What Is Your Pet's Name?
9I was thinking about cats I’ve known in my life, and how many had peculiar names. Does your pet’s name say anything about you as a person? Or is it just serendipity? Some cats I’ve known had these names:
Snot Smiggy
Smudgey
Biscuit
Ding Dong
Cobweb
Caligula
What kind of name have you hang on your pets? Do cat names tend to be weirder than dog’s?
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@hollboll nice backup vocals, try not to break character next time
Dexter. we got him from a program that pairs kids in juvenile detention with dogs. the kids then train the dogs for 8 weeks or so. our kid named him Dexter. i'm hoping it's not after the guy in the show Dexter.
@carl669
@carl669 Well done. He is adorable. I am sure your son just loves the hell out of him.
@carl669 holy crap that is a fantastic picture!
@carl669 I catch my cat, Dizzy, like this all the time especially when he's sleepy.
@Bingo thanks! it was lucky timing. i just happen to have the 50mm lens my camera. he was doing something weird right before this when i was giving him little pieces of apple. so i grabbed the camera, gave him another piece and tried to get him to do it again. he wouldn't do it, but i did get this shot. good compromise.
@mfladd at first, dexter didn't know what to do so he would just walk away. but now, he knows the kid constantly drops food, so he just follows him around.
@stardate820926 I saw this picture and reacted with, "Hey, I know him!" much more quickly than I processed the fact that you had posted the picture. It was like recognizing a friend.
Cats: Bella, Jasmine, Jade, Zoey (all 4 were found in the woods) Jade is a piece of work and was found by our garbage can. Came when called - bizarre.
Dogs: Oreo, Sophie
I think our names have less to do about us as people as they have to do with names we liked. This is Oreo & Sophie. Unfortunately, Sophie has had a bout of pancreatitis and is still not doing well.
@mfladd oh no! Hope Sophie feels better!
@hollboll Thank you. She has been to the vets twice and is on prednisone. But she is still ailing and we are concerned when we go away on vacation. Oreo would be lost w/o her. He was an anxious mess, biting his crate to all hell until she came along.
@mfladd Oreo is a Springer ( or springer mix) ? My first love at the tender age of 2 ....
@ceagee Yes, he does look like one. But he is actually a mix of English Cocker and American Cocker. The English side is what makes him look like a Springer.
@mfladd I'm so sorry my friend. You'll do right by her, regardless.
@mfladd Damn you have a clever garbage can.
@mfladd hope Sophie gets better -- daughters dog has been very ill with pancreatitis too-- it's terrible to see them like this -- her dog Bentley is better but had to be hospitalized with fluids for three days -- he is 14 so tough on him
@AttyVette Thank you. I hope Bentley recovers. But 14 is getting up there in age and hopefully he can say he had a great life. Prayers for Bentley.
We have made the decision to put Sophie to sleep. Her quality of life is not good. This is the first time the kids have ever dealt with death. They are having issues with it.
@sligett
:)
@mfladd oh I am so sad to read this. It's never easy-- at any age.
I know of 2 very lovely little books that might help your kids. They are pretty nice for grown ups too.
Just Like Heaven: A Mutts Children's Book
Jellybeans
Sending wishes for Sophie to have a Gentle Journey.
Sending wishes for comfort to you and yours.
@mfladd Far, far away hugs my friend. Mainly because even in grief, I'd still hit you upside the head. Just for the hell of it.
@jaremelz @ceagee Thank you.
@mfladd
I am so sad to hear you have come to this point. My thoughts go to your family.
@mfladd Always, always hard. Even harder is knowing when "that time" comes. My heart hurts with yours and the kids'. We had to put one of our 16 year old poodles down in late February and other down a couple of weeks later. I still think I hear them in the house, snoring or shaking, checking out the food bowl. We'll pick up two new babies later this week, so the "what is your pet's name" a good topic for us. Thus far we've had all dogs, all with people names: Sarah, Brendan, Abbie, Lissi, Edward Andrew, Andy, and Molly. I'm still working on names for the new babies.
