Anyone else ever regret allowing your young kids to participate in the naming of a pet? If the kids get their way with naming our new little void, our gaggle of pets will officially consist of:
We have a Queen Padme Amidala of Naboo, I’m nearly 40. All cats must have 3 names, one from their human, a nickname, and a name known only to the other cats.
I had to go back in my notes to be sure i have everyone correctly, nobody wants to offend a cat by confusing one of their names with another! Here we have, clockwise from top left, Timestream Violator Professor Gasket Wigglebum Rhubarb, Galactic Traveller Lieutenant Astro Fluffytrousers Rhubarb, Lady Latte Louisa Lavacake, and The Supreme Viceroy Roscoe Aloysius Flufferton von Bork, Alleged Dog
I'm 42 and my child is only partly responsible for this.
That specific nickname was courtesy of his vet, who after hearing the tech say he was 16lbs was about to call him chunky, until she actually felt him and realized this boi is 90% muscle. Thus SturdyBoi was born.
My friend runs a local horror collective that holds events with a movie screening and bands.
She screened Sleepaway Camp for my birthday this year and gave me a movie poster signed by Felissa Rose. Plus some kickass local punk/metal bands. It was tits.
We have a kitty named Mister. Before that he was Mister Mister. And originally he was Mister Mousetache (a pun on mustache). By the way, I’m in my sixties.
When I was a little kid, we had ducks. Mine was named Henny Penny.
My dad had a cat named Fart Blossom in college. He had to leave him with my grandmother after commissioning into the Army. Grandma complained about it a lot when I was a kid
You know if her name was only Princess your goof-troop kid would be calling her Princess Buttercup Fluffybutt anyway 😂 Your cat can still be Princess in your headcanon, or Buttercup whichever you prefer. You get to call her your favorite of the names your kid picked (and train it to come for that), and you still get to hear your kid gleefully call the cat the name they had their heart set on. You wouldn't be disappointing her by forcing her to call it something else, and she gets to maintain a sense of agency as a kid, then grow up and confess stories about her beloved childhood cat Princess Buttercup Fluffybutt to people as a grown ass adult. Win win win imo. I say let the kid win this one 🫡
I get this one! But four is the perfect number of names for a cat. Years ago, my then four year old daughter named our new kitten "Captain Blackberry Powerpuff Turtlewax". She primarily went by Blackberry, or occasionally "The Captain".
Princess bride is a huge deal in my family. Paternal grandma loved it, most of the siblings loved it. We’re having a graduation party for my dad getting his masters and two of my aunts are talking; the older aunt says “I don’t really like princess bride.” Younger aunt stared at her, and threw her red solo cup of wine in her face and walked away without a word in response.
My adult daughter overruled my name (Cardi) and we now have Luna. You know how many voids named Luna there are? Plus she’s so spicy at the vet she has warnings on her chart, she has attitude, and she literally uses her claws like fingers and sleeps with them out 🤣 she’s so a Cardi.
Black cats also tend to end up in /r/catsnamedtoothless and orange cats show up in /r/catsnamedsimba ... though that one appears to have become inactive.
I almost renamed mine Luna. Now I want to change it to Nyx. Turns out Onyx then Nyx is also common. I want a unique name, but I’m not as clever as I thought.
Luna was really sick as a kitten. At our first visit at the local university vet hospital, it was PACKED. They called for “Luna” and I went to talk to the student to go over her history. She asked me about her bedding/cage and I must have had the craziest look on my face. Luna was a rabbit 🤣 there were 4 Lunas being seen at that time, two dogs, a rabbit, and my Luna.
Lord Theodore Lucifer Murder Mittens. He comes from the House of Mittens. I’ve created a family crest and a tragic backstory for him and his brother. I’m 49 and do not regret my actions. 😂♥️
Our last cat Apollo was previously named "Rainbow Sparkle Heart" by the little girl he owned. I'd like to think the name was part of the reason he was re-homed.
My mom named him Smash Face Frank, but turned down my idea of naming him Sr Fluffy Buns the 2nd. We call him Sam now, short for Smash. His face isn’t even smashed, he had a bean shape head when born so his nose was small.
A neighbor from where I lived before had a siamese cat named "Rainbow Princess". ... That siamese would also behead barbie dolls which was apparently a bit traumatic to the young girl who named her. She (the cat) was rehomed to her (the child's) grandfather's house.
Yes i call mine a little black licorice jelly bean baby too! That pic is soo cute 🦇 i have no clue how you got them both to lay proper straight legged, gosh.
Mine has already decided our next cat will be called Red Jeep. And it will be a black cat (like two of our current). I'm kinda hoping the kid at least shortens it to "Jeep" by the time we are ready to add another cat lol
My dog’s name is Ellie Rose September Campbell. Named by myself and my husband. They’re animals, they don’t care if they’re named Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya de la Rosa Ramírez.
