Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:34:14AM +1200, Jon Bell wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
My kids had a pair of guinea pigs once, named Finniwig and Zwieback. Finniwig because it rhymes with guinea pig, and Zweiback because we had been reading a lot of Dr. Seuss at the time.
Similar to yours: family friends when I was growing up had a dog named "Dammit" because when they got the dog as a puppy, it would misbehave, and they kept saying things like "Dammit get outside!", "Dammit what did you do to the pillow?", etc. It's worth pointing out that these people were incredibly nice, just a little salty.
Eventually the dog just responded like Dammit was its name, so it stuck.
On 9/19/19 7:52 PM, Paul Kruczynski wrote:
Eventually the dog just responded like Dammit was its name, so it stuck.
Dogs often end up doing this with "no" which can be kinda counter-productive.
I have heard baby-naming advice given as "Go to a toddler playground and call out the name you are thinking of giving your future kid. If three or four kids respond, don't give them that name." We ran into a similar situation except it was "if you feel super-awkward yelling it, don't name your dog that." (In hindsight I dunno why "Cosmo" seemed so weird to yell, though this was before Seinfeld. Anyway he was an extremely bright border collie mix and "letting him outside" meant opening the front door where he would go out and through the open gate of the lot next door, which served as the "back yard" of our corner-lot house. And apparently one day he got sidetracked by greeting someone on the sidewalk and followed them past a firehouse a good mile away, where on hearing that he was not actually that person's dog they just couldn't shake him, the firefighters called us from the number on his tag.)
We had a puppy named Puppy because we were TOTALLY NOT KEEPING HER after our vet said she'd be 100-110 pounds (she turned up at a 4th of July cookout with parvo and the county shelter was closed so we took her to our vet). We were over at the in-laws' and MIL said something about a friend naming their daughter "Sequoia" which my reaction was "Sequoyah was a dude, Sequoia is a tree, she is gonna be teased about her height whether she's tall *or* short. ... although it'd be an okay name for a dog. A very large dog. OH WAIT WE HAVE ONE." Subsequent vet visit had the vet revising his estimate to 60 pounds because she was older than he'd thought (she was just so underfed her teeth were underdeveloped for her age on the first visit). That was spot-on.
One of our current cats was named Horus by his foster family, but after his littermate Isis was adopted out people kept hearing "Horace" so they changed it to Ramses, which we have stuck with. I often wonder about that littermate, and whether her family changed her name on adoption or not, and if they decided to change it later after the rise of the Islamic State group.
Karen Cravens wrote on 9/19/19 8:18 PM:
I often wonder about that littermate, and whether her family changed her name on adoption or not, and if they decided to change it later after the rise of the Islamic State group.
They could always go with Celestial, a la the band Isis
Paul Kruczynski / http://kruczyn.ski/
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short. -- nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
When I was a teenager I named our chickens Buffy and Crispy for buffalo wings and crispy strips. Initially as a joke but nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:49 PM Nick Disabato nickd@nickd.org wrote:
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short. -- nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
My cat’s name is Alto, as in the Palo Alto psychology movement. I kinda wish his name was riki or brioche but too late.
/// roy niang https://royniang.com https://instagram.com/royniang
Le 20 sept. 2019 à 07:09, Erin Simon insunlight@gmail.com a écrit :
When I was a teenager I named our chickens Buffy and Crispy for buffalo wings and crispy strips. Initially as a joke but nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:49 PM Nick Disabato nickd@nickd.org wrote:
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short.
nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
Mom got a cat, couldn't decide what to name it. Tried lots of names. Every time I called home it was a new name.
Slowly started calling it Fuzzy. Fuzzer-Wuzzer. The Fuzz. Eventually settled on Mr. Fuzz. Mr. Fuzz is my flickr avatar photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jowilson/
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:11 AM roy niang roy@royniang.com wrote:
My cat’s name is Alto, as in the Palo Alto psychology movement. I kinda wish his name was riki or brioche but too late.
/// roy niang https://royniang.com https://instagram.com/royniang
Le 20 sept. 2019 à 07:09, Erin Simon insunlight@gmail.com a écrit :
When I was a teenager I named our chickens Buffy and Crispy for buffalo wings and crispy strips. Initially as a joke but nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:49 PM Nick Disabato nickd@nickd.org wrote:
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short. -- nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
I recently followed a cow called Crouton on Twitter, and for whatever reason I just think the name totally works.
Crouton’s owner does little nightly videos from the barn / pasture area of their farm where Crouton lives: https://twitter.com/m_crouton/status/1174904145829978112?s=21.
Crouton is also a therapy cow!
Libby
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 06:40 John Wilson jowilson@gmail.com wrote:
Mom got a cat, couldn't decide what to name it. Tried lots of names. Every time I called home it was a new name.
