Pet's name & the meaning behind it!

[spearenb]

My DD5 name our Basset Hound 'Beauty' after Beauty and the Beast. However, officially the dogs name is Kristen's Grand Beauty. I needed grand in there to remind my DD how much we paid for it. OY!

 

[kellyann]

We have two black cats. Their names are Mickey and Minnie. And their middle name is Mouse, of course!

 

[Otto's Doll]

Benji is our German Shepherd, already named when we got him from Petfinders.org

TJ was already named when we got him (rescue kitty)
Gray ~ what a 2 and 4 yr old call a gray cat (rescue)
Yoshi ~ after the Nintendo game character
Casper ~ DD named him (but he is JET BLACK, not white)
and
Smokey ~ my siamese baby. DH is a firefighter, and he was the first cat we got together, so I picked a firefighting name.

Cadbury is my daughters Dutch Rabbit. Kari always said if she got a bunny she was going to name it after the Cadbury bunny.

 

[Nebsky]

We have a miniature schnauzer. We got him in 94. We were looking for him one day when we got him home and he came running in and just stoped dead in the doorway. His hair was a mess and up on end on his head. He had been very quirky in the couple of days we had him. We just happened to be watching Seinfeld and Kramer did one of his famous through the door routines. I started laughing and said....KRAMER.
He looked at us and it stuck...

Kramer is now 10 yrs old and still can make and entrance.

Here is a picture...

 

[Galahad]

We have a 13 year old lab named Sadie....we rescued her and she came with the name. We have a 13 year old Bichon (with a metal hip) named Kelsey that we also rescued and already had the name. We have a 2 year old Bichon that we got as a puppy and she is named Eine Kleine Constanza....Stanzi for short. It (the Constanza/Stanzi part) is the name of Mozart's wife (white puffy wig and all....)

 

[ladytemptra3]

I have a cockatiel named Skyler. When I was little, I thought that's what I would name a daughter. Well, I got the bird in 7th grade, so I stuck with it even though he's a boy.

My leopard gecko is named Lucy after my mom. It sounds good, anyway (Lucy the lizard).

My gerbil's name is Bailey. She's named after a teddy bear that my boyfriend had given me. I thought the name suited the bear, and it fits her, too.

We have a betta fish, but I stole his name for another pet!

The first ferret is named Cooper. When my boyfriend and I were trying to choose, I suggested mini-cooper (his favorite car). Later, I jokingly called him Cooper, and my boyfriend held me to it! The second ferret is Kingston (the fish's name). I wanted Jake or Jackson, but my boyfriend wouldn't have either. We wanted something different, and I have a cousin Kingston. Well, it stuck too!

I love all of my fur babies and wouldn't trade them for anything!

 

[candykisses]

Our sheltie's name is Patches because of his patches of black, white and blue merle.

But, we call him Magoo after Mr Magoo. When he was little he was always where he shouldn't be, so we started saying awww Magoo, just they used to in the cartoon.

 

[HollyJoy]

We have a grey tabby cat named Mittens. The girls gave him his name because he has white paws.. it looks like he's wearing mittens!

 

[jwill]

My cat Manfred is named after the famous WWI pilot
Manfred vonRichtofen.

 

[Margie J]

Just a few:

Tiger (cat) - He looked like one, obvious name.
Tiki (bird) - Very colorful and chatty, named for quess what.
Filabuster (bird) - A non-stop chatter box who loved to argue. He got pecked at a lot 'cause he wouldn't shut up.
The Monster AKA The Creature (fish) - Big, old, ugly Pleco catfish that looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

 

[stacie_d]

First, a quote by my little cousin, "Why do you always name your pets after food?"

My dog's name is "Butter." It started out as Butterscotch. He is a cocker spaniel-poodle mix, and as a pup, had the exact color of butterscotch candy. Name turned out to be too long, and "Butter" just seems to fit him better.

My cat's name is "Peanut". She was such a tiny, little peanut when we adopted her, and we do have that issue with naming our pets after food!

As a small child, probably 4-5, I got my first cat. I tried out may names, but none stuck. So, she became "Kitty." I loved my kitty so much, and she lived a very long and good life..about 19 to 20 years. (She passed away just a couple years ago.)

