The Reigning Cats and Dogs Names of the Year

[icyfroth]

QUESTION one: Why must people give their pets human names?

Question two: Which Twilight character is top dog?

Question three: Twilight. Really?

We found the answers to these puzzling queries in a comprehensive survey of 2.5 million dogs and cats conducted in the US state of Oregon, Discovery News reports.

Portland's Banfield Pet Hospital tallied the top names from 2012 and came up with 10 most popular monikers for our most popular family pets.

[Enough. Take me to the list. Now.]

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/the-reigning-cats-and-dogs-names-of-the-year/story-fn...

OH always says if we got a dog it would be a German Shepherd and he would call it Schultz. We would also get a ginger tabby cat and call it Ranga.

:^O

[happyroo_bunji]

Oopps forgot Sophie the cat, just liked the name.

Sunny my green quaker parrot (sox unknown) is called that as I wanted a name that depending on the spelling could be a boy or girls name.

[crystal**flake]

All  but one of my dogs have people names

[monstersinthedungeon]

We have

Dogs:

Pixie LuluBelle

Smudge

Tango

Charlie

Spud

Murphy

Molly

Cookie

Cats:

Peanut

Henry

Willow

(plus the ring-in from next door, who came pre-named Garfield)

Pigs:

Poppy Porkchops

Truffles

Goats:

Albert

Lucy

Jazz

Calves:

T-Bone

Angus

Teeth

Piglet

Pumpkin (but always gets called Baby - and he is going to be our breeding bull, so we will eventually have a huge bull called Baby :8})

Camels:

Alice (of course)

Gera

Most of the poultry are unnamed, but a special few:

Picasso (Blue Peacock)

Ulysses (White Peacock)

Aphrodite (White Peahen)

Casanova (huge white Turkey Tom)

Mr Frizzle (one of our three Roosters)

[carls*world]

Cats:

Roger

Damien

Regan

Leo

Hamish

Barry

Bunnie (amazingly soft fur, like a rabbit)

Mooch (short for smoochie)

[tasfleur]

Our boy moggy cat is called Garage, but Gary when he's being good ... :^O  We called him that because he was dumped down the side of our garage 8 years ago as a kitten.

The Burmese girl cat is a choco torti, so of course, we had to call her Latte ...  :8}

[molly_the_hungarian_puli]

Interesting....... I've always given my dogs human names. Never thought about it before. When I need to find a name for a pet I use an old baby name book. I guess my dogs really are fur people 🙂

I have two dogs - Molly and Rose.

[kengillard]

Oscar is an  adopted maltese....about 14...

Nutty......orange Pom....."Ginger Nut"???

Rosie

cats

Cleo

Dinky

[lurker17260]

Boy you people have a lot of pets 😮

Our old cat was called Dylan (can't remember why) then when the new one arrived he became Oscar.  Dylan Thomas and Oscar Wilde of course :^O

When I was a child we had any number of budgies in succession and they were all named Bluey.  I think our dad was trying to trick us into thinking they hadn't really died :^O

[tasfleur]

"When I was a child we had any number of budgies in succession and they were all named Bluey.  I think our dad was trying to trick us into thinking they hadn't really died"

[icyfroth]

Wow your'e farm is coming along monsters 😮

What are your plans for the camels?