How did you pick your snakes' name?

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Originally Posted by rabernet

And my boy that's not here yet - my lemon pastel male - Karl wanted to name Wilson, so he could say "Wiiiiiiilllllllssssoooooooooonnnnnn!!!!!" from the Tom Hanks movie (Castaway). We settled on Winston instead - for my sanity.

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I <3 Karl! :8:

LOL! Great stories!!!:D

Ummm..
2.0 BRB Salvadore and Dali... sp? After the artist...
0.1 BRB came with the name Rainie.. (rainbow boa) ....:rolleyes: I liked it!
0.1 baby norm BP Martini... she's got a spot that looks JUST like an olive... makes me wanna Martini every time I look at it! :P
1.0 Pastel BP Nova..like Super Nova.. (Not the band) but Tommy is HHOOTT!:D
0.1 BP I came home w/ yesterday... I'm calling her BB.. short for "Boa in a Box" She is not a boa.... long story.
0.1 BCC Guyana Margo.. Her tail reminded me of Marlot wine... just kinda fit..?
ps... no I do not have a drinking problem!! LOL! But you'd think so after reading this! LMAO!:P

I forgot about Beaker, my male gopher snake. Named after the muppet. In reality, Zith is the super pink gopher snake, but she's a genetic stripe, so she had to get the name. I don't own any green striped snakes that would suit the name better.

I love naming the snakes..

jungle carpet python - Fern - well, what's the carpet of the jungle.. ferns are!

ball python - Kamau - African name meaning 'quiet warrior'

kenyan sand boas - Fred & George - from Harry Potter.. used to be George & Gracie, but one day Gracie popped a hemipene, and became Fred. George also means 'earthmover' ..that's what sand boas are!

hog island boa - Diva - she's such a queen.. and beautiful. When you touch her she gives you a look like 'how DARE you touch ME, filthy human'

roughscaled sand boa - Demeter - named after the gentle goddess of agriculture

Blood pythons - Meatball & Habanera - one look at Meatball and you see why he got his name.. and Habanera.. meant as a female version of the red hot habanero pepper.

granite burmese python - Harry - he's my dirty Harry.. always making a mess. The name also means 'home ruler' which is fitting as one day he will be my biggest snake.

yellow anacondas - Rusalka, Mortimer & Lurch - A rusalka is an undead water nymph who lures victims into the water with her beauty and drowns them in her lake (fitting for an anaconda) Lurch is just a cute name for a conda.. and Mortimer means still or dead water.. another fitting name I think. :)

dumerils boas - Bellatrix & Donovan - Bellatrix means 'female warrior' and Donovan means 'dark warrior'. Donovan is a dark phase dumerils.

surinam red tailed boas - Ophelia, Rowan, and Julinar - Ophelia is a greek name meaning 'serpent', Rowan means 'little red one' and Julinar is just a pretty name from a game.

speckled kingsnake - Mote - she has lots of specks.. or motes on her pattern.

california kingsnakes - Bodacious, Beauregard, and Gretchen - Bodacious is.. well.. bodacious! Beauregard means 'beautiful view' and Gretchen is wretched... wretched Gretchen!

mexican black kingsnake - Lotus - she's my black lotus!

honduran milk snakes - Mehitabel and Druid - dispicable Mehitabel (ill tempered beast) and Druid came with his name.

albino nelson's milksnake - Skittle - he's the color of skittles!

greyband kingsnake - Nikolai - one of my favorite names.

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Originally Posted by Shelby

I love naming the snakes..

jungle carpet python - Fern - well, what's the carpet of the jungle.. ferns are!

ball python - Kamau - African name meaning 'quiet warrior'

kenyan sand boas - Fred & George - from Harry Potter.. used to be George & Gracie, but one day Gracie popped a hemipene, and became Fred. George also means 'earthmover' ..that's what sand boas are!

hog island boa - Diva - she's such a queen.. and beautiful. When you touch her she gives you a look like 'how DARE you touch ME, filthy human'

roughscaled sand boa - Demeter - named after the gentle goddess of agriculture

Blood pythons - Meatball & Habanera - one look at Meatball and you see why he got his name.. and Habanera.. meant as a female version of the red hot habanero pepper.

granite burmese python - Harry - he's my dirty Harry.. always making a mess. The name also means 'home ruler' which is fitting as one day he will be my biggest snake.

yellow anacondas - Rusalka, Mortimer & Lurch - A rusalka is an undead water nymph who lures victims into the water with her beauty and drowns them in her lake (fitting for an anaconda) Lurch is just a cute name for a conda.. and Mortimer means still or dead water.. another fitting name I think. :)

dumerils boas - Bellatrix & Donovan - Bellatrix means 'female warrior' and Donovan means 'dark warrior'. Donovan is a dark phase dumerils.

surinam red tailed boas - Ophelia, Rowan, and Julinar - Ophelia is a greek name meaning 'serpent', Rowan means 'little red one' and Julinar is just a pretty name from a game.

speckled kingsnake - Mote - she has lots of specks.. or motes on her pattern.

california kingsnakes - Bodacious, Beauregard, and Gretchen - Bodacious is.. well.. bodacious! Beauregard means 'beautiful view' and Gretchen is wretched... wretched Gretchen!

mexican black kingsnake - Lotus - she's my black lotus!

honduran milk snakes - Mehitabel and Druid - dispicable Mehitabel (ill tempered beast) and Druid came with his name.

albino nelson's milksnake - Skittle - he's the color of skittles!

greyband kingsnake - Nikolai - one of my favorite names.

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AND THATS ALL!?!?!?!

Orey is named after George Orwell, just because I like Orwell and because Animal Farm made me aware that I need to be part of politics, or politics can make decisions for me. So I try to be very politically aware, and that has nothing to do with snakes... but my boyfriend just calls him Boot. Not because he would make a good pair of boots, either, he just thinks he should be called Boot and nothing will change his mind!

If I get a second, I've decided I will name it Hux after Aldous Huxley, Brave New World is an amazing book.
Apparently I have a thing for dystopic British authors :P

I named my redtails after gems....
Ruby based on her red tail
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...y/DSC00490.jpg
and Topaz based on....Topaz
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...z/DSC00537.jpg

some of my pets name themselves... other ones just fit a name.

dexter is my ball python. he named himself the day i met him. didn't bring him home for another two weeks. (daughter had to move out before we could get a snake LOL)

drake named himself (hog island)

sabrina my suri rtb was named by my mom

sevasti is my snow corn, named after my sister

valentino is my bloodred corn... suited him (and i just now realize that he has the same name as my ex father in law who hated me LOL)

katie our okeetee - just seemed like the right name

gandalf the grey is obviously after LOTRs. my hubby has read the trilogy twice a year for more years than he can remember... a long time fan. so when we got an anery a corn (all grey) - it seemed like the right name!

any pets we have that respond to their names... we let them name themselves (via meditation) ;)

I always wondered where the name Habanera came from! And my brain always wants to say Hanna-Barbera for no good reason when I try to say it outloud. :nerd:

i guess my snakes name themselves. i handle them and a name will stick out very strongly. my corn snake is named malackai after one of the main characters of CHILDREN OF THE CORN, my royal python is named howard after h.p. lovecraft, then my beardie is named puff the magic dragon(my girl named him), and my gecko is named geico after the car insurance gecko, i had a burmese python named monkey and a rtb named goober, then a albino king named squirt becuz he crapped on me everytime i picked him up.:mad: lol..........as i think about the snake i purchase next i'll get a name also. so i guess it's meditative almost telepathic:snake: :snake: :rockon: