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How many of you pick a theme for your snake names? Have any of your snakes ended up with personalities similar to their namesakes?

Mine are all named after pirates.

Calico Jack Rackham
Stede Bonnett
Grace O'Malley
Anne Bonny
Flora Burn
Jean LaFitte
Blackbeard
and Francis Drake

what about you guys? Where do you get your snake names?
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

That's an interesting way to name your animals. I am naming mine after states currently, So far I've only got Indiana but the list will grow fairly soon. Hopefully.

I don't name my snakes other than to describe them and I only do that to maintain my feeding/weight records.

For example, I have four Eryx johnii. They are
sunburst male
brown male
speckled female
brown female

For WC snakes that I collected, they have catalog numbers as well, so I have
Pandale female alterna CRH485

Otherwise, they don't come when I call, so why name them?
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

I don't know. It brings to me a sense of personality and and makes me feel like I know my animals. It's really just a personal choice.

Mike

Oh you had to ask......

MoJo - Eastern Black Neck garter, after MoJo herps

Masubius - Flame garter, Masubi (Japanese god of fire) together with Vesuvius the volcano that wiped out Pompeii

Hobo - Wandering garter, Vegrans/Vagabond

Diana - Goddess of fertility (Breeder mom)

CY - His name is on his head, (Corn snake)

Crockett & Tubbs - Florida Garters

Sky - Puget sound (Blue) garter, "Mr. Blue Sky"

Oreo - Pueblan milk snake, alternating black and white bands

Cheeto - Orange garter

Limon - My Cyclophiops Major (Lemon lime color)

Carmella - Eastern milk snake, like the carmello candy.

Spot - Garter with spots

Clarice - Christmas radix, (Rudolph's woman)

Chomper - Our Savannah Monitor, Chomps everything!

Aqua - Water snake

Muttley - Accidental Garter snake hybrid

Snowflake - Snow garter

Melanie - Melanistic garter (R.I.P.)

Inferno - Infernalis garter (R.I.P.)

Magma - Flame Garter (R.I.P.)

Xena, Casper, Athena, Sharon and copper - Dekayi snakes

Dances With Reptiles

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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey

1.0.0 Ball Python - Python regius "Cane" Rescue
0.1.9 Eastern MilkSnake WC "Carmella" adult super sweet temperment (Eggs all hatched!)
1.3.13 Storeria dekayi Casper, Xena, Athena, Sharon & Kids
0.1.0 Thamnophis cyrtopsis Easter Black Neck Garter "MoJo"
1.1.0. Thamnophis elegans vagrans Wandering Garter
2.2.0 Thamnophis Sirtalis - Florida Blue stripe Garter
2.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters
0.0.1 Thamnophis HybridAlbino Checkered Normal eastern
2.0.0 Thamnophis sirtalis - eastern Garters (xtreme orange phase)
1.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Snow Hets
0.1.0 Thamnophis RADIX - Christmas Albino
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis - Red Phase Eastern Garter red and white stripes
0.0.1 Thamnophis butleriButler's Garter Snake
0.0.4 Thamnophis proximus orariusCoastal Ribbons
0.0.16 Thamnophis sirtalis - newborn Eastern Garter babies 7/11/08
0.0.17 Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis HET Anerythristic Scott Felzer stock.
0.1.0 Thamnophis sirtalis Eastern Snow "Snowflake"
0.0.1 Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis California Red Sided (R.I.P. little guy)
1.2.0 Thamnophis pickeringi - Puget Sound Garter "Sky" (adult, Sky blue) 2 females recently aquired.
0.0.1 Nerodia sipedon - Water Snake - "Aqua" adult WC Pink eater!
0.1.0 Storeria occipitomaculata - Red Belly snake (Her children were raised & released)
0.0.1 Amelanistic Corn Snake "CY" Sub-adult CB
1.0.0. Pueblan Milk snake "Oreo" adult CB
1.0.0. ASIAN GREEN SNAKE 3' WC Cyclophiops major"Limon"
0.0.1. Savannah Monitor "CHOMPER" Growing fast!
1.1.3. Green Anole "Crystal" & "Chris" WC dropping eggs fast!
1.0.0. K9 "ACE" Black Cockapoo
0.2.0. Feline"Felix"(R.I.P. 4/27/08) "Kaja" & "Silver"
2.1.0. calico RATS
2.4.?? Mice - Feeder farm - Crickets / fish
More herps than I could ever list out back on the land.

Only a few of my snakes have names, but the ones that do are for the most part Star Wars themed (I'm not sure why, I don't have any particular obsession with Star Wars).

California King - Chewbacca
Mexican Black King - Vader
Bay of LA Rosy Boa - Han Solo
Normal female Kenyan - Greedo

My only named snake that does not have a Star Wars themed name is Optimus Prime, my female anery Kenyan Sand Boa.

