Anyone else never name thier pets?

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I never get to name our animals so I give them nicknames. I actually do this to people as well. My 8 year old son does the same thing. He calls me Mom-Mean and he calls our dog Isabelle, Is-A-Dork.

I like your style. We have a cat named Neko--Japanese for cat.

I have a friend whose tabby ran away. She put signs up in her neighborhood and these little kids kept bringing her all these random tabbies that weren't the right one. Eventually, they figured he wasn't coming back so they kept the next random tabby, took down the "lost" signs, and named the new one Rerun.

Me too. I once named a cat Miroku because I was passionate about the anime Inuyasha at the time I got him. If I got a cat at this point in my life, I'd name it after a character from a Tim Burton movie.

I named all three of my cats. Reiser, Dijkstra, and Linus. We call the second 'Dij' for short. It took a lot of convincing to get my wife to let me name them this.

I dont bother to name my pets.. thou i used to as a child. Ive had pet birds.. which i just called them bird or by the kind of bird they were.

My cat was just called puss.

I dont know.. i dont know what i'd name a pet. it seems kind of strange to give a pet a name and not call it by what it is.

I almost named my bearded dragon after a character from Titan A.E. becuase that was what started my special intrest in lizards. I thought "Pred" was too boring and dull sounding and the character wasn't as sweet as my lizard so that wasn't an option. I thought about naming her Cale after the main character but I thought that might confuse her because kale is one of her main food staples. I didn't want to name her, Akima, the only character with a decent name in that movie because I was never found of that character and at the time I thought she was a boy. I read a biograpy of the lady who wrote "Born Free" and she had a little dog named Pippin and a friend of ours said they were thinking about naming their new pet skunk Pippin and Pippin sounded cute just like my lizard so that became her name.

i used to have a dark tabby our german next-door neighbor gave to us, she named it "mushi"- the german folk here will know what that word means, as it is a censored word here on pg-rated WP. maybe she shoulda named it mushi galore.

if that's a james bond reference, then i know what it means too

I love naming my pets. They get human names like Georgie and Lily. The only pets I never name are fish.

My first fish was Mr. Pescado (Spanish for fish)
The second fish was P2 for Pescado the sequal
The first cat was a stray and was called Senior Gato (Mr. Cat in Spanish). My wife changed his name to Mr. Lucky, because he was lucky we took him in. That became Senior Fortunado.
I got the second cat after the divorce. Her name is LC or Elsie, for Little Cat, because my Spanish isn't great and I'm not sure I want to yell "Gatito!" or "Gato Piqueno" because all my neighbors speak Spanish and would laugh at me behind my back (they probably do anyway).
I had a dog named Zena, but she came with that name.
I could never comprehend naming an animal, or a car.
My truck is named "Truck".

I used to believe people often named animals that would recognize its own name, like dogs. I never really named my birds and fishes, although used to reffer to them as by descriptory names, as red, thin, singer. and so on.