Animals with "human" names

Ms Doubtfire1

Max is a human name too though...;-)

Choc Chip

Both mine have human names, but not by choice (they arrived with person-names).

The foster pup we named ourselves is called after an obscure place-name. I think it's lovely but it's a nightmare having to explain it / spell it whenever she meets someone... Next time I name a dog it'll be "Bob"!

Kamili

henryporter wrote: »

Heard of a dog called Seamus in Carrickmacross once!

theres a song about that!

My horse is called Harry. Not a fan of it but it suits him.

When he's naughty he's Harold!

My previous horse was Mel, he was a hunk though

TG1

My dog is Bob, Robert when he's bold.

Horse was Lucy, Lucifer when she was bold.

Cat was Stan, Stanislaus when he was bold....

Obviously I'm ok with people names! Some can be really cute though, I'd a friend who had a lab called Lyn, I always thought that was adorable!

Themadhouse

all mine have human names, lol. some themes going on .

Our first 3 cats were a momma and her babies so they were called marge, bart and lisa. we then got Fred (the red)( there isa fred in the simpsons), Homer, Mo, Smithers. Then we got snowball, who was white but we were continueing the theme, i wanted to call her snowball 10 but wasnt allowed. We also have Xena (warrior princess) and Rose (Badwolf).
Jessie is the dog.
The hens , weve had a few over the yrs and some themes were the golden girls, orphan black, dr who. We still have Goldie, Sophia, Song and Helena. :-)

foreman

Dog is barney

Barns when he is good...

Just met a dog tonight who's name was Alan!

Meemars

Growing up we had a dog called Terry. He was long-lived, and family friends used to refer to him in conversation by his Full Name, as in "Terry Surname". When he died, some of our friends were talking about him, saying "Did you hear that poor old Terry Surname died? They buried him that night in the garden." People overheard and were shocked to think they meant a Human person!

JJJJNR

We called our Chocolate lab Genevieve, after the dog in Madeline.




The kids got sick very quickly of me putting on a stupid French accent.. and we shortened it to Jenny.

sillysmiles

Dogs name is Sam, which has only caused confusion once when a friend was visiting with his toddler son, also called Sam. The kid picked up the kong and got confused when he was told he could play with that it was for Sam to eat his dinner!

Eeden

Used to have a goldfish called Lisa. I wanted to name it/her(?) Wanda, as in "A Fish Called Wanda", but my kids were too young to get that.

Loveinapril

Eeden wrote: »

Used to have a goldfish called Lisa. I wanted to name it/her(?) Wanda, as in "A Fish Called Wanda", but my kids were too young to get that.

When I was a kid, I had goldfish called Madge and Harold.

An old friend had a cat called Elliot Parker. I love the idea of giving an animal their own surname!

hairyslug

We just got OKed for a rescue pup, our 7 year old had a name picked out already, Brendan

razorblunt

hairyslug wrote: »

We just got OKed for a rescue pup, our 7 year old had a name picked out already, Brendan

We picked up a 7 year old rescue last Thursday, was told her name was Kate, after 4 days of getting ignored by her when calling her that we figured out her name is Katie.
Apparently "Kate" was pronounced Katie according to the SPCA.

Katie seems more suitable than Kate anyway that's for sure!

mojesius

Our three terriers are called Paddy, Henry and Seamus.

Loveinapril

Loveinapril wrote: »

When I was a kid, I had goldfish called Madge and Harold.

An old friend had a cat called Elliot Parker. I love the idea of giving an animal their own surname!

That reminds me of Richard Parker, the tiger in Life of Pi! I always liked that part of the story.

Angel2016

My animals mainly have human names I have Lola the dog and then the cats...Flora, Fauna, Willow, Lily Rose, Elsa, Lucy, Timmy, Freya, Faye and then the odd ones Spike and Fonz.

Simon201

Our two Shih Tzu boys are called Walter and Jesse.


But I'd say only one in ten people we meet with them get the connection. Weird, given the supposed popularity of the programme...

the_syco

Deleted User wrote: »

Am I alone in thinking this is just adorable? One of the families on Gogglebox have dogs called Frank and Dave. I've met a dog called Jonathan too.

What else do people call their dogs? Mates dogs are Bran and Tori (from Tori Amos), and my old dog was called Holly.

Do people usually name their family members pets weird makey-uppy names?

muddypaws

the_syco wrote: »

What else do people call their dogs? Mates dogs are Bran and Tori (from Tori Amos), and my old dog was called Holly.

Do people usually name their family members pets weird makey-uppy names?

There are loads of 'pet' names rather than human names. In the husky world, there must be thousands of them called Shadow, Diesel (guilty), Sky (guilty again), Demon, Nannuq, Nuka, Ice, Snow, Indy, Hunter etc. Ghost, Winter, Summer, Nymeria etc have become popular.

