How to Pick Really Good Pet Names
By Howard Young Jul 05, 2011
Lost for ideas in naming your pet? This book gives you over 3000 names you can choose from.
You’ve just brought home a new family member – a kitten or a puppy – introduce it to its new home and you go through the process of trying to figure out what to call it. Sometimes a new pet isn’t planned and you don’t have nine months like a newborn baby to go through a list to pick your favorite boy or girl name.
Muffy, Fido, Ink Spot pop to the top of your mind. What about Chloe or Odie? What about Rosie or Molly? After all you want a fitting name for you new pet.
It’s been a while since we named a pet. In fact, it’s been more than six years since Molly came home with us. She was named after her rosy disposition and red color; even her first medical record at our Vet has “Rosie” written on it. A week later her name changed to Molly.
The good thing about pet names is that they’re not really important. They tend to evolve to “pet names.” For example, we call Chloe, Chloe Bell or Bell for short; we call Odie, Odor; and, we call Molly, Mo Mo after the Ula’s wife in the 50 First Dates.
I often thought about writing a book of dog and cat names, but I Wayne Eldridge, DVM beat me to it. I’m not sure that it would sell too good thou since pet names sort of happen right when you get home and you typically don’t have time to run to the book store to pick up. It would be a great gesture for the pet store owner or breeder to help you out here with either selling or giving you a copy of the book.
Now a days it is so easy to download books with my Kindle that I rarely buy paper copies anymore. The instance gratification of getting a book really helps especially if you want to pick some good pet names right now. Eldridge basically gives you a list of names based on these topics:
- Appearance
- Personality
- Human Names
- Greek and Roman Mythology
- Royalty and Titles
- Unusual Names and Nicknames
- Cartoon Characters
- Sports
- Foods, liquor and drinks
And that is just to mention a few.
I could list out thousands of names to give you some ideas, but if you’re still stuck at what to name your dog or cat, give The Best Pet Name Book Ever a try.