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submitted 1 year ago by JohnSmith@feddit.uk to c/casualuk@feddit.uk

We heard on the radio today about a somebody who’s named their dogs after rock stars. We’ve been at it too. We had Lzzy and Slash in aquarium and now we have dogs called Myles (Kennedy) and Ronnie (James Dio). How do you name your pets?

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[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

I knew someone who called them all Dave. Kept things simple, I suppose.

[-] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Short names, one syllable, easy to shout - like with kids.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Those criteria are less useful for all his fish. Questionable whether it's work on a rabbit too.

[-] Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta start somewhere!

[-] HenrysCat@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

My dog is called snoop and my cat is called Stevens.

[-] KingSlareXIV@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of mine have been named after food. Kind of weird now that I think about it, it wasn't really intentional, it just fit their personalities at the time.

[-] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I remember quite a funny comment on the Trashfuture podcast a while ago, about a reversal in naming convention.

Someone observed that the sort of person who drives a big posh Range Rover would give thier daughter a name like Binkie and the dog would be called Sarah.

[-] m15otw@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Took a while to settle on our cat's name.

First of all I tried Linux commands (sudo was the one that stuck for a while, given how the cat dominated the dog.)

That fell out of favour though, and then we had kids and needed a proper name for her.

And then they printed a Magic Card called Generous Stray:

https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/3/2/3289db66-231f-4370-aca6-644d75bee293.jpg

Reminded me so much of my cat, it had to be done. Therefore:

Genny.

Kids can say it - yes. Sounds normal - yes. Cat doesn't respond to it - of course. Really weird story - well, I think so.

My wife just called the dog Bella by the way, perhaps she should name the next cat.

[-] nicknoxx@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

No pets at the moment but will use white goods manufacturers in future - Ariston, Zanussi, Smeg etc.

[-] tkc@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Through a strenuous process of debate and whittling down. We all ended up calling the cats different names in the end and all the talk didn't matter because they're cats and answer to anything if they want to.

[-] Carter@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I know a couple that use the phonetic alphabet.

[-] goodgame@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I name them after the first thing i see when i pick them up. I've got three cats, Holly, Daisy and two-dogs-fucking.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Charlie, Whiskey, alpha, juliet, mike, Oscar, romeo, Victor sound good. Also quite like echo.

Papa, India, Lima, November, zulu questionable.

Golf, hotel, xray, Quebec are asking for trouble.

[-] adamlc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Old lady names, our cat is called Ethel 😹

[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Many years ago we had two dogs (one male, one female) called Mulder and Scully.

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