NAming your Animals - Yes or No

[Ssthisto]

I have seventy-some reptiles.

Each and every one of them (with the exception of the two newest additions who we haven't chosen names-that-fit for yet) has a name.

Quite a few of our breeder rats have names, although not all of them do. Generally the buck in a given cage will be named, and the girls are "so-and-so's does". I have Bigwig and his girls (who are part-time called Hyzenthlay and Vilthuril), for example - but Guylian, Bugger, Hat, Scrude and Si don't have named girls.

The baby rats don't, and neither do reptiles who won't be staying long-term.

Far as it goes... even if I numbered my breeding royals, that reference number is just as much a "name" as giving it a single word name. "PR-FIR-F01" is just as much a name (if you use it to refer to a Python regius, fire morph, first female you obtained) as "Randal" is.

[Stumps]

I name all mine, confused as to why that is retarded?

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by LEOPARD GECKO CRAZY

your paprents shouldnt give you a name .

agreed! a number would have sufficed

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by Zak

Why keep them? From the way the above is worded it comes across you care little for the animals themselves and see them as possessions and commodities rather than living animals.

We name things too give them an identity, a personality. They're not automatons are each animal does behave differently. My leo scylla is probably very different to other peoples, which in turn are named differently.

Its all about respect, by not naming them it seems you think little of then. Even some breeders which deal with 100's/1000's of animals name some of their stock even some lab animals get names!

i do love and care for my animals, just think naming them is retarded

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by Jade01

I love naming my animals.

Why is it 'retarded'?
Not much different to giving people names really?!

i just think that when people give animals stupid names like a cat "gizmo" or a guinea pig "snowball" why not call it a human name like charles or gary or nathan, you wouldnt call your daughter snowball would you?

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by sam1989

i dont, apart from a really skinny leo that i call kate moss shes a size zero you see.

see now that isn't retarded, thats funny

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by Nismo75

Why is it 'retarted' to name your pets?

whats retarted?

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by Omerov1986

i do love and care for my animals, just think naming them is retarded

So, when you're talking about your pets, do you just say "That female Cali Kingsnake" ?

If you always refer to her as that... congratulations, you've given her a name. The fact that her name is "That Cali Kingsnake" doesn't change the fact that she has a name.

I have two royal pythons whose names are "Number 10" and "Number 2". Just because they're reference numbers doesn't make them "not names".

And the reason I don't give my animals human names is because, by and large, I think *human* names sound stupid - especially when used on nonhumans.

Heck, my corn snakes have a coded-theme set of names: Jasper, Mica, Zircon, Feldspar, Quartz, Kainite, Realgar, Arsenic, Padparadhscha, Heliodor, Citrine, Selenite, Scoria, Rutile and Pyrite. If you know what the theme is - and a little bit about gems and minerals - you might well be able to go and pick out which animals are likely to be which WITHOUT looking at their cage cards.

[Omerov1986]

Originally Posted by Ssthisto

So, when you're talking about your pets, do you just say "That female Cali Kingsnake" ?

If you always refer to her as that... congratulations, you've given her a name. The fact that her name is "That Cali Kingsnake" doesn't change the fact that she has a name.

I have two royal pythons whose names are "Number 10" and "Number 2". Just because they're reference numbers doesn't make them "not names".

yes, yes i do

[Salamanda]

yes all my pets have names (human names not stupid ones like snow drop or princess) and no im not a retard, just shows I get more attached to my animals.