Herp Names

[Rikki]

Hey everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I posted this topic in regards to herp names. Do many of you actually take the time to name your herps? I have been trying to name my one large iguana for a few weeks now, though have not had much luck. What do you look for when naming herps?

[marisa]

I name mine. Even ones that I am not "close" with, for me it makes record keeping more simple and makes caring for them easier. It's alot easier for me to tell my boyfriend to feed "Susie" rather than say something like "Could you please feed F04AH05"

lol It DOES get harder though. I am running out of names entirely. Mostly now I just look to books and movies or TV shows I like.

Marisa

[ydnic]

mine are named too - for the same reason as marisa - although hey do have numbers too. I just name them the first thing that comes too mind. - but then you end up with names like - lola, squiggle, sizzel, ericka, and slippy - lol

[Asian Jon]

Sometimes naming a pet for me happens before or right when I get the animal. Other times it takes a little while longer and I have to look at the animal's characterisitcs to think of a name.

[Golden_Lotus]

Nearly all mine have name. The inspiration came mostly from appearance and behavior, but many other thing can affect my choice. For exemple, I buyed a ball python who passed all is time in is water dish, I name it Nemo because of the movie who was playing at the time. I am still searching for 4 of my 32 small beasts.

[HeatherRose]

My rainbows' names are totally random, they kind of rhyme, like Ophelia and Cecilia...

The rest it's just what I feel like, or how they act. For example my mom named my male cham Larry (Larry Lounge Lizard) and I named my female Priscilla because she acts like such a princess...

Mine are all pets, they usually get names...

[SerpentLust]

Mine get names, I usually look in my favourite books. Some I name for personality, like my Amazon that I named Majesty because she was so prissy.

[thunder]

mine all have names. there are a few themes going, like names from greek mythology (e.g. aesclepius) cuz im a buff, and names in the language of the country the animal comes from (jiri and svetlana the bulgarian rats). then there's your typical names based on appearence, like diamond the snow corn. and the obvious, like frogger, slither and ms. snake. but sometimes its just random, or what "feels" right. also, i dont change an animal's name if it already had one from a previous owner.

[coldblooded]

It's been 9 months and I'm still having a hard time naming my Savvy... I came up with Raven, but, I also like Sin, Enlil, Anu and a few others. I'm still not sure.

I don't know what I'll do when I need a name for a baby!!!


Mike

[retic]

Mine also have a theme??? I named my 1.2 Jungles Lucretia MacEvil, Wicca, Shamus and my wifes 2.4 Beardies are Piper, Page, Phoebe, Leo, Stumpy

[beanersmysav]

A great deal of thought goes into my pets names for some reason haha, their babies however are just called babies. Hell it's been over a month and i havent nammed either of my new snakes.

[ChocoMeijin]

All my pets have names but I never call them by their names... My roomate doesn't even know the cat's name after 5 months, although, surprisingly, the cat knows her own name. XD

Usually they're called something along the lines of 'brown mouse', 'white mouse', 'blue fishy' and 'cat' XD

[lolaophidia]

None of my snakes have names. They wouldn't come if I called them anyway... I think I might have tried to name a snake years ago, but it just never stuck for me. Whenever I take a snake to the vet and they ask for the pet name, I just put "snake". The receptionist asked me one day why all my snakes had the same name... Maybe I'm weird, but I feel naming something is so possessive. I just know what they are and that's enough for me.
The cats, they got names, but usually I just refer to them as boy cat and girl cat. They know who I'm talking about usually by my tone of voice.

[Slipknot]

I usually go for a foreign language in naming my herps, I just go for something that I think sounds cool and suits them. Like my python Dimitri.

[Vengeance]

Mine are all named after characters from South Park