Don't know that I've ever had a pet with a really creative name. We did have a frog that stayed in a front flowerbed for awhile.At the time he was around we were building a rail at the front of the house and side of the carport. Twinkie dug a hole and the frog jumped in it! I was yelling and screaming, "Don't cover him up! Don't cover him up!" We had both worked all day and it was almost dark and we were both worn out. He told me to reach in there and get him out. I was squeamish and finally stuck a stick in the hole and he jumped out. What was so weird about the deal was that we had already been calling him "Jimmy Hoppa" for weeks! LOL We decided that nobody probably got the REAL Jimmy Hoffa out of the hole! LOL

Funny. A few years ago I had a one eyed frog I named Jeremiah. He was the only tame frog I ever had.

I don't know if this qualifies for clever, but I have a small rooster that I call Short Pants.

There is a kids show called "Max and Ruby" that my daughter liked, and he said "Ruby" so cute (woobie) so that is how the first pug got her name. We rescued a pug and called him Max, but that did not work out as the owner took him back. A year later, we were contacted about ANOTHER rescue who's name was...MAX. DH always wants me to point out that it is Maxwell, not Maximus Rumpus like I always say ROFL!

I had a giant murderous goldfish named Cedric, which was funny to me (and only me apparently) because there was a fish and chips place in our city called "Sir Cedrics Fish and Chips".

A pleko called "Googly-Moogly" after another cartoon character.

A fancy goldfish - the kind with the bulgy eyes - called Dudley.

Jasmine the cat was NOT named after a disney character, she just looked like a Jasmine Her original owners called her Jade at first, but she had yellow eyes and was a tortie so it didn't fit. Xena, because she was a warrier princess. She used to make this noise before hurtling herself towards things. We also called her Squirrel, because she was small and black and crazy and skittered around on everything.

Sparkle and Dazzle the hamsters were named by DD. Princess Potato the potato bug (pill bug, roly poly) was also named by DD.

I had Frankie the canary because he was a crooner.

Dances.

Meet my new pony. She was called Missy, but after trying to catch her round and round the field many times (she is getting friendlier). She became "Old Bits"
Bitsy for short.

My brother had a dog that I was scared of EVERYTHING.
We named him "Courage" after Courage the Cowardly Dog.

I fostered a coon hound for a few days and called him "Hoover."
Not after the president, but because he sucked up food like a Hoover vaccuum.

My Mom had a cat named Rat because it looked like a rat when
it was a kitten and the name just stuck.

We had a dog my Mom named Bug because it was cute as a bug.
I called the dog Bug, Bug Buddy, and Bugsy Beagle.

Now we have Homer and Sophie. Sophie was named Sophilia when
we got her as a puppy. Homer just showed up on our front
porch and wouldn't leave. The only name he would answer to
was Homer. He had great big feet when he was young and I said
if he ever grew into those feet (and he did)
we would call him Homer Sampson.

I've always wanted to name a donkey "Odie" (Donkey Odie; get it?).

Pooh Bear

Love that pony! One of my horses is named Missy....Missy Rivera, but we call her Mama.

A Jack Russell named ... Turbo! (not mine, tho)

One of my sister's cairn terriers was named Mindy and was part of a litter that had a Mork (and several other "M" names). Now she has "Buddy Holly" in the house 24/7 -- a boy dog and a girl dog.

A friend's basset hound was named Caruso. A-ROOOOOH!

My first dog went nameless for a number of weeks until I realized that she enjoyed rolling onto her back before falling asleep. She became Izzie-Belly.

When my son was four, we found an abandoned dog in the desert. I couldn't leave her there and decided to just get her to a rescue/humane society. My four-year stated he was going to call her Wire. I thought "call her whatever you want because she'll be gone in a couple days. Well, we had Wire for 12 wonderful years. Probably one of the strangest names ever.

We had a couple of small dachshunds, they were supposed to be Davey and Bengie...but Davey squatted when he peed so we called him Squatty...Bengie wanted to absorb all the attention so we called him Spongy. Afterwards they were always Squatty and Spongy, I don't think the kids even remembered their "real" names.

My father was a musician during the 40's and he named our dog "Bee-Bop.

My sister's husband found a male great pyrenees limping along the side of the road. He had an injury on the back of his leg near the foot.They named him Achylles. I found a cat in a trash can at a truck stop and she took it in. They named him Wilson,cause he was cast away....

