[GoodSmeagola]

Hedgemom
Do you take a piece of paper with letters on it, dab your hogs feet in finger paint, and let it walk around the paper?
Haa, name them selves...
And this ones name is...
hjedasjuran
Uhmm, could get complicated to pronounce

 

[HedgeMom]

No, silly, hedgehogs can't spell in English.

Seriously, you spend time with one, sit quietly during play time and the hedgehog will tell you their name. They are excellent communicators, if one is open to listening.

 

[hedgielover]

I don't usually give animals people names and I especially don't name them after people I know (I just think it's weird).

Anyway I'll go in order

1st cat was mustard because of his colour and because my parents were really into the game Clue when they got him

Dog was named Budgie because that's the name she came with from the humane society

2nd Cat was cuddles because she looked so cuddly (she's totally not)

3rd cat was checkers because he was black and white (that's my dad's fault don't ask me why black and white = checkers)

4th cat was named Pebbles because of her gray colouring with darker grayish-brown spots
this cat had three kittens that we called snap, crackle and pop, because they sounded like rice-krispies when they were nursing

1st bird was named Addy because I got it off a name list that I googled

Mouse was named Bianca (only exception to the human name rule thing) after Ms. Bianca from the rescuers (favourite kids movie)

2nd Bird is named Duke because that's the name he came with from the family I adopted him from

Hedgehog is named Quilgley because we thought it was cute. I was looking for a Disney animal name for the hedgehog as well (because we had one for the mouse) but couldn't find a good one.

 

[pighog]

I chose Celine, its a too much of a long and strange story to repeat in full on here but basically Celine is a french stalker on the internet who made me laugh and she was at the forefront of my mind in the week prior to getting her. So it stuck.

I live with my sister & friend and they now want two goldfish, can you guess what they want to call them?
Whitney and Mariah!! :shock:

:lol:

 

[silvercat]

I go with 'people' names. Every pet (with the exception of my 2 gold fish hamburger & hotdog when I was 5) have had real names. PJ & Darby were/are the the family dog. Shannon is the horse. Sam is my sister's dog. & Sylvie is my hedgie.

Sylvie really had her name before I even had her. When I made the decision to get a hedgie & found a breeder in my area the name rushed into my head & she's been Sylvie since.

My mom always calls her Sophie though, because "she looks like a Sophie"

In due time I want to add a Chinese crested hairless pup to the brood who will be "stan."

 

[thelostsock]

When I got Billa his name was Scratch. I see here that many people do not rename rehomes but I think this is the exception. I believe Scratch got that name because he would scratch a lot (thats what I was told by the previous owners). Well lo and behold he also had very dry skin, bad ears and lived in a wooden house. Any guesses why he was so itchy?

So we renamed him Billa. Some people ask me if I mean "Bella" and I don't, then they say that Billa is a girly name. I dont think it is either masculine or feminine. It suits him.

Billabong is an Australian word for a oxbow lake and is in the first line of one of my favourite songs called "Waltzing Matilda" which goes like this "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong" and although I am Canadian I still think Billa suits my little hedgie. He seems like a Billa. He is like the creation of an oxbow lake when there is all of this movement of the water around various bends during its creation and in the end it ends up being just stagnant pool of water. This is like my little hedgie, who will actively and energetically explore all around me and the blankie we are in during bonding time only to tire himself out and fall asleep in the blankie that he spent so much time exploring. Once he has found his little spot he will not budge until I put him back into his cage.

 

[magenh]

I do a little of all of the options in choosing animal names.

Our dog Sophie came with her name (from my sister,so we didnt' change it).

My husband named his can Imp because her eyes were huge and so dark amber they were reddish when she was a kitten.

My calico is Emma because she chose that name over Coral (she responded to it everytime I said Emma).

Our newest cat, Mao, got his name because that's what my friend's 1 year old called him.

My Cairn terrier is Buster because I wanted a name related to "The Wizard of Oz" and that's one of the actors who played a flying monkey, and we thought it would be funny to warn people not to make me mad or I would sic my flying monkey on them! :lol: :lol:

Our snake is Cuffs because she likes to put you in handcuffs when you hold her.

My husband suggested both of the names for our hedgies being a smart-aleck and they stuck. Mac was named because I wanted to name him PC after the leader of the Popples. My husband, being a Mac person told me we already had too many PCs in the house and we needed another Mac.

Tak got her name from a character on the old Nick-toon "Invader Zim".

If any of the pre-chosen names hadn't fit our pets we would have changed them, but we got lucky and they have all fit perfectly!

 

[LilacCity]

I started off giving all my hedgies Algerian names that I found on baby name websites.....Ameerah, Xavier, Inara, Noya, etc. But, as I added hedgies from other breeders to my herd that had already been named, I just started picking names I liked. I named one of my most recent hedgies "Baya", which I thought was a beautiful name, until I discovered it means "ugly looking" in Swahili- oops! :lol:

 

[sagesmommy]

hah! oops!

I name my animals more recently after Anime. I have been getting really into anime so , yeah!
Chihiro my cat after Spirited Away , Sophee my rat after Howls moving Castle , Toola my rat after Origin Spirits of the Past .
I also pick names from other movies , like Meesha , from Hannibal Rising.

But a few are just random , they just fit. Like Sage the hedgehog! hehe I thought her name was going to be Bella , then I saw her , she looked at me , and I said ... okay , Sage it is!

Then sometimes i just name them cause its funny .... like my algae eater in my fish tank , his name is buster ( after a dust buster!)

 

[hdcross]

I just got my Hedgehog 4 days ago.. and when going to name him i asked all my friends for ideas

They sent in a whole bunch and I compiled a list from most popular to least
Most was Shadow, next was Hide/hyde, 3rd was devil/demon (he has 2 white spots that resemble horns)

Then I looked for a name to incorporate them: there is a line form the musical Jekyll and Hide that goes"the shadow of hydes evil will forever ruin the good of my intent"

Therefore I named him"the shadow of Hyde's evil" But I call him Hyde (after the character and the natural behavior"

 

[raisinsushi]

I have realized over the years that my pets have been mostly named after food, with the exception of the very original name of "Fluffy" for my Pomeranian

Raisin Sushi was a suggestion made by one of my friends, she suggested Raisin and then Sushi, and i thought the combo would be amusing

My hamsters before my hedgie were named Butterscotch, Waffle, and Caramel

As you can tell i happen to be a fan of food LOL

 

[gyaku]

Well I guess you could say I named mine after two movies, Sonic the Hedgehog and Captin Tiberious Kirk the rest of my hedgies later on might be from my own stories... Like Gyakudoshi, Mikeau, Kain, Threshia... Yes I have lots more