Unusual, domestic animals' names

My friends cat is called Pissquick very funny when at the vets and gets called in , several people snigger

When I was a child our cat had two kittens, which we named at birth, they were Tablet (tabby) and Monster (tortoiseshell) and the names stuck. My mum was forever embarrassed calling them in at night.

Back in the hippie days of the 1970's, my brother named his Manx cat Tocaine (a combination of toke and cocaine). We'd laugh hysterically when my oblivious mother would be outside calling him.

Later, I adopted the cat. I brought him to a shopping mall where a local radio station was having a cat-themed show and giving out small prizes in various categories. Tocaine won for most unusual name which led to an on-air interview but the discussion was focused on his breed. Once off-air I thanked the radio host for not requesting an explanation of the name; he said he knew better than to do that.

Tocaine lived for 18 years and was a truly wonderful and loving cat. Even people who disliked or were afraid of cats liked that cat.

I knew a family who had a cat called Emerson Kittipaldi after the Brazilian racing driver Fittipaldi.

Locally there's a lovely dog called Fatal?!

We had a cat called Mavis and a dog called Miffy

A friends black lab is called Dyson as he’s a canine hoover . And another friend’s whippet is called forest after Forest Gump as he just runs and runs .

Cat lover here and I have raised so many with unique names.. Okeee.. Lili.. Zrak.. Tez and so on. lol

We had brother and sister cats called Winnie-Fred.

My dogs are called Colin, Geoffrey and Flora

Our two black & white rescue cats are Duffy Waldorf & Bosco Hogan. Duffy is named after a golfer & Bosco is an Irish actor. We've always kept a list of interesting names to use for cats. We had Pudsey Dawson & Edith Grindrod previously.

A tabby cat called Hastings.

A golden retriever called Crumpet, who lived next door to two yellow labradors called Jonathan and Olivia.

Many years ago I had a cat called Ceefor and another cat in the block was called James Fang

A pair of tortoises called Ronnie and Reggie

My cousins had two cats called Rum and Coke.

Years before the Disney film came out, my brother had a goldfish called Nemo.

Nemo was later joined by Lancelot and Guinevere and Diana Dors.

Two goldfish called Gill and Fin. A friend had a brace of Springers whom he called Callard and Bowser. Our last Goldie was called Tanc - we bred him - he tanked his way to the best bit of the milk bar, through barricades, through his siblings and anything else that was in his way.

We used to have an old English sheepdog called Spangle people used to ask if she was called after the sweeties.

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Years before the Disney film came out, my brother had a goldfish called Nemo.

Nemo was later joined by Lancelot and Guinevere and Diana Dors.

I had a shrimp called Diana Dors.
She was a very glamorous shrimp.

We have five Labradors, Jet, Raven, Coal, Dexter and Skip. In the past we have had Ben, Joe, Monty, Chubby, Sam and Rossi who was named after the motor bike racer Valentino Rossi because he was so fast. I love some of the very imaginative names in the previous posts, we are obviously not so clever.

Big fail here: my first cat was black, and I called it....Blackie. Now the cat I have is the first fluffy one I've had, and I call it...(go on, guess!)

I used to know the owner of two beautiful golden Labradors whom she named Callard and Bowser. Does anybody here remember those lovely pieces of butterscotch or what happened to this manufacturer?

In all the years since I’ve had a cat or cats I’ve had Ginger Pop, Willumena, Sabiha, Kizzy, Max, Delilah, Jezzie, Simba and currently Peaches. Kittens I’ve bred were Remus and Romulus, Santa Claws, Misteltoe, Snowflake, Jinglebelle, D’Artagnon, Porthos, Aramis, Cleopatra, Bathsheba, Macushla, Rasputin, ,
Cassiopeia, Aphrodite, Socrates, Andromeda, Mistoffelees, Jellylorum, Bombalurena, Skimbleshanks, Napoleon, Josephine, Ferdinand, Isabella,Tinkerbelle, Jezabelle Margarita, Tinghni Bewsa, Ramesses, Meshach, Shadrach, Abed-nego, Hansel, Gretel, Rumplestiltskin, Munjojerrie, Rumpleteazer, Solitaire, Domingo’s, Pavarotti, Carreras, Cinnamon, Saffron, Nutmeg, Samson and Delilah….. that’s virtually all!!!

Not mine, but my sister out on her dog walks has met a 3-legged dog called Pod, which is apparently short for Tripod!

We had a smallholding, and adopted many strays that the animal welfare caught and neutered. I used to fetch the cats when they were still slightly sedated, and stroke them on their cheeks where there are some scent glands. That motion mixed my smell with that of the cat. After spending one night in a cage, the cat was moved to live in the stables. We didn't have any horses or other livestock. We had cats named after their looks, or what their first meal was, like Sphinx, Three-toes-bashed-nose, Salami, Spaghetti. Suitcase was found discarded in a suitcase. One of our guard dogs was named Krazuka, the Xhosa word for "bite", but we also had dogs named Angus, Nika, Gaby, Susky, Lulu, Tessa, Nutcase and Oubaas (old boss).