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Inspired by the homage to dogs thread, lets have your inspired pet names
We're looking after our mates dogs at the moment while they're on holiday. They're called 'Get Down' and 'Stop Barking' which I think are fantastic names
Other mates of ours have a load of cats all named after 80's action movies heroes, so Arnie, Sly, Van Damme and Bruce.
What great pet names have you got then?
We had Surf and now Fin. Picked from when we spent alot of time in the waves windsurfing
I wanted to call one of our cats Seefer but got told off.
This guy is (Albert) Bert, compromised because I wanted 'Dave'.
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I used to keep gerbils. One pair I had were called Ozzy and Vince (I'd been to see Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in the same week I got them). The next pair were called Paros and Tinos as I had fallen in love with travelling in the Greek islands.
I had a mate who's dog was called Race-Car (don't let you 5 yr old name your pet, folks) but they all called it Grinner, because it did.
My dog was called Patrick - but of course, everyone called it Paddy. When we were cross we used his proper name to make sure he knew he was in trouble though - and he did.
Our pet chickens over the years include Henrietta, Layla, Shelley, Yoko, Nugget and Plucky.
My Grandad served in India in the war and ever since all his dogs where called Juldi, it's Hindi for hurry.
There's a tradition of naming gundogs after Scottish themes, so you hear a lot of Ionas, Isla(y)s, Tweed, Fergus, Angus....well you get the picture. There's a top guy in the clay-shooting world who owns a shooting ground and a couple of gunrooms. I was in one of his shops recently and was dealing with his two sons, Harris and Lewis. I couldn't help wondering why he'd chosen to name his children after Labradors.
Marcus Aurelius on the left is my lifestyle guru.
My friends always had double-act names for their pets (e.g. Bert and Ernie). When they got their 2 daughters a cat each, the girls were big fans of Phineas and Ferb, so these names were planned. Until, at the last minute one decided she prefers Perry, so they now have Phineas and Perry.
Makes me laugh everytime I see them.
Oh, and I've a friend who's cats are called Poor Tom and Marlinspike. Both Literary references. (they are part of the English Dept at Manchester Uni) The pretentiousity values are high; but cool names nevertheless.
My old cat was called "Sony" because everything I owned at the time seemed to have rthe Sony badge on it, phone, PS2, TV etc...
He was daft. I miss that cat.
My wife's dementia riddled grandad called the cockerel we inherited Fred. So we followed the theme and as we acquired new ones they became Betty, Wilma, Pebbles, and Bam-Bam. Then we realised we didn't know the names of any more characters, so my wife christened the next two Hannah and Barbara.
Various cockerels named after Watford players - Mooney, Bouazza and, most apt, Cox.
My father had 3 white English bull terriers named Butch, Blossom and Belinda
One of my cats is named Ty (influenced by Caddieshack...)
we've had cats called smudge, piewacket and chelsea.
A friend named her two rabbits Pie and Stew
😀 😀
One of the local dogs is called "John" which always amused me.
Bluebell, because she has a blue collar with a blue bell. She's a softie.
Her sister Blackjack is hard as nails.
Our dog is Wilson
"Wiiilson!!"
A friend named her two rabbits Pie and Stew, but the vets refused to register them under those names.
In a similar vein, farming friends raised two geese named Christmas and Easter, but then couldn't slaughter them when the time came because they had become pets.
@barrysh!tpeas my mum had a dog called Wilson too, named after a boy that she had a crush on at school.
My two spaniels were Ted and Ralph, specifically because of The Fast Show.
Ted (Springer) loved water, so problems with the drainage in the lower field were not a problem for him.
Our late cat was called Douglas - I named him after Douglas Bader. At the rescue centre he had been sleeping and obviously woke up stiff and walked like he had tin legs.
Our current cat is called Ava - after Ava Gardner. Our dog is called Milo - just because it was a name my wife liked and chose.
Came across a lady walking her dog called Jeremy Beagle
My parents had cats Mork and Mindy. My dad once had black lab called Ni**er, proper back in the day but still mortifying to admit. And the next one was a brown lab called Shandy.
Once me and my siblings got involved we had a black lab called Snowy (like in Tintin), one called Simba (Lion King).
