How did you come up with your pets name [Archive] - Bub Hub Pregnancy & Parenting Forum

trinitylee

17-01-2007, 12:25

Hey guys,
I have been reading everyones stories about naming their pets so i thought we could all share the creative ways we have names our fury family members.

We had a puppy literally walk into our house on christmas morning while we were opening our presents, he was covered in fleas and very skinny, he is now a great, much loved pet.

The vet told us he was a boxer cross and we already have a female boxer whos name is Laila named after Muhammad Ali's (boxer) daughter who is a boxer herself....And our new Puppies name is Clay after Muhhamad Ali's real name Cassius Clay.

Kel:smiliedance:

Chickadee

17-01-2007, 12:28

We named our dog after a single malt scotch whiskey :)

jess_live_die

17-01-2007, 12:29

one of my kittens is called babar my youest picked it coz its her fav movie lol my other kitten lol does'nt have a name yet im having trouble picking one lol.

Puk

17-01-2007, 12:29

3boyzmum

17-01-2007, 12:29

We named our pets Ellie, Halfrek and Illryia after characters from our favourite T.V shows.

luckymama

17-01-2007, 12:31

One of my dogs is named Ayla, from the Clan of the cave bear, the best books ever. :D
When we got her, i thought my DH would never agree to TTC, so i used that name, otherwise it would be used to name a girl baby if we have one.

BiNdI86

17-01-2007, 12:34

When we first got our pup he didn't look like anything (as in a charlie, fred, toby) so we left it...that night DP and DD were playing with sparklers and all pup wanted to do was catch and eat them:laughing: . Hence 'PYRO'!!

Everytime he sees fire, his little eyes go all wide and he wants to eat it!!:devil6:

juzzy

17-01-2007, 13:06

well i dont really know how i came up with my older cats name, her name is cappy

as for my younger one, her name is Kaos (chaos) as she caused madness when we first bought her home... after we introduced her to our other cat they both went on a bit of a rampage through our house so while deciding to name her we came across the Chaos effect (or the butterfly effect, whatever you want to call it) and it all happened from there, we just changed the spelling to make it more interesting

Gumby

17-01-2007, 13:18

We had a dog called JACK, we had a stray walk in so we names him RUSSELL

JACK-RUSSELL (get it)

than we got a cat, called her JILL

Jack + JILL (get it) lol

bubbles & peanut

17-01-2007, 13:26

We had a little Pitty names Daisy - she was a yellow/orange colour and she smelt like she'd been playing in flowers when we got her. Daisy was stolen out of our yard not long after getting her, so we ended up getting another Pitty from the same litter. Sticking with the flower theme, we named her Lily Belle (because she's white)

lovinmybub

17-01-2007, 14:00

I've always chosen my pets names long before I've gotten the actual pet!

I loved the way Raul Julia played Gomez Addams in the Addams family movies, so I decided when I got my cat he'd be Gomez or Raul - "Gomez" is now nearly 10 years old!

When I was around 19 I decided I wanted a black great dane to call "Vladimir".... Not really sure why, it just came to me. I got him through rescue about5 years later and lost him last year:crying: . While Vlad was still with us DH and I decided the next dane would be a merle and after seeing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies I decided that was the next name! I didn't especially love the name after reading the books, but the character in the movie was so fantastic - a bit like the Gomez story!

I had a friend with a dog called Masseve (not sure if that was how it was spelt, pronounced Mass- eev, because she got him on Christmas Eve. I thought that was great!).

Funkychicken

17-01-2007, 14:03

My old dog, Bear, was named after a character in the movie Big Wednesday.

Our cat, Malibu, was named after a Malibu bottle. I worked in a pub and we found a kitten (pure white) on the back step. DH was sitting at the bar while I was working and we were trying to come up with a name that wasn't Snowy and he spotted the bottle of Malibu behind me.

Our current dog, Ebony, is a black lab X, so self explanatory, and I wanted a girly name for her.

Shazbutt

17-01-2007, 14:21

My very first cat looked like a tiger (very bold tabby), and i called her Tigger (very original, LOL).

Next was Golly (short for golliwog, not a piece of snot as some thought!:laughing:), as he was black and white.