I have two Bostons, Ajax and Tucker. We got Ajax first and Tuck was a rescue. If we had gotten them together Ajax would have been Bib. As in Bib and Tucker, the best little tuxedo wearers.

When I was a kid there was a pair of dogs in town, one with reddish fur and the other with yellowish fur, who were "Rhubarb" and "Custard", a common winter dessert back then.

One of our cockatiels was named Larry Bird. Two cats were named Nip and Tuck(er). Another two cats were Lucy and Ricky. Friend's dog was Bob Barker.

We named our first Bernese Mountain Dog (often referred to as Berners) Bunsen

I had 2 beautiful huge blue merle Great Danes, brother and sister from litters one year apart same parents. He was MOJO she was Voodoo. The next one was an incredible Harlequin Dane he was named Majic. Oh how I miss my babies.

I got the name MOJO from a book I was reading, the dog in the story was MOJO. I have always loved the name.

I would have considered the names Matrix, Mystic, Hocus and Pocus. My current little girl who is the opposite extreme from the Danes, she is a toy fox terrier named MiaMilan.

Years ago back in the early 80's we lived in Louisiana on the river. During the Thanksgiving holiday we got an orange tabby kitten and so we named her Cranberry. She was the smartest cat I've ever seen. She ended up mating with a Manx out in the fields and had 6 kittens, 3 with no tails and 3 with tails! We kept 2 without tails, a female with tortoise markings we named Blackberry and a male we named Cabbit cause he looked like a rabbit when he ran. Then Blackberry had a litter and we kept one of hers, she was fluffy and orange too so we named her Muffin. Muffin lived to be 22 years old!

My son's first dog was Oreo....black with white on his chest and looked like a furry Oreo cookie. Then he got a dog which he called Phoggie...named for our great long-time KU coach, Phog Allen.

I have a Chihuahua named Pico after Pico de Gallo. :)

Daughter named her fish Sushi.

My grandmother was given three Siamese-mix kittens, which she name Peter, Paul and Mary. Another Siamese was named Mr. Wu.

She had a toy poodle named FiFi, that mated with a chihuahua. One of the pups had curly fur, and one had short straight fur--they were Pierre and Pedro.

We had a rooster named Duke, for John Wayne, who played Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. He thought he was a dog.

Our rescue kitten is named Gargoyle (she is still thriving!) because that's what she looked like when she had her first bath. We have Johnny, who is named after my grandson's favorite Ramone, and Beyoncé, who is black and beautiful.

My younger DD wanted a St.Bernard, but I didn't want a dog that big. When we rescued our sweet Brittany, she was officially dubbed St. Bernadette.

My children named our first dog Dolly--I don't remember why that name was chosen, but she had long curly fur, so I often called her Dolly-Wolly-Poodle.

When my son was four years old we found an abandoned dog in the desert. I couldn't leave her out there and planned to just take her to the humane society. My son said he was going to name her "Wire". I thought to myself, "call her whatever you want because we'll only have her a day or two". Well, we ended up having Wire for 12 years and loved her every single day. I currently have a male canary that sings beautifully and has feathers on the top of his head that give him a tousled look - his name is Elvis.

Flea Harvey Odball

Our current cats, who started off as very rowdy kittens and are now very
rowdy (and large) cats, are Nadezhda and Ykaterina, aka Nadia and
Katya. The names are from two of the women in "P ussy Riot", which is
often what our house is like :-)

We used to have a skunk named Leppy Capew

My friend had litter-mate kittens, male and female. She named them hootenanny. The male was therefore Hoot and the female was Annie.

My mother had Himalayan-Balinese cats who were brother and sister. She named them Hima and Laya. I had a friend who's cat was named Bayless after the grocery store where it was rescued. I always got a laugh out of that one.

A few years ago, a friend rescued a kitten from the parking lot of the Washington Mutual Bank. Named it Wamu.

My dog who happens to be an all black Dachshund was a rescue dog. They rescued her brother, her mother and her on Halloween. Because of that and her color they named her Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. That is an actress best known as a horror movie hostess.

A couple of mini dachshunds we used to have...Squatty and Spongy...Squatty squatted when he peed, Spongy soaked up all the attention he could get. (I see I already answered earlier this year!!)