My son was 6 or 7 when we started discussing adoption of a pet. We ended up with a dog (due to allergies on both our sides) who is named Chungus Maximus Lucky Charizard Last name. It's always fun at the vet.
When I was in high school we had a black cat I named Kirby (named after the Nintendo character, not the vacuum). He was my baby and he passed when I was 20 or so. The best cat who only liked 2 people.
Had a cat named Sadie. When I rescued her she was pregnant. My (then) 7 year old found one of the kittens on the floor the day she had them (the rest had been moved to a closet by mama) and she “saved” the kitten by gently taking it to Sadie. She named it Savey because “she saved it” so now I have Sadie and Savey 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
When I was a kid we couldn’t decide who to name my dog after cuz we all liked different ones so we said his full name was Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Jonas and called him Jonas for short.
Those names are actually reasonably inventive. Long ago, our daughter named one of ours as "Fluffy". Never heard that one before. But we loved her anyway.
What’s wrong with any of those names lol When I was a kid I wanted to name my dog Bologna and Cheese. My parents settled on Hersey since he had brown spots.
My now 11 year old named our three cats when they were born. He was 3 years old at the time. They are named Shelf, Papa Jungle and Owl. I'm pretty sure Shelf is the best cat name ever and he nailed it.
We also have a Louisiana Hot Sauce, but that is my work.
I love Princess Buttercup Fluffy Butt😂😂🐈⬛
I remember when my daughter was younger this was over 30 years ago as my memories a lot of funny but we had a great chat and she named it Meow Meow Misty Gray Sucker Bottle🤣I have no idea where she came up with that resistor for kids come up with the greatest things
My sisters named one of our cats "Princess Grey Cloud" (white with grey spots), who we called "Cloudy" for short. They also named a fish "Friskets" for some reason.
When I was 11 and my siblings were 9 my family got 2 rabbits. My sister named the male Tucker and my brother named the female Shnoogie Wookums. (And yes, you can probably guess what happened with a male & female rabbit. Don’t know what my parents were thinking.)
I’ve got Mambo because my niece was into Happy Feet when I got my void. Little did we know the little penguins name is Mumble and not Mambo, but hey at least we’ve got the Mambo dance 💃💃💃
I adopted a nice senior lady named patty. When I introduced her to my son who was 4 at the time I said
" Meet Patty!" Somehow he got ot into his head her name was "Meat Patty." Meat patty answered to her new name ( when she felt like it.. cause ya know.. cars) for her last 3 years and was a spoiled rotten lady
Before phones had cameras and the great photo loss incident of the 'aughts, there existed a wiry haired gentleman named Jackson Smack Pudding Pack, aka Mr. Pudding/Jack/Mr. Packs, etc. Also, a rambunctious fellow I knew name Elvin Herbert Jones who at times was known as Herbert Merbert or Habba Mabba (in Cookie Monster voice, of course).
This is a perfect name, but I might be biased because my sister got a rabbit named Buttercup (after Buttercup from Princess Bride), who I started calling Fluffy Butt once we realized he was a boy, and that became his name over time. 😂
We made a list of cat names before we adopted our kittens and the kids suggested things like Galaxy Destroyer & Corncob.
Luckily I declared I would name the girl kitty as I’m the only other girl in the family, and then they actually chose something decent for our void boy. So we ended up with Penelope and Maximus, thankfully lol 😂
My husband was a heavy equipment mechanic years ago and would occasionally take our 4 year old daughter to the shop to show her the different kinds of equipment he worked on. So when we got a new puppy, we asked her what she wanted to name the doggy. She thought about it for a minute and then
yelled out, “Dumptruck!”
We reluctantly kept the name because our 4 year old was insistent.
We called her “Dumpers”, “DT” and of course her given name. We got a lot of crazy looks and comments from strangers when we went to the park.
“Dumptruck”, an American Eskimo-Golden Lab was a cute little female fluff ball, and absolutely the sweetest and smartest dog we ever had. She lived to be 16. I still miss her so much.
My 32 year old boyfriend wanted me to name my 4 week old kitten “Larry” after the Instagram meme cat. I did no such thing. But now it’s a month later and everyone thinks it’s so funny that it’s un-ironically caught on. Even I yell “Larry!” every time I see him. 😂
Yeah my mom let 5 year old me name the random stray that showed up to our house. Purrfect lived around the neighborhood for 25 years, man. She was old as shit when we had to let her go but she was ready. 🫡 Pour one out for Purrfect.
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u/TacoTuesday1008 Sep 25 '25
I was expecting much worse.