My female cat is Coco-Pop - because she's a chocolate tortoiseshell colour. Her babies were Gizmo - 'cos his face reminded me of the little Gremlin, LOL, and Cleo, 'cos she looked very graceful and like she had eyeliner on like Cleopatra.

My male cat is Binky (ginger persian). His mother's name is Bianka (Binky for short), and it just suited him.

DH's dogs names have been Oakey (a blue cattle) as DH got him from somewhere near Oakey :rolleyes:, Blue (he was a red cattle, hence the nick name), and now he has Squirt (jack russell)...he was really little when we got him, so it just stuck.

My dogs names have been Bandit (little mini-foxy) who was such a terror...it suited him so well.

Next was Turbo (another mini-foxy), who never stopped. When he got older he used to run around and around the house for no reason, so it suited him! LOL).

Now i have Cougar (blue cattle). I had it picked for a while (don't know why), and i got him and he was so skinny and weedy looking, it didn't suit, but now he's the biggest bulkiest dog, and it makes him seem 'butch'! :laughing:

Gosh, we've a had a few animals haven't i?! :o

SpecialMumma

17-01-2007, 15:07

Our first is Ruby. I chose her name cos I thought it was cute and I didnt have kids to call it! Was going to be Pedro for a boy!

Then we adopted another labrador, and her name is Gem.. which was kinda freaky..

And the new puppy.. I thought I should keep with the theme so shes Topaz! Shes also brown so it fits well!

So we have in age order

Gem, Ruby, Topaz!

Our cat is bill.. he was another adoption.. lol

Two Little Buggalugs

17-01-2007, 15:12

I got a male kitten from an animal shelter. He'd had a rough start and was a bit of a scaredy cat so I called him Hercules, thinking it might give him a bit more confidence.

4 weeks later one of my friends said 'um, Karen your kitty isn't a Hercules, it's a Xena'. :eek: I didn't realise the shelter had made a mistake - I don't check out her bits! So she's been Xena ever since.

Nice as pie

17-01-2007, 15:16

Our dog's name is SPOT. It is white with a Black spot around his eye.. Pretty boring but suited...

The bird we have is Mustard...My kids picked this one !!

mum2anthony

17-01-2007, 15:25

We called our kitten storm as at the time DF had a Holden Storm Ute which he then had to replace with a family car because we had a lovely surprise on the way... So now he always has a reminder of his car and he doesn't like her much, hahaha

Our dogs name is Xabi (pronounced Zahbee) because he's a pure bred Rottweiler and his mums name is Xena. Apparently you take the the first letter in the mothers name and use it for your puppy... (DF advised me of this)

So there ya go!! :)

Mamaduke

17-01-2007, 15:28

Jesse came up with the name for our Jack Russell - he called him 'Vern' from the character in the movie 'Stand by me' - he was the frumpy kid who the others were always waiting on..."c'mon Vern...c'mon Vern"
Our previous dog was a German Shepherd called Santino (San for short), which was taken from The Godfather character that James Caan played, because the character was fiercely loyal and protective of the family.

Melo

17-01-2007, 15:32

Our dog is called Rusty, we were looking at Pet Name Websites and that name came up, we looked at the dog and thought yup thats the name for him! :D

Milliner

17-01-2007, 15:35

I love the designer Jo saba so I called my doggy SABA

kiah

17-01-2007, 15:40

Our son named our chickens can u tell....

Superman
Supergirl
Batman
Marns
Darns

Unfortunately Batman, Marns and Darns all went walk about...we miss you guys...

Tls5431

17-01-2007, 19:29

I named my dog Tita from a spanish movie Like water for chocolate... great movie and a great dog..:yes:

Chub Chub

17-01-2007, 19:51

We got my Lab cross and she was already named Cody...it was to hard to change it and we thought it was nice anyhow.

My staffy is named after the Nicholas Cage character in the City of Angels, Seth.

