What are the common pet names in your country? What are the weirdest pet names, you have ever heard? What are/were the names of your own pets?
In Ukraine the common pet names are:
For cats:
Female: Mas'ka, Mus'ka, Marusya, Siromanka, Frosya, Pryncesa, Snizhynka.
Male: Barsyk, Murchyk, Murzyk, Kuzya, Ryzhyk, Chaki, Benya.
For dogs:
Female: Asya, Aza, Bul'ka, Zhul'la, Zhuchka, Dzhul'ka, Nika, Mika, Nayda.
Male: Dzhani, Chappi, Baron, Barsyk, Reks(or Rex), Sirko, Sharyk, Tyson, Sam.
We have/had the pets with such names:
Cats: Chaki, Kuzya, Butlyk, Marus'ka, Fros'ka, Mus'ka, Mas'ka, Siromanka, Pryncesa, Batmanka, Dynya, Kotostrofa, Panterka, Tigra, Ruzhyk, Jonik, Kaban'chyk, Filya.
Dogs: Dzhani, Timka, Chappi, Smaila, Mul'tyk.
Also, we used to give the names for other animals.
Goats: Yul'ka, Cyganka, Nichka, Zirka, Malyavka, Vydra, Rogatka, Kombinashka, Bilka, Rogatyk, Rogastyk.
Some people give the names to cows:
Krasa, Asya, Berizka, Browka, Varvara, Gracia, Zosya, Polya, Fayna.
But of course there are MUCH more different names for each animal. I can't even recall all of them.
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"Cujo" sounds familiar for me, but I can't recall what it is.
Do you like the big scary dogs?
I've also heard such names here: Toby, Tom, Rocky
Thank you, Mary! :)
Cujo is the name of a lovely dog who likes to play with people locked in cars.
Ohhhhhh, I haven't seen the end of that movie. How did it end?
I'm a cat person but, if I had a dog, I'd call it Cancerbero (Cerberus) or Cujo :P
I don't know 'common' names for cats in my country, but for dogs I've heard many times names like Toby, Sultán, Tom, Luna, Laika or Rocky.
Hi, Olga!
Good to know that you have so many different pets!
And about that name "Choquehuanka", it is even difficult to pronounce :)
But I meant the names that are weird even in your native language.
For example one name of our cats was "Butlyk" it means a flattering form of Ukrainian word "Bottle"
Thank you for sharing the names of pets! :)