Generic 'Visiting cat' became Dinjo, Monsieur le Blanc, Hisser, and Speedwagon, for the several cats that visited over time. We also had Carmella, George, and Obi wan Kenobi (kittens we rehomed)
Bellatrix Queen of the Night (Black Cat) Leela Priestess of Chaos (One-eyed Semi Feral Tabby) Prince Julius of the Dawn (10 month old Orange Cat) Hugo the Bard (Standard Poodle)
Had a cat named Bud. Got a female cat who had kittens. One looked exactly like Bud but smaller. So he got named Bud Light. Also had Grayboy, Bob, and White Cat.
Vet never called out my cat's name. Just mine with a "Mr. *Insertsurnamehere" She made it to 23 so lots of visits to the vet. Miss Crotch, you are still remembered and loved.
Stubbornness I think. She was the runt and stayed tiny. Preferred dogs over other cats, followed us all the way on the 2 miles we did for dog walks. Was only inside at night for most of her life. Very nice and cuddly and even muscled through her last 5 years with kidney failure. Had to put her down when she quit eating and wouldn't leave her litter box. With me most of my adult life, a true friend.
My brother has a "Spare Cat". It was granted to him by the Cat Distribution System when it just walked into his house one day and made itself at home. The other cats aren't fond of it, but aren't mean to it so it kind of just chills in out of the way places and only comes out when the other cats are sleeping elsewhere. So... he has a spare cat.
We had a main cat and a backup auxiliary cat in case the primary cat failed to meet the household's cat needs. It's like a generator you can fire up when you need more power.
Mine doesn't check the receipt, but I go to Walmart about once every 8-12 months. Not one of my favorite places tbh. I'd like to go less often, I wish we had a Costco that wasn't 40-80 minutes away (traffic can be hell in the suburbs of a major city and I live outside of the burbs in shitsville, nowhere, USA).
Yeah I feel the same way. I don’t go very often either, but there’s a couple things that only they seem to carry and I can’t get anywhere else in the area.
I had a guinea pig named Sprinter Van. She looked like one. White with black paws and a big black spot on the side of her face. Miss her. Sweetest lil pig.
There is some major irony, in that Magneto patterned the mutants use of codes names after Malcolm X discarding his surname "Little" as his "oppressor's slave name", and your wife quite literally beLittle-ing them again. 😜
Pets I have named: Gaspode (dog-Discworld) , ViKtor von Trapp (Victor mousetraps-tuxedo), Dug (Up-grey cat), Elphaba (Wicked (shes 8)-pittie), Dory (Finding-orange cat), Magnus (Chase-dog), Niko (TLT-cat).
My dad had Robespierre and Charlemagne. Feel like you two might have gotten on. My mom's side named them after musicians. Dizzy, Billie, Molly (as in "Good golly, Miss". She was a scardey cat.)... And probably others I forget at the moment. Lotta pets in that house over time.
Yeah, we probably would've. I named all my pets for philosophers or intelligentsia. I've decided that if I ever get a dog, I would name him after John Locke, just so I could have the attack command "Target, Locke".
And that was her full name: She- Ra. Princess of Power. She was this tiny calicoat girl and she would beat the hell out of her rowdy brothers Morton and Mita who were each more than twice her size (when they misbehaved)
Oh, I that's Sophie to a T. I got her as a playmate for Seneca. I was worried he'd overpower her, since he's a fierce little redhead, and has enough energy to outlast 2 grown cats in succession, of of which is also a male uncastrated redhead. But no, Sophie can more than stand up to him, and regularly outmatches him, despite her being clearly the runt of the litter. (Also, I'm from your generation, so that was also the She-Ra I grew up with.)
Uhm, actually, for the pronunciation of my cat's name, the "r" is silent. As is the "n" for Kant. So their names are pronounced "De kat" & "Kat". And yes, I am Dutch. ;-p
I think so. As said to another, for the pronunciation of my first cat's name, the "r" is silent. As is the "n" for Kant. So their names are pronounced "De kat" & "Kat". & yes, I am Dutch. 😜 That also matters for Seneca, because that makes the pronunciation of the first syllable a homophone for "sane", which he is anything but, but keeps me. Sophie,my 1st femme, is named for one of the premier salon hosts during the Reign of Terror (French Revolution), making her the midwife of western feminism.