SorenLorensen

17-01-2007, 20:08

umm
jet - he was a jet black lab so i guess that not hard to work out why he was named jet

luke - is my number one puppy and hes a lowchen i was given him when he was 10 months because his elderly owner died and she had already named him

mambo - the boxer was bought for DP he had always wanted a dog to call rambo but mambo was a girl so her decided on mambo because he said it was more girly

rambo - my fluffy little lowchen with a big strong name was named after rambo (the guy in the movies i have never seen but DP loves them)

mum2bubba

17-01-2007, 20:26

I had her the name Chaos for a dog a few years ago and thought it was such a clever idea, I decided to name our puppy this because he is so restless and destroys everything :rolleyes: so his name suits him to a t. If he was a girl I would have called him either Millie or Lola.

jessgray

17-01-2007, 20:48

i had a cat called Misty- she was named that coz she was grey she ran away when i was 11
i had a rabbit called johnny depp- gues who i had a crush on at age 4 lol the neighbours german shepard at him
i had a frog called freddo- misty ate him for lunch :(
i had a cat called kimbah- named after a old cartoon kimbah the black and white lion and in the tradtion of previous pets kimbah also died...
i had a cat called pixie-she got her name coz she was cheeky and she also died...
:laughing: maybe i should stay pet free....

ImSethsMum

17-01-2007, 21:56

Growing up I had a collie called Rusty cause that was his colouring. A cat called Jemima (good old playschool).

During my first years out of home I had budgies called Maverick and Goose and fish called Popeye (googly eyed fish) & Olive Oil (silvery colour).

I then got my two cats. They are brothers, a black/white and a ginger one.

The ginger one was originally called Tripod as he had a bag leg and only walked around on three. After the first few months the bad leg healed and we decided to rename him. He loved the smell of Mangos and attached the fruitbowl a few times so being ginger got named "Mango". It soooo suits him the little bugger LOL.

The black/white is named "Scooter". Mainly because he scooted everywhere really really fast, never walked always ran. He gets Scooty though.

Sorry got carried away, Love my cats!!

LilShenanigans

18-01-2007, 00:31

lol I'm a bit ashamed to admit we're lacking in cat names in the past few years.

Grace who lives with me, spent sometime at my mums place and fell in love with her male cat(a rather feminine male cat)... Mum called her Grace "the f@g hag" ...she watches too much Will and Grace lol
My sister calls Grace "Shly" (she was drunk) because this cat ALWAYS crept up on people! You could never hear her coming! lol

The male cat my mum has (I still consider them my cats), is Cadbury "White Chocolate"... he's pure white and snowball sounded too common.
There is also a female cat there, who was part of twins (Male and Female), her name is The Girl, her late brother was called The Boy lol So creative!

My favourite cat name of all time, was our Gandolf "The Grey", after of course Lord of the rings. My dad named that one, and it suited so well! Was such a smart and caring little thing.

Some names I have absolutely no explaination for are: Fitzping, Ming Ming, Sweety, Groucho (why we chose it, dunno!!), Fizgig(my sister says it's from a movie?).
Oh wait, and my sister was given two mice many years ago... she called them ... Split and Enz! but didn't realise they were male and female and the novelty wore off lol

SalTheGal

18-01-2007, 02:25

My geeky husband named our puppy Leia, after the Star Wars character! If you think that's not lame enough, as soon as her parents have puppies again we're getting a boy and naming him Luke! :eek:

How embarrassing is that going to be when i have to take them to the vet? :p

My DF wanted to name our SON Luke- so he could say "Luke .......I am your father" in the darth vadar voice!:o

We got our Dogs name TOBY from a baby book- but now that we are child bearing we would have loved the name for our boy.......so the lesson is all our pets will have 'pet' names from now on (like Rover!)

lukaelmo

18-01-2007, 02:59

Our dog's name is Morrie, I think we got it off Burke's Backyard, I am pretty sure it was his little pug's name... but then again, it's 3 in the morning, I am not really sure of anything :laughing:.

Funkychicken

18-01-2007, 06:30

I named my dog Tita from a spanish movie Like water for chocolate... great movie and a great dog..:yes:
One of my all-time fav movies! :yes:

Funkychicken

18-01-2007, 06:32

HelenHasTwins

18-01-2007, 07:04

I have 2 Cats

Kimba-white cat ( after kimba the white lion) I use to love that show also

Hemmy- ginger cat ( named after a car motor? by my DH)

2 Dogs

Cuda -German Shepard ( also named after a car motor by my DH)
Josie -Collie X ( named after Josie and the pusscats)

Butterbear

18-01-2007, 09:11

we have alcohol theme... Tia, Kahlua, shiraz and Ice.. even though ice isn't alcohol it's used a mixer....

