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Best pet name you’ve heard

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Soubriquet · 02/01/2024 22:37

I watched a video today and a woman’s pet sphynx cat that she called Nudacris. That tickled me Grin

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 02/01/2024 23:47

There used to be a couple who brought their dog to the village pub. He was called Boneapart.

Bookworm12345 · 02/01/2024 23:47

My friend's dog is called Basher 😁 suits him perfectly.

ooolaalaa · 02/01/2024 23:47

Knew a farmer with a pet sheep called Hannibal

HundredMilesAnHour · 02/01/2024 23:48

This is Miraculous Ladybug (or Bugsy for short). She hates paparazzi so very hard to get a photo of her.

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salcombebabe · 02/01/2024 23:50

Our cat is black with a white line under his neck and he’s called Dibley 😜

hereandthere27 · 02/01/2024 23:50

@Toddlerteaplease @Enko @HundredMilesAnHour you all have very cute pets, this is such a lovely thread

StBrides · 02/01/2024 23:51

Squirrelsnut · 02/01/2024 22:44

Fenton.

Don't you mean, "FENTONNN!" ?

Xmasgrinchmas · 02/01/2024 23:53

I once knew a family whose dog and cat were called Vodka and Tonic.

moggerhanger · 02/01/2024 23:55

I once met a very cuddly cat called Laptop.

sprigatito · 02/01/2024 23:55

My cats are called Puck and Hex. Hex's late sister was called Hallow. They are the best names (and the best cats).

aModernClassic · 02/01/2024 23:56

Two gerbils called Pip and Squeak.

And someone I know has a sausage dog call Cumberland, which I think is a fantastic name.

lingmerth · 02/01/2024 23:56

@StBrides yes me too!😂

Toddlerteaplease · 02/01/2024 23:57

@StBrides for Christ's sake Fentonnnnnnn!

Toddlerteaplease · 02/01/2024 23:58

I was trying to persuade a bishop friend of mine to call his cats Episcopuss and Catechumen. Bit he stuck with their original names.

sprigatito · 02/01/2024 23:59

Puck and Hex on the morning of the Great Egg Heist of 2019

itsallabitofamystery · 03/01/2024 00:01

I named my dog Brutus-Maximus, which I thought sounded awesome. Until that was we had to take him to the vet. Someone else calling out his name in a public place made me cringe. It was very quickly scaled back to Brute. I blame my age (20 at the time) for making this hideous faux-pas Grin

Yellowcakestand · 03/01/2024 00:01

I've got friends with dogs called Peter Lincolnshire (sausage dog obvs), Winston (family surname Burchill).

Family member used to have 2 pets and called them the same name as 2 of her children!

OnceUponATimeInTheVest · 03/01/2024 00:05

StBrides · 02/01/2024 23:44

Did anyone else think this was going to be about the nicknames couples have for each other?

No?

Just me?

Not just you! 😆

sprigatito · 03/01/2024 00:06

Egg heist!

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MonsteraMama · 03/01/2024 00:09

My childhood hamster was called Special Patrol Group. I suppose naming my own pet isn't in the spirit of things though.

A friend of mine has a tortoise called Voldetort.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 03/01/2024 00:13

Gnasher. He was a tiny little dog, scruffy with boot button eyes and wearing a little blue jumper. He was crying because he wanted to be picked up but his owner said he had to walk for a bit. He couldn’t be carried everywhere. 😂

SerenityNowInsanityLater · 03/01/2024 00:17

Such great names on this thread. Laptop, the cat. 😆

There was a local Jack Russell called Picnic. I just thought that was the best name I'd ever heard and it totally suited him.

ItallwentwrongwhenBowieleft · 03/01/2024 00:34

I have a cat called Stolli Bolli (AbFab) a ginger cat called Ed (turned out to be a girl but name stuck) & ragdoll called Bewlay (a Bowie track on Hunky Dory, Bewlay Brothers)
I used to have a pair of black cats called
Slinky & Malinki.
Years ago we had a group of Surrealist cats - Dali, Gala, Max (Ernst) & Henri (Matisse) Grin

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FinanceLPlates · 03/01/2024 00:41

I read somewhere that Southwark cathedral adopted a stray and named him Magnificat

weegiemum · 03/01/2024 00:44

I heard of someone with a cat called Mandu

Kat-mandu!