I used to date a guy whose mom bred show dogs, or pedigreed dogs that could be show dogs, or something. Anyway, I learned from him that show animals get really long names so that they aren’t repeated in the official pedigree database. Or something. It prevents hundreds of cats named “Socks” from being listed. And the long names can be pretty funny.
Anyway, I got the idea in my head that if it was good enough for show animals, it was good enough for my animals. So I started giving my cats ridiculous names. These are their “real” names, of course, the short version is just a nickname. So, for example, Princess was really Princess Just Go Ahead Now. Cuddles, who started life as Persephone, was Persephone Queen of Night and Shadow. And so it goes.
So, as I’ve come to know their personalities, I’ve decided on the full names of the Gang of Two. They are
Mighty, Mighty, Mingo
and
Fanty Fraidy Run Away! Run Away!
Yeah, like you care.
Very fun!
I had a pedigreed dog once, quite by accident. She needed a home and I needed a cute dog. Her “official” name was Suncroft Beach Plum. Her “about home” name was Jenny. She was a wonderful dog and gave me a lifelong love of Shelties.
When do we get to see pics of the Gang of Two? I particularly want to see Fanty. I hear he’s the pretty one…
No digital camera, Believe It Or Notâ„¢. What with my money from foreign rights, maybe I’ll buy one. Arthur blogged about it, and the window of opportunity on Kitten Cuteness.
Oh, and Fanty’s a girl.
I have a greyhound whose official name is Boss Warrior. We call him Toby. His sister’s name is Boss Emerald Gal.
“Big Damn” = Fun adjective. That’s what I think I’d rename this blog if I were you (well, at this minute, tired and slightly out of it): Big Damn Blog.
“Big Damn” is from Firefly.:
Mal: “Well, look at this. Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us?”
Zoe: “Big damn heroes, sir!”
Mal: “Ain’t we just.”
Fans got to referring to Serenity as the Big Damn Movie (BDM). I’m sure there are Serenity fansites with Big Damn Blogs. 🙂
Hm. I’m familiar with the Big Damn Convention Blog, but that’s the only one I can place. The Browncoat community I follow most is the LiveJournal Cortex, so perhaps some are under my radar.
Google is your friend: http://www.john-carlton.com/
you really dont NEED a dig camera. go get some disposables and have a cd made with the prints
Ah, yes. I see. I thought you ment BDM sites in particular.
No problem, Amy.
Barb, I think I’ll get mileage out of the dig camera, and besides it costs almost exactly what I got for Indonesian rights, so there you are.
We used to show cats. Cat shows, unlike dog shows, have a category for “just cats” (non-pedigrees) called “Household Pets.”
Our oldest’s, a HHP is named “Black Powder” (I wanted a male I was going to name Shotgun, we rescued a female instead). My Maine Coon male (a rescued purebred) is Wimmy – Sweet William of Imzadis (Imzadis was my ‘cattery name’) and my husband’s Maine Coon (also a rescued purebred) was named after his favorite German beer – Saint Pauli Girl Dark (Pauli).
I love coming up with cool names for my pets, pedigreed and non. Our rescued dog is Andromeda Ascendant (Rommie).
I consider it my duty to come up with impressive names for rescued pets.
Dunno if you’re still checking comments this far down, but I have discovered that you can now get any film at all made into jpg files. I shoot good old fashioned black and white 35mm film, but I get CD’s of the shots along with a set of prints when I pick them up.
This pleases me.
I have two Siamese, both the more old-school, round-headed kind, not those wedge-headed, bony, for-show-only contraptions. One came already named Gus. He was three. He’s sixteen now. He is also known as The Gussy, Gussyrat, and Big Papa.
The one currently bawling up at me from the floor is Juan Carlos the First, six years old. He is variously known as Juan, Juanito, Bunny, Napoleon Bunnybutt, and OH-MY-GOD-YOU-LITTLE-SHIT-I’M-GOING-TO-KILL-YOU.
They’re special.
http://www.eponymous.org/gallery/davids_cats
Nice pics. (I have the blog set for email notification on all comments.)
Arthur & I have discovered that it is FUN to say Mighty Mighty Mingo. We say it a lot. We predict in 5 years’ time their names will be Mighty and Fraidy and we will have forgotten the original names entirely. 🙂
Cat names. Lucy is named such because we found her under what we thought was a pumpkin vine. It was squash. Close enough. Lucy has also aquired the nicknames “Lucy of Fluffyham”…her back upper legs, the “hams” are very fuzzy. Lucy brickscratcher….she like scratching the bricks on the fireplace. I declawed a cat ONCE. NEVER EVER AGAIN.
When she was a baby she was “Little shit” “Mommy’s little mutant” is another one. She has 13 (yes, 13) ties up fromt!
I meant toes. Not ties. She can’t do ties. She trips over them.