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Tue May 31, 2005 10:28 pm

i've seen so many names for all the ratties here and i got to wondering how people came up with them. what made you decide that that was what you were going to call your rat? is there any specail meaning behind the name or did it just sound pretty? is there a story on how your rat got his name?

i'll start off with telling you the reason i named my rats what i named them.

my first rat was Pocket but that wasn't what i wanted her name to be in the beginning. one of the reason her name ended up changed was becasue i couldn't figure out how to spell the name i originally wanted for her and becasue i couldn't pronounce it teh same everytime because iw as trying to figure out which way it was spelt. the meaning for the first name was what the three-headed dog that gaurded the gates of the underworld for Hades was called. you might know what i was trying to get at now. I ended up calling her Pocket however because that's where she liked to stay. I used to take her to school with me adn around town and she would sit in my pocket for the most of it. didn't matter wear the pocket was either so sometimes i had to be careful when i was walking.

i picked up a friend for her after i learned that rats can go through depression if they didn't ahve company and i wasn't able to take her out as often as i could before when my son was born adn i finished school. i named her buddy Lyiint to go with Pocket. so now i had Pocket Lyiint. (and yes i know it should be spelled lint but i needed a 6 letter password and i was thinking of lyiint at the time *shrugs*)

because i liked have pairs named so that the word could together after that i named my next two Dust and Myght so now i had pocket lyiint and dust myght. (i know that it should be splet mite but i decided that if i was going to call a rat after a bug i should at least give her a neat and different way of spelling it.)

then came Nazumi (should be spelt nEzumi but mom got in the habit of calling her with an a instead of it sounding with an e so when i came here to talk about her i misspelled it and it's stuck since) She was a rescue from a neighbor's and they were calling her rat, snake food, or critter, all very undeginifed names so me being the geek i am and reading way too many fanfics i've learned a few japanese words and named her Nezumi (just i spell it with an a so it probably means something different) which means rat but it sounds prettier.

next is spider and snicketts. they were SUPPOSED to be Spider and Webb but mom insisted on calling one snicketts (it actually used to be her nickname for dust. she called myght Lemony for the longest time too...) and dad though naming a rat Webb wasn't going to go over too well with his side of the family with his mom afriad of rats. so this is why we're not telling her that there's a couple babies named after her and her husband here! LOL

the 24 babies: i wanted to name them all after my family from ripples but we couldn't remeber all the names and there wasn't enough names anyway so i decided i wanted to name them all old style farmmy names. so now we have: Emma, Ella, Erma, Lois, Vesta, Dawn, Estelle, Wallace, Percivile(Percy), Archibald(Archie), Lyman, Bartholemew(Bart), Inez, Lydia, Gloria, Squirm (his name jumped out at me when i picked him up so he's the exception to the theme), Edith, Emmett, Hector, Warren, Horse, Clyde and Deuteronmy(Deuter)(also and exception to the rule becasue mom wanted to name one)

so what about you? what stories are behind your names and did you pick them for the meaning or just cause they were pretty? or both?

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1 human son: Corvis
1 feline son: Sesshoumaru
1 lost feline daughter: Snowball

Tue May 31, 2005 10:55 pm

Well I think we name our ratties on three things looks,personality well only two things. Like I was looking through rat names and I liked the names Autumn,Blizzard,and Petunia and I named my sweetheart brown girl Autumn and my sweet berkshire Midnight because she was my fave and all the good comedy central shows come on at that time and also she was black! Mr. Green

Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:10 am

I named Cole because he reminded me of my sister n laws rat couscous. which later became mine..so in a way I just wanted to remember him and Cole is black like Coal...but I spelt it differantly.. The I was working at our annual haunted house...there was this guy who acted as frankenstien...he was great and a riot...his acctual name was Merlin....so when my magical little black and white squish came into my life just after the haunted house...I named him Merlin..then after Merlin I was at a pet shop and saw this rat that looked identical to merlin...after holding her for about 10 seconds she bit me...then I saw her daughter black and shiney with that beautiful white face...I bought her and didnt name her right away. I was originaly going to call her Martha..I dont know why. Then we were headed to wausau which is about 60 miles away..I was sleeping then just sat up and blurted out Magic!! Its only fitting...Then there is Peaches, I wanted to call her squishy because she seemed squishy and nekkid...I left her with mom while I went shopping for toys..I came back and mom said her name is Peachy Peaches...then added that is the color she wanted to paint her kitchen...so Peaches she is..now Sergent...when she was three hours old and the runt of the liter I was worried about her...but 24 hours old she was teh loudest and had teh fullest belly...my comment was oh your loud and bossy!! Sergent just stuck my dad shortened it to Sarge because after all she is a girl.. my sister in law named Buddah because she wants her rat to have a buddah like Merlin...the rest I gave generic names to because I couldnt just call them rat1 2 3 and so forth...so Peaches babies are...Lily, Apricot, Serenity, Sergent for girls and Daniel, Squeek, Aidan, Buddah, Guido, Dusty, and Dustin..my twin white rex boys. Ruby got her name because of how bright ruby colored her eyes are...Jasmine just stuck in my head for the rex veriberk, then theres Haven, and Raven my all black rex girl...the rest so far dont have names were working on it though...Sorry for the long post..lol Shaz

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:01 am

My rat got her name because of her head tilt... it looked like she had the disease that affects rabbits called Snufflez so my sister named her Snuffles.. teh other two got thier names because i wanted mine to be snugglez but i got them confused...lol.. so i named her Skittles so we had Snufflez and Skittles.. my little sisters rat was a sassy lil one so she na,ed her sassy... but Skittles and sassy died so i have Snufflez now

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:25 am

Hoodsie- Cause he has a hood
Mordred- Sounds freaky
Opossum-my mom said he was a naked mole rat I said no he's a naked opossum
Tanek- Name of one of my sims kids, liked the meaning
Gypsy (rip)- I saw one of the girls on here who had a rattie named Gypsy and I always liked it
Zaria (rip)- List of baby names, liked the meaning
Caspy (rip my first rattie)- he was all white and me being 11 yrs old i figured okay he's like Casper lol

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:51 am

Sounds silly to some people, but mine all told me their names (or at least agreed to them) to some extent....

Charlie - called Charlie because he's a Cheeky Charlie.
Finn - my precious Huggleberry Finn (which obviously is a play on Huckleberry Finn) because he was always a super snuggly boy.
Malachi - he's a bit of a sneaky one, is Mal. He used to challenge Charlie for Alpha spot, so then Charlie would put the smackdown on him... at which point he'd come running to me crying and grizzling to get some sympathy... He kind of reminded me of a roleplay character that my flatmate plays by the name of Malachi, hence the name.
Azrael - I've always loved the name since watching The Smurfs as a little girl, and for some reason it suited Az (though he's neither a ginger fleabitten moggie nor the Angel of Death).
Newton & Darwin - I always said I'd get a couple of black and white boy cats called Crick and Watson (after the co discoverers of the structure of DNA) and never have... so I decided a couple of black and white boy rats would be fine instead... however, by next two boys (unlike the previous 4) weren't black and white, so I had to pick two other science names. I decided to settle on Newton and Darwin for them... however, they clearly aren't their real names - Newton is known as Monkey by everyone, and Darwin is Baby (or Wonky because of his head tilt). So they've made clear what their real names are. wink

Maisie - I took one look at my dumbo rex smeeze girl, and the name Maisie just leapt into my head. There was no thought behind it. It was just her name. I've only known one Maisie in my life (who was the old lady who lived next door) and it's never been a name I would normally consider, so I don't know why it popped up other than it just was her name.
Ella - When I got the two girls, Maisie had been in the store for 6 weeks and no-one wanted her because she "looked funny" with her rumply fur and different ears and smudgy nose and butt. She'd been moved in with Ella's litter who were a couple of weeks younger than her so that she wasn't on her own... well Ella ran up to me when I reached in to pick out Maisie, so she came home with me as her buddy. Ella just seemed to suit her really, and one of the meanings is "beautiful" which is apt as she's got a very pretty little face, even for a rat. wink

But it can get a bit muddled at times because my flatmate's mum has a German Shepherd called Ellie. LOL

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:31 am

I named Finn because I just liked the name and it seemed Ratty - then we were trying to figure out other names and we were watching Law & Order so Munch came to be, courtesy of my boyfriend. (Finn and Munch are the detectives played by Richard Belzer and Ice T). We called the white one (the only white one) Raymond because everybody loves Raymond and he was special cuz he was the only white one (he's a bit of a scaredy-weiner-whiner too, which fits hehe). The last one we named Scout because he was the first one to explore his cage although now it seems like that should have been Munch's name because Munch is always trying to get out of his cage and explore!!!

