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List all of the names of your pets

posted 3 years ago by AnubisRaydeen (7897)
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Past and present. I like the window into your mind.
(This thread is inspired by Kowalski's recent listing of his cat's names in ThetaSigma's cat-tastrophy thread. They were cool names and I want more lists)

Mine:
Dogs: Bear (am expecting to see many of this), Saxophone, Gilligan (Cody)
Cats: Chooch, Fonz, Heimdall, Loki, 99, Poe, Sharky, Fizz, Norin, BC, Bojangles, Bruce

(Had a 125 gallon fish tank with cichlids, crawdads, and pernicious water insects in it and too many names to remember. But Boba Fett, Gigan, and Zero were the surviving champions of that wild west epoch.)

Gimme your list! How many Bears, Maxs, and Morrises?

EDIT: I forgot my two Tarantulas: Heckle and Jeckle
... and my creeping charlie plant Enola Gay

[–] Valerian (-273) 3 years ago

Cat: Bark Ruffalo

[–] AndyKing1967 (39705) 3 years ago

Cat - Cefa
Dog - Defa
Goldfish - Johnny The Fish
Goldfish - Jimmy The Shark

[–] samoanjoes (58491) 3 years ago

Your goldfish have gangster names.

[–] AndyKing1967 (39705) 3 years ago

Jimmy The Shark only had one eye, lol.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Love it!

[–] AndyKing1967 (39705) 3 years ago

My imagination gets the better of me sometimes.

[–] ColumboKate (5778) 3 years ago

😄 I love the simplicity of these

[–] AndyKing1967 (39705) 3 years ago

C for cat and D for dog, lol.

[–] nyctc7 (44088) 3 years ago

I've never owned a pet on my own, these are long-ago family pets

Cat: China
Dog: Ciao

[–] Kowalski (78704) 3 years ago

DOES THE ACTRESS CHINA CHOW MAKE YOU NOSTALGIC FOR FURRY THINGS?

[–] nyctc7 (44088) 3 years ago

She does now!

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Drop your list, Kowalski. It's good.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

Pernicious water insects? What was that about?

I'll just list the names of cats we had when I was a kid: Granny, Tiger, Dud, Muchon, Lovey, Motorboat, Famous, Spunky, Moses, Leonardo, Troll, Nose, Skinny, Bootsy, Porky, Amos, Angel Eyes, CW(Cat Without a name) ...

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

"What was that about?"

Now you've done it. You've triggered Story Time with AnubisRaydeen.

Circa early 90s. My roommates and I would hike (more like climb) the local Indian canyons up to a hard-to-get-to flat rock at the base of a split waterfall. On the trip back, we would fill gallon jugs with water and moss, trying to catch some bugs for the big tank. We succeeded. Most of the bugs ended up food for the cichlids or the arowana. But a few were sturdy insects of prey. They would lurk in the clumps of moss and occasionally dart out, hug a fish, sting it, and drag in back into the moss where it devoured it. We witnessed five such incidents. Cichlids are smart and we watched them alter their behavior for awhile before they finally tore those suckers to bits. Every new batch of exotic murder-bugs we dumped into the tank would be immediately destroyed by multiple fish.

We created a submersible bathysphere out of a tuna-snack-pack container to get the buoyant fish food down into crawdad feeding range. This eventually caused a war between the two biggest ones. We (lacking cable TV at the time) saw the whole drama unfold. They locked claws, face to face and tussled until one got a claw into good position. He snipped all the tiny legs off of one side of his opponent then went to work on his carapace. We could actually hear the mute "tick" sound of his claw prying away at the enemy's shell. His opponent's only significant riposte was to send an antenna floating to the floor. In the end, the victor had peeled a plate up and was pulling out crawdad flesh in a white cloud. We watched his feathery "mouth" ensemble collect bits of his foe and direct them into his maw. It was then, when the battle was over, that the graceful ghost shrimp glided into the picture to alight gently on the fallen warrior and eat his eye stalks.

Our pipes blazed as we watched that tank hours on end to the tune of us OMG'ing and "HOLY FUCKING SHIT"ing in the face of nature.

We left the corpse (cont)

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

(-cont)

... the corpse in the tank to see if it would get picked clean. Eventually, we saw tiny amber bug babies emit from the caverns of its husk. The cichlids ate most of them but one grew into yet another killer bug. We were alarmed because we hadn't seen any of them in quite awhile. Whatever secret horrors of gestation those bugs hide, it was near sorcery to us. (we later guessed that the one we thought had grown up was merely a long standing hold-out survivor we hadn't seen.)

