Pet names
No not talking darling, treacle or honeybun. Actual pet names, we’ve decided they come in three categories. Anthropomorphic, descriptive and maverick.
Anthropomorphic (elegance with personality)
Jess’s hairdresser has a dog called Gary.
Jennie heard someone calling for their dog the other day, ‘here Gareth.
My best friend Maria had a dog called Bridget and cats called Alice and Betty.
Harriet had Megan the dog and Henry the Hamster.
Descriptive (forthright, no nonsense)
Jennie named her cats Big Blackie, Little Blackie, Grey Girl and Grey Boy.
My sister called her guinea pig Reuben. It was a ginger one; mine was black, with a ginger bum. I was so convinced that she should call her’s Rusty that I called my one Rusty Bum, hoping that the perversity of us calling out here, Rusty, here Rusty Bum, to an almost all black guinea pig would make her change her mind.
She didn’t.
Maverick (ology)
Bob’s cats are called Cat A and Cat B
Harriet had a rabbit called Jemima Puddleduck.
A jewellery designer in Shrewsbury…
Called her cats: Fat and Scardy
And her chickens: Drumstick and Tonight.
Jess is buying two Geese (Roman ones because they are less vicious) to keep her lawn short and for fertiliser. Please tell us suggestions for their names. The winner gets the glory of naming an urban goose.
Tell us names of your pets, please do here.