I remember when this thread first posted, almost 4 years ago! Such fun to read, and to re-read the " oldies-but-goodies" again.

Have a pig now named Pigatoni.

I knew a woman who had a pot-bellied pig named Barbie.

She'd say, "That's Barbie as in Barbie Doll, Not Barbie-Q!".

My cousins had a dachshund named "Basi", short for kielbasa (kabasi).

I used to have a chow-chow named Chacha. Really it was Muchacha, but I called her Chacha.

Used to have a girlfriend with a cat she called Smoky. Later I learned that the cat's real name was Smokems and the cat's full name was Smokems Alamo after the radio commercials for smokin' Alamo Dragway.

Used to have another girlfriend who had a boyfriend with a dog named Deeohgee.

Am I a bad person for laughing at dumb dog named Ricky Retardo?

These are hysterical!

I had a little mutt when I was a kid. Little black terrier/spaniel mix. Her hips were much wider than her front so we called her Rumpy.

My renters named their new dog Addie, which stands for A Dumb Dog Is Entertaining.

Reisa, which means Journey in old Norse.

Our families first dog was BeeBop! I have never heard of anyone else with the same dog name. The story goes that my grandfather called my sister beebop so when it came time to name the dog she called her Beebop. We had A Muffin a fluffy pom and Gizmo a gremlin of a Pom. Dedriane a rescue Shih Tzu who we called Deeg. Baxter the Shihtzu, cats named Thomas cause he was an older male tom cat rescue, Jasper or twitter bug, Patio cat because he hung around the patio of a co workers house until he came to my house- could use a new name something along the lines of I never ever ever shut up. Spud a rescue labX dog I didn't wind up renaming him not sure how many homes he had before me, it took a while for him to accept that he was here to stay wound up keeping the name. Theodore the lab spanielX. another rescue with the name already chosen. And lastly Duncan big black labX rescue who I named but typically call Dunk. It gave me a laugh when I saw the vet had written Dunk on a prescription. I registered him as Duncan but I must have only called him Dunk at the appointment. The last two are often referred to as Tweedledee and Tweedle dumb. Love em

This summer, a female cardinal was banded in my yard. I see her everyday at my feeder, and I call her "Ray" because her bands are Red. Aluminum and Yellow.

Our last corgi was Dolly Llama, our current two dogs are Doogie Doggie and Daisy Dawg because everyone deserves a first and last name and since they're adopted they can't have ours! I also have a snake in the garden that is Cecil, we have goldfinches that come to our feeder -- the male is Leonardo de Finche and our female redbird is Claudia Cardinale. And our biggest goldfish in the pond is Johnny Depth.

We got a hamster on St. Pat's day and named her Erin Go Braless

We had a wonderful mutt we named Woodstock Nation. When a kitten adopted us, our 4 yo dtr named her Dorothy. I have no idea why. We had her for many years.

The most beautiful cat we ever had was very tiny with the longest, softest, all black fur you can imagine. Her name was Malificent Underwood. Beautiful as she was, she didn't like to be bothered with any one but our baby boy. (We got them at the same time.) As soon as could walk he carried that cat around all day long, and she slept with him. We called her Cat.

I love this old happy thread.

Long ago, my sister and I had a tan colored dog with white feet and a white tip on its tail. We named him, Tippy.

I once had an old car I named "Betsy" and when its radiator leaked, I re-named it "Betsy Wetsy".

When my husband was a kid they had a dog named Cheer Boy. His little sister called him that because she couldn't say "Here Boy". When my daughter was little she named her cat after a book about Hob the Goblin.....but she called him Hob Gobby.

When I was little someone gave me a black and white kitten. My mother told my brother to see what gender it was. I said "Oh let's name him General." My mother said "I said gender." I said "Oh Ginger is a pretty name!" So he was named Ginger General. :)

When we lived in Seattle we had a bunny come into our backyard and build a home under our deck. The bunny was so friendly, like a dog. It would find us and follow us around the yard. It had a old looking neck with skin hanging down so my children named it Granpa. We were all shocked when Grandpa had babies.

My sister had a mixed breed . Our father named her Sorry, as the sorriest dog he ever saw. Not true, she was a great pet. They also had a wire hair doxie named Twiggy. I had a large sheppard type named TG. We took her in from gas station near by, Total Gas.