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[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

TOYS
The kids I babysit (Sophie May and Ashley Joseph for the record) have a cute dog toy called Caesar. The kids are pretty worldly and have lived all over Europe and apparently came up with the name themselves, which is cool.
On second thoughts, their second favourite toy is called Rainbow Doggy :P
When I was small I had a bear I named Baxter and a bigger bear called Boris, and a dolphin statue I called Dolphy. Pretty clear-cut names.

PETS
I also named my dog Zac (short for Zachary Blue) as a tribute to my favourite band at that time (Hanson ha. C'mon, I was ten. I didn't even like Zac Hanson. Taylor all the way!)
And going back even further, we had a peacock called Bert, a brown hamster called Blacky and a white hamster called Goldy, Rastus the rooster and fish called Oliver and Cedric.

What did you call your toys and/or pets?

Comments

[squisheroo.livejournal.com]

My childhood dog's names were Bobette and Kali. I also had 3 birds (Bozo, Cookie, and Birdy). Hmm... And hamsters named Chubs, Juno, Townie, Butterscotch, Audrey, and Bianca.

But my stuffed dog's name was...Doggie. Haha.

I now have two dogs named Duchess and Winston.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

Chubs! hahaha. That is the best.

[squisheroo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the best part? Chubs was 4-years old and I missed three days of school because I couldn't pull myself together. People sent me cards and everything. Haha.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Charlie Tuna (fish)
Kate, Micki and Lucy (cats)
Sam, Max, Ginger and Buddy (dogs)
Squeaky (hamster)
The bird didn't have a name.

[thursdayx.livejournal.com]

When I was little I named my dog Blackie & my fish Fishy.

I now have two dogs, George & Shy,
& a fish named Jesse.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Sophie and Ashley are the coolest names ever for a brother/sister sib-set:)

[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

I've never been allowed to name a dog, but the names have been Chaucer (Great Pyreanes), Anna (tiny mutt), Max (St. Bernard), Sara (Newfounland), Hobson (Lab/German Shepard mix), Bess (medim-sized mutt, named after the Opera Porgi and Bess and supposed to have a welsh corgi couterpart named Corgi that we never did get), Franklin (another Great Pyraenes) and Jake (Pyrenean Sheepdog).

Cats: Spencer (I named him), Chaucer (I...might have. I don't remember. We got both cats when I was three-four), Tigger (named him), Mr. Thomas O'Malley the Alley Cat (named him and he went by O'Malley for short) and Mocha (mother named her).

We have birds, named Lukas and Lisa.

If I get a guide dog, I'm naming it Lief if it's a boy. I don't know about a female name yet.

Our hamster was named Sophia until we realized it was a boy and then we named it Robert Sophia, after the priest in our town...

I don't recall the names of my fish, except for Snow White and Anna, which were my two first fish (I was three, and Anna lived until I was eight, which was extremely long-lived for a feeder goldfish).

I had a doll named Alexandra, after my brother Alexander. My current stuffed animals are named "Sharky" (big giant shark), "Poly" (Mr. Polar Q. Bear, who is, you guessed it, a polar bear), "Pinky" (who I call a flamingo though it's really an ostrich) and Charizard, who...is a Charizard.

My taste in pet names tends to run to the elaborate/old-fashioned side, while my test in toy names tends to run to...naming them what they are.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

I've never been "allowed" to name the dog but I've always been involved. I see that your family has a tendency towards huge dogs, lol. We had two Great Pyrenees up until just recently. Great dogs. I really love them. It's just a lot of hair.

My dad named our first one - the one who is still alive - Andorra after the country and then mine was named Madeline.

I named both of my cats, though: Jingle Bells and Cowboy.

[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

The entire family was involved in naming our dogs as well, and everyone did get to veto names (like how my brother wanted to name Franklin Sharky), but generally my mom's the one who picks the name. Of course, she's the one the dogs like the most, so...

Great Pyrenees have tons of hair, but they are loveable. And Jake's fairly the same, just smaller.

