My dogs are Cocao & Reese
and then I made my son throw it out using a soup ladle... oh the stories I could tell. 
) were not only S names but they were places (Shiloh is a battlefield in TN) So my next pet was my "big boy" cat, his name is Shanghi as in Shanghai China (I know I didn't spell his name correctly but that is something I like to do - not spell names like they should be spelled!! 
) My Dh also calls Shanghi - Norton - don't ask me why - is my BIG baby and he loves me!! My next cat was a "no-tail" cat we named Sapphire because she came from my mom who lives in NC near Sapphire, NC. I don't think she was a manx because her mom had her, a 1/2 tail and a full tail kitten. We never really called her Sapphire though because my DH named her Sis Hillbilly - Hillbilly because she was a true hillbilly and Sis because she was the little sis, I sometimes would call her Billy Girl. She lived for 5 years and died last March due to seizures. We were down to 1 cat and 1 dog for awhile but I happened to look on day in August at the cats at the local shelter and found one that was a "no-tail" and just knew I had to have him. His name was Valentine but I just couldn't call him that (but he does live up to that name as he is SUCH a sweetheart 
) When I tried to find a name for him the only one that stuck was Billy - in part as a tribute to my Sis Hillbilly. He spent the first couple of weeks walking around the house around 9PM crying (like a lounge singer) so I started calling him Billy Valentine the lounge singer!! Thankfully he no longer cries like that (I think he was still thought he was a tom cat even though the shelter took care of that!! 
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I wanted Guinness for Riley, but since we didn't think he'd be coloured as he was, we figured a Border would have too much white...I was right (see my avatar pic for Riley as a pup). Still miss him.
(He had to have a name that out-ranked a friend's dog who is named Major.) 
One 12 year old dog named "Chispa" - (which means Sparky in spanish)
