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| Ziadomira |
Posted - 09 Dec 2014 : 3:54:02 PM
So often we only hear about your other pets when they are unwell so just wondered what you have and what they are called and why.
Sadly we don't have any doggies now. Our last three were Airdales Mum Lisa and son Ross and daughter Demelza.
We have been taken over by Moggies. George the yard cat who is recovering after a fight with a badger. Torn mouth and lost part of a tooth. He is convalescing at a friends house at the moment. Called George because he looks like a George and only comes to that name. He was a stray. Then there is Domino because she is white with black patches. Arrived in August 2012 and on 24th October 2012 she presented us with three kittens. Perdita grey and white, Miranda like mum but less black spots and Ariel black and white. They got their names from The Tempest - looking out of their little box when they were very small, big world out there. Perdita was going to be Prospero but was a girl so had a quick change. We then have a visitor who we believe is the kittens father we call him Tom Tom.
We used to have a black cat called Juliet who was brought to us in the mid 90s by a black Tom we called Romeo. Romeo died soon after Juliet arrived but she died in September 13 aged about 19. Have you noticed only real black cats have black whiskers? |
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| Vik1 |
Posted - 21 Dec 2014 : 6:02:40 PM
My last persian cat was called Norris....I couldnt tell you why it came into my head but he just looked like a Norris, lol. We had a golden retriever called Goldie...my grandpa named her so it stayed. Holly our mongrel dog was called that as she was found abandoned on xmas day when she was only about 5 weeks old.
My goldfish were named after chefs I used to work with...Charles, Phil and Neil. Charles the head chef had originally bought them for decoration in a vase to sit on a buffet table in the restaurant..I was outraged so took them in. One of the fish had a black line above its top lip, like a moustache and charles had a moustache. I still have Neil 8 years on and hes huge! |
| kofihorse |
Posted - 21 Dec 2014 : 5:44:09 PM
My last big dog was a Belgian Shepherd X called Tarka because she went swimming in the burn when I took her for her first walk and looked just like an otter when her head came out of the water. Current dog is a Chinese Crested Powder Puff called Violet because that was my late Mum's favourite name.
My current Siamese is called Miro,just because it sounds like cat talk.The one before him was Kiki,who became Squeaky over time and I had a Havana female a long time ago whom I called Siani. That was a name I first saw in a Monica Edwards book,referring to a chestnut mare and apparently it is Romany for "brilliant one". She was a very clever little thing. |
| garnet |
Posted - 20 Dec 2014 : 9:48:17 PM
I know someone who called their Siamese cat Fah Ting.  |
| Centaur |
Posted - 20 Dec 2014 : 9:10:03 PM
Not one of mine but best client's pet's name is a blind cat called Azabat!
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| kathleen |
Posted - 20 Dec 2014 : 6:35:51 PM
I have a big bad Bear |
| DianaSC |
Posted - 12 Dec 2014 : 6:32:16 PM
Aha Goldenmane, sussed it I think.
Pitoca means rude bits in Portugese`slang!!
If your lovely girl came from S America, presumably her name, in everyday language, means "clever little girl".  |
| Ziadomira |
Posted - 12 Dec 2014 : 3:36:42 PM
Don't apologise Pinkyboots I said what did people call their pets - not just dogs and cats. Our cats like the Aga as well, when the kittens were very tiny they all used to line up in front of it but only room for one cat at a time now.
Years ago we had Geese. Big Bill the gander and his two wives. The goslings were sweet green and yellow - green bits went grey and yellow went white. |
| pinkvboots |
Posted - 12 Dec 2014 : 12:57:17 PM
I have JRT called Winnie my oh bought her two years ago for Christmas, I don't know why I named her Winnie it just sort of came to me and I think it suits her, I did have a Guinea pig called Bob but he died a few weeks back he was at least 7 so had a longish life, I didn't name him as I kind of just ended up with him when friends moved abroad,I really miss him though he was an amazing little thing, he and Winnie would lay together infront of the Aga in winter for hours keeping warm.
Sorry just realised the thread is about dog's and cat's |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 12 Dec 2014 : 08:49:57 AM
Meanings of Pitoca :
1. Pitoca
By Fábio Acioli (PE) on 30/07/2008
Same as penis, commonly used in children or adults when referring to male genital organ of children
I do hope so DianaSC, otherwise I embarassed my lovely girl all her life!! |
| DianaSC |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 6:55:19 PM
Goldenmane, that did make me laugh too! I dragged out my Spanish dictionary and "pitoca" is Venezuelan Spanish for a smart young female person (male would be pitoco). It could be one of those words which gain a different meaning over time though!!
I forgot our ducks. Back in the UK we used to have 2 Aylesbury ducks called Madeleine and Guinevere. Guiny died and we were given a mallard-cross pair to keep Maddy company. The male was a real tyrant, we called him Saddam (Hussein, topical at the time). They both went back and we bought 2 white Indian Runners and called them Josephine and Isabella. Only posh names for my ducks, not quite as posh as Barribarrs fluff ball though! Isabella died and we bought another Indian Runner and called her Margot because she would stretch up and run on the spot, like a little ballerina.