@magic_cave @jaremelz @fool
Thank you.
@magic_cave Sorry also for your loss. Congrats on the new babies though :)
My two cats are Koda and Kimber. Last Saturday I brought home this German Shepherd named Lady. I'm picking a new name today! What I mean to say is help me pick a new name. Short, cool, non people name.
So far I have:
Raser ("rah-zer" German for speed demon)
Whiskey
Tango
Kilo (I like the phonetic alphabet)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (just kidding)
Karos
Kisky
I obivous like unique K names. But need something that fits her fast, German working dogliness.
@meh Kilo! Kumquat! Kitteh! (my three suggestions :p )
@baqui63 I do like Kilo! I just wish it wasn't a unit of measure.
@meh She's beautiful. Congrats on the new family member !
It would probably help her if you kept either the L or the Y sound at the end.
@meh Fritz - A nice German name.
We had a Husky/Shepherd/Wolf mix named Kilo. Adopted from the Woman's Humane Society and apparently raised by someone who associated his name with their uh, habit.
@meh Once I'd fully specified the parameters (German Shepherd, initial K, female and changing from Lady), Markus suggested Kristen or Kristie (he recalls reading somewhere that dog names ending in an "-a" or "-y" are better for some reason).
Earlier in the conversation he'd suggested Fritz (which is his dog's name) and Wilheim.
@baqui63 people names!!
@cinoclav lol, that's too bad on the Kilo name. I just like it for its K and military qualities.
@ceagee thank you!! from what i've read, gsheps are very quick to associate so it doesn't matter what her knew name is, as long as its positively reinforced. Aka snacks and playtime and she should have it in a few days.
@meh how about Kira?
@carl669 I love that name.
I am a geek. I know.
@meh how about :
Kandis = rock candy
Karamelle = toffee
( she looks so sweet...her coat is kinda toffee colored)
or a tough dog name : Keile = trashing, as in giving someone one.
@meh I love me some shepard! Our family had a smallish female named Koffka (Kafka?) many years ago; kind of a 'people' name, tho. My cousins had a LARGE, no-nonsense male named Sauron
We have two dogs, Crimson and Clover. Clover came first, so naturally Crimson had to be the new dog's name. (If we get any more dogs, I guess they will have to be a pair and both named Over.)
In a previous life, I had two dogs named Boudreaux and Thibodeaux. Again, Thibodeaux came first so he kind of forced my hand when naming the second dog.
One of my good friends used to have a dog named "Deoji". At least that was how I thought I would spell it. I thought it was a neat Japanese name. It took longer than I'd like to admit to figure out that his name was D-O-G.
My mother had a cat named We-Don't-Want-You-You-Don't-Live-Here.
@Teripie My neighbor growing up named their cat Shitty. Every time they called it. ..."Here, Shitty shitty kitty"
@Teripie Your mother sounds like someone I'd like to hang out with!
@jaremelz Sure it wasn't chitty?
Simba. First photo I see of him.. The humane society named him.
@juststephen He's a looker, all right!
This is Tigger. He had that name when I adopted him and in his younger days he definitely "matched" his name. Nowadays, not so much.
@annwat Gosh, what an adorably stylish guy he is! Where did the jacket come from?
@magic_cave thank you, he does look rather natty in that jumper, doesn't he? the jumper is handmade from a friend in england. she makes them once in a while to raise funds for veterinary costs for rescue dogs.
My two cats are Loki and Cthulu. No pics as they don't show up on film.
@Shamburglar imaginary cats?
@Kidsandliz Oh noes, they are quite real. I have the scars top prove it (well, just from Loki, Lu is a lump who doesn't launch sneak attacks as I sleep).
The first and middle names of composers are the best names for pets (especially for goldfish):
Chihuahua mix is named gizmo. Was "rebel" when I adopted him. He's a gremlin.