PrincessHailey

19-01-2007, 16:09

My husband is a mad Geelong supporter so our puppy is called Ablett!:rolleyes:

Suits him well though being a staffy x lab who is brindle and a bit of a nugget.

Can get embarassing calling him when down the park though, people give you funny looks

liah

20-01-2007, 09:36

danik

21-01-2007, 11:12

We have 4 fur kids!!!

Our oldest is Zen, a boxer. DH use to be into Ninjitsu (martial arts) so he named Zen after a well-known Japanese ninja named Zenjubo.

We have a black and white cat named DJ. He was a crazy kitten who use to go nuts and claw the hell out of everyone. We named him DJ because he scratches (as a dance music DJ would "scratch" his records.)

Then we have a boxer cross shar pei named Sumo. He was wrinkly and chubby when he was a puppy hence the name.

Our fourth fur kid is Narni who we adopted from the RSPCA. She was already named so we kept it. I have an idea that her name was derived from an Italian word (one that Ali G uses quite regularly).....

icugal

21-01-2007, 12:55

I named my first dog Charlotte because according to my baby name book, its meaning is a french derivative of 'petite beauty'. As she is a chihuahua and she is gorgeous (biased fur-parent here :) ), I thought the name was very appropriate.

My other dog Mollie was named that just because I liked it :)

They are both currently cuddled up to me as I type this... I love my girls :)

jacksproudparents

22-01-2007, 13:24

We have one cat who sadly lives with my mum whilst we are in our unit. Bronte is 12 and was named the Brobte Family. THe year I got him was reading a biography of the Bronte's and it said that all the Bronte's weren't exactly stable and often at dusk or dawn would run through the moors nude. And of course Bronte as a kitten went berserk every sunrise and sunset.

Although we don't know if he knows he's a cat, he sits on comnmand, is frightened of heights, comes when called and when he was little he went for walks on his lead.

poodysmum

22-01-2007, 16:11

Our boxer Hudson is named after the movie Hudson Hawke

MegACT

22-01-2007, 19:27

Because I have had so many pets I chose a theme to use.....

Siamese Fighter Fish 1. = Fruit Tingle
Guinea Pig 1. JD = (aka Jack Daniels)
Siamese Fighter Fish 2. = Coopers (after the beer)
Guinea Pig 2. = Sam (aka Sambuca)
Border Collie - Female = Tia Maria

Next dog will probably be Bailey....the list of names are endless!

My brother worked in a mechanics shop owned by my pop and they have always had a german shepard there as a guard dog....they got a new pup and my brother named it Castrol....very fitting for a mechanic shop.

TeamAwesome

22-01-2007, 21:16

ok all of these were childhood pets....
Black cat- called Blackey(its how I spelt it I was 6)
Cockateils-#1-Blinky Bill (he blinked a lot) #2 - original kids we were Blinky Bill 2.LOL

a chiahuah cross - we were trying to figure out a name and I can't remember what I said first but I came out with the phrase "Don't even think about it Buster" and then we all decided Buster was a great name!
Later on we had a cat and she went unnamed for a fw days bu then we realised that she liked tearing stuff to shreds we thought it was kind of appropriate to call her "Buffy"- the furniture slayer LOL

she had kittens and there were too that were similar except one was a boy and another was a girl (they were the ones we kept) and one was "Spot" and the other was "Dash"

RoarsomeMum

23-01-2007, 10:25

Mine is sooooo embarassing. Jessi was named after the guy who got Aundrea Pregnant in 90210!!! He was Big, Black and beautiful, like My Jessi! Bear was named Bear, cause she looked like One (not too creative!)
Jay is called J For Jessi
Asi is Asiatic (a breed of Bear) Namesakes, they both are.:hugs:

nicoleE

23-01-2007, 10:50

Peole think mine is stupid!

We have 2 cats...

