The Nation’s Funniest Pet Names
Published: Thursday 28th Aug 2014
To celebrate the launch of our new interactive pet-friendly map to Devon and Cornwall, we hosted a competition where we asked the people of the UK to tell us the funniest/weirdest pet names they’ve ever heard or used. The suggestions were hilarious. And although we had to pick one winner from hundreds of entries, we really found it hard narrowing them down.
So as a way of saying thanks to everyone who kindly entered, we’ve compiled our top 50 best pet names. We hope these make you laugh as much as we did!
In no particular order:
- Taxi the dog – Yvonne Bruce
- Pugnacious the Pug – Brian Bailey
- Martin Von Peebles the 3rd the cat – Claire D Leahy
- Bimbo the guinea pig – Linda Sallie Guest
- Fizziwig the hamster – Sarah Evans
- Chewbarker the dog – Sylvia Gill
- Herbert Sherbert the dog – Kat Walsh
- Ewok – Amelia Avossa
- Higgs-Bosem the cat – Susan Naylor
- Fraidy the cat – Caro M Tongue
- Only the fish – Barbara Lizzie Tanner
- Lecky (short for Electric Light Socket) the dog – Danny Daniel
- Tivoli (spelt backwards means “I Love it”) the persian cat – Louise Finch
- Mucus the cat – Mark Lloyd
- Psycho the black cat – Carol Clement
- Defleada Hog the Hedgehog – Kim Styles
- Astrophe the cat – Aliza Goren
- Waffles the Newfoundland – Mark Milsom
- Mrs Bridges the dog – Lynneth Caldwell
- Okay and Dokay the two dogs – Liz Briggs
- Tripod the three legged cat – Liz Denial
- Bacchus the Great Dane – Richard Randall
- Speedy Gonzalez..the tortoise – Anne Eames
- Asker the dog – Annie Richardson
- Paco Rabanne the cat – Karen Richards
- Carwash the cat – Helen Spilllet
- Cheesecake the cat – Lindsey Clark
- Hoofhearted the goat – Joe Squire
- Lara Croft the hamster – Janet Goodlad
- John West the fish – Sarah Patrick
- Kiev and Nugget the chickens – Danielle Marcroft
- Brian Furry the cat from the 1970s – Bob Hilliar
- Tom jones the dog – Susan Gough
- Korma, Tikka and Vindaloo the chickens – Anna Maria Tuckett
- Captain James T Kirk the dog – Anthony Webster
- Asbo the dog – Julie Perry
- Dolce and Gabbana the dogs – Jackie Oneil
- Trevor McDonald the fish – Reb Lacy
- Onion the dog – Caroline Baker
- Conversational Dave the cat – Laura Hadland
- Maximus Aurelius Commander of the Alley Cats of the North – Austin Phillip
- Hamlet the great dane – Helen Stratton
- Sin the black cat – Sandy Hill-Smith
- Pineapple the cat – Laura Herbert
- Alvin Starburst the dog – Laura Marshall
- Floater the fish – Sarah Stocks
- Claude the kitten – Stephanie Whitehouse
- Cupboard the dog – Kayla Shortt
- Satan the black cat – Wesley Stuart
- Fish the dog – Pauline McDonald
The Winner is…Laura Hadland with her winning answer: Conversational Dave the cat. Laura will be sent a luxury Regency hamper worth over £200, plus a few pet treats for Conversational Dave of course!
