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

[Haylebop12]

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?

Maybe people should stop giving their children dogs names

My dog is called Molly.

10 years ago when my nephew was born I was discussing names with my brother. I said I liked Ben for a boy, he snorted "he's not a dog" and called him Sam .

I know a dog called Dave too. It's a fluffy, white, pedigree affair who by rights should probably be called Prince Tinkerbubble Bouncylegs the Fourth or something.

My cat's called Barney. Perhaps we should also avoid calling our pets after purple dinosaurs.

My cats are Kedi which is Turkish for cat and and Haggis because he has a very bagpipe like yowl. My dogs however were Oscar and Maisie.Sorry.

We have a cat and a child with the same name, cat came from rescue with the name, had the child already. We thought about changing her name but it would have caused a lot of confusion at school. They are now known as "X-the-cat" and "X-the-child".
Of course the cat has no idea that she even has a name.
Previous cats were Thelma and Louise, Kas and Marmaris, Dot and Dash, Koshka and Rika (meant to be half of Fred and Rika but Fred never made it out of the farmyard ) and Tiger.

I had a plant called "Dave"

It died.

Oh yes, I once had a couple of shubunkins called Des and Daphne. They were named for the characters in Neighbours.

MY late dog has a girls name as did my cat and dd Buddied a girl at school with my dogs name she didnt dare tell her

My DD plans to have lots of dogs and this morning decided that fruits would make good names (Blackberry, Kiwi ...ok ... Banana ) and then she started on veg (Carrot, Cauli ...)

Our dog came pre-named - diminutive of DBs name which was a little odd for a week or so.

Mixed bag here.

My partners dog is called Archie, which kind of words for both humans and dogs I suppose. I think it suits him. :)

My aunts cat is called Pat. As he was a vicious little bugger we'd all chorus 'don't pat the cat' when someone wanted to stroke him and trust me, the warning was headed. He's a lot calmer now though, thank goodness.

Our cats at home were:
Buttons
Dougal
Bubbles

Rats:
Jessica
Roland
Bruce
Spike
Headwig

Btw, I named Dougal, Headwig and Spike because I'm boss.

Hedwig...

cats - Ruby and Evie
dog - Eric

Surely naming a pet gives toy licence to release The Crazy!

You want to yell out Algernon or Hildegard not bloody Molly or Jack.

I know a greyhound called Gordon, he's cool.

YANBU. I called my DD a fairly unusual name. Then a few weeks later someone in the same street as me, the street only has 25 home in it, called their dog the same name!!

It is so not a pets name!!

My cat was called Charlie - we are nothing if not original in our house.

I know of a cat called Colin, which I think is the bestest ever.

If I ever have another cat I shall call it Ron or Basil or somesuch, I love human names on animals.

Sorry OP, but I think YABU.

sawa huge great dane on a tv programme the other day he was called "mr Tinkerbelle"

I do get rather irrationally irritated by people who call their pets something pretentiously intellectual.
Naming your cat 'Hometeracles' because you read a bit of philosophy/greek mythology when you were in someone else's loo once, isn't going to make me think you are clever, I'm more likely to think you are a knob.

I have a dog called Millie

Our cats are called Dave, Bella and Indiana Jones. We did have a kitty called Merlot but he went missing last month :(

My cats have animal type names or unusual people names - Pixie & Honey. My guinea pigs have humanish names but they're not names I personally would use for a child - Monty, Milo and Morris.

I know a cat called Brian

My aunt had a bird called Bird. Made sense to me.

I had gerbils - richard, albert and graham

we also had fish named basil and cybil after fawlty towers

I've had a Sam, Jarvis, Laurie, Dermot, Ardal, Perry and of course a Derek

Some of those animals were girls, but I've always liked boys names more.

My son has a dog's name (Toby)

our fish have Harry potter names we have drako sirius servirus who is a siamese fighting fish and his tail swishes like snape's cloak also we had 2 white fish called Luna and Lovegood sadly they have been flushed given a good send off