This Twitter Account Collects The Wildest Pet Names On The Internet
I'm going to be thinking about the puppy named "Big Hairy Deal" for the rest of my life.
When noted 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume was lying on his deathbed, he recounted the great pleasures of his life: the friends he had made, the fine foods he had eaten, the joys he had discovered through his writing.
When I’m lying on my deathbed, I’ll reminisce about the great pleasures of my life too, but unlike Hume, I think I’ll be pretty much exclusively thinking about the pets that I’ve met with cool names.
See, naming a pet is a fine art, and most people are very bad at it. There are too many Fidos in the world; too many Woodys; too many Charlies, and Maxes, and Buddies. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with these names per se — they do the job well enough. But what I’m looking for is something a little unusual; something with spice.
For instance, I once met a Golden Retriever named Kettle. Kettle! This was 16 years ago, when I was a young adolescent, and I still think about the now presumably dead Kettle at least once a day. Oh, and then there’s Boatmeal the cat, and Dog the cockatiel, two creatures that will rattle around in my head until the day I die.
So, given all that, you can imagine my joy when I stumbled across a Twitter account that trawls animal adoption agencies and collates together the best names.
The Best Pet Names On The Internet
The gimmick is simple, but the sheer variety of names is mind-melting. There’s everything from references to pop stars, to allusions to random household objects, to a domestic short hair simply named ‘Chainsaw Repair’.
I don’t know what kind of day that you’ve been having so far, but all I can say is, these pet names will immediately improve it.
Take a look, if you will, at some of my favourites:
— petfinder names (@petfindernames) July 1, 2021
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she’s a barb pic.twitter.com/5DdrTUSgqG
— petfinder names (@petfindernames) June 29, 2021
happy monday pic.twitter.com/xk6haZRGKD
— petfinder names (@petfindernames) June 28, 2021
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— petfinder names (@petfindernames) June 29, 2021
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— petfinder names (@petfindernames) June 23, 2021
— petfinder names (@petfindernames) June 28, 2021
Thank you @petfindernames for your service.