And then more cats follow. (Black)Jack, Mittens (apparently his testicles looked like black mittens 🤷♂️), Percy and Steve.
Merlot was our first dog. I wanted a red haired Welsh Springer. I ended up with a Blue Roan cocker spaniel. Still called Merlot though. I wanted Kibble as the name for our current dog. No not after the food, but my PhD supervisor Sir Tom. One day...
Still on a Physics note, the cat at DAMPT in Cambridge was called Muon.
Son's Lab is called Buck. Makes for some quizzical looks when his fiancee starts calling him when he's picking up!
We used to have a chicken called Schnitzel.
And another one called Tadpole (because she used to love eating them, to the point that she'd wade a few inches deep into the pond)
Daughter (10 at the time) wanted to call our dog Jefferson Grooves, but was overridden. He's now called Cupar (or Cooper).
Nonetheless Jefferson Grooves was a pretty good name.
Currently we have Harold. Real name Harry (he was a reject and came like that)
I originally wanted to call him Moose, (stolen from Matt Jones choc Lab) but Harold it became.
We walk a dog for a neighbour that's called Dan. Always seems a bit wrong somehow.
Had a mate bitd, bit of a loose cannon, who called his dog Spliff.
Our pet chickens over the years include Henrietta, Layla, Shelley, Yoko, Nugget and Plucky.
*solemn applause*
My ex girlfriend wouldn't let me name our 2 cats after her best friend and husband.
Back in my schooldays I had one friend with a hamster called Scuttle and another with a cat called Twizzle, always loved those names. There's an old boy with a dog called Kevin that I often bump into walking ours (she's called Margo, any of my choices were vetoed) and another friend of mine has a cat called Derek.
Not mine, I hasten to add, although I'll probably still get banned for this.
A Uni mate had a cat that had no roadsense. His Dad (my mate's dad, not the cat's) was a bit politically incorrect, or maybe just it wasn't a thing in Sheffield in the 80's. So the cat was called Nelson, because it was black and not allowed out.
Work mate has a chameleon called Karma, as in Culture Club...
A mate had a Giant Schnauzer named Wordsworth. His painfully middle-class partner who had spent her formative years in another country approved of this literary reference. I don't know if he ever actually confessed that he took it from Jamie and the Magic Torch.
We have a 7yr old Borador called Shivers, 6 year old cats Louis and Dennis (known as Widge) and a new addition called Ripley.
We also had Angel who was sister of Louis but she went missing.
Anyone know the origins?
Widget is the odd one out, he came when Louis was suffering the loss.
The kids named our cats Paws and Lightning. Paws became Paws Meister then PM. He's the best PM this country has had since 2010.
Our youngest got a kitten and called it Keith.
During its first vet trip, we learned that he was in fact she.
So now registered at the vets as Mrs Keith.
Which is weird to shout out the back door at night 😂
We've had cats called:
Zero
Spook
Mushroom
Our current cats are Ted and Barney
When I was in charge of pet nomination we had Rabbits called Kylie, (after Minogue) and Marlon, (after Brando) and a Hamster called Tinkerbelle. Boring pet names since the daughter became old enough to decide, but oddly always ending with a 'y' sound, so Bobby, Robbie, Henry...
I do like the Nelson and Wordsworth stories above. 🤣
I wanted to call our dog named Milo - ‘Dave Gorman’. When we went to look at him and choose him - he just didn’t look like a ‘Dave’…
I have met two Cocker spaniels called Jarvis to date (in separate parts of the country obvs - if both had same owner might be a bit confusing).
I knew a bloke who had a mate that apparently had a dog called "Dick nose".
I had a cat whose actual name was Mixu Paatelienen but I just used to call him Fuzz.
Our youngest got a kitten and called it Keith.
During its first vet trip, we learned that he was in fact she.
So now registered at the vets as Mrs Keith.
Out of the litter that two of ours came from, we took one ginger and my partner's son took another. We chose names before discovering that - wildly unusually - both gingers were girls. We renamed ours, they didn't so have a female cat named Neville.