Philosophers are a great choice. I named mine after physicists. Faraday lives with my parents because he didn't want to move and James Clark Maxwell is a Iazy slob.
I don't want to be that guy... but pet's name is a common security question and also often used in passwords... just make sure that's not the case for you.
I do similar. Name of the website, shifted on the keyboard in a set pattern. Means I remember one pattern, yet have different passwords for everything.
That would require like 5000 people to have been born on the same day as me. I wonder what they would do then.
I jest because here our equivalent of social security number is your birthday plus 4 random numbers. The 3rd number represents gender at birth. I suppose the odds of 10 000 people born in one day is small in a country like mine.
You know you don't have to use real information when you set up those security questions, right? Nobody is checking if you actually grew up on Fuckery St.
I just make a note of the question and autogenerate something randomly. Once you get used to that and have some form of password manager, you get used to it.
NineByNine
Mine's called Cathulhu.
excaliboar
Biggie Snugs, Professor Girl, Sweetpea, Goyle, Cooper
dghughes
"Spare Cat" LMAO!!
barbarian818
Lady Astrid. Princess of Pudge, Countess of Calorie-Counting and Duchess of Dump. Truck.
Twinklepot
Generic 'Visiting cat' became Dinjo, Monsieur le Blanc, Hisser, and Speedwagon, for the several cats that visited over time. We also had Carmella, George, and Obi wan Kenobi (kittens we rehomed)
idontwannasaymyname
Spawn of Satan is a chihuahua right?
benderfreak
They all are, yes.
BoopScoopZoop
Bellatrix Queen of the Night (Black Cat)
Leela Priestess of Chaos (One-eyed Semi Feral Tabby)
Prince Julius of the Dawn (10 month old Orange Cat)
Hugo the Bard (Standard Poodle)
Velorex
Black Mamba
danielsan1977
*Mambaaaaaaaaaa
hetherweaversmagic
Mango, Mavi & Kika
abeansits
Goblin and Paul
EmilyPseu
My utter embarrassment when I realized I’d put my dog Ozzie’s full name on his vet paperwork, and the tech called for “The Great and Powerful Oz.”
Lampmonster
Had a cat named Bud. Got a female cat who had kittens. One looked exactly like Bud but smaller. So he got named Bud Light. Also had Grayboy, Bob, and White Cat.
Shickzilla
Taki & Flamin Hot Cheeto
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Shickzilla
They're both orange and white litter mates that were already named that when I got them and kept the names cause why not. /gallery/rbRbJJ2
TheLooja
My cats name was Leopleurodon, like from Candy Mountain Charlie but with "Leo" instead of "Lio"
Arcanum3000
"Spawn of Satan" That's a cat.
ArkoneAxon
Or a small dog.
Arcanum3000
Maybe a bird.
exbenedict
Alexander Hameowlton
themikep
why do pets get all the cool name and not us
masterpainimeanbetty1
Lunchbox is a good name for a kitty
AlwaysDownvoteDots
And a fat man in an overcoat
Catterverse
My cats, Ol'Gran (rip), Lil'Tato(rip), Fluffbutt Von Floofbottom, The Void.
UpvoteBuddyJesus
How come everyone knows that "Spawn of Satan" is a cat?
zerogiven
Because that particular vet doesn't treat chihuahuas.
UpvoteBuddyJesus
Fair enough
nalagy
Kids named my cat star diamond wolfe
HomeDepotAisle15
Like " Galaxy Destroyer"
Vidikron
Vet never called out my cat's name. Just mine with a "Mr. *Insertsurnamehere" She made it to 23 so lots of visits to the vet. Miss Crotch, you are still remembered and loved.
Affray
Nice, I had a childhood cat make it to 25ish. He was born before my baby sister and died after she graduated college. Some cats just have it
pastyorplastic
23!! What was her beauty secret?
Vidikron
Stubbornness I think. She was the runt and stayed tiny. Preferred dogs over other cats, followed us all the way on the 2 miles we did for dog walks. Was only inside at night for most of her life. Very nice and cuddly and even muscled through her last 5 years with kidney failure. Had to put her down when she quit eating and wouldn't leave her litter box. With me most of my adult life, a true friend.
ArchaeoJones
My trash gremlin was 26 or 27 or so when I lost her. And it was 100% stubbornness and spite that kept her going.
