Why are your pets called what they are?

[Pleco07]

Originally Posted by Pleco07

Emp Scorp - Mars - (named by previous owner)

Just been informed the emp scorp is actually called Sting now

[chris25]

having recently bought a brb i was asked by the kids(well shes 19)what we going to call it,now im not that into giving them names but this one was suggested.........it made us all giggle and most people just dont get it
.............Trowser,now its stuck

yeah its childish but we love it

[Issa]

Some of mine are weird, I freely admit that! Some names fitted when I bought them, others are usually charactors in books I have read and enjoyed.

Mushu (Royal) - Mulan, she does do that tongue thing.
Boba and Sintas (Royals) - Star Wars, sadly I am an addict owning most nevels ever written...........
Cleo (royal) - Stunning little female royal, my little cleopatra.
Pyro and T (Royals) - Dodgy play on words, Came as a pair and the male is quite bright.....
Snoopy (Royal) - Peanuts.
Bria (Boa) - Star Wars
Nagani (Boa) - Variation on the Harry Potter snake name. I didn't think Nagini sounded quite right.
Armand (Boa) - The Vampire Chronicles
Petra (Boa) - Play on words, Most people meet her once, either love her or scared stiff of her, either way you've been petra-fied.
Torack (Ackie) - Belgariad Series.
Kali (Western Hognose)- Evil bad tempered little sod from day one, Being named after the hindu god of death and destruction so suits him...........
Jay (Beardie) - Came as named. Think he was named after the dogma charactor.
Wokefield (Beardie) - Named after my g/f old place of work.

[cervantes]

Mine have no names- Because I can't decide on one.

[lyndy299]

Spice - because she was red/orange and a bit feisty when I got her(or I thought so - first snake)
Evil - its in the name, started as worm, then black snake (could you tell it took me some time to bond with her?), then Cyko, and then Evil when I moved in with my new flatmate, she didnt know the snakes at the time so we just started calling her 'the evil one' around the flat...and it stuck.
Lola - From the movie 'Run, Lola, Run' - she's just so precious.
Peter - I got him the day after my granda's funeral. When I was little my granda used to wind me up and call me 'Jock' or 'Peter' (annoying for a little girl) and Peter is my little memorial.
Boris - because a friend of mine got his brother and I named him Nigel for her...a few months later I got Boris...and decided to keep the names a bit silly together.
Tula - because she's got lovely lilac on her - tulips - tula
Satsu - because of the lovely satsuma coloured tail (and was also a character in Arthur Golden's Memoirs Of A Geisha.)

[tashaprincess]

all my leos have names that just suit them! my tokay and crestie and named after pokemon,am plainin on becomin a pokemon master and collecting geckos/pokemon lol

[Barney_M]

Sui - as i thought it was female and named it after steve irwins dog
Houdini - he escaped
Lemon - shes yellow
Frog - hes a frog
Matilda - australian snake, australian name
Irwin - see above
Bindi - see above

thats all the named stuff

[MarkB]

Our Leopard Gecko is called Perdy after Perdita from 101 Dalmatians. My OH's choice but it was a great one!

Our Crested Gecko is called Trochee (pronounced Troh-kee) which I'll explain.

I write poetry. Lines in metrical (or formal) poetry consist of different kinds of 'metrical feet' which give the line its rhythm. A 'foot' is like a small step in the line, if you like. A 'trochee' is a metrical foot with two beats, with a stress on the first beat:

DUM-dee.

So the word 'Trochee' is actually a trochee, as is the world 'Leopard'.

You can also have what's called a 'tailless Trochee', which is a trochee but without the first stress. Lines which are Trochaic lines can start without a stress and still be considered trochaic because the first can be called a tailless trochee.

As our Crestie was bought without a tail, it was the perfect name! Our little guy is pure poetry

[hiero]

Originally Posted by MissCat

mine are:
leopard geckos:
blue tack= my son found some blue tack on the floor while he was trying to think of names for them.
spot= cos he's spotty
leopard= cos he ran out of names... LOL my son has such an imagination, right?!

This made me laugh so much... growing up with a younger sister who insisted on naming cats 'Sponge Cake' and 'Toast' because those things were in her field of vision at the time, I can sympathise with 'Blue Tack'. I love naming things with random other nouns... we have a car which we call Spoon, for example.

My female Cali is called Zillah because.... oh gee... there was a lot of lateral thinking going along. I thought I was going to get a corn snake, from Carolina, which makes me think of the fictional town of Missing Mile, Carolina, and the coolest-named character who passes through there is called Zillah. Then I fell in love with a kingsnake from California, which also isn't male so..... sigh. But Zillah is an old Yorkshirish name too (there's a servant in Wuthering Heights called Zillah) and we'd just moved here when we got her. So it all worked out. I hate it when people ask me if it's short for 'Godzilla'. Er, no.

Crom isn't directly named for Conan's god- he's actually named after a German musician who goes by the name of Crom. I was listeing to his album a lot when I first brought the little'un home, and actually got to interview him (the man! not the snake..) soon afterwards, so it all fitted together. Plus he's always going to be quite small, so it's funny to name him something mighty.

My bike's called Dee because it's from Chester... :-0 What?! It's a pet...

[Spider Call]

Originally Posted by nxsmiggy

talyn - moyas son from farscape (a very rare moment for me as it almost reduced me to tears)

o= farscape baby!