My Rubber Boas and all the other Kenyans/Rosy Boas don't have names.
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- Natalie
(San Francisco Bay Area)

I haven't really picked a particular theme for naming my reptiles...although I like to try and give them off the wall and unusual names..

Snakes I have now are..

male Macklot's - "Pixel" because his freckled skin looks like little pixels

male Sonoran Gopher - "Osh Gosh Labarsky" or "Oshy" Just because he's 14 years old and I was a kid when I was picking out his name =P

male albino Black Rat snake - "Vegas" Because he came from Exotic Pets in Las Vegas

male Jungle Carpet - "Taboo" because he's big, bright and beautiful and needed a really exotic name

female greenish rat snake - "Ember" because she has very soft features and needed a soft name.

male smooth earth snake - "Little Zuni" Because he's little and cuuuuute!

in the past I've had a black rat snake named "Leon" a black racer named "Tango" a bullsnake named "Irwin" after Steve Irwin, a garter named "Pearl" and a ball python named "Nagini" after Harry Potter

my boyfriend has a milksnake named "Maurice" and a ball named "Melvin"

As for my other reptiles...

a Beardie named "Twyman" he's named after my boyfriend's uncle's brother..because that is the funniest name for a person I had ever heard...and the day I finally get to meet this guy, I'll proudly tell him I named my lizard after him!

a red foot Tortoise named "Marzipan" she's named after a character from www.homestarrunner.com

and my 7 American Toads are "Kirk" and "Marquis" (males) and "Lucy", "Ethel", "Bertha", "Starlet" and "Olga"

and 2 fire-bellied toads named "Spot and Dot"

Some might call me delusional, or just plain crazy, but I give all my animals names, because to me they all have their own personalities and I love every single one of them like family.
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--SneakySnakesINC--

1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snake(Oshy)
1.0 Jungle Carpet Python (Taboo)
1.0 Macklot's Python (Pixel)
0.1 Ball Python (Nagini)
0.1 Yellow Rat Snake (Ember) (For Sale)
1.0 Albino Black Rat Snake (Vegas)
1.0 Smooth Earth Snake (Little Zuni)
1.0 Citrus X red phase bearded dragon (Twyman)
1.1 Oriental Fire Bellied Toads (Spott and Dott)
2.5 American Toads (Kirk, Marcus, Bertha, Ethel, Lucy, Olga, Starlet)
0.1 Red Foot Tortoise (Marzipan)
2.0 Equines (Sherlock the draft and Cleatis the donkey)
4.0 Felines (Caesar Ray, Pharoh, Phoenix, Boomer)
1.0 WC boyfriend (Ryan)

Mine don't seem to pick up personalities from their names. How many of yours are out pillaging etc. ?

ALL of mine are named and many themes have been used over the years. I like them to have unique names and I use parental names in numbering the babies so they can always be traced back to the parents. To that end each animal has a unique name and a two digit abbreviation.

BRB's

Disney Characters

Porky
Petunia

Mickey
Minnie

Popeye
Olive Oyl

Hook
Tink
Wendy

Dumbo

Daisey

Some named after patterns:
Boo
Bullseye
Clover
Crystal
Dotty
Lefty

For color
Tawny
Rusty
Phoenix
Diablo
Dusty

Flintstones
Fred
Wilma
Betty
Bam Bam

A line I'm calling Pearls, named after pearl terms
Pearl
Oyster
Aubergine
Akoya
Apricot
Baroque
Pistachio
Biwa

A new Striped hypo BRB line
Eve - WC female
Genevieve - the Striped hypo daughter Gen-of-eve
And the Adam's family siblings...
Morticia
Wednesday
Gomez
Fester
Lurch
Pugsley
Thing

Notable names, many actors/actresses
Ann
Molly
Amber
Lucy
Rose
Cate
Nikki
Tommy
Milo
Nathan

Gone with the wind...
Rhett
Scarlett
Vivian

Blush line (looks like faces
Lon (Chaney - man of a thousand faces)
Lily (Tomlin - woman of a thousand faces)

Fictitional Bird names,
Henrietta
Dot
Abby
Ginger
Babs
Gracie
Daffy
Yacko
Wacko

Ozzy
Harriet

Rocks....
Opal
Jade
Mica
Jasper
Grant

Named after friends...
Chrissy
Chuck
Melanie

Dorsal Striped BRB's
Zoe
Ziggy

Misc....
Savannah
Dawn
Gertrude
Fluffy
Moon

BCI names....

Candy and/or food/spice names....
Candy
Cinnamon
Taffy
Butterscotch
Honey
Tootsie
Vanilla
Gypsy
Hershey
Fudge
York
Pepper
Snickers
Reeses
Heath
Nestle
Fireball
Toffee

"Cherry" salmons...
Stella
Anne
Bing
Van

Woody
Bo Peep

Venus
Dee
Milo
Aphrodite

Romeo
Juliet

Misc....