She loved her warm spot and her dry food, despite having like 2 teeth left and wet food twice daily.
I miss her, so much.
SJBSavageInk
I just have zarya. She is not always a good cat but she does make faces like this sometimes which is nice.
zerogiven
"I am always a perfect cat. Any observed imperfection must therefore be the fault of a flawed observer."
cryborg
Hah. Oh no! Spare Cat??
mormacil
My aunt had an unexpected third cat she called Extra.
nonickname23
Could be a ginger cat that behaves like Prince Harry.
hyperchondriac
You misunderstand. They call him that because he knocks down whatever's still standing after the first cat.
thisnameisntfunny
My brother has a "Spare Cat". It was granted to him by the Cat Distribution System when it just walked into his house one day and made itself at home. The other cats aren't fond of it, but aren't mean to it so it kind of just chills in out of the way places and only comes out when the other cats are sleeping elsewhere. So... he has a spare cat.
rox99
co-dependent people should always have a spare cat, or multiple spares if possible...
AllTheGoodOnesAreTaken68
I mean, I'm our cat's spare human so I get it.
FatBastardVegetarian
Dave Barry used to write of his dog and his back-up auxiliary dog.
zerogiven
Heh, I remember those columns. "Earnest, our large main dog, and Zippy, our small emergency backup dog."
FatBastardVegetarian
Hello, fellow old person.
cansado
We had a cat we named Spare Cat. She was a dedicated backup in case of primary cat failure.
EndlingGer
As long as it’s not for coyote feeding…
masterpainimeanbetty1
*starts crying*
Tigersterne
k5user
hey.. we had a spare cat growing up..
FiveHeadedSnakeGod
Spare... for what?
Howlingowl
Mincemeat!
FoamingToad
Menchi!
MelodyLightfoot
Ree81
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG0_2kyT0
Best anime ending ever - Must watch!
FiveHeadedSnakeGod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqADwd52eSE
SmoeAhsolse
In case the other one is napping.
wobblecopterrrr
that's popop's bestie =^•~=
ChelChehalem
We had a main cat and a backup auxiliary cat in case the primary cat failed to meet the household's cat needs. It's like a generator you can fire up when you need more power.
Ree81
Menchi
OGs remember
Sebastopol140
Walmart??? Naaah that's cruel.
CgnCalling
Everything except the prices keeps falling
lapus
Probably found it there.
Rocknswimmer116
And hopefully only called Wally or Marty at home
zarathon
Full name is "Get's More Ass Than a Walmart Toilet Seat", but just "Walmart" for short.
Mightynineftw2000
I have a friend that rescued a kitten from a box in the Zaxby's parking lot. She named him Zaxby. Could be the same situation here
ironymus
Still better then wall fart
BananaForScaIe
Pants never cover the right parts.
ClownishAntics
Always greets you at the door
sockshoesockshoe
Aww haha :)
cbjfan
"Welcome to Costco, I love you"
morningxafter
I haven’t been greeted going into a Walmart in years. These days they’re just standing at the exit and checking your receipt.
drcookieninja
Mine still has a guy.
Tumescentpie
Mine doesn't check the receipt, but I go to Walmart about once every 8-12 months. Not one of my favorite places tbh. I'd like to go less often, I wish we had a Costco that wasn't 40-80 minutes away (traffic can be hell in the suburbs of a major city and I live outside of the burbs in shitsville, nowhere, USA).
morningxafter
Yeah I feel the same way. I don’t go very often either, but there’s a couple things that only they seem to carry and I can’t get anywhere else in the area.
Lonecoon
Barbacoa is a great name for a pot belly pig.
unluckyandbored
This is a better one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMA3x-bc8iM
Niagaran
Or Chicharrrrron
kensae4
Or guinea pig.
gluttonygreedpridewrathslothlustenvy
I like the meme of the Peppa Pig jigsaw puzzle. I'm too lazy to look for it but it's just a package of lardons.
thisiswhyicanthaveanythingnice
Chris P Bacon
nothingunused
Prescient.
NOINITIATIVE
it's usually goat.
NomDeImguerre
My cats' names are, in order: Rene Descartes (Deceased), Immanuel Kant, Seneca, Marie Louise Sophie de Grouchy Madame de Condorcat.