Black Lab was adopted with the name "jax" and I thought it fit.
Dog - Nigel
Cat - Chairman Mao
Chinchillas - Baby and GusGus (I have no idea why)
Bearded Dragon - Paarthurnax
Oh, and a dove - usually called "Shut the fuck up bird"
@Pavlov not even a chairman meow?
@metageist It's all in the pronunciation. And yes, he's a Persian.
My childhood cat was John Charles Thomas (because we couldnt decide on a name.) He had the perfect cat entitlement attitude. We had a field nearby - one day Mom found him there tormenting a mouse. The mouse appeared to be healthy so far, but JCT had trapped him and was making a "please try to escape" game of it. Mom interrupted the game, the mouse got away, and JCT yelled at her for a while, and would not acknowledge her existence for a week. Then he had to give in, cause she was feeding him.
Back the the days of bridge clubs and frequent grownup social gatherings in the home, JCT could sense who disliked cats. He would jump in their laps and stay. If they dumped him on the floor, he would wait again, and jump back into their laps. If someone complained, we would remove him to a bedroom, but most of them were too polite, and we kids thought it was hilarious. We had a pix of my grandmother (pix now lost), all dressed up for church, staring with disdain at the cat in her lap. JCT was staring back with even greater disdain.
Since my grandmother subscribed to the Congressional Record, read pieces of them daily, and lectured us constantly on Approved Political Beliefs, we thought she and JCT were a perfect match, and everytime she came over (she did not ever call first or even knock), we would bring JCT to her to receive his daily tutoring about the vile goings-on in Washington. He never got bored.
Still miss JCT. Mom made us "be polite to your grandmother", so that Mom had an excuse to escape the political lectures, which were (outside grandmother's hearing) a source of enormous family humor. JCT made the kid sessions with her bearable.
Three cats: Malachi, Tevildo, and Tigoon.
Malachi was originally supposed to be a Merry or Pippin but his matching brother died (I found four newborn kittens in a garbage bag at the bottom of a trash bin, tried to save all four, only two made it in the end: Malachi and Tevildo). Malachi means "my angel" in Arabic; it's a bit sarcastic but endearingly so, as he's a jealous hyper needy little prince (he is such a desperate cuddler that I think his ultimate goal would be to actually crawl inside me like a tauntaun).
Tevildo, the other surviving brother, is a kingly aloof fat monster with random goofy fight-me-i-love-you streaks and a tendency to just appear statue-like in the shadows, staring at you with giant glistening black eyes, right into your soul, sucking it out of you for his dark sustenance. So, before Tolkien came up with the dread wolf Anfauglith, he originally toyed with the idea of an evil King of cats--Tevildo. The name just seemed apropos.
Tigoon is a rescue that was found at about 2-3 months of age, underfed, runty, prolapsed rectum, in the rain, yet fiercely hovering over and protecting her even runtier sister. The people who found the two kittens didn't want her, just the sister, so I happily took her in. She can be adorably fierce like a baby tiger with her giant teddy bear paws, litle dagger teeth and tendency to just roll and roll and roll then attacjk, and then scared straight-fuzzy-tailed low-bodied waddle-rush ghosting like a raccoon--hence the portmanteau Tigoon.
A sampling from the non cat and dog crew (although I have always shared my house with at least one dog or cat...)
Rabbits - Fiver, Mufflebumpers
Rats - Slartibartfast and Trillian
Guinea pigs - Pongo and Perdita
@cation I think you picked some great names for your rats!
I don't have a pet, but I do have an imaginary pup named Woolly.
cats: Milton and Emilie
dogs: Annie and Spike
We were going to stick to naming cats after scientists (the labcoat variety), since we had had a kitten named Newton. But, Milton came with his name and it just seemed too good to change it, so we figured any kind of scientist should count, including economists. Emilie was named after Emilie du Chatelet. My brother-in-law liked the idea and named a cat Einstein.
