Thinking about our cat Monster made me think about other pets we had with unusual names. We also had Toast a tortoiseshell cat who was the colour of burnt toast. When Toast had kittens they were named Marmalade, Jam, Butter and Marmite. We kept Marmite a beautiful Tortie and white girl and she kept the name. The others did get their names changed when they went to their new homes.
We also fostered a lurcher puppy for a while called Mouse because of her big ears and very mouselike face.
What unusual names have your pets been called and why?

I have a GSD x Beardie called Feck...raises a few eyebrows and I`m sure the neighbours think I have Torrets syndrome!, we have a cat called Tickle (because he has long whiskers and they tickle you!) a cat called Calico (thats what colour she is) and we had a Bulldog called Moose (not sure why it just suited him lol) and of course we have Tangle the Komondor (no real need for name explanation lol).

My brother had 2 of our kittens a few years back and named them Rizla and Roach!

My friend has a border terrier called Toast and other one called butter.
we had a great dane called Dinkie

There's a jrt along our avenue who goes by the name of Bone.It suits him perfectly too.

My British Bulldog when I was growing up was called Steal, I had 2 canarys called Smarties and Jelly-tots and my little brother had a hamster whos name would change on a daily basis, the ones I can remember are Bruno, Fluffy, Optimus Prime and Lion-o.

LOL@Feck!!  Wish I had your guts!

As a child, my brother & I had a GSD called Puppy and 2 hamsters called Poochie & Monkey Man!!

Where do I start LOL. It's mainly been the cats. Many years ago I bred a kitten that was a Tortie Point Colourpoint, so I called her Tosca Tortie. That was a play on words, Tosca being a Swedish type of cake and tårta in Swedish means cake. From there it went on. Tosca became the mother of for instance Vanilla Heart (another type of cake), Vanilla became the father of IceCream. There's been loads of other tosca varieties as well: Coconut Tosca, Lingontosca, Blueberry Tosca, Almond Tosca, Toscaflarn (a type of biscuit so her pet name is Biscuit). I then had a litter of 4 cream kittens and a Lilac, so the creams got sun names: Sunlight, Sunshine, Sunray and the lilac was called Dusk. Mating Dusk (pet name Dusky) to IceCream I kept a kitten I called Dawn, after dad. Dawn's kittens then became Daybreak, Daylight and Twilight, and Twilight's kittens were Sunrise, Moonlight and Eclipse. (All of these being pedigree names but most of them also used as pet names. I still have for instance IceCream, Sunrise, Moonlight. It used to be hilarious going to the vet and have them call in Vanilla and IceCream!)

I had two kittens rejected by the mother, they were premature and so incredibly tiny that I called them Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. The male got shortened to Mouse as a pet name, the he grew to the size of a small elephant LOL.

One kitten I bred showed already at birth that he was going to be very nice indeed so I called him Jackpot. He fathered Lottery, Bingo, Rollover, HotPick, Blackjack, Thunderball and Bonusball. HotPick fathered Lucky Dip. I've had Happy Easter and April Fool who were born on 1st of April and that was Easter that year -they were called that as well. Funny Bunny who had a harelip.

A current cat I have is called Ugly Betty -to everyone's horror, but I point out that isn't the entire point of the TV character that she ISN'T ugly at all, just not like a model?

Dogs -when I got my first Malinois her main purpose was to guard the house, so I wanted a name for a tough bitch. A friend suggested, as a laugh, Ripley -from the alien movies -now there's a tough bitch. I loved it and Ripley it was. Her first son became Arnie after Schwarzenegger but after that the pet names have been more common.

My husband got a red Maine Coon cat and his pedigree name was Here Comes The Sun so his pet name became Ringo. Hubby is John, so when we had a red male kitten born lats year and we already had John and Ringo that kitten became George. Last week another red male kitten was born so naturally he had to be Paul.

I could go on forever LOL.

When I showed longhaired guinea pigs, I had one born without front teeth.  Couldn't let it go as pet (he had his own cheese grater for food.)  I couldn't think of a name for him, so my ex husband named him Dracula.

We have Pepsi, so called as I drink Brandy and coke and WOULD not call her Brandy! Treacle was named as when we first saw her she had sprouty black fur between her toes and Ron said it looked like she had dipped her toes into treacle! Pepsi's daughter Merlot, named because I like a drop of the red stuff !!and anyway all puppies like a good wine (Whine!!) and Merlots daughter...well Chablis of course..what else do you call a child of Merlot!.
I had a big black GSD named "BB" short for...well Black Ba****d and he could be at times!
Jet, also a black GSD obviously!
Tzarina (Rina) named for her father Tzar.
Zip a GSD who had a very serious op at 5 weeks old and had a row of sutures down his tummy....!
Candy a collie of my youth who had black and white in patches that looked like stripes hence Candy striped.
Cats of my childhood, Billy Bonkers, Halfa (she was black to her middle then tortie from there back!), Suzzy Boo Boo, Pashima, Mums Siamese were Pye-whacket and her three daughters, Emily Anne and Charlotte.
Daft arn't we??
Aileen

> Monkey Man!!

That's funny! :)

I should perhaps have mentioned one of our most unusual names. The dog in my avatar is called Z. That's his full pet name, one letter. But it isn't pronounced the English way, i.e. "Zed", it is pronounced the American way, so his name is "Zee". Causes no end of confusion but is because he used to have an American owner and she named him.

I had a Toast, she was a Border T, her registered name was burnt toast.
We had a teabag, Bisto, Gravy and PJ's, Nellie, Pickles, love different names!

