How Did Pet Get Name?
 

I HAVE A RESCUED NEUTERED MALE BISCHON FRISE - MY GIRLFRIEND FOUND HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF A 4-LANE HIGHWAY :eek: SO, AFTER SEARCHING FOR OWNER, I "ADOPTED" HIM, AND I NAMED HIM SCOOTER (AFTER MY ELECTRIC SCOOTER:rolleyes: )

HE IS ADORABLE AND NEVER LEAVES MY SIDE!:) :) :)

spoons

I actually thought we were being clever to name our Golden Retriever Ginger. It had also been a family name (my dad grew up with a "Ginger"..not a golden), and then with her ginger colored coat...it seemed perfect! Turns out "Ginger" is not very unique for a Golden...lol.

We are about to get a new Wheaten Terrier. Almost made the same mistake by naming it Bailey, and I bet we wouldn't be the first to think of that. (There is an Irish heritage and cream color coat...)

So, I think we've settled on

heheheh.....

I'm going to make a poll, and see what name wins HERE :D.

Cara

Our pets, in order:

A cat named Toni (after my Nana... Antoinette).

A canary named Henry.(my hubby's childhood dog's name)

A hamster named Henry. (my hubby's childhood dog's name)

Our Golden Retriever Ginger.

A rabbit named Snuggles. (my daughter named...and it was a sweet sweet snuggly rabbit)

A parrot named Cal. (hand me down...already named)

A parakeet named Budgie.

Another parakeet named Bach.

A cockatiel named Beethoven.

A chinchilla named Chinny. (obvious...lol)

A scorpian named ... Sambo (my son named it)

Two rats named Gracie and Roxy. (my daughter's named them)

A goldfish named Goldy. (my son named...a toddler then)

A Gray/Yellow/Orange Tang fish named Doc (and he ate food from our fingers). We named a few others, but I don't remember.


We are downsizing.... One child at home, ONE dog ;).

Wishy - a kitten. I was wishy-washy about taking in a kitty at that time. As we got use to each other the name was shortened to Wish. Sadly, she got out of the house and disappeared.

KC - a Carin Terrier. I got her when she was about 7months old from a woman who did not realize that terriers were so "active". Her name was Kayla's Cupcake and she did not look like a cupcake to me. Took the initials to make her name. She is 10 years now.

Shadow - an older adopted mutt that was always under my feet.

Anne

OMGosh...
 

Cara...you had a scorpion? ick ick

two gerbils-- litter mates, one black and white, and one buff with pink eyes....
we named them Inky and Pinky

Our black and white kitty was named when we got her by her original family, so we kept that..it was cute= Oreo

Our middle black cat had ears that tipped down when she was little..so
we called her Tippy. (she grew into this name like we would never believe).

Our oldest cat is very into alpha behaviors, and is all black too.. so she became Sheba. (this is not a very original name for a black cat either.).

When I was a kid, I had a parakeet...named Willie

And our red cocker spaniel then was named Reds

But I have never named a fish, except for Oscar (sorry Doody:p )... we bought him 1 inch long and he grew to own his own tank..he got over 12 inches long! One time when I opened the top to feed him he leaped out and hit me in the chest. I was so startled, and screamed and my husband heard it all the way out in the yard--a ways away-- and came running.:o

Here are the current pics of our 3 cats.
Oreo is first
Sheba second
Tippy 3rd

Yep, my son had a Scorpian, and "Sambo" had baby Scorpians (but they all died :( ). I guess that makes her Sambina?

Lara, what a beautiful bird a Lorikeet is!

Cara

My Seeing Eye Dog Ripple
 

Ripple- She is a yellow lab. She got her name from Guide Dogs For the Blind in San Rafel Calafornia, Because that is where I got her. All of the dogs in her litter had the letter R for names. The give each litter a letter and think of names for each dog.

Ripple- my Guide dog
Ryder
Rice
Reba
Roseavelt
Those are all the names of the dogs in the litter I think

Ripplegirl99

hey ripple,
you from broadripple in Indy?
hubby's family still live there if you do:)

Cats-
Hobbes- male fluffy charcoal gray cat with white boots and bow tie...very distinguished! Got his name from the prior owners at the animal shelter. He has chronic kidney disease and eats K/D diet dry cat food and is very thin.

Harriet- female calico part siamese...very talkative! WE got her from a neighbor while living in Arizona.....WE got her to keep hobbes company...she likes to eat all of the time and is getting to be a bit heavy..she waddles!

we used to have a cockateal bird named baby that was my brothers bird...he just died one day...very sad....never really knew why......
anyway...

LOVE LOVE LOVE our pets!
they bring us so much joy.
bizi

Hello,

We called our dog Puff, my son was playing with her when she came to us as a 12 week puppy. My son was rolling around the floor with her and said she is just like a puff ball. So the name Puff was born! I did not care for it at first, but her name has grown on me. She is an Shelty mix, (she looks like a small Lassi dog) we got her from animal aid. Her pervious owner took the mother dog and three puppies to the local super market and dropped them in a shopping cart. (How cruel), some people saw what was going on and saved them and called animal aid. We went to our local pet store where animal aid shows the animals they have for adoption. We were luckly the first ones in the store to check out Puff and her brother, we filled out an application, had a home study and they called our vet to see if we would be a good home for her. Animal aid called and said we got the puppy and the lady brought her right over. She loves to go for walks and check out the squirels. When we walk she will look around for them taking her time to look everywhere, even up in the trees. I never had a dog that is obsessed with getting squirles, ground squirles, squirles in the trees and on the ground. When we take a walk in our park, and if no one is around, we see a squirel on the ground we are able to let her off her leash and she runs as fast as she can to catch that squirel. The squirel all ways runs up the tree, then she runs around the bottom of the tree barking at it until we catch up with her and get her leash and tell her lets go catch some more squirels. After our walk she comes home exhausted! She has her halter on and is barking for me to get up and take her for a walk with dad. So more squirel stories later if you like, we have a few.

My newest service dog is Dood Caleb Columbo _____ ( insert my last name there) I enjoy giving a few names or such, as purebreds have. (My first was a purebred black Labrador," JHL Figaro.")

He is a Golden Doodle ("Godoodle") so the title Dood

Caleb comes from the Old Testament of the Holy Bible, of 2 who spied out Caanan and brought back good reports, Caleb was the only one of the two who stayed on track for God.

Columbo because after I received him, he went into everything and dragged it out but for seemingly no reason as he just left it there. It reminded me of Detective Columbo who asked all sorts of seemingly meaningless questions and did such crazy things. LOL

BTW After I researched the name Caleb in Hebrew, I found out that it does mean faithful and is thus the word they use for "dog." So it turns out I named my dog, "Dog." lolol