Just to be clear, by pet names I am talking about the actual names I
have given my animals (i.e. rabbit, hamsters, fish) from childhood to
high school. This topic was brought up by a group of people at work and
we all found my name choices to be horrible, yet horribly funny.
At
5 years old, I got a bunny for my Kindergarten graduation. I was so
excited to have the first animal to call my own so I carefully tried out
various "rabbit" names before making a final decision. Original name
choice, I believe, was Peter Cottontail from one of my childhood books.
One day I had an epiphany while hearing my rabbit making all kind of
ruckus and named him Hoppy, "because he hops around his cage all day." I
was 5, I thought that was pretty good logic at the time.
Then,
there was a trend going around 4th grade through out middle school to
have a hamster. I ended up having three over the course of 5 years. The
first hamsters name was princess (phase where I was trying to be
girly...) then the most iconic name for a hamster, Hairy. Yes, hairy
spelled specifically that way. Ironically, at the same time I was
obsessed with Harry Potter at the same time. However, I thought I was
being creative by naming and spelling his name "Hairy" because he has
two tufts of hair coming off from his butt. The last hamsters name was
Lola, and she had the longest life, but that name was just random... not
a cool story, bro.
Lastly, my prized neon
blue tetra fish. I wanted a boy fish, so logically a blue fish is a boy
fish (sorry for being undereducated on gender equality at that time in
my life, I am now well aware, and would have altered that decision). He
had the best name of them all. If I were to follow my trend of lame
names, one would assume he to be named Mr. Fishy or scalez, but nooo
creative little 14 year old Katie mind decided she really like the
historical character, Otto Van Bismarck in Global class and would name
this fish after him.
Someone please admit me for a psych eval. (not really I swear I am mentally stable!!!)
THE END!!
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