Yulblog Pet Cemetary
Since I am currently writing a grant application that is sucking the life out of me, I was having a lot of difficulty in finding an original question for tonight’s Yulblog meeting. Fortunately Antoine was around and he blurted that one instantly:
What is the stupidest name that you ever gave (or would give) to your pet?
Toine: A cat named Mescaline.
Jason: If I had a cat, I’d call her Michele Richard.
Francois: I had a cat that was black inthe front and white in the back. His name was Zener.
Michel: I never had a pet but always dreamed of calling a cat Fido, a dog Kitty and for my gold fish…obviously it would have to be Shark.
Alexandre: My old cat’s name was Hercule, as in “Avance Hercule!”.
Alison: Two hamsters, Wiggles and Squiggles.
Eric B: Québec. I was very obvious when I would call him out while in NDG.
Sylvain: My two hamsters, Candida and Cunegonde. Based on a Voltaire novel.
A.J.: James Tiberius Dog.
Christian: J’avais 20 ans et j’aimais beaucoup la boutique de decoration Dobdeck. J’ai donc donne ce nom a mon chat siamois. At least it’s better than Canadian Tire or Familiprix.
Julien: When I was a kid, I named a goldfish “Zero”. My mother keeps reminding me about this even though I don’t remember.
Patrick: If I had one, I’d call my dog McGyver.
Vero: Felix-the-Jolly-Jumper-Cat.
cfd: All of the Guinea Pig family: Praline, Caramel, Nougat, Fripone and Rosette.
Ella: I had two kittens once who I named Thingummy and Bob.
Mare: I once had a dog named Poupoune. Well…actually I still have her. Someone named her that way and it’s stupid because she’s a butch.
Nathalie: I simultaneously had a dog, a turtle and a goldfish all of which were named “Hercule”.
Lou: Tonight I made the sad realization that I have never named an animal.
Chris: I’d call it Zeke, the stupidest name period!
Yannou: I don’t do stupid, I’d rather go with cute. I once had a cute siamese cat that was named Piao but we nicknamed her Poupi.
Andre: After we got married but before the kids, we adopted two cats that we named Tribble and Pitbull.
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Sorry I couldn’t make it.
Chalk me up for naming our dog Tanglefoot. It’s from the movie Pride of the Yankees and as a puppy she would always get her feet tangled in the leash.
A close runner-up was Nike the dog. He got his name because we were big into running. So it was either that or Reebok.
Seems like there was a nice crowd!
I just got a kitty cat but still haven’t given him a name….. :P I thought about Bavard cuz he miauws a lot or Walabi cuz his back legs look like a walabi’s but these seem like lame names. So now he’s being called “p’tit minou”.
Hercule was the name of a cat we had when I was still quite young. And it’s a rather silly name for an animal, as Nathalie seems to agree. We didn’t use the name much, actually. We’d call out “nou-nou-nou-nou…” (from “minou”) to get the cat to come home. As per one of François Pérusse’s segments, it did sound like a ringing phone. (But our cat died before Pérusse got his big break as a comic.)
The one being who has lived with me the longest is my cat Zoé. She died on August 15, 2006 at age 22. Her last “fête des chats” (mi-août). Although it became a common name for cats, Zoé is not a silly name, IMHO. The way I chose the name is that I was influenced by Boris Vian’s L’écume des jours at the time (I was about 12 years old). In that novel, “Chloé” is the name of one of the main characters (the one who has a water lilly growing in her). But that didn’t sound quite right as a cat’s name. “Cléo” was too closely associated with Cleopatra, and the connection with cats was too obvious. Then I thought about Zoé Oldenbourg whom I knew as one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s lovers. And that name did fit my young existentialist mindset at the time.
It was great meeting you guys & gals !!! Looking forward to our next meeting.
Andrés