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New mommy to Finn, Munch, Scout & Raymond

Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:34 am

Well we presently have Reeses Pieces my 8 year old named her, after a candy...... then came CGE I named her CGE (Can't Get Enough) because she is so darn adorable, you can not get enough of her! and then cutie pie my 10 year old named her it was also the name of his last rat. Oreo was named by my 4 year old....once again after a sort of candy/cookie! and so then fell Hershey right into place as a sweet tooth family! Sphinx just reminded my of the Sphinx in Egypt! Perfect and mysterious in all ways bless his soul....... Templeton and Splinter came named, after Ninja turtles and charolettes web!

Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:53 am

Lily (R.I.P.)- She had a white stomach (berkshire) and I thought it was like a pretty lily! LOL

Angel (R.I.P.)- She was such a sweetie pie and I though it was a cute name at the age of 10
Mickers- I liked the name Mickey (after a mouse, duh, how original am I? Rolling Eyes

), but it just didn’t fit him. So somehow Mickers came in…
PeBo- I was first going to call him Amigo because he was a rusty charcoal and somehow looked Mexican and his big dumbo ears looked like a sombrero. He was my little “friend” too. Again, I honestly don’t know where I got “PeBo”. Has anyone heard it from somewhere?
Cosby- Rolling Eyes

I’m hopeless! I don’t know where I came up with Cosby. I was just messing with names one day and somehow it came up. He is such a funny little guy too and most definitely a star. wink

Oliver- I think I got him the day after I went to see “Oliver!” at the Paramount Theatre. I also just adore that name. lurve

Milo- Well some of you might know that Milo is the best chocolate milk drink in Australia (where I am from) and its from the movie “Milo and Otis”. (I’ll have to name a rat Otis some day….)
Chewey- Well honestly, I got her to breed with Cosby and BORROW originally. She came with that name. I ended up keeping her of course and she has most DEFINITELY lived up to the name. Blink

Darla- From “The Little Rascals”. My mom kept insisting she didn’t like it because she always thought of the “evil” little girl from “Finding Nemo”. But of course, she ended up being Mom’s favorite.
Piccolo- Kind of a long story. But making it short, the little 4-year-old up the street is somehow obsessed with the word “Piccolo”. She wants to name EVERYTHING piccolo and naturally its her favorite word. I started to grow on the name and decided it was perfect for petite little Piccolo. J
Mona (R.I.P.)- I always loved that name too, like the Mona Lisa. She was so pretty.
Trooper (R.I.P.)- I think most of you know his story (he was a rescue after being abandoned for a month), and I just thought he was such a trooper after all that he’d been through. (Now I realize though, isn’t it spelled “trouper”? Oops. Embarassed

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Wow that’s a lot…..

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The Harbor Rattery
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Wed Jun 01, 2005 3:58 am

i got my rat Pahkee and was sitting at school in the commons room when my friend Myles came in eating korean candy called Pahkee... so that was her and then my other rat Sqwib... her other owner named her skitters and my roommate named her skibblet... so i just started calling her Sqwib after being confused with her being called soo many different names.... then my former rats Dextor i just thought was cute and Ralph my dorm mothers son came up with it and i let that be the name because my dorm mother's son was the one that came with me to the pet store to pick him out and i had problems coming up with a name... so there ya go!

Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:48 am

Matt and I layed in bed throwing out names to each other. We didn't exclusively look for "human" names, but they just seemed to fit better for our girls. Amelia was the easiest to name because it sounds like a flower to me, and she reminds me of a flower (I'm sure I couldn't explain why... she just does). I've always liked the name Savannah (I'm sure it has something to do with "Prince of Tides") and she's just such a layed back southern girl, so it fit her nicely.

Maggie and Sydney were meant to be little kid names, really... and it just so happened we ended up with the most kid-like (read: goofy) ratties ever! Sydney is Syd or Sydders most of the time and Maggie ends up being Magpie, which I think expresses their strange little personalities even more precisely.

