Unusual, domestic animals' names

I knew of a pair of beagles call Ronnie and Sue (Barker).

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.

Stray who adopted me was named Wee Pete. Don't know where the wee part came from he was huge.

Our departed cats were Whisky, Brandy and Champagne!

Our current dogs are Betty, Archie and Dougie, all mini sausages and Poppy our spaniel.

We must have had hundreds of hamsters all called Hammy, except for two which our three youngest called after their old brother and sister, Alex and Gemma, which was most odd!

Cannot remember our three guinea pigs names, I think the multi coloured one was Apatchi. The children never forgave me as they claim I murdered them as they were outside in a big two storey hutch together and all died within three weeks of each other, just after they reached a year! Given I became the only one who fed, watered and cleaned them out it was apparently me!

Funny how things change, my father had a working sheepdog called Sweep.

I know someone who called their (not pet) chickens, Supreme, Stewart and Korma.

The male was called Au Vin.

V3ra My husband flatly refused their request to name the other one Sweep, he said it was bad enough having poodles in the first place and he wasn't calling those names out in public!

At the vet's they always come out and call the pet's name. People's pets were called Maisie, Archie, Bella etc. Then came "Sweep". The owner stood up blushing, and said to the waiting owners apologetically "My children named him."

A friend had 2 kittens they called Rodney and Del Boy.

I once knew a beagle called Kevin.

escaped - The other two were called Hinge and Bracket!

Someone once told me of someone else they knew whose two brown china mantelpiece dogs (waly dugs) were called shit and treacle.

AskAlice

I named two of my chickens Sage and Onion!

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If you had a third one, it could be called Paxo! 🐔

our neighbours dog is called Steve and we have a local cat called Brian

This thread has cheered me up

We had a guinea pig called Hercules when my boys were young. And just up the road was a rough looking, but very friendly dog called Fred which really suited him.
My brother had a pretty dog called Rosemary, but it got shortened to Rosie after a while.

How beautiful!

Over many years and at different stages I've had cats, coldwater fish, budgies, canaries, mice, rats, hamsters, with names like Ebony and Erica, Euka and Nuba, Fatso, Colin, Duncan, Bjorn, Nosey, Nosher, Jaws, Fangs, Little Fatty, Little Nibbler, Plop, Wibbly, Wobbly, Sid, Spud, and a few others!

Years ago living in London we had a neighbour who called her dog 'Eeear'; she fed him titbits a great deal, and announcing that word made him rush to see what he was getting.

I knew a cat called Lucifer, someone started calling him Glue Sniffer and it kind of stuck.

I had a big, beautiful ginger cat called Topaz and my friend's little girl thought he was called Toe Pads.

My cat's names at present are Fleur and Merlin, so not too unusual. When a child we called our first two cats Fluffy and Furry, for goodness sake!

I have a desire to call my next cat 'Antichrist'. My son says I mustn't in case I upset the neighbours shouting the name down the street .

My son's cat is called Norman (after Norman Bates 😲)

When we adopted our dog she was called Secret - which we changed .

Sister Cats: Minna and Nimue

I named two of my chickens Sage and Onion!

sometime after the rest, hence bonus.

Sorry posted too soon.

A friend had a cat called Then. As a kitten she would only come to you if you said ‘come here then ‘. If you left the then off she ignored you.

Other friends had a ‘Dulux ‘dog called Bonus.
He was the last of a litter and was born

We had a cat called Kiwi because he was an All Black.

My GC’s dog is named Kevin.
I met the sweetest pug at the vets named Mabel.
My Aunt adopted a stray cat who they named Buzz because when he started hanging around they used to tell him to buzz off.
When he didn’t they took him in and the name stuck.