Annie is named after the Covert Affairs main character. She was so fearful coming home that I wanted to name her after someone not fearful. It didn't work.
Spike is named after the vampire on Buffy, because I couldn't talk my husband out of it. I love the character, but I think "Spike" is kind of a boring dog name.
@katylava I'm still impressed the cats will fetch.
@Pavlov just the one, and only when she was little. way too lazy now. and really, we didn't teach her to fetch... she taught us to throw.
Dogs: Bowser, Peach, Yoshi
Cats: Mario, Luigi
If only I could think of a good theme for my pet's names...
I used to always go with human names - my first Dog was Karla (after my dad, Karl), then cats named Sandy, Max, and Oscar (the first cat that was just mine after I moved out of my parents' house).
Now my husband and I have 3 cats - Dizzy, Shadow, and Shady, a rabbit named BunBun, and a frog with no name
@stardate820926 My niece has a frog named Benny. He is well over 20 years old. She got him in a "grow a frog" kit. - a gift from her aunt : ) He has this weird humming. A couple times he escaped ( or was "released" by my cats) and we thought he was a goner. But he is one tough adventurous frog.
He will outlive all of us.
I definitely think you need to name your frog.
@ceagee I think so too but nothing has stuck. His name was going to be Blinky (he's a Pacman frog), then I changed it to Mouse, and now I mostly just call him Buddy.
@stardate820926 Holy Crap. We also had a rabbit named BunBun. My sister won her at a county fair a long time ago (that is just wrong). Unfortunately it was killed by some stray dogs that jumped a very high pen enclosure. I remember being a wee one and searching the fields with a bat to punish them. I know that was wrong too, but I was young (around 8). I wanted justice, but now I see it was revenge I wanted. There is a big difference.
@stardate820926 Well, you just ruined my day! I will now have an earworm that goes:
"I've been through the desert on a frog with no name."
Sammy and Diva are current cats:
(Sammy on right) My daughters named them and no, they are not related.
Other cats have been Nutmeg and Bobcat (sisters; Nutmeg's coat looked like the inside of a nutmeg and Bobcat had ear tufts like a bobcat), Tinkerbell (I think my sister named her), Pumpkin (an orange tabby and technically more my sister's cat) and Romeo (no idea where his name came from, though he did roam quite a bit). Tinkerbell had a liter of four kittens (she was pregnant when we got her). I don't recall their names, except we called one White Paws, and they were given away a month or two after being born.
Never had a dog. Hamsters were named Yogi and Booboo. We never named any of the tropical fish.
My dog's name is Clara. Her name just popped into my head when I was sitting on the floor playing with her at the Humane Society.
@AnnaB i thought you said pooped
I’ve only ever been owned by rabbits, and their names were Boo Boo Bunny, Tolly, Mitzi, and Bunny & Clyde. Future bunnies will be named Gumby Dammit, Heffalump and Woozle.
@Trillian my daughter loves cats but is mildly allergic to them. While away at college, she got a (lionhead) rabbit named Coconut as a kind of hypo-allergenic cat.
Milo, Dustin and Lily.
Today is Dustin's 9th birthday.
@Cloudscout birthday pic, please.
This is Ms Kitty. Mr Cat is a little camera shy...
@mrehorst My little Ziggy.
@PocketBrain
I had a cat named TS Eliot. He had two spots. Yeah, Two Spots Eliot.
We currently just have Spartacus aka Partycat. He's mostly called Partycat or Party or CarpetSeal or OldMan.
He's clearly not a very tolerant cat.
In the past I've had Zuzu, a tiny, angry Schipperkke named BB (black bullet, man she was fast and deadly), Astro, the half Wolfhound half spaniel...
@jaremelz LOL. That is just wrong!
@mfladd Oh. Perhaps I should clarify. They didn't shoot them at him! They'd never do that. This is the most spoiled cat ever. They just kept piling them on.
@jaremelz He is not a ring-toss.
@mfladd Sure he is!