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| gossy |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 6:11:38 PM
I have 10 cats all but one are rescues I started naming them after cat food, so we have felix black and white fluffy and really naughty ,whiskas, tabby and white, kitty(kitekat) also tabby and white her daughter holly born at Xmas time all black and fluffy, then a tabby called tess she's so loving, an American maine coon called Titch, beautiful colours and fluffy, squeak because she doesn't meow she squeaks she is black and white, molly the tourtoise shell she reminds me of a cat I once knew called molly, fluffy because he is handsome and black and white very fluffy, then our latest one blackie all black short haired stray kitten, all house cats bar fluffy and molly, because we live in a really busy main road, fluffy and Molly don't venture far just to front or back garden. |
| brack369 |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 5:45:40 PM
Originally posted by GoldenmaneI had a rescue German Shepherd who was smuggled into the country from South America in a handbag. The woman was arrested and when the dog came to me, after quarantine, at 10 months old, I was told her name was Pitoca, meaning little child. I have just checked her name, the wonders of the internet, and it actually means 'little penis'! 
Golden mane this made me burst out laughing on a packed quiet carriage of the train
I have two black cats both rescues from CPL daisy came with her name and Henry was named by OH after the french footballer who played for arsenal. You'd never know as we call him in our common essex accent |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 3:48:42 PM
I used to have 2 geese, Sid Vicious and Nancy (if you're mature you will remember them). Fox got them, and life got the humans they were named after(as with your Bonny and Clyde humans Suelin!!) |
| Suelin |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 3:28:16 PM
We have a pair of geese. Bonny and Clyde. Very apt, they are total terrorists!!!! 2 cats, sooty & sweep, they're black hence. |
| barbara.gregory |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 10:22:05 AM
I brought two feral cats back from Saudi Arabia when I came home (in the days when they had to go through quarantine). The older one was Holly as I took her in just before Christmas and she was very scratchy so seemed a suitable name. The other one was a approximately week old nearly dead kitten I took in and bottle reared. Took him to work in a box every day and hid him in a store cupboard so I could feed him regularly; would have been on the first plane home if anyone who wasn't in the know had found out. I really didn't think he would make it so just called him Puss and when he lived he still kept the name.
I got a rescue black long haired GSD when I got home. She was called Scamp and totally ignored her name so I decided to rename her. We had been to Leeds castle for a day out and they were filming Dr Who and we met the stars and saw Princess Layla dressed in a long black cloak with her long black hair on a black horse so I called her Layla.
One of my horses, Moataz al Nakeeb, is Taz but often gets called Mr BV (Mr Bleedin Vandal) as he is a real wrecker, destroys anything he can get his teeth into (thankfully excluding people)! |
| Barribarrs |
Posted - 11 Dec 2014 : 09:40:24 AM
I have Scamps the border collie - he was the shy one of the litter and would scamper under the pick up when the farmer let the litter out - also known as Scamperchamps and Scampertito. Then there's Daisy Boo the Maine Coone, thought it was a cute name, she's also known as Booka. Barrington George the Norwegian Forest because he reminded me of a childhood teddy called Barrington, also referred to as Badabing and Biscuit Barrel. Binky Boo, Maine Coone mixy which evolved from Blinky after an eye infection when she was a week old. Sebastian Rupert McKay Forbes Hamilton, fluff ball cat who came from a friend's litter and her daughter insisted he have a posh name (Forbes Hamilton from To The Manor Born) also known as Captain P due to his predilection for tinkling on unmanned carrier bags. Ebony, Maine Coone who is brown tabby despite her name, took her in having been given up by her breeder known as Ebbington Pebbington Pinkerton Poo and her fellow breeding buddy from same breeder, Ruby, silver tabby Maine Coone, known as Scary cat because she's terrified of everything. And then there's Archibald, a combination of the cutest cat parts with bunny feet, known as Fatty for his love of food, possibly the dimmest cat on the planet. |
| SuziQ |
Posted - 10 Dec 2014 : 6:27:28 PM
Lovely to hear who you share your homes with, we have Jet, black lab, followed by my water loving Kaia, Golden retreiver and Olympia who was born at the start of the Olympic games she is GRxGSD
We also are allowed into the house to feed our 2 cats, Tinkerbell (named when my girls were little) and Isadora..which means gift because she was a present! They do what they like and sleep where they want
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| Kharidian |
Posted - 10 Dec 2014 : 5:53:05 PM
LOL Goldenmane!!!!!! |
| glo |
Posted - 10 Dec 2014 : 10:10:02 AM
4 cats here, all farm cats, 2 came from the cat protection, we have Percy AKA Garfield, he big and looks like him, Trudy AKA the girl, very shy, so most people think I only has 3 cats. I only do pairs!
