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brenda
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Pet Names
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Apr 20 05:15 UTC 1995 |
One time while i was surfing the net, i came across a freenet that was
named Nyx, spirit of the night. I thought of it when i bought my
all-black cat and named him Nix.
Where'd you get the names for your pets?
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carl
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response 1 of 62:
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Apr 20 21:36 UTC 1995 |
Skeeter came with that name from the Humane Society of Huron
Valley. I remembered not really liking her name, but I was so
impressed by how fast she would run up when she heard it. She
knew it was her name, so I kept it--even though she gets called
Snooter more often than Skeeter.
Sunny was named Santyana when I got her from the Jackson Humane
Society. That name seemed kind of long and a little out of place
for an American Eskimo, so I named her Sunny for her disposition.
She's also beginning to suspect that when I mention "the
goofball" that I'm referring to her.
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alanna
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response 2 of 62:
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May 6 01:54 UTC 1995 |
my wonderful feline friend got her name from my brother, because after sas born
her front paws were like little stubs, so the name Stubby was stuck. she
won't answer to anything else.
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simcha
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response 3 of 62:
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May 18 13:08 UTC 1995 |
Tiger Lily got her name from her markings, black and orange, plus
the influence of the Indian princess in Peter Pan. Becky was
named for our 2-year old's playmate and the previous 3 Beckys who
had died (well, one was just returned to the shop for fungus treatment)
and my son named Mitchel that cuz he liked the name.
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gracel
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response 4 of 62:
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Jun 11 21:47 UTC 1995 |
Poco (a Poco) was named that because I dreamed about having a cat
with that name, and it was very suitable for the first years -- it's
Italian for "little by little". The other kitten we adopted at the
same time was therefore my husband's to name; he was obviously
inquisitive, so Dave named him Willard Van Orman Quine after the
philosopher, shortly changed to Whiskers Van Orman Quine (Van for
short).
After Van died we had a short-lived kitten who was almost fox-colored,
except where he was white, and we named him Kettu after the Finnish word
for "fox".
When Ethel came to live with us she was a year old and understandably
distrustful; we didn't care for her name, but we didn't change it.
Rider was five when he joined us, but we had influenced his name
slightly -- Dave told the original adoptive family that their kitten
was *not* female, so they decided not to name "her"--"him" Beauty,
after all. This family had four fairly young children not inclined
toward subtleties: they already had a *large* dog, mongrel-type,
named Hoss, and they named their new kitten Rider.
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anne
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response 5 of 62:
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Apr 16 18:47 UTC 1996 |
Our dog Dutchess came with her name, since she was two we thought
it a little too late to change her name.. <grin> but she tends
to answer more to Dutch now (odd for a German Shepherd...)
The cat is Prince Alexander (or Alex, or Lord Master for short)
I don't really remember how he got his name... He just sorta
looked like an Alex to me.
My sister's cat is Eliska Kimbriel, or Liska for short. My sister
had always been fascinated by that name and decided that when she
got a cat she would either name it Eliska K. or Loki... And for
this particular beastie Liska won....
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popcorn
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response 6 of 62:
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Apr 17 04:06 UTC 1996 |
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anne
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response 7 of 62:
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Apr 21 04:56 UTC 1996 |
I think she got it out of a fantasy novel where the main character's
name was Kimbriel... or something like it.
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scott
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response 8 of 62:
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Oct 19 21:05 UTC 1996 |
So how ethical is it to rename a cat gotten from the Humane Society, and that
(I think) they just made a name up for? 'Cause I don't like the name they
made up.
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popcorn
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response 9 of 62:
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Oct 20 01:47 UTC 1996 |
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mooncat
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response 10 of 62:
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Oct 22 20:15 UTC 1996 |
Yeah, congrats Scott!!
I don't see a problem in re-naming if the animal is young enough.
My sister's cat was originally "patches II" after her mother....