When we went to get some rescue kittens there was a tiny tabby who climbed up OH's legs, jacket, up the mesh of the pen etc - we took him home and he became Velcro! The one we'd actually originally gone to see was grey (blue) and white, so a friend came up with Bluetack, as it suited her colour and was another 'sticky' name, lol!

We used to have a dog called Jed because someone pulled him out of the canal in Wolverhampton city centre as a puppy 'half jed' - Black Country for 'half dead'!

Our cat first started off as Fifa (after the Fifa football game for the playstation), which turned to Fi-Fi Lee after Bruce Lee because she would karate chop or paw Bo around her face, like he did in the films lol.
When my sister, brother and I where young we had three goldfish called Bit, And & Bot, I think they were named after something on tv not to sure.
We also had a tortoise, of course everyone says there slow but heck he was not, hence his name Speedy. :-D

When we 1st married many moons ago, i went past a pet shop and saw this dear little kitten sitting in the shop window,i rang my hubby from the phone box then and asked if i could buy him...well needless to say he said no.
Well i was desperate to have him,so bought him anyway,and faced the music when i got home.
Well as you can imagine hubby not happy,bearing in mind we already had 2 dogs and a cat at home.
We didnt talk for a few hours,then he suddenly said ok you can keep him providing you call him THE FONZ...i agreed straight away but hated the name....didnt have much choice then.
We laugh about it now.

Haha some great names! I like the name Z  thats such a different one, but not too different I love it :-)

My best friends little rescue dog is called Dave, he really does suit it in a weird way! another friend has a dog called Bean.

My Chihuahua's name is Tiger, not sure if its that unusual? We didnt like any fluffy cute names and most little dogs ive met have them type of names, he needed a name that suited him so we came up with Tiger :-)

Dog named Kitty....cat named Rover.
My sister had a cat named mouse too.
Karen

> he needed a name that suited him so we came up with Tiger

I was in the vets with my Chi last week, just for booster.  I jokingly called him Killer, and someone in the waiting room said "That's disgusting!"  Didn't bother to tell her I was being facetious!

When I was showing guinea pigs, I made friends with an elderly couple, and they used to enter their guinea pig in the pet classes.  It was a not very well bred self white.

They called him Spot!!!!

I had a boxer bitch produce only two pups in a litter and both where white..we called them Nelson and Winnie ( Mandela)

In cats I've had a NooNoo, an Argentina, a Mewsli and a Sqiggles (Squiggs)

In dogs I've had a Ladybird, an Irn Bru and a Tooolz of course.  

I finally confess after all these years(35),that John and I called our two cats at the time,Splodgiebel and Bungiebar.

> Splodgiebel and Bungiebar

LOL!!!!!!  :-)

Lol, this thread has made me smile!
I've got a male guinea pig who has tufts of hair that stick out under his ears, so he was of course named Elvis.
I also know a Whippet called Chunky, that always cracks me up when I see him!

My daughter's two guinea pigs were called Charlie Maurice and Mister Padinski :-)

I know of someone who has two terriers and they are called Sam and Ella.  Must be fun calling them over the fields.

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LOL

The best one I've heard was a dog called Askit ;-)

Had a pup i called BP cos he was the last B#$@dy Puppy left in the litter.

Currently have a Monster and he is absolutely huge. And his little brother is currently called Peewee. Peewee is in no way going to be a little boy its just he is the runt of the litter. Monster weighs over 5kgs at nearly 9 weeks and peewee weighs 2.8 the others are in the 4 kg range.

We had a Pyewacket as kids. Black cat!!

Had a cat called Rebel aka Rebel with Claws. And a friend had a orange tabby cat called Roach that used to live with us too.

Forgot we have Piglet a black and white BC cos she was one of 3 little pigs i hand raised whose nicknames were pig. piggy and piglet.

a friend out back from me called her puppy Defa, D fa Dog  , i thought that quite sweet,

We have a horse called bob, originally 'blacky' but that was awful so we changed it.

Two cats, sisters, called Lloyd & Boo Banks

A jrt cross named max - Maximum head room lol

A goose named Darling, two chickens - caine & able. Two ducks - Idris (short for Cadiar Idris, a mountain in wales - welsh for giant's chair) & Gwynedd, (where the mountain is!)

3 fish - Captain Percy Jones, Harvey and Silva, Because she was more 'silva' than the other ones :)

Two very fat sheep (pets) named Babe & Princess!
Half the fun is in naming them :)

> I was in the vets with my Chi last week, just for booster. I jokingly called him Killer

I used to know a little pap girl called Killer but she was a real little lady. 

When I was young we took in a black stray cat in a terrible state and my mum called him Trubshaw.  We only had him for 3 months and as soon as he was well again he was off, I think he was looking for someone as he had really rough pads like a dog, he must have been traveling a long time.  Our own cat was called Murgatroyd and she was over the moon when he left.

Our dogs ( since i've been born anyway ) were named after books  - mum's an english teacher!!

Tess - Tess of the D'urbervilles
Rosie - Cider with Rosie

Grey rabbit called Smudge , ginger guinea pig called Ginger.

But the animals that had the unusual names were the fish!

Blib , Blob and Blub. Then we had clown loaches that all started with C - Christopher , Christian , Columbus , Cedrick and Cuthbert. Had two swordtails called Sarah and Penelope.

If I ever have another cat(horible neighbour situation-don't ask),I'm going to call him/her Flo.

As a youngster I had a CKCS called Doughnut - weren't the brightest dog in the world but definately one of the sweetest !!