Unusual, domestic animals' names

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.

Indigo8

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

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.

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.

My cousins had two cats called Rum and Coke.

A pair of tortoises called Ronnie and Reggie

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

A tabby cat called Hastings.

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

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.

My dogs are called Colin, Geoffrey and Flora

We had brother and sister cats called Winnie-Fred.

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

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 .

We had a cat called Mavis and a dog called Miffy

Locally there's a lovely dog called Fatal?!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 😅.

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.

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

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