Have you ever named a pet (or a child) after a fictional character?

I have a cat named Lennier, and a ferret named Philbert (see the movie "PowWow Highway").

I've been considering doing it, actually. My first child will be Alexander/dra, but if I have a son after that, I'm tempted to go with "Christopher Brandon," the good guy in _Sense and Sensibility_. Christopher is Jason's middle name and Brandon is not that unusual a name, so the source wouldn't be obvious. I might name a pet after a fictional character, if I thought of a good one. I've known several pets (Hi John!) named after fictional characters where I thought it was a good choice.

My dog, named when my brother and I were kids, was "snoopy". The cat my wife and I have now is Seamus; both for James Joyce and to have another J-name in the house without being obvious about it.

Come to think of it, my middle name comes from a fictional character...

jzp: Really? What's your middle name?

No, but the next time I adopt a male cat, I'm naming it Wong Fae Hong.

What is a "per"? As far as I know, I've never named one after a fictional character...(Proofreading might be a good idea.)

Oh, and the word is "impolite" not "unpolite". Do you ignore the spelling checker?

Sue: 1: It was supposed to be pet, but since per is a word...
2: un and impolite are the same exact thing. Quit being a Gramamr Nazi.

Sue: It seems pretty obvious to anyone even half as intelligent as I am what unpolite means.

And since the SC didn't see anything wrong there, there was no red flag, therefore I didn't notice. And let me cut you off before you or someone else says something like "Well then you never pay attention." I do pay attention, but like ANY NORMAL HUMAN BEING I miss things. Does not make me ignorant. It makes me HUMAN.

And look to your heart and your mind, not your friggin' dictionary. In the long run, heart and mind are more useful and helpful to you.

Rebo and Zooty

Hi Elizabeth! :)

Brian, dear, you are hopeless.

And poor Noah Webster is rolling in his grave...all that work in vain.

My dog is named "Karenin", after the fictional dog of the same name in Kundera's ''the Unbearable Lightness of Being", who is (in the book) named after the character in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Do I get bonus points for an extra level of indirection?

Good question. No, I never seem to do this - though I'm not opposed to the idea and have certainly appreciated the names friends have used who have done it. On some level, I think I'm afraid that such a name would be faddish (in 5 years I may regret it?).

My pet -is- a fictional character! He's a chihuahua camed "Gigantor" and he lives in my elbow! .....nnnnnnGGAAAAAHHHH!

had a cat named calvin.

Hopeless? Well, just becuase I'm not some kind of alien who never makes mistakes...

Gi-gan-TOR! That's a good one! I'll have to use it someday!

My rabbit is named Thumper after the character in 'Bambi'

i had two dogs names ozzie and harriet

True story: when I was too young to know any better, we caught a wild rabbit. My mother had just finished reading a certain book and so named him Fiver. We put him in with our other rabbits (about 50, raised for meat) and the next morning he escaped (I didn't properly fasten the cage), taking six of our rabbits with him.

Normally we have no trouble finding ours which escape - they don't know where or how to hide from us - but this time they were history.

Wellll... I named my cat "Sybal"... He's named after the woman with multiple personalities (with a slightly different spelling). I don't think she was fictional, but her problem might have been.

Sybal has many, many, many different distinct personalities.

Jane & DRDT: My rabbits are Fiver, Thumper and BigWig.

Pooh_Bear- Great minds think alike!

drdt, your story has filled me with joy and hope...

Whoa! Fiver is my grandparent's joint user name for their Net Account! (Insert Twilight Zone music here).

Nobody cares Brian.

We have three cats: Baal, Withnail, and Summa Nulla.

Johnny Dulens' Cat, after a Burle Ives song...

Mrs. Burle Ives was in our shop last week. Sue waited on her. Her checks actually say MRS. BURLE IVES!

Our cat's name is Snicklefritz...our daughter named her after a cat on TV. Sue had some other cats named after a cartoon show...but I'll let her tell you since I already stole her MRS. BURLE IVES story.

mandy: Did you keep the check?

Fooyun - We had to put it in the bank deposit, silly!

I used to have two Russian Blues named Boris & Natasha.

My 12 year old daughter is named Scarlett. Does that count?

I have a cat named after the "little Prince".. and another cat named Morgan.. after Morgana lefay.. I had a ferret named mafalda after a comic strip char.. and there have been others..I'm sure.

We (me and my roommates at the time) named my (female) cat Cymbeline. :)

I had a Dalmation named "Bart" but he passed away. Now I have a Pit Bull named "Maggie". Guess what show I watch alot?

bk65: That would be Baywatch, no?

I never have but I rather like the idea.

I used to have a cat named Momo, after my favorite book. She was grey. Anyone who has ever read the book will understand. I also had a rabbit named Clover from Watership Down.