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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To be annoyed by what people call their pets...?

167 replies

Haylebop12 · 19/07/2012 23:26

So, mainly, I don't allow the common abbreviation of my dd's name because I know about 3 dogs with the same name.
To add to that they (the animals) have taken jack, molly, Tyler, Millie and many more.
AIBU to think that pets should have pets names like socks, tigger, fluffy?

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LurkingAndLearningForNow · 19/07/2012 23:59

Sorry Hayle, I thought you were having a go at me and saying I was stealing your children's names! Blush Not that you can 'steal' a name I guess.

Pandemoniaa · 20/07/2012 00:01

My terrier's name is very terrier but his sister and mother have very human names and it's just a little weird, tbh. I keep expecting a pair of maiden aunts to appear rather than a couple of small dogs. Having said that, my late lamented former dog was called Bob. Said with a Blackadderish emphasis.

Haylebop12 · 20/07/2012 00:01

Haha I'm all
For calling what u want whatever you want!
I've probably been called a butch many a time!! Grin
Just suggesting a little imagination.....

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Haylebop12 · 20/07/2012 00:02

*bitch
God this phone is pissing me off!!!

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LurkingAndLearningForNow · 20/07/2012 00:04

I think my pet's names are fairly imaginative..Never met another 'Walt' cat! Grin (last name Disney lol)

Haylebop12 · 20/07/2012 00:06

There's probably a kid called Walt Disney out there! Wouldnt
surprise me!

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Idocrazythings · 20/07/2012 00:08

I think devora is Fifi Smile

Latara · 20/07/2012 00:12

My cat is called a Very Popular Girl's Name (not my choice.. she was given her name in the rescue centre).
Every time i hear a little girls being called by my cat's name i can't help smiling to myself... because the little girls with the same name tend to be naughty just like my cat!!

Devora · 20/07/2012 00:14

Funnily enough, dp wanted to call dd1 Fifi or Mimi, and I said, "No. Only cats, hookers and dying opera heroines get those names."

And I have a Walt and a Felix in my extended family...

LurkingAndLearningForNow · 20/07/2012 00:15

You're probably right Hayle!

I do have a cousin whose middle name is Obi Wan...Hmm

Haylebop12 · 20/07/2012 00:23

Ivenhad a good giggle at the responses but I'm gonna try and get to sleep :-/
Will have a mooch tomorrow to see if any hardcore MNers have joined in!
Night y'all

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LurkingAndLearningForNow · 20/07/2012 00:27

Oi! I'm hardcore! flexes biceps and growls

Nigh nighs xx

Busyoldfool · 20/07/2012 00:29

I let DP choose the DC's names and he said that there was happy dog he knoew called* and that was what he wanted t call DS. I agreed and DS is mostly happy . His name is a boy's name and there are two others in the school but not over popular but I still think of this spaniel puppy when people ask me about his name.

PS A friend told me that she lived next door to a family who had a DS called Sam and a dog called Emma. My friend had a DD called Emma and a dog called Sam!

quoteunquote · 20/07/2012 00:49

I got attacked many years ago, by a very middle class mummy, who totally lost it and went for me, much to my surprise at the time, so my reaction made her even crosser,

Apparently having a dog called Hannah, means that women who also thought it a good name, but for a child, can wallop you unexpectedly in the head from behind,

the best bit was when two police officers came over and grabbed her,

Hannah was a sniffer dog,

we were in a car park just about to start a organised search, and having a pre brief stood in a group, I called my dog over from the back of my open car boot, where she was patiently waiting,

ten seconds later, a woman hitting me repeatedly, she had been sat on a bank nearby and heard me call, "Hannah, come", seen the dog and decided I should be taught a lesson, her Hannah about eight, watched the whole thing,

turns out she was a teacher,totally bonkers

right off to consider a name change as I have defiantly outed myself,

Oh and yes I have been deliberately naming working dogs with popular names ever since.

of course I don't use the baby name threads for livestock and dog names ideas

LurkingAndLearningForNow · 20/07/2012 01:13

Sounds like a great mother! Hmm

I had no idea some people get so shitty about giving pets human names. t's not like you can't name your child what you want because some random has a pet with the same name. Confused

ZombiesAreClammyDodgers · 20/07/2012 02:05

Have a Biscuit

Sarahbump1 · 20/07/2012 02:15

My cats are called Mia and Lilly . They are aged 12 and 10 respectively so technically I chose the names before they became popular as child names.

So there . (blows raspberry)

saffronwblue · 20/07/2012 02:19

I have borrowed my cat's name - saffron - to be my MN name. I let DD name our dog Daisy only to discover how popular it is as both a dog and child name.
We have sadly farewelled the last of our pet lizards - Tim and Chloe. They always sounded to me like a very upmarket couple.

sashh · 20/07/2012 02:23

My cats have been

Claudia
Martha
Charlie
Misty

Mice
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Dr Squeak
Princess Superstar
Slarty Baartfast

Cats and dogs need names you can call, small rodents - well you can call them anything - they don't know their name.

millieandmax · 20/07/2012 02:32

Guess what my kittens names are Grin

drfayray · 20/07/2012 03:15

My darling Weimaraner is called Sophie. DD named her. It suits her. However, I called her puppy darling Grin

AdoraBell · 20/07/2012 03:36

So, just out of interest, what exactly is a dog's (or cat's) name?

SPsFanjoLovesRussellHoward · 20/07/2012 03:42

My dog is called Carling. It isn't a human name but its also not a pet name.

SPsFanjoLovesRussellHoward · 20/07/2012 03:43

A friend also has a cat called Paperclip.

Bubbaluv · 20/07/2012 04:00

YABU.

Up until a few years ago names like Molly and Millie were thought of as too silly and outdated for human children so I'm sure they seemed like totally appropriate names for pets. The fact that scullery maid names are suddenly in vogue shouldn't mean people need to rename their pets.

How can you consider a name "taken" by an animal? If it's your own dog then I guess it would be odd to give your child the same name, but then you'd have no one to blame but yourself. If it's a friends/family, neighbour's pet then I can't see that it's really relevant.