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gemini_girl
Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:04 pm
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I named my boys Snickers and Twix hmmmmmmm gues I was hungry for candy when I named them 
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Mom to 2 ratties: Snickers and Twix, 1 Hermit Crab: Sandie, 3 kitties: Nadine,Angel, Cookie.
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Spadez
Sat Jan 28, 2006 9:46 pm
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Basil : My mom was cooking with herbs the night before I got her.
Nutmeg (RIP) : Same as above.
Bear : She is black, fiesty, and had a bear like face (Big chin!)
Stumbleweed : My sister dropped her in the store, felt bad lol so she came with us! Originally was tumbeweed, but stumbeweed osunded cuted for her.
Shroomsicle : Was orginally Mini Nutmeg, but the she got faqtter lol, so I was liek you look like a little Mushroom! so Shroom came into play.
Matilda : My older sister named her that because she was runty and cute.
willow (RIP) : Was orginalyl snakebate (Was her name when I got her) Then her gentle nature, adorable hood, and many days pondering what ot call this old girl, willow became her name and suited her really well. Her favoutrite toy was this ball, and I recently found what they were called Willow Balls, Coinsidence? Maybe.
That's all!
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melanie
Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:06 am
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Almost a couple years ago, I adopted 2 rats and 5 mice at the same time. I am a fan of old soulful blues and bluegrass music, and oldies in general.
So...
I honored the rattie girls with the names of 2 of my most favorite divas...
Aretha (Franklin) and Etta (James).
The mice boys got, for example, Marvin (as in Gaye) and Otis (as in Williams, the founder of The Temptations... not Redding, whom is equally deserving of a namesake).
When I got my newest 3 rattie girls, I had considered sticking with the diva theme. Maybe giving them names like Tina (Turner) or Nina (Simone) or Mary J (Blige) or Chaka Khan or....
But after recently losing Etta, I couldn't do it.
So I named one Emmie Lou as a variation on Emmylou Harris. I then asked my boyfriend to pick 2 girly yet respectful sounding names. He chose Agnes and Matilda. 
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vanbo
Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:15 am
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We just got two girls, about 3-4 weeks ago... one albino, and one agouti. My 6-year old though of the names Sugar and Spice. Very clever!
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Binky_My_Baby
Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:03 am
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My Rat Names
Binky (RIP) - Cross between the names Pinky and the Brain - remember the cartoon
Mr. Bojangles - Named after the song
Yzerman - named after the captain of the Detroit Red Wings
Shannahan - another Detroit Red Wings hockey player
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bored_bel
Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:01 am
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I was going to name my first ever rats Mocha and Latte as they were coffee colour and creamy coffee colour.. But that got changed to Maggie and Flo, not really sure where they came from.. I just wanted some old fashioned sounding names!!
My next rat was from a friend who couldn't look after her anymore.. She was originally Pernod, but I didn't like it, so changed it to Poncho.. (It was going to be Pancho after Pancho Villa, but again, I changed my mind..
Scamps was Gus, Tom, Fry, and a load of other names before he was Scamps.. and then that was Scampi.. He was just so jumpy and into everything..
When I bought two brothers, who turned out to be brother and sister, one had a helmet so I was going to name him warrior, He turned out to be the she.. I have always wanted to call my daughter Hero (when I have one..) so I decided that Warrior would be Hero.. Her brother then adopted the name Warrior.
Then Hero decided that she was pregnant (store made pregnancy..) so after weeks of playing with her 9 babies, I finally came up with names..
I wanted unusual ones, so I typed in descriptive features of them into a thesaurus and named them after one of the alternative words! So..
The Girls:
Harry- has a face like a badger, and to badger is also to "harry"
Crue- is variegated, which turned up Motley.. hence the "Crue" (cheesy, I don't like the story but I like the name!!)
Maude- is the odd one out.. named after my grandmother.
Eidolon- she has a triangle on her back almost like another tail.. To shadow is to tail, and another word for a shadow is "Eidolon"
HotFoot- has a lightning bolt on her head, to bolt is to "hot foot"
The Boys:
Salty- is a blue rat, and apparently, when blue means distasteful, it is also known as "Salty".. not that he's a distasteful rat!
Baffle- has a missing bit in his back stripe.. which looked a bit like a cross. Apparently there is something of "to stump" in cross, and to stump is to "baffle"
Ilk- has a complete "stripe" and to be of the same stripe is to be of the same "ilk"
Monk- has no synonyms in the thesaurus, but he has a bald spot like a monk!!
So that's how I got my names!!
Bee
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~Bee~
Scamps
Warrior
Hero
Maggie n Flo
The Bunch of Tiny Pinkies
RIP Poncho.. The best second hand rat there ever was  |
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