclysm and my last cat, Mandu.

Ex bf had a car called Alan

A cat!!!

I once met a big fluffy golden retriever called Boris

A friend's aunt had a cat called Oedipus. Then they got him neutered and he was renamed Oedipum (one for the Classicists, that).

Had a pair of kittens called Fringey and Mugtree. Fringey ran away and Mugtree got run over

Had a cat called Dave. Lived to a great old age. He was a delightful cat, but quite dim. Dave suited him perfectly.

A cat called Quatre because she was our fourth cat and Quatre sounds like CATra. ( forgive me, I was about 6)

Similarly we had Fünf for our fifth cat. She was absolutely bonkers, but had a congenital disease and died very young.

The next cat was called Radar because his ears swivelled in all directions.

After that we had Cruise Missile (it was the 80s!) She ended up being called Duchess because she was so regal.

Currently we have Lester. I wanted something a bit Jazz so he was named for Lester Young and Sonny Lester.

The naming of cats, as T.S Eliot pointed out, is a serious matter...

If I ever get a puppy, he shall be named Barkley. I know someone with a dog called deefur and a cat called ceefur....

Deefur dog
Ceefur cat

@always2ndbest

If I ever get a puppy, he shall be named Barkley. I know someone with a dog called deefur and a cat called ceefur....

Deefur dog
Ceefur cat

We call our beautiful cocker spaniel boy Miles Barclay !

DS had goldfish that DH names Slap and Tickle

I love Barkly!!!

@ritatherockfairy

I once met a big fluffy golden retriever called Boris

If the Prime Minister were a dog I could imagine him as a fluffy golden retriever. I had a big, bumbling guinea pig with long fluffy messy blonde fur and we nicknamed her Boris in honour of the PM. I adopted her age 3 and she already had the rather boring named of Nibbles. I maybe would have called her Boris if she hadn't already had a name. lovely piggie but sadly died of kidney issues aged 5.

@Sunnydayshereatlast

We had Guinea pigs called Nancy and Honey-bum. Bearded dragons called Beckham and Enrique.. Our snake is Elvis and dpuppy is Gabriella Boomer!!

I love Honey-Bum for a GP! I nicknamed one of mine Tufty Bott. She was a funky haired abyssinian rosette with a tufted bottom!

A dog called Surprise.

Maybe not original but Mousehole (pronounces Mauwzul) is a pretty good name for a cat.

@JoyFreeCake

There's a college in Cambridge with guinea pigs called Emmeline Squeakhurst, Virguinea Woolf, Ruth Bader-Guineasburg, and Oreo.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5692205/Students-Cambridge-University-given-GUINEA-PIGS-help-ease-stress-levels.html

(Unfortunately Ruth Bader-Guineasburg and Emmeline Squeakhurst recently died )

What a lovely article.

Reminded me of Theodore Roosevelt's guinea pigs, named:

Father O'Grady
Bishop Doan (actually female- one day in congress, their son burst in saying "Daddy, Come quick- Bishop Doan's had babies!")
Admiral Dewey
Dr Johnson
Bob Evans

He also had a snake called Emily Spinach

Daddy, Come quick- Bishop Doan's had babies!

😂😂😂😂😂

In our hood we have cats Bruce and Gavin

I had mice, they are never going to answer to their names so they were

Slarty Baartfastt
Princess Superstar
Zaphod beeblebrox
Dr Squak

I vetoed Slim Cheesey.

My cat'sd full name is

Marquesia (Must be said in a Sean Bean accent) Gatta Mysteriosa, hunter of legs.

One of my foster cats started off as Violet and left with the name

Violet Elizabeth de Fuzzybum, guardian of the scarves.

@mogloveseggs (waves from the cafe) on May 4th I have Ham solo and ratatatooine for dinner.

I had mice, they are never going to answer to their names

You'd be surprised what mice can learn.

Cats called Helga, Freyja and Kenneth.

Chickens called Mrs Henrietta Henderson and her son Mr Henry Henderson.

Oxford Bantam Cock called Sydney Larkin.

Someone I was at School with had a cat called seefa.

And a dog called deefa.

I've got a cat called Betty Tinkers.
I had a fish called Rudder.
I would like to have a dog called Excuse-Me because I'd love to just stroll through some woods shouting 'Excuse-Me!! Excuse-Me! Don't shit over there!'
'Excuse-Me! Where do you think you're going?! Come here!' Etc. Etc.

I have two cats Freddy and Jason.

When growing up I had a hamster named MC Hamster.

I had a friend with cats called Robert and Heather.
My uncle had a three legged cat called Tripod!

Tortoises calf Salome (Slow-me), Harper, Ede and Lenin.