We have a one eyed rescue cat called Mike Meowski.(monsters inc)
Out other 2 are slightly more normally named munchkin (after the board game) and Luna (harry potter)
Our neighbours have cats named by their kids and there were gender confusion issues with both. They ended up with a massive male maine coon called Betty and a tiny female cat called Bernhard
I stumbled across this on iplayer the other evening, the dogs name is Colin from accounts who is working on a big merger. Or Colin for short.
I wanted to call our Dachshund Wolfgang. But the Mrs insisted on Billy…
My Italian vet was quite amused that my black cat was called Bianca.
Not a name we chose, Cat’s Protection just work through the alphabet for names for litters. We were going to change it, but she turned out to be a bit chavvy and scruffy, so it stuck.
My wife named our old King Charles Spaniel 'Treacle', cue lots of Mockney 'Awright Tweacle' greetings in the park whenever out for a walk.
Mum and dad rescued a couple of chickens years ago. My suggestion of 'Sam and Ella' wasn't seized upon sadly.
We had a guppy called Tuco, named after Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad, lived over two years which is looooong for a guppy.
A mate of a mate had two cats called Fat Cat and Orifice.
We were given a pedigree Burmese kitten, whose registered name was Kimaross Sharmeena. For the rest of her 21 year life she was known as Killer. Her rather daft and distinctly not pedigree companion was called Einstein.
Our first two hens were Thelma and Louise. More recent hens have included Martha (black) and Amy (ginger), Philosohen (spent a lot of time just thinking) and Psychohen, Nina Simone and Etta James (our Ukrainian guest used to tell us "chickens sing a lot today".
My niece has a dog called Phil.
There is a vague story of a woman who lived in an old Napoleonic fort at the top of a nearby hill in Midlothian, centuries back.
Meg as she was known, lived alone and in order to draw less attention to herself she always dressed as a man. She was amazingly gifted at healing sick and injured animals and local farmers often called on her to assist.
She had a horse called ‘Skewball’ and a dog that had the best possible name in terms of pure function ever, given her need to be wary of folk – the dog was called ‘Help’.
However, her unusual lifestyle made others weary and she was commonly regarded as a witch, and whilst the records are far from accurate, it seems she may have ultimately been tried as one…
In fact, I’ve learned that until fairly recently, misbehaving local children were threatened ‘Meg will get you’ when in fact she should be celebrated as an early vet and absolute folk hero (who had a dog with the most functional and still somehow coolest name I’ve heard).
One of our hens was pure white with a full breast. She was called Lagertha.
This will make sense if you ever watched Vikings
The RSPCA gave our cat the name Olive before we adopted. It was only after knocking her out for spaying that they realised she was actually a he who had already been neutered. He's now Oliver. That can't have done much for his self esteem though!
Edit: Enzo and Oliver have the same pose, every 5 seconds he seems to be flopping over with his belly out: 
My Mate Ken has a dog called Spud, because he is a chip off the old block...!
Edit: Enzo and Oliver have the same pose, every 5 seconds he seems to be flopping over with his belly out
Haha, Enzo is a disgrace, no dignity whatsoever
I'm afraid another instance of being talked out of it - wanted our current cat to be Spartcius simply to see if everyone else in the waiting room can resist the urge when the vet calls him!
My Dad is a Classics nerd so all of our Cats growing up had corresponding names (which mostly got abbreviated because of how pretentious and stupid they all were):
When I was a baby there was Aristotle (Aris) , throughout most of my Childhood we had Achilles (Achie) then there was Socrates (who was black with white paws and thus 'Socks' worked) finally they had Phoebe and Lyra who were twins after I'd moved out.
Our current cat is rather unimaginatively named Arthur, but he really does look like an Arthur somehow.
Oh and my Family all collectively (and rather visibly) all cracked up one winters day on Greenham common as some shrill, middleclass muppet loudly tried to summon her Dog that she's apparently named 'Attenborough'... Some people shouldn't get to name their own pets IMO (My Dad included TBF).
A friend of mine has a dog with three legs, one ear, one eye and a missing tail.
Answers to the name of Lucky.
Hairy... from the children's classic 'Hairy Mclarey from Donaldsons Dairy'. Although a sound argument could be made that he's more of a Bitzer Maloney or even Muffin McLay.
Brody, the Border Collie, because he was like a shark when he was little