Smoretank
I had a guinea pig named Sprinter Van. She looked like one. White with black paws and a big black spot on the side of her face. Miss her. Sweetest lil pig.
MattoJanai
I had two rats. One named Biscuit the Duchess of Scratchy Bottoms. And the other was named Truck
SuperSaiyanYamcha
I had a Cairn Terrier named August Percival Whipplebottom the Third. (Despite being the first of his line)
To be fair; I was left unsupervised with his license paperwork.
NomDeImguerre
Don't put yourself down like that. Wear your whimsicality with intention and pride!
marchingFishes
Our cats are called Rogue and Storm, but my wife named them Roguey Pierogi Applesauce Meow Meow and Stormy Warmy Doodlebug Cha Cha.
NomDeImguerre
There is some major irony, in that Magneto patterned the mutants use of codes names after Malcolm X discarding his surname "Little" as his "oppressor's slave name", and your wife quite literally beLittle-ing them again. 😜
kixxarse1986
My sister (5) named our first dog Terri. Bc she was Terrier. She later had a Beta fish named Alpha.
kixxarse1986
Pets I have named: Gaspode (dog-Discworld) , ViKtor von Trapp (Victor mousetraps-tuxedo), Dug (Up-grey cat), Elphaba (Wicked (shes 8)-pittie), Dory (Finding-orange cat), Magnus (Chase-dog), Niko (TLT-cat).
Nosdarb
My dad had Robespierre and Charlemagne. Feel like you two might have gotten on. My mom's side named them after musicians. Dizzy, Billie, Molly (as in "Good golly, Miss". She was a scardey cat.)... And probably others I forget at the moment. Lotta pets in that house over time.
EmilyPseu
I need to know what silly nicknames evolved from Robespierre and Charlemagne.
Nosdarb
Robsie, RoRo, and Char. Nothing too bizarre, sadly.
NomDeImguerre
Yeah, we probably would've. I named all my pets for philosophers or intelligentsia. I've decided that if I ever get a dog, I would name him after John Locke, just so I could have the attack command "Target, Locke".
WhoHim
I had Fizzgig, Gremlin, Mephisto, and FooFoo Cuddly Poops Devourer of Worlds
10wreckedtenrecs
Fizzgig!!
ironymus
Foofoo cuddly poops is a cute name for a sabre-tooth moose lion!
WhoHim
A person of culture, I see
CgnCalling
My cats were: Morton, She-Ra, Mita and Sam. Dogs: Rowdy, Chris,Balou, Kimba, Ole, Chris(topher), Chester, Beau, Moby, Grizz Lee.
NomDeImguerre
...She-Ra?
CgnCalling
I am bit older - so it’s from Masters of the Universe… He -Man and such.
CgnCalling
And that was her full name: She- Ra. Princess of Power. She was this tiny calicoat girl and she would beat the hell out of her rowdy brothers Morton and Mita who were each more than twice her size (when they misbehaved)
NomDeImguerre
Oh, I that's Sophie to a T. I got her as a playmate for Seneca. I was worried he'd overpower her, since he's a fierce little redhead, and has enough energy to outlast 2 grown cats in succession, of of which is also a male uncastrated redhead. But no, Sophie can more than stand up to him, and regularly outmatches him, despite her being clearly the runt of the litter. (Also, I'm from your generation, so that was also the She-Ra I grew up with.)
KaIsAWheelbarrow
You named a cat Descartes, and then didn't name the next cat Dehorse?
spinballwizardmtg
You can't put Descartes before Dehorse...
NomDeImguerre
Uhm, actually, for the pronunciation of my cat's name, the "r" is silent. As is the "n" for Kant. So their names are pronounced "De kat" & "Kat". And yes, I am Dutch. ;-p
Imaybegotthis
Ene Decartes
NomDeImguerre
.... What are you trying to say?
Imaybegotthis
He said take the "R" out, but there are 2. So I took the first out. He meant Rene Descates, I made it Ene Descartes.
LeoFloof
I have two cats.
Sir Leo Prince of Floof, Slayer of Bugs and Protector of Parkside,
and Chris.
ChillyBackWater
My friend's two cats are: Awesome Cat Five Thousand (A.C.5K) ..... And Kevin.
NomDeImguerre
... Is Chris one of those cats that always looks like he's Cross?
moustacheKin
And does he like apple sauce?
nichfra
Very good names.
