I always think I'm gonna do some cool theme with the names of animals in my collections, but somehow that never works out. My chinchillas, for example, were originally all named after terms from astrophysics -- so, I had Muon, Quark, Quasar, etc.. Then it expanded to astrophysics or mythology (Orion, Titan, etc.) -- now it's just whatever name I can think of ...

I don't really have a theme anymore for naming things. At this point, it's pretty much whatever comes to me. There was one kid on a forum awhile back who had named all his bloods after emotions, so I named two of mine like that -- Thao (calm) and Rage (nasty one), but then I've also got Bowie, Sister Mercy and Sister Charity, (all VPI stripes); for BPs I've got Roswell (mojave), Junko (pinstripe), Juno (spider), Macchiato (butter) ... Norma the normal ... Maybe the "dinker" ...

My fiancee ended up naming my bumblebee -- I told him it was the most expensive snake I'd ever bought, and asked him what to name it -- he said, "Money." So, my bee's name is Zed Money, after a weird kid we knew in high school.

I've got a pretty sizable collection, but I still like to try to name everything if I can ... It actually helps me keep track of them to have names and not just ID numbers (especially for species that I've got a lot of, like bloods and BPs). I always told myself that if I ever got to a point where I couldn't name everything, that was too many snakes ...

A lady was just awarded an Ignobel Prize for her study in which she did a survey and found that cows with names produced more milk than cows with ID numbers.