The kids named the dog Willow and the cat Panda, but to me they are Weasel Face and Fuzzball. They respond when I use my names for them.
my kitty is Admiral Jackson P. Cantrip III
I have a tortie that is called TC - for "Tortoiseshell Cat" (or perhaps just "The Cat") - because cats don't give a crap what you call them as long as the food appears on time. Oddly, though, I taught her to come when I whistle
From kid-dom: Snoopy, Sinbad, Burpy.
My wife and I have had several packmates (and a stupid cat) since being together: Amber the Golden Retriever (Skyquest Amber Waves, AKC, but not a champ at anything but being lovable), Bonnie (collie mix from a shelter but we didn't like "Chloe Ann", her then name) our Bouncing Bonnie Rocket Dog, and Swiper (Border Collie Lab mix, we think, came with the name from a shelter). All now departed.
And Nicolai Ilyanovich Lobachevski (sp?), the stupid cat. Also departed. The house is too clean and quiet now...
@duodec sounds like time for a trip to a shelter near you !
@ceagee Absolutely. Both of us are working 50-70 hour weeks and quite a few weekends now, waiting for that to return to sanity. Then we'll start looking for a new packmate or two.
Macaroni - cat
@spacezorro how about a pic?
@mfladd His name is Macaroni because according to my kids his orange tabby stripes look like macaroni and cheese when he does this. https://imgur.com/m1LbN2o
@spacezorro Let me help. Luv the pic - thanks!
Golden Retriever -Jenga. My kitty died a few years ago, her name was Yoda. I had tree frogs and they were Chewy and Jabba the Frog.
herekittykitty
Right now, we just have Roxy (the boxer) and Ishmael (tuxedo cat). We lost Galen (Plott hound) two weeks ago in the shittiest March ever.
Earlier dogs have been named Bailey (already had that one when we adopted her and she was a stubborn chow, so I didn't bother changing it), a border collie mix named Sasha, a husky named Ben, lab named Secoya, a white GSD named Heidi Baby (there was a white GSD before I was born who was the original Heidi) , and from my childhood we had Princess (who was a boy), BlackJack, Sweet Cheeks, and Scooter.
I've had cats named Sari (pronounced with a long A), Grey (was originally a stray and that name stuck), Thunderbolt, Black Star and Fluff.
@PurplePawprints I'm sorry about your dog. I just lost my tuxedo cat of 15 years and it was pretty rough. Maynard was stubborn and vindictive and the smartest cat I've ever had. Its hard to watch them go.
Current cat: Alice (Alice in Wonderland)
Recent cat: Maynard (from Tool)
Chickens: orange one, black one, black and white one.
Seal. My husband named her after a fictional cat (named after the animal, not the singer). And he has absolutely no memory of this.
I'm pretty sure she thinks her name is Pants, though, and that "Seal" is a word we say when we're angry. We almost always call her Kitty Pants, Precious Pants, or Seal Pants. (It just... happens.)
I think Pawna was the only cat I ever named. I was 5.
Growing up I had: Doctor (I was 2 when I named him), DoC (Dumb old Cat...my dad names it), Baby Bootsie, Baby Face, Nermie, Snowball (black cat), Nala (we ended up calling her Pudgy because she got really fat). Then we had a stray we Snickers who had a bunch of kittens before we caught her and got her spayed.
Now I have Edgar, Taylor, Boogey, and Slowey.
I have a service dog. She is a lab/pyrenees mix. Her name is Kensi. She came with the name.
Currently, 2 standard schnauzer divas: Beyoncé and Rihanna.
Also had many a pet rat (the hooded variety - great pets!) each named Bob, except for one random time when we decided on Scooby.
Our family also names our cars: Jules, Mia, Vincent and Gimpy currently, but we've also had Timmy, Brian, Ahab, Otis and Sarsippius.
@bettynugs I had a couple about 20 years ago, Nicodemus and Ethel Merman. I only came into having pet rats because my Columbian red tail boa constrictor (named Rembrandt) didn't want to eat those two.