Then she became Eliska Kimbriel Allen Perry (yes, a long name
for a cat- normally she's just Liska. :) )
Valerie- I like the names Octal and Hex. <grin> But then again- I'm
weird or something. ;)
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willow
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Sep 27 23:42 UTC 1997 |
My dog's name is Cinnamon, because
she was/is sweet with a little bite to her
she is black but in the sun she looks like she has cinnamon hi-lites
"I want to live with a Cinnamon girl, I could be happy the rest of
my life with a Cinnamon girl..."(She and I like Mr. Hendrix)
I can refer to her as my big Cin and the neighbors don't get it
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mooncat
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response 12 of 62:
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Sep 29 04:27 UTC 1997 |
Lately people have been asking me where I got the name Sasha
from. (Sasha is the name I gave to my kitten) I don't know where
I got the name from. I used it a few times in some stories, but
when I saw my little grey girl (who may be my little grey boy) the
name Sasha just seemed to fit her/him.
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richard
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Oct 1 22:56 UTC 1997 |
My brother-in-law's black lab mix is named Simon, because years ago when
he was a puppy, he was fascinated by the old "Simon" electronic game.
(You know, the game where the lights flashed and you had to try to follow
the sequence) Every time the lights on the Simon game would flash and the
beeps would beep,
the dog would bark. So he was "Simon"
We had a midget black cat (she stayed small, never outgrew the size of a
kitten), named "Snake Hollywood" That cat was so small that when it got
pregnant, it had a litter of one kitten, another black cat, named
"Broadway"
My sister's dog is named "Presto!" because it was trained to bark and roll
over when somebody yelled "Presto!".
My cat was also a black cat, which I found emaciated in an alley under a
full
moon one night and saved. Since I first saw her in the moonlight, she
became "Luna" (short for Lunar or moon)
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bkwdbuny
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Dec 31 06:27 UTC 1998 |
My Great Dane got his name "Bud" from the Cosby Show. Rudy had a friend named
Kenny she always called Bud and we thought the name suited our massive puppy.
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mooncat
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Jan 15 21:27 UTC 1999 |
<grins> I've heard of worse way to name a pet/child. My roommate Melissa
was named after a soap opera character. My brother has since renamed
my Sashe, now she's S'Ashe... <shrugs> he's a lil weird.
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gypsi
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response 16 of 62:
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May 30 10:23 UTC 1999 |
Yes, that he is. =)
Gomez got his name thanks to Kae (otter). I had this adorable new
kitty with beautiful black and white markings and a face full of
expressions. I knew he needed a great name.
So, we were brainstorming one night, and I was going through classic
black and white movie characters (Ollie, Abbot, Costello, Chaplin), and
she started thinking of the artists of black and white paintings.
Ansel Adams came up (Ansel? Adams?), and then she
said, "Adams...Aadams Family...GOMEZ!!!" The name was perfect, and
when I tried it on him later that night, he loved it. =)
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happyboy
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May 30 22:36 UTC 1999 |
mister pinky (rip) was named for a character in a
a john waters film "Mr Pinky's Hefty Hideaway" a fat people's
store where rikki lake shopped.
lees was named leassie by her previos owner, an illiterate
redneck from kalkaska who probably thought he was writing
lassie when he was filling out the paperwork at the dogpound.
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gypsi
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response 18 of 62:
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May 30 23:19 UTC 1999 |
If I get a third cat, I'm going to name him Mr. Bigglesworth. =)
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happyboy
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response 19 of 62:
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May 31 01:11 UTC 1999 |
d00d...SICK!
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mooncat
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response 20 of 62:
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Jun 1 12:52 UTC 1999 |
Sarah- you'd have to get a Sphinx, ya know, the hairless ones. ;)
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gypsi
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response 21 of 62:
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Jun 2 01:41 UTC 1999 |
No...I'd get a grey kitty since Gomez is black and white, and Morticia will
be black. =)
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mooncat
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response 22 of 62:
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Jun 2 12:29 UTC 1999 |
Grey kitties are evil... trust me... Or... maybe it's the 'Asha' sound...
My Aunt Gladys has an *evil* grey floofy cat named Asha... and I have
my grey floofy cat named Sasha.... <grins>
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scott
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Jun 2 19:28 UTC 1999 |
Nah. It's a parenting issue. My grey floofy cat, Dave, is quite mellow.
Even when he's not mellow he's unfailingly nice.
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mooncat
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response 24 of 62:
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Jun 2 21:53 UTC 1999 |
Hmm... How old is Dave?
Sasha has actually gotten a lot better as she's gotten older...
Asha... has not... but I think in his case it's a parenting issue.
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