..to be slightly peeved at someone "stealing" a name?

[SandraSue]

I know this is really childish but I can't stop thinking about it.

In October I got a new cat. I named her after a girls' name that means a lot to me. I was really excited about the cat (I'm like the crazy cat lady out of The Simpsons!), and I told a friend of mine about her a few weeks after getting the cat, and what I'd named her and everything.

2 months later, this friend decided to get a dog. And names it the same as my cat. I jokingly commented on her FB "Hey, you can't call her that, that's my cats name! :P" and she claimed not to remember it and that the puppy's name was going to be Sally since they knew they were getting one (which was also after I'd gotten my cat.)

Now, I know it's not anything life changing, and I'm expecting to get a lot of "YABU"'s, but I feel a little peeved at it, I mean, I chose the name because it was pretty and I'd never heard anyone use it as an animal's name, and then my friend stole it . It's all very Sex and the City-Charlotte-ish but you know

YABU but you know you are and I can understand why you are. Sometimes we are all guilty of being U about something that bothers US!

I think what fuels this is that I see the damn dog's name all the time on FB, it's like a child to my friend, which means I'm constantly reminded.

Grow the hell up.

. Good grief how childish!

Are you 7?

Just wait until someone says to you 'hey! you named your cat Sally after x's dog!' then you'll be annoyed

Why can't they have the same name?

YABU. I thought this was going to be about kids names and even then I would have said YABU. But a cat. There is no way on gods green earth I would remember a friends cats name from a conversation I had had with said friend months earlier. I suspect your friend really did forget and even if shedding she probably thought you wouldn't care because they are animals after all not children!!

How dare you steal my name for your dog?

About 20 years ago my Mother named her labrador puppy Sally, nothing wrong with that you may think. Apart from the fact that a close friend of hers at the time had a 9 year old daughter ......called Sally!

She didn't not shedding

Get a grip

Can't you use it as something to seal your friendship? Like 'we are the only people in the world with pets named Glynnis' or whatever it is? Maybe you could get them pet T-Shirts with the name on them. Make it fun rather than a source of bitterness?

Hang on - is the name Sally? Thats a very common pet name you know...

Blue, that's pretty funny!
Art, I'm not bitter, I'm not really that frustrated I just can't stop thinking about it, though the t-shirts idea might be a bit ott

Wow, just wow.

blueballoon79 Wed 18-Jan-12 18:22:50
About 20 years ago my Mother named her labrador puppy Sally, nothing wrong with that you may think. Apart from the fact that a close friend of hers at the time had a 9 year old daughter ......called Sally!

I don't get why that's bad either?

My cat's called Percy.... Thats HIS name i would be a bit miffed if somone pinched it for their cat

(Although not as miffed as SIL who wanted to call her no. 6 baby the name i wanted for one of the twins when i was 7 months pregnant - she called him XXX for 10 minutes then thought better off it.... there may have been a scuffle :) The cow KNEW i had picked that name when i was 7!!!

Oh dearie, dearie me. There was a thread on here a few months ago about two unrelated DC being given the same name. They were born something like 7 months apart and lived in different countries.

Oh boy, did it kick off - half of us got 'Message deleted by Mumsnet' - and eventually the whole thread got pulled.

TBH, I think YAB a bit U. Don't worry about it.

Actually I understand you. Not sure about whether you are being reasonable though. Depending on the level of friendship you have, you could refer to her dog as having the same name as your cat instead of the other way around. If she takes umbrage you simply point out that you got the cat, and the name, first.

Actually just forget about it. Even writing that out I felt a bit petty. Move on from that one, I think.

if she claims not to remember, it's very coincidental that she has chose the very same name out of all the trillion names in the universe.

This is like how I felt when my friend Della called her dog Ahh just after I called my dog Souls.

Grr, it was so embarrassing when we called them back when they were off lead.

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