Have you ever named a pet after a fictional character?

My Golden Retriever's name is John Jacob Jingleheimer Smidt after the character in the song.We call him Jake because of the song Feed Jake by the Pirates of the Mississippi.(He's an old dog.)I named my daughter after one of my old dogs.She still hasn't lived that one down!

I've named pets after real people. We had two gerbils named zsa-zsa and ava when I was young.

no, but i will next time i get a cat.

two of them, in fact... Rebo and Zooty. I had a another cat named Eris once, too - advice: never name a pet after the goddess of chaos and discord.

Growing up we had a black cat named Harvey after the six-foot, white rabbit. When I had my first apartment I got a tiny kitten that I named Aslan after the Lion in "The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe". And I think I'm going to call one of our female finches Odette after the swan/princess in Swan Lake.

We had a rabbit named Thunper, after the character in Bambi.

Yes, I named my fish Jerrold, after a Pink Floyd song off "A Nice Pair"
"I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house, I don't know why I call him JERROLD. He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse."

Oh! I named my dog "Floyd" after you know what....

I don't remember, maybe.

My cat's name is Ezekiel, although he wasn't actually named after the (real) biblical prophet.
My parents had a whole string of cats named after knights of the Round Table--even the female cats. They were collectively known as the "Ga-catties" because the first batch of them were named Gawain, Gareth, and Gaheris (Gaheris was female). They were all black, part Siamese.

Not yet, but I sure would; I would love to have a black male cat and a red female cat and call them Xander and Wilow.

Yes
I had a cat name Lancelot, another one named Triston. Right now I have 2 hamsters name Milo and Otis. I can't think of any others.

No, but my mom was named after a character in a book, that my grandma happened to be reading at the time.

Yes

My fish's name is Barnum, after Phinneas T. Barnum (finny? get it?), but he's not really fictional.

I had a cat named Icabod (Icabod Crane)

that ain't how ya spell it...ya cheater *snicker*

Marvin and Melvin. They were Martian plants I used
to care for.

Small, deranged dog, cocker spaniel/poodle mix. Named him Cujo. Oddly appropriate.

Because of the irritating allergies I have, the only pets in our house are goldfish. My son and I named them all after cartoon characters - Chip and Dale (the twins), Garfield, and Casper (all white). Of the original school, only Casper remains (he has new, un-named tank-mates). He grew to be so large that now we call him Moby Dick.

not intentionally

I had a cat named Bilbo, Taken from the Hobit by J.R. Tolkin.

I had a ferret named Wednesday, after the Addams family girl.

Turned out to be a he-ferret, but we didn't change the name.

My wife & I had 3 black cats (one with white pepper) named Sheba, Sphinx, & Paternoster (she had just been reading robert louis stevensons 'treasure island' & some pirates disguised as monks were 'walking about in a paternoster while' (meaning they were singing evening vespers ('our fathers')))
We had cats named Panzer and Zero named after the war game box they first used for litter. Panzer grew fat as a tank and Zero leaped from heights on mice like a kamikaze pilot.
'Science Alexander der kleine' was our neighbors cat.
Gumby & Peton (mountain climbing hooks) were my bro-in-laws.
My 'current' kittens are Volt(aire) & Schism (church sect). I think of them as the wings on the arc-of-the-covenant.

Enhed: Arc of covenant = wheel of ezekiel
My: (aren't we in a strange land): Did you blast them with your disintegrator ray?

Friday would be a good name, a name for both a male and female character in different but notable novels.

My cat's named after a part of an automobile.

fan belt?

not yet, but, pikachu is my next dog's name! lol lol lol

We captured a wild rabbit once and named him Fiver. Two days later he escaped, taking six of our rabbits with him.

I have a stuffed animal named 'Donkey Otey' after a character on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

pow: Pikachu isn't fictitious. Bwahhhhh...
I went to a wild party where I identified someone as Picasso. Later there, I was identified as Mr. Rogers. I have to admit that in spite of being the TG techno-slut art-angel I am, they nailed me.

Yes, TOSCA (Puccini's opera). It was a cat.

they, Fanbelt might be a cute name for a cat. Mine is named "Gearbox," which is slang for transmission.

Boite de Vitesse - or just 'box' which is slang for půssy.

