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

[icyfroth]

Those quotes definitely hit the spot, Laney :-x

What can we call monsters baby camel if it's a boy?

Humphrey ?

[cat_mioux]

I love reading about the names people give to their pets .. and farm animals ..:-D

Pene the kitty - I tell people I named her Pene (Penny) because she cost us a pretty penny ($1000). We weren't even shopping for a cat that day. We were shopping for a lounge suite. We walked past the pet shop and fell in love with this little kitten all alone in the glass cage. The lounge suite had to wait until we saved up our pennies again.

Why I spelt her name "Pene" I have no idea. It confused the bejeezes out of my vet in the beginning. He kept called her "Penne" like the pasta.

Thai the kitty - My daughter had just come back from Thailand when we adopted this little black Persian. We adopted him with Beau because Thai was Beau's hearing buddy and looked after him, grooming his face before bedtime and showing him what to do to be a normal kitty.

Beau the deaf kitty - little kitty bred by a bad breeder trying to get the "extreme flat face" of a Persian. He was going to be put to sleep. His "pedigree name" included the name Beau. It suits him.

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Charlotte the cavalier in my avi (Charlie)

Dan the Man my Chi/terrier with attitude.  

And yes when I got Charlotte I looked at dozens of baby names and made a short list of about four 

lilly

jasmine

charlotte

sharon

but charlotte won.  

[icyfroth]

Critters are so funny, what they'll answer to. We used to say "where's the dog" and she'd come running. Sunday mornings "I'm going for a paper" she'd come running. "Where's the leash" she'd start sproing sproing sproing jumping like a mad dog, tongue hanging out.

When she went to doggy heaven, we, the ex and me, had split up. He got a new dog and started calling her the way he used to call Jojo (Josephine), but it just didn't work

The new dog is a pretty girl but very norti and wants to lick all the time. I hate that in a dog.

In the end her called her Licky-Licky and that's what she answers to.

She's stopped a bit with the licking now and she's bearable to pat.

[i-once-was-bump]

we had a siamese cat called sirikit after the queen of thailand.

ginge the ginger cat

fritz the dachshund 

stewie the rabbit

twiggy the undersized cat

pug was bilbo but everyone called him bill

2 cairn terriers punch and judy, but judy wasn't long for this world so I spent the next 10 years yelling for punch.

griffy the budgie because he came from Griffith

fred and flora the love birds

googoo, booboo, and dizzi all cockatiels

muffins and fluffins both Pomeranians 

goldie golden cocker spaniel

tassie  a dog i inherited

scruffles a cat i rehomed so don't know where that name came from

Some of these pets we had at the same time and some were single pets

[rose*petals]

Currently a cav - Molly and a shitzu/bichon - Bo (Mr Bo Jangles) plus 3 chooks named by our grandson - Lola, Ruby & Gloria.

In the past - Lab - Cindy, Corgies - Gypsy, Suzie & Amber, Son's lab - Bess, Cats - Tiddles, Candy & Chloe.

[debra9275]

I didn't realize we could put past pets in, so here goes.....

we had a horse named Gypsy

a blue heeler named Jedda

2 white ducks named Heckle & Jeckle

a grey & white cat named Archie

a black cat named Fat Cat ( she was fat)

a black and white cat named Aggro

a black cat named Banjo

[purple_haize]

I have a cat called Ellie

another one called Punkin

DD has a cat called Bowie....after David Bowie, has 1 green eye & 1 blue eye.

She has another one called *Crazy Custard*...dont ask, grandson named it.

My son had a cat called Howard.

1 called Jello

1 called Mo Jo

1 called Missy Mischief.

I have a dog called Gypsy

another called Poppy

[debra9275]

& I forgot the 2 dwarf angora rabbits we used to have

Fluffy the white one and Licorice the grey one. Licorice lived to the ripe old age of 12 human years

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Fluffy the rabbit next door got taken by a fox 😞

I remember there was a dog, in a Disney movie, called Chainsaw.

Knew someone with a labrador called Craig.

My cousin named a cat Strop after the John Cornell character.  Meanest toughest cat I ever saw, like the one in the Footrot Flats comics.  Eventually lost a fight with a brown snake.