Slowly started calling it Fuzzy. Fuzzer-Wuzzer. The Fuzz. Eventually settled on Mr. Fuzz. Mr. Fuzz is my flickr avatar photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jowilson/
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:11 AM roy niang roy@royniang.com wrote:
My cat’s name is Alto, as in the Palo Alto psychology movement. I kinda wish his name was riki or brioche but too late.
/// roy niang https://royniang.com https://instagram.com/royniang
Le 20 sept. 2019 à 07:09, Erin Simon insunlight@gmail.com a écrit :
When I was a teenager I named our chickens Buffy and Crispy for buffalo wings and crispy strips. Initially as a joke but nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:49 PM Nick Disabato nickd@nickd.org wrote:
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short. -- nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
--
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When I was a kid, we had a big fat Siamese cat named "Meatball".
It makes me laugh to think back about the times my mom would yell out the back door of the house for him to come home: "Meatball! Meatball!"
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 6:40 AM John Wilson jowilson@gmail.com wrote:
Mom got a cat, couldn't decide what to name it. Tried lots of names. Every time I called home it was a new name.
Slowly started calling it Fuzzy. Fuzzer-Wuzzer. The Fuzz. Eventually settled on Mr. Fuzz. Mr. Fuzz is my flickr avatar photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jowilson/
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:11 AM roy niang roy@royniang.com wrote:
My cat’s name is Alto, as in the Palo Alto psychology movement. I kinda wish his name was riki or brioche but too late.
/// roy niang https://royniang.com https://instagram.com/royniang
Le 20 sept. 2019 à 07:09, Erin Simon insunlight@gmail.com a écrit :
When I was a teenager I named our chickens Buffy and Crispy for buffalo wings and crispy strips. Initially as a joke but nobody could come up with anything better so it stuck
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 9:49 PM Nick Disabato nickd@nickd.org wrote:
On Sep 19, 2019, at 6:34 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Once I had a cat named “Maybe” because we kept saying things like “Maybe we could name him Rex, or maybe we could name him Bruce” and finally just stuck with Maybe.
Have you heard any interesting pet names?
Had a beagle named Miscellaneous for 13 years. We called her Missy for short. -- nickd! http://nickd.org https://draft.nu
On 9/20/19 12:26 PM, bernie mcginn wrote:
When I was a kid, we had a big fat Siamese cat named "Meatball".
It makes me laugh to think back about the times my mom would yell out the back door of the house for him to come home: "Meatball! Meatball!"
This is terrific!
My kids and I spent some time on our porch* a few years ago thinking of fun names for pets we'd like to holler so our neighbors would wonder what's going on. (e.g. Taxi, Jesus, Hey, Stay, Puddle) We practiced yelling them a bit just to see how they tasted.
Chuckling just thinking of us yelling "Meatball!" which we hadn't thought of.
-Greg
* this all started because I was sitting on that porch, in a rocking chair, with beer in hand, yelling** for one of our adopted dogs who got his name at the local animal shelter: "Junior! Junior!"
** Not kidding. Really. Unironically. My family noticed and the game above was born.
<snip>
My favorite Jack Russel terrier in the world is called Bruce Lee. He’s also the most “zen” dog I know, he’s in my yoga class. (he’s the teacher’s dog).
Sometimes I wish I’d named my dog Atari or Grizzly, but at the time I only thought of Rusty 🤷🏻♀️
/d
On Sep 20, 2019, at 23:35, Greg Haas greg@izzaboo.com wrote:
On 9/20/19 12:26 PM, bernie mcginn wrote: When I was a kid, we had a big fat Siamese cat named "Meatball".
It makes me laugh to think back about the times my mom would yell out the back door of the house for him to come home: "Meatball! Meatball!"
This is terrific!
My kids and I spent some time on our porch* a few years ago thinking of fun names for pets we'd like to holler so our neighbors would wonder what's going on. (e.g. Taxi, Jesus, Hey, Stay, Puddle) We practiced yelling them a bit just to see how they tasted.
Chuckling just thinking of us yelling "Meatball!" which we hadn't thought of.
-Greg
- this all started because I was sitting on that porch, in a rocking chair, with beer in hand, yelling** for one of our adopted dogs who got his name at the local animal shelter: "Junior! Junior!"
** Not kidding. Really. Unironically. My family noticed and the game above was born.
<snip>
All dogs are zen, in my experience.
On Fri, 20 Sep 2019, Dima Peteva wrote:
My favorite Jack Russel terrier in the world is called Bruce Lee. He’s also the most “zen” dog I know, he’s in my yoga class. (he’s the teacher’s dog).
Sometimes I wish I’d named my dog Atari or Grizzly, but at the time I only thought of Rusty 🤷🏻♀️
/d
On Sep 20, 2019, at 23:35, Greg Haas greg@izzaboo.com wrote:
On 9/20/19 12:26 PM, bernie mcginn wrote: When I was a kid, we had a big fat Siamese cat named "Meatball".
It makes me laugh to think back about the times my mom would yell out the back door of the house for him to come home: "Meatball! Meatball!"
This is terrific!
