Naming your pet can be both fun and stressful. You want a name that is unique to your pet. After all, it is the name they will have for the rest of their life. But how do you choose the new name? My dad always said that I should never choose a name that I would be embarrassed to call out in the neighborhood if my pet ever got lost. As I was a pretty self-conscious child growing up, I had a cat named Sam and a dog named Tony.
As I got older, my pets’ names became a little more meaningful to me, and I took a bit more risk. Here are my current pets and how they got their names.
Good Karma!
Karma is our goofy black lab/springer spaniel mix. Her name was the product of a whole-family debate. Her name won the final vote when my son explained how cool it would be to yell “Good, Karma!” or “Bad, Karma!”
Gypsy is a Tortoiseshell cat with a lot of attitude. She has markings on her face that remind me of flowing locks of hair coming down over her eyes. She spent her first month with us hiding in my closet, only coming out to wander at night.
Fluffernutter is looking for her toys.
Fluffernutter is a Lionhead rabbit who tolerates the slaves who clean her house and bring her food. The name she came with was hard to pronounce for my youngest son. When trying to come up with ideas, I mentioned that she looks like marshmallows and peanut butter. We call her Fluff or Fluffy for short usually.
Ms. Kitty
Miss Kitty is the most recent addition to our family. She is a Torbie, or a Tortoiseshell/Tabby mix. She has no ears due to frostbite and is mostly deaf. We don’t know anything about her previous life except that she was spayed before she was rescued by the animal shelter. We were having a hard time naming her as nothing seemed to fit. We just kept calling her “Kitty.” After five months, that name seems to have stuck.
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When I got my cat as a kitten, I named him Panda since he was fluffy in a beautiful black and white coat. The cutest things about my Panda is his white beard, white tummy, and white paws with a black coat covering most of his body! : )
My Congo African Grey has been a constant companion for almost 19 years! When I got him, I wanted to give him an African name, but couldn’t think of anything but Kunta Kinte, the central character from the novel Roots. I thought that might not be the best name for him, for many reasons, so I named him Toby. Although that might seem controversial, throughout the story told in the Roots novel, Toby never forgot his roots and he always reminded others of his real name, his African name. I think that suits my Toby quite well.
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I missed this one too!? Wow, I am need to check in with this blog more!
Cujo (German shepherd) – His foster named him Jo-Jo, but we’re huge Stephen King fans, so it was an easy switch.
Indy (Black Labrador) – His foster mom named him, but we claim that it’s after Indiana Jones (”We named the dog Indiana.” – Sean Connery). Again, big fans of the series!
Our next dog will be a male Newfoundland… black and I want to name him Balthazaar after the black Wise Man in the Nativity story.
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