What's in a name?

@BronxZoosCobra complains that only "cute" animals get names:

http://www.pawnation.com/2012/03/17/...a-name/#page=1

For the record all of the animals in my collection have names, and none of them are Hissy or Bitey! (However, Mr. Nibbles.)

That article is awesome!

And, I take all my snake names from the ancient world: Bacchus, Osiris, Jupiter, Mars, Cupid, Saturn, etc...

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Next time you hear about the birth of an adorable new zoo baby with a cute name, take a moment to think of the spiders, snakes, mice, bats and the rest of the unnamed zoo animals. We are the nameless. We are the 99%. Occupy the zoo.

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LOL Occupy the Zoo. I love that.

That is a cute article. All mine have names, course we only have 9...

Majority of mine have names :)

Ahaha that's awesome XD. I'm terrible at coming up with names... I only call my enchi lesser by his name "butters" but I feel I need to correct myself and add "the enchi lesser" after saying his name in case people don't get it.... Nobody around me gets it.. I honestly don't know why I bother talking to them about my snakes :oops:...


edit: btw, that's a cute article :D

All mine have names and all but one are after tv/movie characters.

Little Bit never got a name and her nickname just stuck.

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I honestly don't understand having a pet if you don't name it... and if the other animals in the zoo have names, then I totally agree with "Mia" and everyone should have a name! ;)

All our names come from books and currently we are on a A.A. Milne streak, so I keep telling my husband that his next snake (probably a stimson's) will be named "Rabbit" or "Owl." :rofl:

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Originally Posted by sleepygeckos

All our names come from books and currently we are on a A.A. Milne streak, so I keep telling my husband that his next snake (probably a stimson's) will be named "Rabbit" or "Owl." :rofl:

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I have an ex-boyfriend who named all my goldfish "dog" and "cat" and "canary". I'm glad he's not around to name my snakes...

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Originally Posted by Slim

That article is awesome!

And, I take all my snake names from the ancient world: Bacchus, Osiris, Jupiter, Mars, Cupid, Saturn, etc...

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Huh, mine are too XD Well with the exception of the boa, but she's historical too. My normal male is Ramses, my boa is LeVeau, my carpet is Boudicca, and the babies, which I haven't decided yet, are either going to be Adam and Eve or Perseus and Andromeda, because they're my first breeding pair.

I need to update my signature....

That is a really neat article!!

All my critters have names. And each name has a story of sorts behind it. I like the idea of a theme, but I also like to pick names that mean something personal to me as well as what suits that particular animal.

For example: Peaches was named after my father. My dad HATES snakes, but despite that, when I was growing up he always encouraged me to do what I loved and tolerated my doing it, lol. His nickname for me was Peaches. So I named my hypo boa Peaches in honor of him and it suits her personality too! ;)

But I also name my reptiles as a way of identifying them. They do have numbers, but I just can't call them by number..... :D