When do you stop naming your BPs?

I know some people are breeders, and some people have pets, and some people have pets that they breed. But I'm wondering - at what point, regardless of how you started, do you stop naming your animals, and just refer to them by their morph/gender/other? Did you ever name them?

Haha so I forgot to add a section for "I always will" - Maybe I should ask a mod if they can fix that for me.

never named a snake except for my male blood python,,, and his name is Mr. Snake
spooky

I recently got 5 new ball pythons that don't have names yet, and about 8 tarantulas without names...and my crestie still doesn't have a name :(

I'm running out of creativity lol.

I've named every animal I've ever owned (fish even) and will continue to do so regardless of how many snakes or other animals I get in the future. I guess it goes with the whole "they're family" thing and it just feels wrong to not give each new addition a permanent name.

I never name mine. I let others do it for me...lol

I only have one snake, but I'm going to be breeding cresties soon, and though I still don't have /that/ many reptiles compared to some, I always will continue to name my pets since they're part of the family! ^^ Even if I have more than I can remember off the top of my head, I'd name them. (I'd even write their names on their homes if I needed to. xD)

so my answer is, I always will. They're my family and my babies. ^^

I have never named any reptile I have owned...make that any animal other than my dog
Sadie and 2 goats. Funny little story about about how my goats got named....I used to have 2 goats, one brown, the other white. I never gave them names. One day, my sister-in-law's daughter was over, maybe 8 years old at the time, and she asked me what the goats' names were. I didn't want to say that I never named them, so I just kept saying I forgot, hoping she would just drop it. She never dropped it, so feeling the pressure to come up with names for the goats on the spot, and totally drawing blanks while trying to come up with names, I just blurted out "Brownie and Whitey!" I gave them away to a family in my neighborhood over a year ago, and Brownie and Whitey is still their names.

I always name my animals, unless they're feeders. My cats, my breeder rats, and my snakes all get names.

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Haha so I forgot to add a section for "I always will" - Maybe I should ask a mod if they can fix that for me.

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Done. :)

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Done. :)

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Thanks Lady! :)

i voted that i'll always name them, even though i probably wont, but i will try to name any animal i get, but ive have some turtles that i couldnt think of a name for, no names for them screamed out to me like with the rest of my animals

Yeah, I'll always name them, but sometimes it takes me up to a week or longer to name them. :/ Kallista took exactly one week to name.

I name any snake that I plan to keep if I plan to sell a snake then it gets a reference number

I can understand why breeders with dozens of snakes don't name them. But I don't think I'll ever have that many even if I do choose to breed at some point. So I'll always name mine. I also like the idea of referring to them by name when talking to people. And they're my kids - they deserve a name! :D

60 snakes and I can rattle off every name, and except for a few of the hets I can name them all by sight.

The only ones we won't name are any future hatchlings that we plan on selling.

I stopped at 3, lol

Whenever my girlfriend stops naming them for me, haha.

The snakes are named. Even the breeder rats are named.

My husband's suggestion for every new snake is "Mr. Stupid." ("But that's what you suggested last time, dear." "Yeah, well, that one was also stupid." "But this one is a girl." "She's still stupid. And Mr. Stupid sounds better.")

With over 100 snakes, almost everyone is named. Some with creative names, others not so. Snake Girl and Snake Boy is the albino burm pairs name. See, not so creative :rolleyes:

All my geckos are named, turtles, beardie and iggy are named. Same with the gator, he's Pissy Pants, lol

Out of 8 animals, I have 2 that aren't named....both of them the boyfriends. He doesn't name animals....I do. It drives me nuts they aren't named yet lol. And it aggravates me just as much that when I say their name to them, he's like "who?" so I have to tell him My Burm or My dumerils....or The Ball Python.

Apparently we just rescued a black cat that's been hanging around since we moved here. Guess I'll be naming that one too

I like naming them. I usually get some pretty weird suggestions from my 4y/o.
I guess if I ever got up in the 30's or so I might have to stop. Like Leah said I'd just start running out of creativity by then.:)

I name every one of my holdbacks. It's simply easier to keep track of their individual quirks and needs, when I can associate them with a name.
I can say "Kokopeli is locked with Ahera", instead of 'A-245 is locked with B-342'. :P

A snake's not officially a holdback until I've named it. I did have one snake that was for sale at first, that we decided to hold back much later...we'd gotten so used to calling him by his number by then, that it became his name. That was the only one, though, lol.

I just refer to all of my snakes by their sex/morph/species.
Only the animals that can respond to it get names around here.

I name everything I cuttently have but won't be naming the offspring that will be for sale or trade.