We were watching a movie yesterday and the main characters dog was named the ubiquitous Fido.
Where in the heck did that name come from?
I have no clue, I also have never actually seen a dog of any kind named Fido either.
I actually came across thousands of dogs over the years, and while most never had a name I knew of (picked up stray), I did come across some pretty different names!
One dog, of all the dogs I came across, had the most original, perfectly fit and unforgettable name. This dog was a Chinese Crested mix male, he had almost no hair at all and was pink and kind of wrinkly and I thought it was part Shar-Pei too, he was named "Scrotum".
I remember there was "Dogg", Dawg", "Ogg", "Mutt", "Scrappy", "Scruffy", "Killer" often a small dog, "Bengi", "Cujo", racial slurs, usually used by gang members pit bulls back then. I think just about any name one could come up with was used at some point in time. But never a Fido!
I recall the 'pure breed' dogs, some costing thousands of dollars, with their often very long "pedigree" name like "King Francis of the Highland Farms in the Winter" that would be shortened to "Boy".
Yes, people and their pets!
And it was the same with their cats too! My personal favorite was, and I'm not kidding here either, was a real "Fluffy the 5th"!
But I guess I'm probably just as bad with the name game. When I was a kid I owned a pet Squirrel Monkey, this was in the 1970's when it was legal, not right, but legal, and many were available then at area pet stores. Anyway, in the pet store he was named "Chico", I renamed him "Darwin" when I got him home. It fit to me at the time!