My kids and I spent some time on our porch* a few years ago thinking of fun names for pets we'd like to holler so our neighbors would wonder what's going on. (e.g. Taxi, Jesus, Hey, Stay, Puddle) We practiced yelling them a bit just to see how they tasted.
Chuckling just thinking of us yelling "Meatball!" which we hadn't thought of.
-Greg
- this all started because I was sitting on that porch, in a rocking chair, with beer in hand, yelling** for one of our adopted dogs who got his name at the local animal shelter: "Junior! Junior!"
** Not kidding. Really. Unironically. My family noticed and the game above was born.
<snip>
My cat (featured on my tilde page, http://tilde.club/~jr/, naturally) is named Cardigan. It usually gets a surprised/pleased reaction from people, which I enjoy.
We picked the name before we picked the cat, but it suits him very well. He has tabby and white markings that make it look like he's wearing a sweater with the sleeve rolled up on one side. Everyone always asks if this is how he got his name, so clearly it was meant to be.
Our cat's called Garfield. He came with the name already attached (he's a rescue cat). He's poorly right now and we have to take him to the vet tomorrow :(
September 23, 2019 3:19 PM, "John Ladd" johnrobertladd@gmail.com wrote:
My cat (featured on my tilde page, http://tilde.club/~jr, naturally) is named Cardigan. It usually gets a surprised/pleased reaction from people, which I enjoy.
We picked the name before we picked the cat, but it suits him very well. He has tabby and white markings that make it look like he's wearing a sweater with the sleeve rolled up on one side. Everyone always asks if this is how he got his name, so clearly it was meant to be.
My puppy's name is Plankton. Our instructor in obedience class said "in my whole career as a dog trainer that's a dog name I have never heard before!"
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:51 PM bupkes@tilde.club wrote:
Our cat's called Garfield. He came with the name already attached (he's a rescue cat). He's poorly right now and we have to take him to the vet tomorrow :(
September 23, 2019 3:19 PM, "John Ladd" johnrobertladd@gmail.com wrote:
My cat (featured on my tilde page, http://tilde.club/~jr, naturally) is named Cardigan. It usually gets a surprised/pleased reaction from people, which I enjoy.
We picked the name before we picked the cat, but it suits him very well. He has tabby and white markings that make it look like he's wearing a sweater with the sleeve rolled up on one side. Everyone always asks if this is how he got his name, so clearly it was meant to be.
We have an African Grey Parrot named 'Kipling'. He has inherited some of the wit, much of the cleverness, and all of the cantankerousness of his namesake.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:23 AM Clément Liu lettersforclem@gmail.com wrote:
My puppy's name is Plankton. Our instructor in obedience class said "in my whole career as a dog trainer that's a dog name I have never heard before!"
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:51 PM bupkes@tilde.club wrote:
Our cat's called Garfield. He came with the name already attached (he's a rescue cat). He's poorly right now and we have to take him to the vet tomorrow :(
September 23, 2019 3:19 PM, "John Ladd" johnrobertladd@gmail.com wrote:
My cat (featured on my tilde page, http://tilde.club/~jr, naturally) is named Cardigan. It usually gets a surprised/pleased reaction from people, which I enjoy.
We picked the name before we picked the cat, but it suits him very well. He has tabby and white markings that make it look like he's wearing a sweater with the sleeve rolled up on one side. Everyone always asks if this is how he got his name, so clearly it was meant to be.
--
@Clement_Liu Illustrator & Graphic Designer heyclem.com
My grandparents had a dog named Nothing (before my time, 40 years ago).
Our current cat is gobo (both o's are long); it was his name at the shelter and just kept it. We call it gobalewski, gobo.
Admittedly, my spouse and I already have names picked out when we get a dog (Hubert or Bonnie).
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 9:36 AM John Hussey chatsubo@gmail.com wrote:
We have an African Grey Parrot named 'Kipling'. He has inherited some of the wit, much of the cleverness, and all of the cantankerousness of his namesake.
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:23 AM Clément Liu lettersforclem@gmail.com wrote:
My puppy's name is Plankton. Our instructor in obedience class said "in my whole career as a dog trainer that's a dog name I have never heard before!"
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:51 PM bupkes@tilde.club wrote:
Our cat's called Garfield. He came with the name already attached (he's a rescue cat). He's poorly right now and we have to take him to the vet tomorrow :(
September 23, 2019 3:19 PM, "John Ladd" johnrobertladd@gmail.com wrote:
My cat (featured on my tilde page, http://tilde.club/~jr, naturally) is named Cardigan. It usually gets a surprised/pleased reaction from people, which I enjoy.
We picked the name before we picked the cat, but it suits him very well. He has tabby and white markings that make it look like he's wearing a sweater with the sleeve rolled up on one side. Everyone always asks if this is how he got his name, so clearly it was meant to be.
--
@Clement_Liu Illustrator & Graphic Designer heyclem.com
-- John Hussey chatsubo@gmail.com
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