My friend adopted a dog from some folks who were moving and couldn’t keep their pet. When I went over there, I saw that he was a cute little character. "What’d you name him?"
"His name is Chowny."
Haha… what ELSE would a linux programmer name a dog that had just changed owners?
A long time ago we were “adopted” by a cat, so she was given the name Ermintrude, as in “'er intruded into the household”. Bad pun maybe but “Trudy” stuck, even after my mother took it to the vet and we discovered that Mum was wrong, Trudy was a tom!
When I was a kid we got two kittens; they were brothers but one was black&white, the other ginger.
I wanted to call them “This” and “That”, but my parents wouldn’t let me. So, instead, we called them Fred and Ginger. But we named the ginger cat Fred and the B&W cat Ginger.
Now my current dog is a Belgian Sheepdog named Cousteau and he will be a Service Dog --some day – and while he is slightly undersized for a MALE BSD standing ONLY 25 inches at the shoulder, he more than makes up for his size with his outgoing personality.