A lot of the time they're just "the girls" though

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:04 am

The aliens tell me what to name the rats!!! Ok, not exactly, but I just seem to have a random weird pop cultural name generator in my brain that enables me to name my poor animals after obscure comic book characters (Lobster Johnson), friends' screen names (the late Mallomar Parkingmeter), DJ's (Keoki and Tiesto to name a few), weird literary characters (Fenris Ulf from the Narnia Chronicles), movie characters (One-Eyed Willie and Viggo) and food (Orzo, Darjeeling and Noodle.) I also like pretty human female names for my pretty ladies: Gemma, Esme, Flora, Chloe, Vivian, Beatrice etc.

Lynn and the Ruckus of Rats

Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:05 am

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	One-Eyed Willie

OMG Goonies! Mr. Green

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Andy & The Rats

~ Darwin ~ Maisie ~ Ella ~ Zak ~

~ Finn ~ Malachi ~ Azrael ~ Newton ~ Charlie ~

Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:36 am

Yep, Goonies indeed! She had, well, only one eye, so we had to name her that! And, of course, yogies and other treats were called "rich stuff."

Lynn and the Ruckus of Rats

Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:37 am

My boys, Thunder and Lightning... Can you guess what kind of weather we had the night I brought them home? wink

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-Jaysin

RIP Thunder, my pew petco pal 04/??/03 - 11/22/05

Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:42 am

After naming our 15 rabbits, coming up with names for 4 kids, 3 dogs, 2 cats, and trying to come up with duck names...heck, i'm all named out. Confused

Anyone have any suggestions for ducks I'm all ears! Anyway, it was really my hubby's idea to come up with alcohol names for the rattie babies. Whiskey(rip) was named after Jack Daniels my fave drink with pop when I was younger and childless. We had to have a Bourbon then. I could not in good conscience call them Jack and Jim...my best friend's dog is named Jack (he's a jack russel and her name is Jill...get it jack and jill???) Guiness and Bass were named so because of their colors. Guiness is dark, and Bass is light...there is a drink that my hubby used to drink...a dark and tan which was guiness and bass put together, but it won't mix it will stay seperated, hence the name. I got Ouzo from someone on the forum as I couldn't think of any more alcohol, and Saki because I was thinking Smirnoff at first...Saki tastes like Tequila and Vodka mixed together Yuck

But I like how they sounded. My next rats...oh yes getting more rats will be named oriental themed names I think....I must really get more into my origins! LOL

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Dawn
Never to old to learn something new! Open your mind and let knowledge flow in!

Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:50 am

Oh, we also did holiday names this year! Tsimmes and Elijah arrived on Passover and thus got Pesach related names. Tsimmes means "fuss" but it's also a type of casserole dish that is often eaten in Jewish homes. I made a tsimmes this year as one of the Passover dishes and it seemed a perfect name for our wild and crazy little girl. She also got to taste some of that dish and liked it a lot.

At Passover, you leave the door open for Elijah to enter and make a plate for him. This year, we actually had Elijah join us for a change!! So he wasn't a bearded old prophety looking guy, he was a fuzzy little rat guy - worked for us! I also discovered that rats like matzoh (a type of cracker) and haroset (a compote made from apples and honey and nuts and wine) quite a bit but are not so wild about horseradish.

Lynn and the Ruckus of Rats

Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:34 pm

My first ratty darlin was called Pandora. I have no idea why and I never called her Pandora. She was mainly known as Fatty McRatterson or Ratty McLardbott!
Now I have Sylvia (after sylvia plath) and Darcy (after smashing pumpkins bassist). They are mainly known as the laaadiiies! It must be said in a cheesy disco voice though!

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Caroline mummy to: Sylvia and Darcy, the furry ladies!
Who will soon have a new foster mummy. sniff, tear.

Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:34 pm

Melvin Was Carved Into One Of My Best Friends English Desks At School
and Gustoph...Floated Outa No Where ( As Do Most Things That Pop Into My Noggin)

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:29 pm

i decided on the name william for my first ratty (i think human names on animals are really cute)and then let the rat choose the name by calling it at the tank in the pet shop until he came over, then william wispered in my ear that his best friend was jeremy and so i didn't have to think of another name!the guys in the shop thought i was kinda crazy tho hyper

Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:23 pm

That is a tough one. I still believe that each rattie gave us their name. Soozie was originally called Sally. I am absolutely sure she didn't like that name. Soozier kept being whispered in my ear.

