Comments on: What’s in a Name?

By: julie

julie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:33:26 +0000

PS, My friend adopted two of Savvy’s siblings and named then Gateway ( beagle was marked like the computer box – black and white) and Feathers ( due to white fluffs of fur in the black areas…)

By: julie

julie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:31:00 +0000

I named my Beagle puppy “Savvy” because she was the smartest of the litter….(so my ex-boyfriend’s mother said “stubborn” may have been more appropriate in hindsight.) But how cute was Johnny Depp in pirates of the caribbean when he would say ‘savvy?’ … as in Understand?

By: welso

welso — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:59:59 +0000

I named my litter of six foster kittens — all orange — after orange food: Cheddar, Cinnamon, Citrus, Dandelion, Pekoe and Tangelo.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:50:52 +0000

I adopted a sleek and moody (but such a lover!) male polydactyl cat and summarily named him Thumbert Thumbert (after Lolita’s Humbert Humbert). I usually just call him Bert.

My other one is a petite statuesque black kitty who goes by Batface. It’s a strange name, but it somehow suits her perfectly.

By: Dr. K

Dr. K — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:21:21 +0000

Andrea: My husband and I considered the name “Ash” as well a while back. But Ash Koehl doesn’t sound quite right.

By: Ceridwen

Ceridwen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:39:13 +0000

My first cat was Zeus, because he was such a sad little thing when I was sitting in the vet’s office with him after I found him (run off by his mom and pretty much skin and bone). I decided he needed a nice strong name. In the end it seemed to suit him pretty well. He was always sickly but he was clearly king of his domain over the other cats and never let the many vet visits or medical treatments get to him.

My second cat (a calico) was named Eowyn (from the Lord of The Rings). She was also a rescue, having turned up at our apartment complex starving and pregnant at ~6 months old. She’s extremely pretty and we (all of us in the apartment) wanted her to have a pretty name. For a little while one of my roommate’s grandmother kept her and called her Brownie (she’s not even brown?!).

My dog is named Kara after my favorite character in Battlestar Gallactica. She has many nicknames including kare bear, wild thing, wigglebutt, and peanut. My boyfriend and roommate decided on the last one, because Kara is a mismarked lab (chocolate with light tan brindling on her legs and muzzle) and the colors are the same as a reese cup.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:19:58 +0000

My cat’s name was “Ash”. I realized only after his kitten shots that this was a terrible name for someone with a lisp (myself) to say loudly in a waiting room of a vet’s office.

He was a lovely ash-y color though. *lol*

A favorite was my aunt and uncle’s cat, “Sgt. Pepper” and their Great Pyrenees, Salty.

By: Dr. K

Dr. K — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:07:44 +0000

Terrific names, Deb! I really love Nanosecond! It’s fabulous and a name I have never, ever heard before. Reminds me of a client who aptly name his neurologically impaired puppy “Right Turn Signal”. Guess which way he always turned?

By: Deb Norman

Deb Norman — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:01:19 +0000

As someone who competes in dog agility, I try to both choose a distinctive name and also to “name what I want.” So I have a border collie named Shiner (and she is a star) a sheltie named Hop Devil (after the beer, and she is both hoppy and devilish) and a Border collie Jack Russel mix named Nanosecond (and she is fast!)

By: Dr. K

Dr. K — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:51:52 +0000

My personal favorites have to be food names. Every patient gets called anything from “Muffin” to “Pumpkin” to “Peanut”. Two of my favorite patient names have been “Tater” and “Cheesecake”.