"Theme" pet names

[Godhumor]

So a long time ago I had two cats named Tyro and Rex (from the dinosaur, of course). Now I have two cats named Cocoa and Mocha. We just adopted a puppy that we have named Chai. If we adopt another, it will be named Latte to finish out the cafe menu.

Anyone else name multiple pets using a common theme? Please tell me that I am not unusual in this practice.

[arcane1]

1. I had two cats named Gowron and Kahless, after the Star Trek characters. They had kittens...

and a married couple took two of the kittens and named them Felony and Misdemeanor

[pinboy3niner]

2. As a kid I named my guinea pigs Fred and Wilma

Then I had Barney and Betty and Pebbles and Dino and...I soon ran out of names.

[yellowdogintexas]

3. we have two cats named Lewis and Clark (brothers)

We also have a brother and sister named Mongo Jerry and Rumpleteaser (sometimes they are Scooter and Skeeter)

[NightWatcher]

4. Wife's cats: Congo, Cleo(patra), & Malawi

[Inkfreak]

5. June is our female. Cash is our male.

We are Johnny Cash fans.

[ripcord]

6. Isn't everyone?

[csziggy]

7. I had a cat I named Tenzing for the Sherpa that took Sir Edmund Hillary to Everest

The name fit that cat since the first time I picked him up he climbed to the top of my head.

Later my husband and I named other climbing kittens Edmund, and Hillary. My current cat is named Tashi, for Tenzing Norgay's grandson though unlike his namesake, Tashi is not a climber.

[HeiressofBickworth]

8. I had three rescue cats

Given their pitiable beginnings, I gave them dignified names:

Sir Reginald von Feline
Sir Frederick von Feline
Lady Alexandra von Feline

They all had long lives. Reg died at 16, Fred at 17 and Alex at 18. They've been gone quite a while now but I still think of them fondly.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. New Orleans and magic

We have four Chihuahuas and they have New Orleans names or related to magic. Voodoo, Laveau (Voodoo Queen of NOLA), Marigny (a NOLA neighborhood), and Zatanna (DC Superheroine known as the Mistress of Magic).

[hermetic]

10. I had 2 kittens

named Fripp and Eno, because I loved to watch them play together.

[elias49]

11. My two dogs,

Chai and Kava.

Four rescued kittens became TigerLily, WaterLily, DayLily and PeaceLily.

[NV Whino]

12. I had a musical theme going at one time

Kiri Te Katawa (she sang)
Pinkus Catterman (he was pink or cameo)
Pink Floyd (he was also pinkish or an apricot Siamese mix)

Kiri had three kittens whom I named Huey, Dewey and Louie. Dewey, who turned out to be female, stayed with me and became Dempsey (don't question the logic of that because I don't know). Dempsey spawned Pinkus. Huey and Louie went to another good home and lived happy lives as the brothers they were.

[Laffy Kat]

13. We use famous athletes.

Unfortunately, we are now stuck with a cat named "Lance". I want to change his name to Vance, but no one else will go along. Oh well. He's a great cat, too; doesn't deserve the name.

[clarice]

14. Two fish called Gill and Fin. nt

[countryjake]

15. When I was a girl, we had a mess of pups born...

right when Ray Stevens came out with "Santa Claus is Watchin' You". It was my big sister's idea to dub them with the names of those reindeer...Bruce, Marvin, Leon, Cletus, Clyde, and Queenie.

Bruce turned out to be the dearest dog I've ever known, my sweet Brucie.

[magical thyme]

16. my senegal parrots

Bennie and Jerry.

Bennie has gone on to the Great Infinite Sky, so now I have only Jerry with me.

[Raven]

17. Yes! My first and most beloved dog

we named her Gypsy because she was a rescue that had been in a number of homes until she came to us. She was a beautiful black lab collie mix who lived to a ripe old age. I then got a Labradoodle and I named her "Tinker" which is another name for gypsies in Ireland. A year later I got another Labradoodle and named her "Shelta" which is the word for gypsy in Gaelic. I think I've about run out of names in this particular theme.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I named brother and sister adopted dogs Tom and Jerri.

[LoveMyCali]

19. I have two cats

Named Raven and Symone.

The joke was when I got Symone (she is older by a year) that since the other cat I had at the time was getting older it was like on the Cosby show when they brought the younger, cuter kid in to replace Rudy. Symone is a tri-colored tabby so Raven didn't really fit. About a year later my older cat passed away and a coworker asked if I could take in a kitten that had been dropped off at her house, she already had 8 cats and 3 dogs. The kitten was totally black so I welcomed Raven (the younger cuter kitten) in to the fold.

[murielm99]

20. I had Claudia,

a cat named for the baby vampire in "Interview with the Vampire."

We have Kinsey, our dog, named for Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton's female private detective.

[logosoco]

21. Years before the kids came along, we had a cat named "Ozzie"

after Ozzie Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals. Shortly, we got a female cat and named her "Harriet". Ozzie passed on long before Harriet, so the kids only knew of him through family lore. Harriet was the old lady cat to the kids by the time she passed on.

While in school, our youngest child learned of the Ozzie and Harriet show and was shocked to hear these names, thinking they were just the names of some old cats her parents had.

Originally I wanted to name Harriet "Pat the Cat" because I got her from my boss, Pat. But my husband convinced me since we already had Ozzie we should have Harriet. I think the kids would have had more fun with the name "Pat the Cat"!

[Panich52]

22. Took in 2 cats friends rescued & had to give up. They named them

Zombie & Case 39 (movie). Before I could neuter, they had 3 kittens. Named 'em Berzerk, Elvira (all black), & Sookie (HBO's True Blood)

[cyberswede]

23. I had pet mice named Goethe and Kafka in high school. nt