Crystal
Coral
Ruby
Spirit
Jasmine
Amber
Sierra
Lucy
Peach
Abigail
Mariah
Luna
Dagwood
Tahoe
Casper
Boo
Chester
Cyrus
Norman
Apollo
Zeus
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

"Dagwood"
that made me think of Denny's
now I'm hungry
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1.0.0 Great Plains Ratsnake
1.0.0 Corn, Lavender Aztec het for Amel
0.1.0 Black Ratsnake
0.0.1 Texas Rat (tame)
1.0.0 Broad Banded Water Snake, Hypo
1.0.0 Black Bassador Retriever
2.1.0 Godchildren, 1 Evil, 2 possible hets

I go alphabetical only b/c my first snake I named Abby and the second Brudegan so I just continued.

Abby
Brudegan
Cedric
Dante Darwin (I couldn't decide which one so he got both)
Elden
Fleischman
Gabrielle

You know these, but for everyone else's benefit:

Smeagol & Smaug (Ball & Carpet Pythons, respectively)

Maya and Aztec (Pueblan milk and Thayeri)

Ocotillo, Lava, Phoenix (Hondos)

Juno (blue-eyed blond Cali, after the movie Juno)

Domino (black and white Cali)

Titus (Sulcata) After Christopher Titus

I think those are the only ones with names...although I'm thinking of naming the new Honduran Psycho. Fits her personality.
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1.1.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
1.0.0 Thayeri MSP
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
1.0.0 San Diego Gopher, Poss. Het Applegate
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Girlfriend, Caucasius Mexicana, Fiancee Phase

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All of my snakes but the first(Cosmo--from Seinfeld) are named after Grateful Dead songs. Didn't plan on it, but started with Sugaree and kept going. Luckily they have more than a few songs so I can keep this up for a long time!

Here's Sugaree

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3.2 Corn (Butter-Sunflower '07/Anery Stripe-Ripple '06/Amber-Jack Straw '06/Snow-Casey Jones '06/Amel Motley-Cosmo '03)
0.1 Baird's Ratsnake (Sugaree '04)
1.0 White Oaks Grey Rat (Tennesse Jed '04)
0.1 IJ Carpet Python (Cassidy '04)
1.0 Western Hognose (Samson '05)
1.1 Shepherd mix (Dylan 9yrs, Porter 4yrs)

I have named a few,,,,

Shag - carpet python,,get it,,shag carpet..lol

Lucille - ball python,,,lucille ball

Bunky - eastern king,,,got him when the firsy Big Brother was on tv

Jet..mex blk king

and do nt have any other named....except when they do not eat or bite,,then i have quite a few names for them....
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Ball Python
Jungle Carpet Python
Eastern King
Mexican Black King
Sonoran Gopher
Aberrent Cal King
Anduran Milk
Hypo Brooks
Amel Motley Corn
White Sided Bull
Striped Pacific Gopher
Axanthic Brooksi
Goini King

I love the smell of aspen shavings in the morning...lol

"To serve man..it's...it's a cookbook!"

I originally meant to name all my snakes but the right ones never came to mind. At one point I even thought of the best naming theme and then forgot about it completely. I've been thinking of Greek gods or characters from Homer's epic poems. Right now my only snakes that have names are ones that my roommates or girlfriend named out of confusion. I guess if someone doesn't know each individual snake on a personal level then it might be hard to know what the heck I'm talking about when I start talking about four different kinds of milksnake and even more kingsnakes, especially when the words "mexican" and "black" both appear several times.

One of my roommates started calling the california king "Theo". It stuck.

One of my friends started calling my Thayeri "Thayerden King", as in King Theoden from Lord of the Rings.

Aztec, a.k.a. Thayerden King:

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1.1.0 Hondurans Het Amel
1.1.0 Hondurans Anery, Het Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo
0.1.0 Honduran Hypo, Het Anery
0.2.0 Pueblans
1.0.0 Pueblan Hypo
1.0.0 Thayeri MSP
0.0.1 GBK Blair's Phase
1.0.0 California King
0.1.0 California King Blue-eyed Blond
0.0.1 Speckled King WC
0.0.1 Jungle Carpet
0.1.0 Ball, Normal
1.0.0 San Diego Gopher, Poss. Het Applegate
0.0.1 Sulcata
0.1.0 Girlfriend, Caucasius Mexicana, Fiancee Phase

http://www.cafepress.com/shedz

Funny subject, like it...

I have Lola (Hondo Milk-hence the username), because I spoil my animals, so it seemed suiting. ("what ever Lola wants, lola gets...etc)

My daughter named her Ball Python, Neo. It means "gift", which also suits, because I got him for her as her 7th birthday present.

I guess you could say we named them after our personalities and/or what they mean to us.