I currently have Strax. Previous cats have been Cyrus the Virus, Obi Wan Kenobi, and Little Orphan Annie (found her in the backyard) Dogs have been Pixie, Carly, Katie and Hazel. My sister named her dog D-O-G also.
The only pet I had that I named was a hamster named Fuzz. I have also had a Lhasa-poo named Chloe (mom named her); rabbits named Penelope (girlfriend at the time), Casper (rescue), Charli (rescue); and another dog that we are currently deciding if we want to rescue (but will because he is laying at my feet now) named Mocha.
When I was a kid we had an awesome German Shepherd named Lobo. Had a cat named Huggy Bear (we watched a lot of Starsky & Hutch), my brother took the cat on a bike ride & wrecked. Cat lost the front of his bottom lip so he had a permanent smile from then on.
Had a dog named Killer who killed himself. Current dogs are Mia & Bailey.
Had a stray cat adopt us, named her Meow-Meow because she talked constantly & had the loudest voice I've ever heard on a cat! Most recent cats were Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (both named by my English teacher niece), Edgar Allen Purr, & Vinchenzo (both named by me). The first 2 learned about the perils of traffic the hard way. Edgar was attacked by something larger than himself & died. Vinchenzo went mad & became feral. No more cats for me.
@emt305 I want to give you a star for the names, but I don't want to because of the deaths.
Danes: AraBella (8 yo, Chocolate Merle) and Patriots Rogue the Hellion (6 mo, Fawn). Husband named Bells, and I named Rogue when I played with him at the breeder. I was going to name him Ding Bat (most Danes are goofy), but he was so majestic in his stance and had it together enough to keep everyone in line. His line that is. He led them all to get into trouble. He is causing trouble still. His name really fits.
Previous Dogs: Baby, Irish Setter as a child, Merlin the Magnificent, Blue Merle Dane.
Previous Cats: Hell, Night, Water and Swimmer. Haven't had a cat since my brother handcuffed Hell to the coffee table as a kid. Still have the scars today.
@katylava Understand. I'd love to have an indoor cat, but am very allergic. The outdoor cats are wonderful, but they can't resist crossing the road to visit friends on the other side. We have a large barn where they can escape the weather, but they'd still have the temptation to go visiting.
Many cats over the years. Kid named many of them (as in I told her parents get to name kids, kids can name pets - she wanted to change her name at one point).
Willow, Mr. Big, Lucky, Max, Piage, Lizzy, Miss Molly, Oscar, Felix, Big Boy, Pebbles, Bulb, Sen Sen, several more from my childhood whose names escape me at the moment except for Snowflake.
Currently I have two long haired chihuahuas, Bella and Maggie. Maggie is the red, Bella is the black and white:
Rosie recently died of cancer:
Kaiser Roll died of kidney failure:
He was awesome:
@emilyap Sorry, about Rosie and Kaiser.
@emilyap sorry for your loss.
@emilyap So sorry for the loss of the furry babies.
@emilyap Too much tequila.
That’s Tigger playing the porcelain tuba. He died from kidney failure.
You asked for it... By order of age...
Peridot (quaker parrot - 20)
Amergin (grey Shorthair cat - 19)
Jade (white capped pionus parrot - 18)
Eilidh (American Eskimo dog - 14)
Maire Dubh (Newfie mix dog - 11)
Magic (black Shorthair cat - 7)
Rhiannon (tortie Shorthair cat - 6)
Cerridwyn (tortie Shorthair cat - 6)
Kaylee (calico longhaired cat - 1)
Zöe (calico Shorthair cat - 1)
We've had
Mowgli
TumTum
Pooh
Tigger
Oreo
Amongst many oth rs over the years. My vet would just look at me and say...'really?!!'
It's what happens when your kids get to name them.
We also have Chloe (Choc lab), Maggie (3# yorkie) Grace, Bubby and Mia (Heinz and one of the best dogs we've ever had).
