Unusual, domestic animals' names

Sister Cats: Minna and Nimue

My son's cat is called Norman (after Norman Bates 😲)

When we adopted our dog she was called Secret - which we changed .

My cat's names at present are Fleur and Merlin, so not too unusual. When a child we called our first two cats Fluffy and Furry, for goodness sake!

I have a desire to call my next cat 'Antichrist'. My son says I mustn't in case I upset the neighbours shouting the name down the street .

I knew a cat called Lucifer, someone started calling him Glue Sniffer and it kind of stuck.

I had a big, beautiful ginger cat called Topaz and my friend's little girl thought he was called Toe Pads.

Years ago living in London we had a neighbour who called her dog 'Eeear'; she fed him titbits a great deal, and announcing that word made him rush to see what he was getting.

How beautiful!

Over many years and at different stages I've had cats, coldwater fish, budgies, canaries, mice, rats, hamsters, with names like Ebony and Erica, Euka and Nuba, Fatso, Colin, Duncan, Bjorn, Nosey, Nosher, Jaws, Fangs, Little Fatty, Little Nibbler, Plop, Wibbly, Wobbly, Sid, Spud, and a few others!

We had a guinea pig called Hercules when my boys were young. And just up the road was a rough looking, but very friendly dog called Fred which really suited him.
My brother had a pretty dog called Rosemary, but it got shortened to Rosie after a while.

our neighbours dog is called Steve and we have a local cat called Brian

This thread has cheered me up

AskAlice

I named two of my chickens Sage and Onion!

😂

If you had a third one, it could be called Paxo! 🐔

Someone once told me of someone else they knew whose two brown china mantelpiece dogs (waly dugs) were called shit and treacle.

escaped - The other two were called Hinge and Bracket!

I once knew a beagle called Kevin.

A friend had 2 kittens they called Rodney and Del Boy.

V3ra My husband flatly refused their request to name the other one Sweep, he said it was bad enough having poodles in the first place and he wasn't calling those names out in public!

At the vet's they always come out and call the pet's name. People's pets were called Maisie, Archie, Bella etc. Then came "Sweep". The owner stood up blushing, and said to the waiting owners apologetically "My children named him."

I know someone who called their (not pet) chickens, Supreme, Stewart and Korma.

The male was called Au Vin.

Funny how things change, my father had a working sheepdog called Sweep.

Our departed cats were Whisky, Brandy and Champagne!

Our current dogs are Betty, Archie and Dougie, all mini sausages and Poppy our spaniel.

We must have had hundreds of hamsters all called Hammy, except for two which our three youngest called after their old brother and sister, Alex and Gemma, which was most odd!

Cannot remember our three guinea pigs names, I think the multi coloured one was Apatchi. The children never forgave me as they claim I murdered them as they were outside in a big two storey hutch together and all died within three weeks of each other, just after they reached a year! Given I became the only one who fed, watered and cleaned them out it was apparently me!

Stray who adopted me was named Wee Pete. Don't know where the wee part came from he was huge.

We used to have a Yorkshire terrier (terror) called JD. Nothing to do with alcohol, as we couldn’t agree on a name JD was short for Just Dog.

I knew of a pair of beagles call Ronnie and Sue (Barker).

Met a couple of dogs in Edinburgh called Haggis and Bagpuss.

LisaAN

We used to have a Yorkshire terrier (terror) called JD. Nothing to do with alcohol, as we couldn’t agree on a name JD was short for Just Dog.

I had a neighbour whose dog was called Deefor, yes d for dog

I had a cat called Dulciana, an organ stop. A friend had her sister, called Claribel, also an organ stop. They both lived to be 19 years old. The cats had a cathedral connection, hence the names.

My son’s Bengal cat is called Chini, which is apparently Bengali for sugar.

We called a rescue cat we acquired many years ago Lili Marlene because we discovered, entirely by chance, that if you whistled the tune, she would come running to you.

A later cat was called Lucy Fur - Lucy for short - because, as a kitten, she was such a little devil 😅.

My cat is called Jaffa, the previous one was Mr Cooper. I knew soneone with a ginger cat named Roger