And just give any excuse to post pics of my critters.
Posted on 08/03/2012 11:51:18 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Ever come across a pet with an incredibly odd name, like Spark Pug, Beefra or Chew Barka? These dog and cat names, among others, have topped the Veterinary Pet Insurance Co.'s (VPI) list of the zaniest pet names for 2012!
After an arduous selection process that saw VPI comb through more than 485,000 of their insured pets, the insurance company found the 10 most unusual dog and cat names that owners registered their pets under. We give you fair warning: some of these names are very odd indeed! Without further ado, check out which names ranked as the oddest below:
Top 10 Unusual Dog Names for 2012
10. Trigonometry
9. Senorita Margarita
8. Furnace Hills Dante
7. Vienna Sausage
6. Stinker Belle
5. Agent 99
4. Spark Pug
3. Sir Maui Senqkey Schwykle
2. Nigel Nosewhistle
1. Chew Barka
Top 10 Unusual Cat Names for 2012
10. Mister Bigglesworth
9. Beefra
8. Kitty Gaga
7. Vincent Van Furrball
6. Sassy Pants Huska
5. Koobenfarben
4. Schnickelfritz
3. Dumpster Kitty
2. Dingleberry
1. Pico de Gato
Some of these names might sound silly to you, but there’s meaning behind each one. “While monikers like Stinker Belle and Vincent Van Furrball might sound odd, they are also a reflection of what makes each pet unique and special to their family,” said Curtis Steinhoff, director of corporate communications for VPI.
For other odd pet names, check out VPI's full list here!
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That’s a beauty! Is it yours?
That’s exactly how my pets get named. They tell me. Usually it takes days to a week, however I had one cat that took three weeks to let it be known.
Very true - mine did.
lol okay, I remember it
A cat wrote that poem.
Yes.
She’s my new little baby Fire Ball Python.
She’s *so* sweet I can hardly stand it....:)
Did he win an award for designing fjords?
He loved to scandalize visitors and neighbors by calling the cat and seeing this huge orange tom come running home. He renamed him when he got married later, and I did not let him live it down.
The cat curled up next to me is named Xani (pronounced Zany), which is short for Xanax. My daughter named him for the drug she thought he needed based on his behavior in his much younger days.
She allowed him to roam outside for a number of years and he would come home with a torn ear, missing teeth, and other assorted souveniers of his free days.
Then she married a man who is allergic and Xani came to live to live with us in his old age.He rarely tries to get out.
I see Fuzzy Lard Butt, Mr Smokers, Tkat, Spooky Momma, Jumpy Jibbles and Merkle Balls aren’t on the list. Just a few of our pets nicknames, mostly from my husband’s fevered brain.
And just give any excuse to post pics of my critters.
i had a cat named felis sphincterus
I had a dog that would not answer to any name I gave her. I had her on my lap one day about a month after I got her and I asked her what her name was. We were eye to eye. She looked at me and projected “Kitty.”
When next I called her, I said, “Here, Kitty!” I’m sure her previous owners had catz and “Here, Kitty” was the signal for food. She weighed four pounds and I loved her silly self!
I always liked Rex for a dog.
A farmers dog went into town,
His Christian name was Rex.
A noble pedigree he had,
Unusual was his text.
And as he trotted down the street
‘Twas beautiful to see
His work on every corner,
His work on every tree.
He watered every gateway, too,
And never missed a post,
For piddling was his specialty
And piddling was his boast.
The city curs looked on, amazed,
With deep and jealous rage
To see a simple country dog
The piddler of the age!
Then all the dogs from everywhere
Were summoned with a yell
To sniff the country stranger o’er
And judge him by the smell.
Some thought that he a king might be,
Beneath his tail, a rose.
So every dog drew near to him
And sniffed him by the nose.
They smelled him over one by one,
They smelled him two by two;
But noble Rex, in high disdain,
Stood still till they were through.
Then, just to show the whole shebang
He didn’t give a damn
He trotted in a grocer’s shop
And piddled on a ham.
He piddled in a mackerel keg.
He piddled on the floor,
And when the grocer kicked him out
He piddled through the door.
Behind him all the city dogs
Lined up with instinct true
To start a piddling carnival
And see the stranger through.
They showed him every piddling post
They had in all the town,
And started in, with many a wink,
To pee the stranger down.
They sent for champion piddlers
Who were always on the go
And who sometimes gave a piddling stunt
Or gave a piddling show.
They sprung these on him suddenly
When midway through the town.
Rex only smiled, and piddled off
The ablest, white or brown.
For he was with them, every trick,
With vigour and with vim.
A thousand piddles, more or less,
Were all the same to him.
So he was wetting merrily
With hind leg kicking high
When most were hoisting legs in bluff
And piddling mighty dry.
On and on, Rex sought new grounds
By piles of scrap and rust
Till every city dog ran dry
And only piddled dust.
Still on and on went noble Rex
As wet as any rill
When all the champion city dogs
Had come to a standstill.
Then Rex did free-hand piddling
With fancy flirts and flips
Like the ‘double dip’ and the ‘gimlet twist’
And all the latest hits.
And all the time the country dog
Did never wink or grin
But blithely piddled out of town
As he had piddled in.
The city dogs a convention held
To ask, “What did defeat us?”
But no one ever put them wise
That Rex had diabetes!
I wanted to call our current dog Watson
“Come here Watson”
But my husband thought it was stupid....oh well
Had a cat we called ‘Digit’
She had triple toes - lots of digits :)
That was my hope when I brought him home, but after getting to know him I had to change the little SOB’s name to Agrajag.
Reminds me of the dog named that in “The Jerk”.
Another one I thought was funny was the hippie’s dog in “Our Idiot Brother” is named Willie Nelson. Makes for a funny moment when the hippie tells a customer at the farmer’s market that the secret ingredient in his organic produce is “Willie Nelson’s sh*t”.
Aww, I kind of imagine that Hurley in dog form would be a bulldog.
BTW, what’s your favorite Hurley quote? The “let’s look death in the face and say “whatever, man”” one?
I have 16 [and one on the way this month] and they all have names and are my cherished pets.
Things need not have fur to be cuddly and *no pet* can ~really~ hug you back like a 7 foot Boa can...:)
Wonderful!
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