I personally have always had trouble coming up with names. Oh, did you notice that?
My husband named his beagles...Spot (yea, she has spots, very original) and Lucy
That would be slut cat Gertie
I've got a Mowgli. He assures me that any Mowgli mentioned earlier is just a pretender. Cats know these things.
when i was far too young to really remember him, e had an all white cat Called Avalanche.
the cat I grew up with, was Buster, apparently i gave him that name, as a 3 yr old, in a spot of "hey Buster, stop that" or somesuch.
we currently have AbbyKat. she adopted us one february night a few years back. just showed up on the back porch, stuck around through a couple 0F nights(sitting right under the bird feeder, waiting for one to jump into her mouth) before dad took pitty on her, and brought her in.she initially was Abby Cadabby, my niece's Fav Sesame Street character at the time, since shortened to either Abby, AbbyKat, or KittyKat.(we are an imaginative bunch)
My Nephew's Cat is Gloria, My brother named his Bronson, then discovered that he was a she, still stuck with bronson.
My Friends just Moved, and had to rehome 2 of their 4 cats.
they had Miss Kitty, Aries, Light, and Mogido(sp?)
adopted Miss Kitty as a kitten, back in 2005, then a few months later, they had a friend who couldn't keep her cat in an upcoming move, and that's how they got Aries.
neither was fixed, and within a year, they had a litter of kitten to home. which they did. got aries Fixed, (cheaper).
fast forward a couple years, He's working at a Pet Store, and they have this all white cat, that is apparently destined for termination(details a bit fuzzy), so he "rescues" the cat. (he says rescue, the store says he stole the cat, potato/tomato)
that's the cat he called Light. Light wasn't fixed at first, and almost predictably, Miss Kitty Got Knocked up again.
found homes for all but one, whom they kept, named him Mogido.
now, they moved out of their rental house, into His Mom's place(she's on a 4 yr contract Doctoring in a small remote Alaskan village), she didn't want ANY cats in the house at first, they negotiated to keep 2.
I didn't want to see Miss Kitty and Aries Split up, as they've basically been together their whole lives(11yrs)
but, they were able to find homes for Miss Kitty and Mogito, brought Aries, and Light with them.
now the trick is getting them used to a) the new house, b) his Little Brother's yappy Little toy something or other dog...
Hodor the big dumb basset hound, and Tyrion the short dark haired doxen, daschhund, er...dachound, )@&:%# black midget dog.
reminds me of a joke/story, short version: dogs know you are their master, cats know they are your master, pigs know they are your equal, :rim shot:
@DMlivezey I've heard it as this:
Dog looks at you, then looks in the mirror, and thinks, "Gee, I'm a funny looking human." Cat looks at you, then looks in the mirror, thinks, "Gee, you're a funny looking cat."
Had a stray named Winston when young, was reading Wm Manchester's The Last Lion at the time.
Afterwards later pets were named after various Churchill relatives, including a gorgeous chow/husky mix named The Hon Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman.
Had a Lhasa Apso named Prince. He's gone now to doggy heaven.
Now we have a Dachshund mixed named Duchess. She's old now, but still a blast to have.
In the future, I assume we will stick with a royal name.
I used to have a bicycle named Bessie. And a cat named Butterscotch--but Butterscotch ran off soon after she was discovered to like shredding the new custom curtains my parents bought. Never did find that cat.
I hate people who name their birds feathers or beaker (real bird names we know about). I named my African Grey Walter because I thought he looked like a pigeon and there was an old time actor named Walter Pigeon.
Had a german shepard guard dog years ago named Kafka (we were a ‘K’ family), Mama & Baby Kitty were the nearly feral cats who adopted us cuz we left food out for them, had an orange tabby named Cheddar.
Surviving pets are Colby (another orange tabby rescue), and Blackie (blue heeler/pit bull?/boxer? mix).
Leila (dog). Trixie (tarantula)
/giphy phishing alert!