One is Bucca (pronounced Book-a) as in Sambuca. Her middle name is Adidas, with an emphasis on the 'i' as an 'eee' sound. (my fave sports brand)

Our other cat is named Bailey (a little more normal!) He is the colour of baileys and I wanted to stick to the alcohol theme. He didnt have a middle name until he got Microchipped and they tattooed a big 'M' in his ear which is really noticable (which im not happy about because he is such a beautiful cat!) so his middle name is Martini.. :D

Funny because I dont even drink alcohol! :laughing:

Rach77

23-01-2007, 12:29

I had just taken my cousins little girl to see Scooby-Doo and then she came to help me pick out my dog from the breaders and she named him Scooby. Our other dog was dh's that he had had since before we moved in together but I helped him pick it we called him Benji 'cos of the movie.

Cheekychops

23-01-2007, 12:38

Bull Arab X Bull Mastiff - ZILLA - cause we jokingly used to say that to someones hand if we were playing cards to make their cards be sucky and that round to go bad for them if that makes sense, and we bought Zilla cause we got broken into and decided we need a guard dog so we named her that so things would go bad for anyone who tried to break in.....

Long Haired Chihuahua Male - JAXON - Cause we weren't having any more kids and I loved the name......

Long Haired Chihuahua Female - SOFI - Cause she has such a soft and gently personality and the name seems to match it.......

trinitylee

23-01-2007, 13:21

He didnt have a middle name until he got Microchipped and they tattooed a big 'M' in his ear which is really noticable (which im not happy about because he is such a beautiful cat!) so his middle name is Martini.. :D

I didnt know they tattooed animals for microchipping......im gonna get my dogs done and they have the desexed tattoos in their ears and i also thinks its so ugly :(
Kel:smiliedance:

nicoleE

23-01-2007, 13:47

they dont always tattoo them and you can request its not done.

As it is a real tattoo they will only do it if they are under anasthetic. Bucca had hers after she was desexed but Bailey had his done when he was desexed so they did him.

I dont think its needed these days as vets and shelters always scan for microchips anyway regardless of a tattoo or not.

iluvmyboys

27-01-2007, 19:30

I had a lot of trouble naming my dog, but I finally came up with Woodley from the comedy duo Lano & Woodley! It fits him perfectly and everyone loves the name when they hear it.

MummaFug

29-01-2007, 14:57

I have spent most of my life living in Asia so hence the name of my beautiful princess (she was also found on the street in Singapore)
But we call her chicken - dont really know why but it suits her :)

SairBear

30-01-2007, 13:48

i love all the names of pets!:thumbsup:

we have a girl dog- "meg"
male dog - "nugget"- he was a stray and a bit of a nugget.. our word for the yr back then

have girl kitty cat- "evo"- named after mitsubishi evolution car

FISH=
catfish - "pierre" - he just looks french
blue danio- "flash"- hes so damn quik
zebra danio- "zebby "- due to stripes
gold fish 1- "lucky"- lucky to be alive-
goldfish 2 - "fatty"- as hes fat

SairBear

30-01-2007, 13:50

brothers g/fs nephew got a puppy last yr some time... he decided to name her "sushi" as that was his fave food at the time:laughing:

Ana Gram

30-01-2007, 14:16

My current cats:

Muffy - she is small, pretty and fluffy although incredibly nasty and quite evil.

Azrial - the name of Gargomel's cat in the Smurfs and with a slightly different spelling, a name of a demon.

Lenore - a comic about a little dead girl.

PrincessMJ

30-01-2007, 14:20

my dogs name is Bosch...i named him after car parts coz i love cars lol

kea's mum

30-01-2007, 23:22

My 16 year old persian is called BRONSON, cos I liked Chalres Bronson, and my 8 year old cat is HARRISON after Harrison Ford. My DH's dog is called REX, cos he is a rally driver and mechanic specialising in WRX's.
I had a budgie called MICHAEL , a rabbit with one ear called VINNIE (after Vincent Van Gogh), and two other rabbits at different times called ALEX and THUMPER.
Growing up we had a cat who dad named TART , which I grew up thinking was just a normal name to call your cat !

oleander

30-01-2007, 23:29

I always liked the name Hugo and it suits him as he's 'The Man' of the house

Bailey (male) was really hard to name. The vet asked me what his name was and I just came up with Bailey then and there and it's stuck:thumbsup:

My other dog who died 2 years ago was called Bo-Bo because he looked like a Bo-Bo.