I guess maybe people call them a name that describes them in some way, or their colour at least - Rusty, Spot, Patch.

art

Our first cat was called Phoebe. Who was then joined by "Maisie" but that name never stuck, we just called her Lumpy all the time because she was, basically, a very lumpy looking cat. And that stuck. Awkward moment when we first took her to the vet though ... but never forgotten thereafter.

Now we have Pip, Pocket and Penny. Pip and Pocket were born in the month of Charles Dickens anniversary, hence the names (from "Great Expectations").

D3V!L

Our Dachshund - American staff cross is called Billy

Named after Billy-Joe Armstrong or as my missus would have you believe its short for "Baron Wilhelm Von Weinerschnitzel" :P

I did have cats called Henry, Polly and Lucy before.

Kamili

D3V!L wrote: »

Our Dachshund - American staff cross is called Billy

Named after Billy-Joe Armstrong or as my missus would have you believe its short for "Baron Wilhelm Von Weinerschnitzel" :P

I did have cats called Henry, Polly and Lucy before.

that made me laugh!

SingItOut

My Collie is called Allie, which is what the rescue had named her and because she was responding to it we stuck with the name One of my Cats is called Vogue, I don't know if that passes as a human name though.

misschoo

My friend is the States has a pug named Fergal. I have neighbours with a Jack Russell named Joan which cracks me up every time they call her! We previously had a Labrador named Tara.

Shenshen

D3V!L wrote: »

Our Dachshund - American staff cross is called Billy

Named after Billy-Joe Armstrong or as my missus would have you believe its short for "Baron Wilhelm Von Weinerschnitzel" :P

I did have cats called Henry, Polly and Lucy before.

Reminds me - we once (long time ago) had a white rabbit called Isolde van der Hoppel. Issy for short

maggiepip

misschoo wrote: »

My friend is the States has a pug named Fergal. I have neighbours with a Jack Russell named Joan which cracks me up every time they call her! We previously had a Labrador named Tara.

Oh lord "Joan" is so funnyl!!! I'm going to remember that one for any future dog.

DrPhilG

We're not fans of the so called traditional animal names either.

When my wife was young and got her first dog everyone wanted her to call him Spot, Rover etc. She called him Max.

We now have dogs Beth and Eddie plus cats called Jones, Gerry and Sal.

PS Eddie is named after the dog in Frasier and Jones after the cat in Aliens.

Gael23

To a point I like it, I think some human names dont work but otherwise I think its nice.

Loveinapril

I named a childhood cat Edward!

SingItOut

SingItOut wrote: »

My Collie is called Allie, which is what the rescue had named her and because she was responding to it we stuck with the name One of my Cats is called Vogue, I don't know if that passes as a human name though.

Sometimes I wonder if odd names like Vogue is even funnier than cats called Deirdre and such. I had a budgie called Yellow. She was of course yellow. I knew a horse called Blue. He was piebald. I think if I get another budgie I will call him/her Purple, for the craic.

nala2012

My lurcher foster puppies are Lily and Lola. Lily went off to her new home today and my uncle is adopting Lola. He can't take her till the end of the month though so I've some more time with her.

fin12

I had a dog called Rodney and my friend who had budgies he used to call them names that began with r, so first he had Rita, then Rodger, then Roxy and the last one raheem.

mymo

My daughter has named all our pets from books, except Jake (15yrs old cat), she was 3 and loved the tweenies, but she had told me for 6 months she wanted an orange cat called Harry, we ended up with two, but the ginger (later Jake) wasn't Harry, his grey brother was.
We have dogs and cats, an Oliver, Tiffany (Aching), Arabella Figg, Ruby, Toby was named when we got him.
Growing up our pets had people names, even Buck Rogers the Rabbit kinda, Sam, Tammy, Sindy, Breda, etc. My brother tried to name a cat sparky, but was over ruled

Vojera

We've had a mixture of human and 'pet' names. We use a lot of mythological names too.

Our dog was called Oscar. It suited him so well.

We have or have had guinea pigs called:

• Xander
• Hilda
• Mabel
• Maggie (not Margaret)
• Skylar
• Annie
• Bert
• Matilda
• Toby
• Elena
• Ivy
• Astrid

We've also had hamsters called Shirley and Emily.

We seem to pick generally more old-fashioned names, it seems.

jacksie66

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Bergmann

Agreed, it's hilarious! Next door neighbour's cat is called Alan and it just makes me laugh every time

michelleryan86

Yes I tend to give my guys human names. We have had:
Cats named: Brooke, Faye, Jake, Lara, Sammy.
Guinea pigs named: Sophie and Penny

I think its really cute too.