Naming your family pet is always a fun experience; less serious and with more room for creativity than naming a child, the pet names can be meaningful but still a bit silly. Because after all, the other animals aren't making fun of little Moonpie for his ridiculous name. Or are they?
Your local vet has an incredibly challenging, rewarding and often heartbreaking job, but hearing all the hilariously inventive and funny names that people have chosen for their furry friends must provide a welcome bit of light relief. This viral Twitter thread began at the vet where Caskie Mushens literary agent Juliet Mushens was waiting, and she overheard some of the unique pet names as they came and went. “I have two British Shorthair cats, Neville and Luna, and they were there having their jabs,” Juliet explained to Bored Panda. “Funny pet names are clearly a universally popular theme! I am a fan of old man names for pets, but I also enjoyed the incongruous names like ‘Tinkerbell’ for a Rottweiler.”
What about you? Scroll down below to check out some of the best tweets of funny puns in animal names below, and share your own stories in the comments!
Juliet started a twitter thread sharing the funniest animal names she's heard at the vet
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Soon, many people joined in:
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One of my cat is named Ned and the other one Flanders. I thought it was funny 13 years ago...
I never watched star wars(never had the time) but this is adorable---------Turns out people are freaking out over me never watch star wars. I can't sit still long enough I have like 4 TV shows I have to finish (Lucifer, sex education,re-watching the office and criminal minds) OH and the lead singer of My chemical romance has a new tv show coming to Netflix sometime this month and I gotta support my baby Gerard Way!
My wife named all of our chickens, some of the names include: Elinore, Beatrice, Florencia b. Chicken, Victoria, and more. She gave them all proper English names except for the one I named. Which is a black chicken by the name of Morticia.
We have 2 cats. One black one named Ninja & a tortoiseshell one named Turtle.
My tortoise is named Zippy. I wanted her to have a positive self image. You can call her Missus Zippy.
Reminds me of the three little French kittens, une, deux and trois, who went for a walk on the ice, but the ice was too thin and the kittens fell in, and une, deux, trois cat sank.
My Aunt adopted a 3 legged cat in the nineties. He had been brought in to the shelter after he had been knocked down by a car. My cousin insisted on calling him Chumba Wumba after the pop group who was around at the time had a hit with the song "I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again. ".
Ha, thats cute! One of my online friends does animal rescues and she fostered a 3 legged dog she eventually adopted named "Trikael" (like Michael, but a Trike, like those 3 wheeled kids bikes) he gets Trikey for short though
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in 2017 after Hurricane Irma, my girlfriend found a 3 month kitten under our car. we took him in and named him Mr. Meowgi. Our vet loves his name every time we take him for their shots
My Aunt adopted a 3 legged cat in the nineties. He had been brought in to the shelter after he had been knocked down by a car. My cousin insisted on calling him Chumba Wumba after the pop group who was around at the time had a hit with the song "I Get Knocked Down But I Get Up Again. ".
Ha, thats cute! One of my online friends does animal rescues and she fostered a 3 legged dog she eventually adopted named "Trikael" (like Michael, but a Trike, like those 3 wheeled kids bikes) he gets Trikey for short though
Load More Replies... in 2017 after Hurricane Irma, my girlfriend found a 3 month kitten under our car. we took him in and named him Mr. Meowgi. Our vet loves his name every time we take him for their shots