It's not that we tend towards large dogs, it's more that we always wanted to have one small dog and one large dog at a time, and the large dogs died faster than the smaller ones did... our family does not have a good track record with large dogs.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the bad thing about big dogs. Though, Maddie was eleven when they had to put her to sleep and Andie is twelve years old and still going.

We also have a pomeranian. So, I get the big dog, small dog thing, lol.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

I have a polar bear too! His name is Mr. Polar Bear Moneybags. He's looking for a Mrs. Polar Bear Moneybags.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I had two cabbage patch dolls named Jimmy and Rosie; I think that they came with those names. I also have a teddy bear named Teddi, because I couldn't think of any other name.

My only pet was a really tiny fish that I named Crystal Light because it was the name of Karen's fish in the Baby-sitters Little Sister series. I don't think I realized that it was also a brand of lemonade at the time.

Also, is Ashley Joseph a boy or a girl?

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

a boy. little blondie, too

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

When I was little I named one my fish after Karen's Crystal Light too!!!

[furiosa.livejournal.com]

Pets that I named by myself in chronological order. :P

Penny (cat)
Athena (cat)
Mikey (cat)
Gia (cat)
Gidget (guinea pig)
Patty (hamster)
Cherry (guinea pig)
Dog (cat) Her name didn't really stick, and I was just being cheeky anyway, so.
Tod (dog)
Scout (dog)

I didn't really name my toys but I have named my computers over the years. My first computer was some old Apple thing from like the 80s that I called Gertie, then I had a Windows 95 piece of junk that we bought used (called it Marge after the lady we got it from), and now I have a Windows XP thing from Walmart that I call Flora.

Except for Dog, Tod, and Scout, I came up with all of those names when I was 6-13 years old.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

My cat's name is Sally. I had a seal named Sea-o (I couldn't pronounce L's for a while). Big Big Bunny was my large rabbit toy.

Recently, I had a kitten named Elliot. He was orange and would rub his nose against my nose and his name was perfect for his personality.

[searlait.livejournal.com]

Oh, and my computer is named Sabina.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

ohh that's pretty, for a computer too :D

[searlait.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about using it as a middle name and just not telling anyone that I had a laptop named Sabina :X I really like it.

[biancasablancas.livejournal.com]

naw. my dad's allergic to kitties so we can't have any.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

My stuffed dog was caller Tinker and my kitty is called Fizz.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I had a stuffed bunny, very rugged, with sad eyes and a floppy ear that I loved very much and her name was Bonnie. I think I had picked up on 'bunny' but I was confused haha.
Then other toys' names that I recall are Trisha, Molly, Leopold, and Valeria for a doll.

OT: Taylor Hanson ftw!! :P

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Pets:
I have a 5 year old fish named Stevie, after Stevie Nicks. I also had fish named Christine and Lindsey (named after Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham), but those fish died the day after I got them. When I was little, my fish had boring names like Goldie, Shark, and Crystal.
I also have a cat named Precious, after the nurse monkey on the show Passions.

Toys:
I remember I had a white bear in red pants and a checkered shirt named Charlie (same name as my grandpa; I'm guessing I gave the bear that name because its clothes reminded me of my grandpa's).
There was also a bear named Chester but I don't remember what it looked like.
There were two matching pink and blue terrycloth animals named Mamie and Curly; I think one was a bear and one a dog, maybe.
I had a bunch of other stuffed animals but I don't remember their names.
I had a doll named Linda, but two other dolls that I don't think I named.
I had Barbie dolls, but I didn't give them unique names, except for the brown haired one, which I called Randi.
When I was 10, I got an American Girl doll that I called Caitlin, and another one (the Kit doll, but I changed her name and dressed her in 'today' clothes) whose name I don't remember (I think it might have been Devon).

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Oh and I had a toy bunny named Sara.