NomDeImguerre
I think so. As said to another, for the pronunciation of my first cat's name, the "r" is silent. As is the "n" for Kant. So their names are pronounced "De kat" & "Kat". & yes, I am Dutch. 😜 That also matters for Seneca, because that makes the pronunciation of the first syllable a homophone for "sane", which he is anything but, but keeps me. Sophie,my 1st femme, is named for one of the premier salon hosts during the Reign of Terror (French Revolution), making her the midwife of western feminism.
nichfra
Philosophers are a great choice. I named mine after physicists. Faraday lives with my parents because he didn't want to move and James Clark Maxwell is a Iazy slob.
NomDeImguerre
There is some irony in Faraday keeping himself caged...
LoftheDesert
I don't want to be that guy... but pet's name is a common security question and also often used in passwords... just make sure that's not the case for you.
Fanner50
Use an address. It already has numbers and letters. Then, substitute a=@, s=$, I=!,e=€
Findrek
It's usually your first pet, not your current pet.
AranaDiscoteca
My passwords are all sentences relating to how I feel about what is asking me for a password.
ToSisPoS
My kitty is named 3482 6763 256 exp 12/27 cvv 665
seckzie
The likelyhood that a random stranger in the vets waiting room would both know who you are AND go and use your pets name for that, is slim.
LoftheDesert
I was referring to the title of the post. "Feel free to tell me your pet's name."
Grambot
Just learn to use a password manager and treat security questions like extra passwords. Town I grew up in? XY8kn2V#T@pl700gg
PraiseThePook
Whoa, that's a coincidence! My wife and I got married in XY8kn2V#T@pl700gg! Small world!
TanithRosenbaum
Hmmm, Is that XY8kn2V#T@pl700gg, France, or XY8kn2V#T@pl700gg, Colorado?
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
The answer to those questions is always the Proper Noun of what's being asked. First pet's name? First Pet. That way I don't have to remember shit
BigFatFailureTurtle
I do similar. Name of the website, shifted on the keyboard in a set pattern. Means I remember one pattern, yet have different passwords for everything.
mystik42
"I bet your mothers maiden name is not one of these common names!"
mystik42
"What your pin tells you about your mental health! Reply with your pin to find out!"
SeanBeanJovi
1-2-3-4-5
cow042
Thats the same as my luggage
CallThisAUsername
Sapient pearwood ?
zafner
All true, and it's why I gave my little Bobby Tables his full name
willgameforgold
Luckily if you accidentally post your password here on Imgur it will censor is for you: ************
AlwaysDownvoteDots
My cat's name is hunter2
KolaBorehole
I can’t think of a single website I use that still uses security questions for passwords. It’s all 2FA authenticators or text.
minipancho94
That's why I only use names of dead pets.....
Scahrossar
Security questions are, by their nature, not secure. Just answer them with random bullshit and store that in a password manager.
cryborg
I don't follow any of the usual patterns. My password is your mother's maiden name. Heh. Adios!!
PraiseThePook
Hey, if systems security was better it wouldn't matter that your password is password!
astrangehop
If you have the same social security # as someone else, the government will give you 5 grand for pointing it out ..
LoftheDesert
That would require like 5000 people to have been born on the same day as me. I wonder what they would do then.
I jest because here our equivalent of social security number is your birthday plus 4 random numbers. The 3rd number represents gender at birth. I suppose the odds of 10 000 people born in one day is small in a country like mine.
mt77932
I set up all my security questions with wrong answers
NomDeImguerre
It's not.
Fanner50
Use an address. It already has numbers and letters. Then, substitute a=@, s=$, I=!,e=€
Clayman8
Youd have to be really good or immensely lucky to brute force or guess Funky Town Spaghetti, to be honest.
bamblebimble
Idk, id give it about 10 minutes on a dictionary password cracking attempt
cosonfused
People post all kinds of shit on their socials. "look at what my cat Funky Town Spaghetti did"
irmonkey
You know you don't have to use real information when you set up those security questions, right? Nobody is checking if you actually grew up on Fuckery St.
nothingunused
Hang on, let me write that down...r, y, s, t. OK, got it!
FoamingToad
I just make a note of the question and autogenerate something randomly. Once you get used to that and have some form of password manager, you get used to it.