It was a day for celebration. Our daughter, Ariel, and her husband, Yossa, just had their third child. They kept the baby’s name a secret.
My husband, their other two children and I poured into Ariel’s hospital room to meet the new family member.
When they introduced us to “Baby William”, his name had a familiar ring, but it took a minute to recall why. Her husband gently picked up William and said, “Come here Buddy” and handed him to my husband.
I knew those names from somewhere! Then it hit! Their cat is William and their dog is Buddy!
The baby was named after a repetitive family name, but the stray cat apparently took longer to name. When the kitten showed up on their porch, Yossa realized he had another pet mouth to feed! He instantly knew he had another "bill" to budget for, including a neutering bill! From Bill, the cat’s name evolved to honor Prince William’s recent marriage. It made sense, the cat had begun ruling their home, it has an outside cat-castle enclosure and it lost its "family jewels"
(neutered).
Their rescue Dalmatian dog was named Buddy because he is everyone’s best buddy.
Pets resonate to their name and feel honored with a good name.
Following are readers’ pets’ names:
- Angel was heaven sent.
- Apollo, Jupiter, and Zeus, were named from mythology.
- Ashley is gray and lives on Ashland Avenue.
- Bear resembles a bear cub.
- Bentley is an upscale and classy dog.
- Casper is white and born on Halloween.
- Chip and Ruffles, named after snacks. Ruffles has fur-ruffles.
- Cooper after Anderson Cooper.
- Digit has extra toes on his paws.
- Dolly-Lama is a Himalayan cat.
- Dotty is covered in dots.
- Ebony's coat is black and her sister, Ivory, is white.
- Evenrude after an outboard motor - you can hear him purring across the room!
- Fixture, is a permanent fixture. He arrived and never left.
- Frisbee, born the year the toy was invented, and he flew around the house like one.
- Frosty, Snowy, and Snowball are white.
- Fuzzers is super fuzzy.
- Gayla’s family attended a swimming gala the day she was adopted.
- George and Bailey's family love the Christmas movie It's a Wonderful Life.
- Gizmo’s parent never remembered the names of objects and is always asking, "Where's the gizmo?"
- Groben's human mother thinks Josh Groben is the cat's meow.
- Honey and Sugar, in honor of their colors and sweet personalities.
- Ivy is clingy and loves sitting in laps
- Jade has green eyes.
- Jewel is the gem of her parents' eyes.
- Jet is black and flies when he runs.
- Lucy, Charlie Brown, Schroeder = Peanuts comic strip characters.
- Magic, Mystery, and Boo live with psychic-mediums. Boo's full name is Mr. Peek A. Boo.
- Midnight's and Luna's fur are as black as the night.
- Miss Wings earned her wings by flying across the USA from her birthplace in Boston to Oregon. Her name is also Angel Monica's nickname in Touched by An Angel.
- Mitsu after a Mitsubishi.
- Mr. Purrfect: Every woman should have a perfect man in her life.
- Purrl is as pretty as a pearl.
- Myster E.'s name is a mystery!
- Nymbus is huge, white, and fluffy like a Cumuli-Nimbus cloud.
- O.J.'s fur is the color of orange juice.
- Pepper is black
- Phideaux (Fido the cat) and Katt (Cat the dog).
- Piccaso, Patches, Collage, Marble, and Puzzle have patches of multicolored fur.
- Ping's and Pong's family love the game.
- Pollyanna was found abandoned, and named after the movie Pollyanna.
- Poofette, a puffy Persian with a French twist to her name.
- Precious is!
- Purlin-Merlin purred deeply and happily.
- Ramsey, after the Egyptian Pharaoh because he sits with both paws out like a furry sphinx.
- Roswell, resembles an alien.
- Schmitten the kitten, because everyone is smitten with her.
- Shaman, Sage, and Spirit are Zen spiritual teachers.
- Sharpie has sharp claws. He is the mascot cat at a stationery store and named after a brand of pens.
- Shasta, a Californian rescue named after Mount Shasta.
- Saga, named for his long tale, errr tail.
- Willow is a soft pussy willow grey.
- Whyspurr rarely speaks.