DS got a fish for his 4th birthday. DH joked that we should name him Jelly, but we left the name to DS. He named him John Henry. He had been watching the American Legends DVD by Disney, and decided that was a perfect name. So, "John Henry" it was. Over a year later (a month or so ago), when we were moving into our townhouse, DS asked the landlord if it was OK for John Henry to move with us, you should have seen the landlord's reaction (apparently thinking that it was another person)!

 

[Dcat2u]

We have Skruffy, DD1's llaso, he was named after my DH dog that has passed. Ty is DD2's chihuahua and is short for Ty Beanie Baby she says I say its short for Ty Murray the bullrider. Last is my cat Stormee, I found him in the middle of the road minutes before a storm w/flash flooding rolled through. He was as dark gray as the sky, he was only about 12 days old and vet didn't think he'd make it - he'll be 3 next month. We had a carnival goldfish till a few weeks ago his name was Catfood, and he actually lasted 5 months before he died.

 

[Otto's Doll]

Originally posted by Dcat2u
We had a carnival goldfish till a few weeks ago his name was Catfood

LOL!

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

Sassy, is our momma cat. She got her name b/c she is FULL of attitude.

Bear- Long haired and black. She looked like a little bear cub when she was born.

Rascal- He was into everything when he was a kitten

Ace- I named her first. I had dreams of naming them all after the members of KISS. Ace is silverish gray and white and has a little star over her eye.

Cutie Pie- he is, by far, the cutest cat I have ever seen.

Midnight is our black lab. DD was 7 and named her.

 

[preshi]

Harley got his name because his purr as a kitten sounded like a motorcycle starting up.

Jack's name was Blackjack before he came to us so we shortened it.

Stella got her name because I just like the name Stella.

 

[Bethshaya]

I divorced 5 years ago and my son was just 6 yrs old.

His father moved out a few weeks before Christmas. So the day before christmas, my son and I went to the pet store and picked out "his" new puppy. A tiny little apricot pomarenian.

When we got home, I asked him to name her. He decided to name her after the little girl at school he had a crush on at the time.

So "Callie" was named.

A few weeks later, it was pet day at his daycare. So I brought her to the class. All the children were gathered around petting her and one of them asked her name. So I said its Callie. A little red headed curly haired girl in the back piped up and said "My name is Callie". So I responded, "Ooooh, you're Callie."

 

[slimplaw]

Our current pets are Josie, a border collie named by my DD just because. Arrow, our tri colored cocker-he has an arrow shaped white mark on his back(and also for Harry Nielsen's The Point). Murray is our cat(female) so named because she runs into the walls like the dog Murray on Mad About You.

Previous pets were;
Rugrat-a black cat we had in 1976. His mother would bring him into whichever room I was in, place him on a rug and sit with me.
Polly-black and white polydactyl(multi-toes) cat.
Astro-a calico cat we found stuck under the hood of our Astro van between the battery and the firewall. Her leg was stuck through the grill. We had her for 17 wonderful years.

 

[nuts4sn00py]

We named our mini Schnauzer Bandit because when we got him it looked like he had a Bandit's mask around his eyes! Believe me, we picked the right name, he steals everything he can get his teeth on! I call him a little thief all the time! LOL! Kathy

 

[Talking Hands]

Cats are named Dream, Breeze, Gandalf and Winston

Dream was named by my oldest and I have no clue why. Same with Breeze.

Gandalf was named after the wizard in Lord of the Rings

Winston was found outside a club named Churchill's thus the name. Her new nickname is Trouble because she is a crazy cat.

Dog is Charcoal (Charlie) because she is black. A black lab.

 

[ginna74]

cats are named Bessy and Skittles.

We got Bessy from the Humain Society and that was her name and I thought we shouldn't change it. I was actually looking at some younger cats and the 2 ladies said Bessy was a real friendly cat. Well I got her and boy were they right! we can hear her pure accross the house and we can hold her like a baby (rare in cats as I was always told they don't like that). She is a tortouis shell


Skittles was the choice name from my son as I got a zillion skittles / starburst coupons in the mail and they had lots of them lol. Hubby brought her home from work. I guess her mom and pop had papers but they just didn't want the kittens? So the guy brought them in a box to work. She is a very cute siameess and tiny! She also likes to be held like a baby (I don't know maybe my parents were wrong when they told me cats don't like that), but only from hubby lol. she can be really cranky but yet lovable when she wants to be.