Obviously Ben didn't have a choice. I saw two little men rats and had to call them Ben and Jerry. Two of my three favorie men. When Jerrie died, Ben became Gentle Ben. He looks like a big grizzly in mineature.

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 5:45 pm

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	he's a jack russel and her name is Jill...get it jack and jill???

Ah, the torment of my childhood revisited.

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Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:20 pm

bonbon came with the name. her mother was named godiva and the person i got her from wanted to keep the theme going.

sachi was because i wanted a japanese name. most of her siblings have "s" names and when i saw the meaning of sachi, it just fit even tho i hadn't even met her yet. (sach means happiness or child of bliss)

celia chose her own name. she was nicknamed "nubs" because she has no fingers. when she came to me she told me she hated that name and asked if she could be called celia.

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Visit ACE, MELANIE, BONBON, and the rest of my crew in Rat Tails

Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:55 pm

Our girls have Celtic themed names and our boys are after Lord of the Ring characters.

Haggis, our first one that started off this batch of ratties was named after a Celtic rock band that my daughter is friends with, "Enter the Haggis". Our 2nd girl, Lanigan was named after one of their songs. When the other girlies came along, none of the names from the band really fit so we decided to keep it Celtic names in general.

Macha (Macha Monkey or just Monkey) and Taillte are names of Scots/Irish queens, Orla was an Irish princess name, and Dalriada (Dalri) and Tir na nOlg (Tirna) are Irish place names. They are known collectively as" the Girls" or "the Ladies" and the 3 youngest ones are "The Bambinas". Macha told me her name almost as soon as we got her and Orla told me hers soon after.

We got most of the boys during the release of the 2nd and 3rd LOTR movies. Since we were really into it, all the boys got names from Tolkien.
My first boy started it all. He was incrediably agile and acrobatic, so that's why he was named Legolas (Leggy). Then came my 2 rexy rescue boys. They are so dignified and brave Rolling Eyes

that they got kingly names, Elessar (Elly, or Elly Buddha Belly) and Theoden (Theo or Theoden King) then came Isildur. It took forever to name him because he told me his name was Issy and I really wanted him to have a LOTR name, so after a long while we compromised. He's "Isildur" when he gets in trouble for beating up on his cagemate and "Issy" when he's a good boy being spoiled rotten. Mr. Green

Our last boy is Faramir He just seemed like a "Faramir" and probably would have been even if we didn't have an LOTR theme.

The ratties I had in the past were: Misha, she was named after the ballet dancer Baryshnikov; Amadeus (Dae-Dae) he was named after the composer; and Lenny who was an older rehomed boy that was named after 2 people from Star Trek, Leonard McCoy and Leonard Nimoy.

We also have a sub-theme in names doh

"Rex" in Latin means king/queen = royalty.
Since Elly and Theo have king names and are rexes, we decided that when we got Macha and Taillte who are rexes, they would have queen names. It seemed like the right thing to do, since Macha had already picked out a queenly name for herself Mr. Green

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So, any rexes we get in the future will also be named after kings and queens.

Isn't funny how much we get into naming our companions?

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Erika ~n~ The Clan

9 Girls ~ 13 Boys

**Playing at the Bridge ~ Lanigan, Tirna and Haggis ~ We miss you so much!**

Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:27 am

Ruby: My fiance named her.. cause he liked the name
Pew: She's a PEW.. so I named her Pew..

Raisin: She's nekked and looks like a raisin.
Ivy: I really liked the character Ivy from the movie The Village.. that was about the only thing I liked about that movie.
Squidget: I dont really know...
Polie: My fiances nephew used to call his pillow his polie.. I thought that was really cute!
Clementine: the name of a character from the movie Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.. I love love love that movie!
Fiver: A character from Watership Down.. love that movie/book!
Gloria Grace: My moms name is Grace and she had a best friend Gloria who died at a young age from cancer.. also when I moved here to Nova Scotia I met a fellow rat person named Gloria who reminds me of my mom a lot..
Broccoli: My fiance named her.. I like to think it's cause she's real curly.. kinda resembling a head of brocolli.

Thats all the gals..

PolkaRoo: I LOVE polkaroo!! (Guess only the Canadians would understand..

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Casey: You'll understand when you read the next one..
Finnegan: From Mr. Dressup! (Canadian again..

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Dandelion: I LOVE dandelions!! They're so persistant.. and I think they're really pretty!

And thats my crew! Mr. Green

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