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i was in a va cboc, phone was supposed to be off but i took the call anyway.

it was from social security, i was approved for ss disability.

the next day i was on a morning walk, the cat walked up to me purring, followed me home.

i had high bp being monitored by va, 160/100 with me logging bp every hour i was up.

within a few days of the cat sitting on my chest purring, my bp dropped to 125/75.

after reading up, cat purring can be therapeutic + cats find you!

he's also a perfect tuxedo, thought to be of royalty in egyptian times.

Didn't name my Mal. The K9 officer that rescued her, named her. He named her Lena. He said he was big into the Greeks, Sparta, etc. Lena was the actress's name in 300, the Queen to King Leonidas. I guess he didn't like Queen Gorgo so he named her Lena after Lena Headey.

No pics, but we named our chocolate lab Hershey. We named her that because we thought Cadbury was to uppity.

Airbubba, I think our rescue Mr. Vester is related to your tuxedo kitteh.

We didn’t name him, as a rescue we decided to keep his rescue name “Sylvester” for obvious reasons.

His favorite things are
1. Hunting chipmunks
2. Humans (especially strangers, he is the most friendly cat I’ve ever met)
3. Fighting with other cats

He is quite regal looking. He reminds me of an Egyptian boy prince

Radar- my wife and I were looking through internet sites with male dog names, not agreeing on anything. We were watching MASH, someone said Radar, and the pup's ears perked up. Radar it is.

Stinky- We picked up Stinky from a shelter for our rescue organization (and ended up foster-failing her). She smelled SO BAD on the car ride home, we had the windows down on the interstate. We jokingly called her Stinky, her ears perked up, and it stuck.

Blue Moon, aka Blue
(idealized pic as he looks like a puff of smoke)



We lost my best friend ever DJ in May under fast and horrible circumstances. He was our third Aby in almost forty years, I said no more. Wifey couldn't leave well enough alone, found one across town, highly unlikely as they're not around every corner.

This one-year old has three legs, a blue Aby, not the more common ruddy so I knew I would not be making comparisons.

I wanted a simple name and suggested Gray, a positive name for my wife who had a special student in her GS teaching life named Gray. Then I said how about Blue. Literally as she was saying "I dunno", "Blue Moon" by the Marcels came up on the thumb drive mix in the car and Blue Moon it was. Turns out Blue is the most socialized cat I've known, he's been a gift.

Here's a nicer version of the song, a tribute to Elvis' version in the early '50's, pretty sweet --




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6EGsZdxpE

Our cat is named Fighter.
She was found outside on the street, 5 days old, one back leg cut off, severely dehydrated.
The missus couldn't let her die on the street and took her to a vet to be euthanized.
He rehydrate her, cleaned her up and handed her back to my wife. "she'll survive" he said, "she's a little fighter".
So the name stuck... Writing this 10-odd years later as she sits on my chest...
I had posted about this when it happened, under my old name (Cliveb).

Besides me, how many people have their pet's name as their password

Our dog is Wrigley, named after the best baseball stadium in America and home to my Cubbies.

My two terrier mix rescues are now called Worthless and Useless.

We have a home in western North Carolina in the mountains. One night about 3 a.m. my wife wakes me and says she hears something in the room. I fumble for my glasses and turn on the light and see a bat flying race laps around the room. Go fast, turn left. Worthless and Useless who were in the bed with us immediately sprung into action. Worthless jumped off the bed, ran out the door and down the stairs and hid under the couch in the living room. Useless got under the blankets with my wife. (later, to add insult to injury, it occurred to me they were the only ones in the room with rabies vaccinations). I grabbed a broom and as the bat went past me still flying laps kept swinging at it. This went on for about 20 minutes and I was working up a good sweat despite it being December and the open balcony doors. Eventually, miraculously, I finally connected and knocked it down to the floor where I proceeded to beat it to death.

My wife calls them Penny and Jaxson.

My Yellow Lab Moses is named after John Moses Browning. Our little 5lb Yorkie is named Lloyd because it's just funny.

Fuzz...for the obvious

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Our dog is Wrigley, named after the best baseball stadium in America and home to my Cubbies.

Great minds think alike! My two rescue hounds. The female is Wrigley (RIP) named of course after Wrigley Field, and the male (now 13 year old) is named Lou (or Louie) after Lou Piniella who was the manager of the Cubs when we got them. My son named both of them.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
Besides me, how many people have their pet's name as their password

The OP is hacking everyone's bank account right now

We rescued a pair of Russian Blues from the shelter. I named them Jake and Elwood, but she was not buying it. Renamed Nicholas and Alexandria, shortened to Nick and Alex. Both gone about 10 years, we now have a Tortoise Shell rescue aptly named Sweetie Pie.

Our dog was named Rosie, by my daughter, who found her while looking for a cat for me (my previous cat had died a few weeks earlier) She looked like a Rottie pup and we had owned nice Rotties before and loved them, so why not. Well, as she grew, her nose got longer, as did her ears and legs. So now we have a very nice little hound dog.

After failing to find a cat for me, I started looking online at kill shelters for a grey male kitten. Low and behold, I found one about 45 miles away!

Loaded up the kid, new puppy and wife and headed to Erie, Pa. the cat, which I fell in love with instantly was exactly what I was looking for. While there, my daughter found a nicely mottled tiger cat she wanted, so 2 for 1 that day!

Cats were named Winchester (gray) and Remington. Now Chester and Rem for short.

Our current dog was already named Tabby (or Tabitha) by the cat-lady who originally got her from the local shelter. She appears to be a Black Mouth Cur and was a pup from Alabama. She acts like Black Mouth Curs are mostly described to act from my research. She's a deadly rabbit hunter and loudly determined about protecting her home and family.

She also evidently doesn't like cats, as every time the cat-lady would let her out of her crate, she would go after her cats. The lady turned her back in to the shelter because the cats were "traumatized for life".

Her loss was our gain. After a few months Tabby has become my closest buddy.

We have a tabby named Lance because the has one testicle. We adopted him during LTDF.

I had a red husky I wanted a cool name for so I looked up the location huskys originated and found a river named Yenzi. I thought that was cool.
Other than that I like silly names.

Our Goldendoodle was the raffle prize at the Christian Youth Theater production of "Annie." Her cousin was on stage as Sandy. So, the girls named the raffle prize puppy Sandy as well.