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?

Sorry, but i always give my pets 'people' names, my current dog has an Old English name that has a meaning connected to my DP's surname.

I hope that each of my cats/dogs will be in my life for at least 10 years.

I am quite serious about our pets being treated as family members.

We had a one-eared cat called Vincent. He was well hard but rubbish at painting.

I also had a dog called Samantha.

I often meet people who say 'oh my old dog was called Spuddy' and then they smile at me in a way which says aren't you honoured - erm yes, thank you, i think.

I am an animally person and have had dogs called Tara, Holly, Amber, Hatty & Emmy. But if i meet people of those names, i would never gleefully tell them i had a dog called that.

Dogs are Reg and Des.

Cats are Jazz and Cat. (we couldn't agreed on a name for him so he is Cat, he doesn't care as he hates everyone on the planet anyway).

As children, we always called our rabbits animal names - Fluffy, Snowy, Sooty, Cheeky, Smokey.... all those "y"'s

Years later met a woman who called hers (and she had about sixty) names like Michael, Tina, Quentin, Nancy, Henry. There was a Pumpkin but that kind of name was in the minority.

It was well weird, "Oh look, Nancy's humping Tina!", "Gross, that's her mother.." It was so odd for me to hear animals called people names.

I knew horses called Penny, Holly, Molly, Shane, Teddy, Shaun, Dawn, Crystal.

We called our Siamese Fighting Fish, Miranda and Ferdinand. The Dwarf Gourami pair were Marvin and Clara. The Chocolate Gouramis, however, we called Itsy and Bitsy. I forget most, but I remember one of the the striped loaches was called Colin.

Colin does seem a popular name for animals, maybe it seems particularly ironic.

Cats fluffy (I named when I was 4). Percy was next. My last cat was Kitty, already named. The neighbours divorced and I got the cat .

Kids guinea pigs Todd and Smartie. Rosie and Shai.

I had a hamster called Dorothy Facebook.

My friend has two rabbits called Lysander and Foucault.

I hate those obvious names.
My friend's rabbit is called Roger [eyeroll]

Well thought out.

Only old people give their pets pet names these days.

I'd like Cedric for a Yorkshire terrier or Gertrude for a dachshund.

My friend's son is called Ben. I always picture a golden labrador when I think of him.

All my cats have had brilliant (and proper) names in my not very humble opinion...:-

Hilda
Stanley
George
Sidney
Basil
Matilda
Noah
Elvis
Queenie
Cilla
Derek
Ogri (ok, bit odd)
Perdy

Now I have children I have two cats called Popcorn (yuk) and Noddy (...)

Fully outs self.

Hilda, Sidney and Basil are great pet names.

Stuffy, tweedy names work so well on animals.

My friend was up set when she had a baby girl - had all ready given her cat her favourite girls name

We've got a cat called Mary. She is great.

Cats called Mabli, Eira and Myrddyn (Merlin) - Mabli and Eira are my all time favourite Welsh girls' names but I had to use them on cats as my mother's English and can't pronounce them. A friend of a friend has a daughter called Mabli and a cat with my DD's name, too. Finding that out was slightly twilight zone.

I have an Edward the cat and Kylie the chicken, I think they're both well suited... Although Edward the cat doesn't sparkle in the sunlight like his namesake vampire :)