[turn-it-upp.livejournal.com]

i love his post:] as a kid, naming my toys and pets was half the fun!
i have a dog that i named bowie and a cat named murphy, and some fish when i was eight years old named hampton, tucker, marley, kiss(wth), martha, and louis.
dolls: emily, gloria and esmerelda.
foster dogs: racket(he was an extremely loud puppy), bella, eliza jane, beautiful joe, buffy, and hiedi.
teddy bears: theodore, bunny-bear, lucky, jake, tabitha

[politicking.livejournal.com]

when i was around 2-4yrs old, the two main dolls i played with were- Elliot & Brianna.

my pets were- Mako, Holly, Pepper. none of which i named. i did have a fish that i named, though, Rivers.

[sevensevenfour.livejournal.com]

When I was little I had two favorite dolls:
Ashley - doll came with the name and the only time I kept a pre-provided name
Samantha - after my great aunt's dog...I just thought it was the coolest name at the time

I still have four bears that I keep out:
Bear - the one I sleep with. My friend tried to name him Stumpy, but it didn't stick
Pansy - after the character in Harry Potter
Austin - he's wearing a University of Texas shirt
Tykin - I just got him not very long ago and couldn't come up with a name, so he is named after my potential first son.

Pets, I've had a lot.
Dogs:
Bambi - She died on the last day of my 5th grade year. I didn't name her. I assume my sister or mother did.
Lori - My sister named her.
Pepper - My mom named her.
Maddie - I named her.
Hamsters:
Sadie Jade - I named her/him. No one really knows what sex it was.
Ambrosius - My sister named her.
Little Bear - I named him. He was a teddy bear hamster...original.
Sir Didymus - My sister named him.

Guinea Pigs:
Daemon - I named him. He was albino and looked like a demon.
Ludo - Sister named him.
Peepi - I named her after an Invader Zim character.
Gizmo - Sister named her.
Princess - I named her.
Mario - Group name. Toned down the effect of Princess. Haha.
Sprocket - My boyfriend named him. He was always called Baby Boy, though. He was our last guinea pig baby before we gave them all away. =\
Cats (I wasn't allowed to have cats because my dad is allergic, but my neighbor/best friend at the time had a cat who had 3 kittens, and each of us and my other best friend claimed one):
Oreo - The other two were M&M and Skittle, I believe. He was also, naturally, black and white.

[minga13.livejournal.com]

I used to name all my soft toys and dolls I think.

--Dolls--
Charlotte Ashley (my baby born doll)
Roseanna (beautiful german doll with human hair and glass eyes)
Mariana
Jenny
Daisy
Tracey
Elaine Monica (cabbage patch doll, came with this name)
Clive Hugh (cabbage patch doll, came with the name)
Peas (Polish female doll I named when I was 4)
Harry (Polish female doll I named when I was 4)

My dolls are all stored away in a suitcase now, with their names on little tags around their wrists so I don't forget in the future! hehe. All my Barbie dolls were either called Barbie, or the name they came with on the box.

--Soft toys--
Bubbits (little white bear I adored when I was three)
Bluey (a bear I was given when I was born that was...blue. He's 20 years old now and still sits on my bed)
Mandy (a dark pink bear I was given when I was born, named after the person who gave her to me, she still sits on my bed too)

I had heaps of other soft toys that I named but my favourite were those three.

[ugottafriend.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, I had a cat named Miranda, dog named Casey, and Bunny named Benjamin.

Right now, I live with a cat named Sissy and dog named Babe.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

The first time my mom bought fish, she got three betas. One was big, one was medium-sized, and one was tiny. My mom named the largest one Nick, after Victor Newman's son from "The Young and the Restless;" she said Nick reminded her of my older brother. The middle fish was named Melanie, after the two from the Spice Girls. This was the late 90's, and my sister was constantly approached by young girls in public who asked in awe if she was one of the Spice Girls. I was never clear on which one they thought she looked like, but someone told my mom there was a Melanie in the group, so she named the middle fish that as a token to my older sister. The smallest fish was called Daria, whom I was constantly being compared to at the time.

My Daria fish held out the longest. I felt kind of creepy when she died.

