Pet Names

[Master Xaio]

Hey! HEY!!!! I have a dog.  Her name is Tammar (after the wallaby... and if any of you foreigners ask me what a wallaby is.... well, its a small kangaroo.  You know what that is, right?)  She is quite intelligent (she has been trained to play hide-and-seek etc.).  But she has no common sense.  eg. She's chasing a butterfly, running quite fast, butterfly goes over parked car *BANG* dog goes *into* parked car.  So anyway, my point is that I would rather *not* be likened to me dog.  Thank you very much.

[fuzzyoctopus]

http://doors.stanford.edu/~sr/tasmania/wallaby-pouch.jpg

Is size the only difference b/t a wallaby and a kangaroo?

[JP Dogberry]

As far as I know, a Wallby and a Kangaroo look similar, but are quite different, though similar, animals. That is, they're different speciies and everything, but act the same way. Although they move differently, and have a different type of balance, or something.

They also make a fine stir-fry.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

so do Koalas, though I prefer a roast.

[House of Mustard]

I live in an apartment, so we can't have pets.  I do, however, have a plant (a Hawaiian Scheflera) named Admiral Horatio Nelson.  I like the idea of giving pets ranks.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I named my guitar (angelica) and my car (Ninja) and my computers: Fluffy and Squish (haven't named the current one, probably I'll call it "Crap").

I once had a hamster named Jaws. Which you think is ironic until you see one of those beasts yawn.

We had dogs: Helga the Dachshund, Grun Doon the Glum (basset hound), Opus (after the penguin, it was a hairy beast, part shelty, part whatever-got-over-the-fence, with black and white coloring) and the current dog at my parent's house is Abby, short for Abigail. As in Adams. As in, the president's wife.

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My cars all have had names. My current one is Shadowfax. Then there was The Mayflower, Dimples and Suicide.

[House of Mustard]

Hey -- me too:  My last car was Beverly, and my current on is Sussudio.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

My parents used to own this big Chevy Van. It was the "Klingon Battle Cruiser." Jeffe and I have been riding around in it with our toy Klingon Disrupters. Yes, childish, but also fun. Because of this, when my parents got smaller cars: Ford Escorts, they instantly became "runabouts" and were named after shuttles in Star Trek.

[Entsuropi]

My computer is occasionally called 'Nineveh'.

[GorgonlaVacaTremendo]

My computer is occasionally called," YOU SEE THAT WINDOW?", while my family car and the one I will be using in a few months is mostly called "If you make it up this one hill..."

[stacer]

I had a horse named George once. None of us in the family could think of a good name for him, and one day a lady and her daughter stopped by (we live on a highway) to see the new colt they'd seen from their car as they were passing. She asked his name, and we told her we hadn't thought of one. So she said, "C'mere, George!" and he came to her. It stuck.

Most of my horses' names have grown out of the names of their sires or dams, though. Like my colt Gingerbread was out of my pony Ginger, and our other colt Boomer, whose nickname was short for Cherryboom, was out of Cherry and sired by Boomerang.

Then there's our dog Shady, short for Shady Lady, because all she ever seemed to do was lie in the shade.

I did have a cat named Chopin for a while. But usually they were more mundane names. We've had 2 or 3 Tobys over the course of the last 20-25 years. The current dog is named Skippy because she once got her head stuck in a peanut butter jar as a puppy.

[Brenna]

On a related note: Does anybody have a good name for a robin?  A robin has taken over my flower planter and built a nest.  I figure if I'm going to have an uninvited "pet bird," I might as well name it.

[Entsuropi]

Arrow catcher.

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