If we ever saw a cricket or cockroach in the apartment, we would snatch it up and throw it into the tank. Our arowana would catch it in its trap door mouth and its scales would shimmer with blues and golds for a week. It never came close to the evil bugs though.

EDIT: BTW, like your names. Was there a Tuco and Blondie too?

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

Sounds like some real murky freshwater drama. I prefer saltwater and now I know why. 🤣

So crawdads are cannibalistic? Or they just tear each other apart as an act of war?

But I'm a bit confused. So the bugs of prey ate the cichlids? And the cichlids regrouped and ate the bugs? Which bugs ate fish and which fish ate which bugs?

I'd be delighted if you could link a pic of some of these species of "insects of prey" who eat fish. I've never heard of that.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

I am uncertain of what they were but I think maybe these:
https://entomology.umn.edu/giant-water-bug
At least one of our murderers was this.

They went for the smaller cichlids and erased a few Mollys on arrival. Our tank environment was very nuture-style so the cichlids bred like crazy. Their fry were easy prey. The larger adult cichlids like Boba Fett and Zero were the main exterminators of the insects (as well as confirmed killers of their own kind on a few occasions). After so much bug homicide, the big boys started investigating the moss islands and Algae Corner behind the stacked lava rocks. That's when we started seeing bug shells floating and the terror spree ended.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

That's quite fascinating. You created a living environment complete with disgusting bugs and all!

And if that waterbug is related to the things in my backyard we always called waterbugs, they're a form of cockroach.

I still find the idea of an insect preying on a fish to be bizarre though. Most insects are scavengers and don't hunt live prey.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

It seems that what we thought was stinging was actually a proboscis injecting a liquefying agent into its target then slurping out the slurry of fish-pulp. Let me tell you, we had never heard of insects eating fish either. It was a spine tingling performance.

One time we found one of the bugs marching across the livingroom floor. We were less cavalier about handling it with our hands. We were scared of that fucker. Netted it back into the tank and sealed the openings.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

Well you're braver than I. I'm not exactly a wuss. I'm a gay macho macho man and all that. 🤣 But my weakness is cockroaches. They scare the bejeezus outta me. I could not sleep if that Lethocerus americanus creature was anywhere within a mile of me at night.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

I getcha. For many years the sight of a skittering roach would trigger something like the fight/flight reaction in me. I think it was the hand-catching of crickets that immunized my mind to roaches.

There was a bit of tie-straightening after one of those demons escaped the tank. We had a healthy respect for them.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

You hand catch crickets?

I have no problem with crickets. They're clean creatures. But when I lived near the Salton Sea there were these flying crickets which would actually hover and circle the porch lights. Weird creatures and there's nothing like them in LA where I live.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Sure. At first to toss them out of my place but soon after for feeding the arowana.
I live in the CA desert very close to the Salton Sea. Haven't encountered the hovering cricket. You thinking of cidadas or grasshopper? Pretty strange there. I wouldn't be surprised if it is a denizen exclusive to that environment.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

Damn, that's a coincidence. So you lived near Salton Sea too. Actually I didn't go into detail, but I was at Calipatria State Prison.

I'm pretty sure the best name for these things was "cricket". They were black and had very powerful forearms.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

lol, sorry. I have 2 friends who did time there. I used to mail books and comic books to them.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

That might have been the big-ass Arizona beetles I see on rare occasion. The Longhorn beetle IIRC.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

Hmmm. They could be some sort of beetle. What stood out to me is that I've never seen anything besides a moth hover like that around a light. Of course beetles can fly, but they don't stay in the air for hours. However, you're probably right, these were probably beetles, not crickets.

It was hilarious to see all these big bad gangsta thugs from LA get so terrified over what they thought were "flying cockroaches". 🤣

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Apparently crawdads will eat each other. Or at least that one sure did.

[–] samoanjoes (58491) 3 years ago

I don't own any pets. However, I will (for once) give credit to Katy Perry who once had a cat she named Kitty Purry.

[–] OnanTheBarbarian (13076) 3 years ago

What kind of megalomaniac monster names her cat after herself?

Oh, hi, my name is Joe. And this is my cat, Little Joe. [eyes]

[–] samoanjoes (58491) 3 years ago

I'll let it pass because it's funny.

[–] 102000 (6345) 3 years ago

Over the years - too many cats to list - currently, just Miss Kitty,(indoor), and Gizzie, a dependent feral that I have taken care of for 7 years.

No dogs right now, but have had 2 huskies - King and Yuri and several mixed bread dogs - Scooby, Colleen, Skippy.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Yuri as in ... Gellar? Or maybe a sweet No Way Out reference?

[–] rex (2808) 3 years ago

milo' my stray cat

[–] tcrum (31858) 3 years ago

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