[imyourrapunzel.livejournal.com]

Pets:

hamsters - Pumpkin (parents named him), Charla (was obsessed with this name as a little girl), Sheena

fish - we've had so many, so I'll just put down the ones I remember...Gorby, Thing 1, Thing 2, Rockhead

birds - Kiwi, Spunky, Kara, Peet, Jean, Claude (now Okie by my brother and dad), Dokie (named by my brother and dad)

I've never named a toy. The only one that had a name was my bear from when I was born and it's called Baby Bear.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

I love naming pets. My boyfriend and I have a turtle named Norm Chompsky, a snake named Justice O'Toole, and a [mow deceased] newt named Isaac.

[bobinwales.livejournal.com]

Toys: I had a rabbit called Rita [named after the person that gave it to me], and a white sheep called Blacky [baa baa black sheep? Possibly...]. Oh and a bear called Jessica!

Pets: A cat called Norman, Rosie the Rabbit [randomly picked out of a baby names book], Misty the Gerbil [he was grey], and Marbles the Hamster [I honestly don't know]

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Very few of my pets got named growing up. In a fit of creative brilliance I named my bigger-than-me bear 'Big Bear'. I also still have my beloved pink cat Hosey.. if I recall correctly I was carrying him around the backyard and inspiration struck when I saw a hose.

Luckily I haven't named my children I.V. or morphine or bedpan or some such.

*named by my mom= dunno why she named it that
More or less in order--
Pets:
Patches-- dog, named by my mom
Mickey-- cat named by my mom
Herman-- dog named by my mom
Columbus-- cat, after Columbus, OH
Whisk, nn Whiskey-- cat, named such because Whisk gets out ring around the collar and he was black with a white ring around his neck. Our neighbor/babysitter had a dog named Brandy. :/
Silvertooth- a silver goldfish
Bunnicula-- a bunny, after the vampire bunny books
Jenny-- a hamster, just cause
Hammy-- a hamster.. hello
Sammy-- Actually Sam; I was singing Green Eggs and Ham to my brother's kitten while we were still at the animal shelter and it stuck.
Minnie-- cat, named after Mickey
Spud-- named by the veternarian who gave him to us after he patched the poor pup up. He looked like Spuds McKenzie.
Jenny-- Princess Sparkle Jenny, a purebred terrier, named already
Maggie-- a dog who just looked like a Maggie.
Sherman-- a kitty named after Sherman, TX
C.C.-- Copy Cat, a kitty named by the employees of a wannabe Kinkos that took her in after he mother and litter-mates were killed by cars.
Belladonna-- cat, named by me.. I wanted to name her Bella and her sister Donna.
Pandora-- the cat would-be Donna. My mom named ther, thoguht it went well with Belladonna.
Mr. Bunn-- a bunny named after the bunny in Calvin and Hobbes, I believe.

My current pets:
Inanna and Persephone: sister cats; we came up with one name and then decided to make both of them goddesses of the underworld. Inanna is a calico and persephone is black, which I think is fitting. NNs are: Nana(nah-nah), Nana-bones, Bones(don't ask), Inanna Pussington, Nanakins; Perse, Perseph, Percy, Percikins

Zeus-- our big boy, he was just a tiny little guy when I found him. He's a somewhat dark flame-point siamese (they're normally lighter and more orangey.. his flame point markings almost look seal-point, we wonder if he's a cross). His markings go well with the whole lightening-bolt thing :). We wanted to go with a boy-god for him and I really wanted Pazuzu and my partner wanted Hermes, so we settled on Zeus. We're happy we did; it fits him. NNs- Zeus Peus, Zooey, Zoo, Zooperdoo, Deus. Middle name Asmodeus-- a Judaic demon ; I found him in front of a synagogue.

Nibbler-- the tiniest of the lot, this one's a little moo-cat we found living in our garage. We thought "What goes better with the gods than Nibbler?" ;) For good measure, her mn is Freya. NNs-- Nibs, Nibbleton, Nibblepuss, Niblonian, Neblina.



! :D

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

*that should read very few of my toys got named.

[anaphylexis.livejournal.com]

My Kid Sister doll is named Rudy after Rudy from The Cosby Show.