Oh, bill's going to hate me now.

topper: I was going to say distributor cap... so I would have been wrong both ways... Gearbox is good too though

Fanbelt would be a good name for a pet eel- maybe Distributer Cap for a turtle.

lol

I almost always name my cats after someone in a song or movie. I have a beautiful long haired cat named Maggie after Elizabeth Taylors', Maggie The Cat in, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. I love to be able to sing their special song to them, so for her I sing Rod Stewarts' Maggie May. All My Animals have songs. They are my special babies.

I loved that song. 'Tonight's the Night' was my favorite as puberty hit me. I was in French club (I should have asked rachael out [in German class of my latter H.S. I found out to late (i was dating my wife-to-be) that my secret crush, Marcia, also had had a secret crush on me]) and my bedroom was french victorian, with two walls of windows from which I would envision the neighbors apartment wasn't blocking what was meant to be a beach front view in hermosa beach,ca,us. My mom had me model for a life size 'art-noveau' style portrait of a fairy in that room. Back then I listened to 'Boston', 'Blinded by the light'' Dr. Demento, Grofe/Peer Gynt, Hair, & the White Album. My friends & I would sneak off at 2am to go drinking or get stoned, and sleep on the roof of a restroom in some pretty park. I made a primitive alcohol still at that time. The open gas flames ignited the cloud I was in, and to my delight I surrounded in low temperature flames. Those are my 'Maggie May' memories.
When I was born, 1963, mom had a poodle named sheri dyed blue to match the carpet. Poor thing was often stepped on during parties. At age three we had a cat whose ear I halfway cut off using a zig-zag cranking leathar cutter on the workbench my dad made me. The german sheppard at age 3 would go on the kitchen counters with me. (I had to climb 3 tiers of accordian gates just to cook some eggs or pour myself a bowl of sugar for breakfast). I leashed him to a sprinkler and turned them on. By age 5 remorse kicked in and I spent 37 years avoiding killing insects. At age 5 a kitten kept me out the first grade for three months with ringworm. Mom taught me to read from 'alice in wonderland'. I also read 'the wind in the willows', 'little joe otter', 'biography of James Audobon', and some truly ancient Nancy Drew. Earlier, I loved 'Go Dog Go' & 'Fox in Socks'.
At age 7 I found my cat 'ki-ki' as a blackened crisp from across the street at the SCE power plant my step-dad was almost transferred to. Though I move almost yearly, I've almost always lived near high tension lines. Now I live in a sort bermuda triangle with both high tension lines and LA's major radio transmitters on all sides. It all makes for an excellent antenna. Just down the street where the lines make a 90 turn, lives a 'paquita aquata' at a shop called 'Orchids de Oro'. The place is filled with all orders of deities ie Garuda, massive jade carvings, other plants & orchids of course, and this 'fig' tree who is clearly a boddhi-sattva with this umbrella of leaves growing out of his head. I wanted to be his caretaker, but he costs thousands of dollars.

snoopy: most of my cats had songs too, certainly their own melodical pronunciation of their name; we had sphinxie-pinksy-dinksy, noster-monster, sheba-ritzen-bitzen-kitzen. and songs like 'We greet Pete with petite meat treat, petrified, pig's feet' for Peton.

named cat after calvin of calvin and hobbes

I had a fish named "burp" but you couldn't say it unless you said burp while you were burping.
That wasn't after a character though.
Okay, forgive me for going off but............
I had some birds named, Spot, Not Spot, I'm Hungary, Chicken On a Thing, and Tunes. All of them except for Tunes were eaten by my lovely cat named Tigo. I have a little bird cemetery outside my moms house.

If your cat ate them all, there wasn't much to bury, was there?

All of my pets have been named after fictional characters.

Bart the hamster, Ren the guinea pig & Stimpy the rabbit, Stan the rabbit (South Park), Penfold the hamster (Dangermouse - British cartoon) etc etc

I have named my cats Zumies, Dax, Flash, and Jadzia.

cool

Never really had a pet, except for fish if they count. I don't remember their names but I don't think they had any.

Our cat was Conan - lived up to the name too!

Conan the Barbarian? ...or the Adventurer? ...or the Destroyer?

Does my fish Travis count? I named him after Travis from the band Blink182