2 silver tabbies, Junior, and Crackas Both named be my sons, Junior named because he's young, and Crackas named after a name on a game he was playing at the time. Both are very small cats and they still look like kittens.
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| Misshana |
Posted - 10 Dec 2014 : 08:57:04 AM
I have a border/Lakeland terrier. He and his litter siblings were named after popstars etc. His name was Lionel (Richie). It didn't suit him so we changed it to Marley (Bob). If you ask him to sing he will wail away quite happily, so think we gave him the correct name lol. We also have a min poodle who we called Trixie as she loves to walk on her back legs and follows you round like Pudsey. She looks like a little soldier, all she needs is a gun strapped to her back lol |
| Goldenmane |
Posted - 10 Dec 2014 : 07:19:48 AM
I had a rescue German Shepherd who was smuggled into the country from South America in a handbag. The woman was arrested and when the dog came to me, after quarantine, at 10 months old, I was told her name was Pitoca, meaning little child. I have just checked her name, the wonders of the internet, and it actually means 'little penis'! |
| Pasch |
Posted - 09 Dec 2014 : 10:35:18 PM
I am a cat person,had 3 cats before (all my cats are rescues) a black long haired female (Kali,which means the black one in Hindi) who left me only a couple of months ago at the age of 16,Tabù (name came from a famous italian brand of liquorice candies) also a jet black miniature panther who was pts in July at 13 after fighting kidney disease and Milo (after the chocolate drink as he was of the same colour) who disappeared one evening (he was also 13) it was awful not to know what happened to him have been looking for ages as he was the sweetest friendlier cat.
I now have 3 again:Ginger (white and ginger,not very original name I know) who showed up one cold evening looking for some warmth and stayed,Romeo,white and tabby who comes from Rome where a friend found him as a kitten with a broken and necrotic leg and pneumonia,vet managed to save his leg and although it's not straight he runs and jumps,he's a very good hunter and the dominant cat and Mini,named after her small size,white and grey tabby who I suspect was chosen by Romeo as a girlfriend because she showed up one evening at the cat flap with him and they have been together since.
They are all ok with me (Mini is still wary but she sleeps with me already) but afraid of other people,which is understandable as they were feral when they came,it took Romeo a couple of months to stop greeting me with growls and hisses when I opened the door of the room he was confined in as he was having irons sticking out of his bandaged leg and needed constant medication.
Ziadomira both my black cats had black whiskers but Kali had 3 turned white when she got old <3 |
| Heidi |
Posted - 09 Dec 2014 : 10:03:12 PM
My dads Collie is called Taz, because she looked like a Tasmanian Devil when she was a puppy!
My English Springer Spaniel is named Elmo. I had a list of possible names (it's difficult finding one that isn't already "taken" as I do other peoples animals!) and that was on it, it seemed fitting, as his mums name is Mo! I also liked the name meanings. Lexy, my Arab, was named after a friend I had when I was small! |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 09 Dec 2014 : 8:28:14 PM
My cats are all named after fictional detectives!
Caryn
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| DianaSC |
Posted - 09 Dec 2014 : 7:34:05 PM
My first cat, about 40 years ago, was a pretty little tabby and white. I called her Sunny, partly after the song and because she was a happy little thing. Then we had a Rough Collie puppy, my ex-husband called him Ossie after Peter Osgood the footballer. Now this might sound daft but other names sort of evolved for them (did they tell me??). Sunny was also Zt-zt, Ossie was Gish. Both of them would respond to those names.
Later, I had 2 further Roughs: Jesse and Jake, full brothers. When the were about 5, because of circumstances, I rehomed Jake and Jesse promptly forgot he used to be a dog and became nearly human and another name "evolved" for him: Hoof.
Later again, I acquired a beautiful tortoishell adult cat and called her Buffy (as in Slayer) as she was a very good huntress. In the car, when I first brought her home, she made such a racket that, had she been male, I would have called her/him "Chairman Miaow"
Here in Spain, my neighbour had a large dog used as a guard/shepherd dog which was kept outside on a 2 metre chain. He didn't have a name. The first time we saw him, my husband said "You're a lovely boy". Years later, as he got old, he was replaced by a new dog and was basically ignored and neglected. We rescued him and he's lived with us for over 3 years now. Elderly as he is, he still thinks he's the local stud. He has a short tail, there are several local dogs with short tails - all descend from him. So it's probably not very good for his street cred that his name is still "Lovely Boy"!
We also have his daughter (also with a short tail). When tiny, her face looked like a bear so we have called her Osa which is the Spanish word for a she-bear.
A few weeks ago, we were given a young cat. He's beautiful, jet black with huge green eyes. I've named him Ra after the Egyptian Sun god (he's attacking my fingers as I type this!!) although I never actually call him that, I speak to him in purrs and miaows.
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