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I am just wondering because I am not great at nameing things, all my snakes are named but my mice are not and as I start watching them I consider them individuals even without names. I think that if I were to get many more snakes, there would be a few with names and a few without.

p.s
meretseger
I really like your familly guy quote

Thanks

MrBforg
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail (Gary)"Meoow"

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

Tigergenesis, previously mentioned that he was naming his pets after "Lord Of The Rings" characters. Is anyone doing the same thing, with different themes? I imagine that some of you are doing mythological characters. If you are, are there any favorite characters that have a really neat name or interesting story?
I don’t know where I read it on the forum, but someone named one of their pets (I believe it was a gecko)
Icarus because he was always attacking his heat lamp. That is pretty interesting and inventive in my opinion. Sorry about not being able to give credit to whomever is the owner of the gecko.

Icarus (mythology) In Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus, who with his father escaped from the labyrinth in Crete by making wings of feathers fastened with wax. Icarus plunged to his death when he flew too near the Sun and the wax melted.

Just interested in finding out what is out there.
Thanks

MrBfrog
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail (Gary)"Meoow"

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

My first snake, an albino black ratsnake (talk about an oxymoron)
is named "Bo"...that's short for "albino". My next one, an albino greenish rat, I named "Ro"...short for Romeo or perhaps Rotu. My normal colored black rat is Joe. Can you guess the unique and imaginitive name of my snow corn? My reverse okeetee is "Ko" (get it?) ....short for "eeteeko" ...My two new corns ar "Ho" and "Po" ...Not all my snakes follow this theme. My garters are Flame and Kiwi. And my leucistic texas rat is aptly named "bugeye" I have a young flame texas rat that I also call Flame. Go figure. Duffy

I started with the Los Angeles telephone book and when I ran out of names I got a copy of the Chicago t book.
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Wade's Weptiles & Wodents

I might have a snake named after you.
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Wade's Weptiles & Wodents

If anyone is from the Traverse area I might be interested in meeting you.
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail (Gary)"Meoow"

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

When I first started keeping snakes I named them all after characters in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, but that was 20 years ago. Now I kind of wait for a name to hit me. My male kingsnake went nameless for 3 years until I took this photo last week. I was looking at it and thought 'that spot looks kind of like Edgar Allan Poe' (where the parietals meet center top of head; I know, only I can see it).
So now he's Edgar.

Hello,

I've been using a geographic theme to name my herps for several years now. I typically try to use names common to the indigenous peoples inhabiting the area where the herp comes from. For instance, my two Ball Pythons have west African names ("Ashaki", "Binti", while my two boas have Central and South American names (Cent. Amer. Boa Constrictor "Chale", Colo. Rainbow Boa "Galeno". My most challenging name to date has been my Macklot's Python who is now referred to as "Sujatmi."
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Matt Campbell
Animal Keeper
Small Mammal/Reptile House
Lincoln Park Zoo
Chicago, IL
Assistant Curator
Wildlife Discovery Center at
Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

kinda sounds like you need to get of the house more often hahahahaha

God, don't I know it!

We name all our snakes as soon as they let us know what they want to be called!

We currently have: Zhaan, D'Argo, Chiana, Houdini, Snapdragon, Isis, Pan, Emma, Aaryn Sun, Sensi Star, Munch.

3.6.2 chondros

5 of them have names from a now canceled sci fi show that I believe was one of the best to ever air.

I was sad when they cancled it. I thought it was wierd that they killed them in the end.
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail (Gary)"Meoow"

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

I named my albino black rat "Malikai" because he is orange and had an attitude like the red headed kid on "Children of the corn". Used to nip and strike and had a mean streak as a hatchling! He has calmed down now, but the name just fits now!

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Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

I've got 60 reptiles. All but 8 have names. The 8 are all sand boas that I've acquired recently and haven't sat down and picked out names for, and it doesn't help that 2 have been in brumation since I've gotten them.
So... minus those 8 erycines
(Snakes)
Murmur
Jormongand
Nidhogg
Tiamat ("Winky"
Raziel
Meretseger
Lowly Worm
Endymion
Selene
Penthesilea
Cascabelle
Magdelena
Teiris
Madruk
Junin
Ash
Embla
Eileithyia
Cytherea
Adonis
Ryu
Ho-oh
(the following are all Kenyan sand boas)
Apep
Herqet
Dizzy
Testament
Tehuti
Seshet
Zero
Hemera
Hotot
Nebhet
Anpu
Sekhmet
Bast/Bes (sex unknown)
Auset
Selkit
Nyx
Sobek
Khonsu
Oser
Hauhet
Heh "Bandit"
Mehen
Bennu
Wenunut "Bunny"
(Lizards)
Ifrit
Sammael Typhon
Thisbe
Azalea
Hyacinth
Tweek
(Turtles)
Kelpie
Blueberry
Buttercup
(Amphibians)
Luigi
(Warmbloods)
Zippy
Lucinda
Sparkster
Pasithea

Mad props to anyone who can identify a video game I've pulled names from- you rock old school (Except Luigi, that's not from the game!). And if you can't tell, I'm a bit of a mythology fan. I'm considering turning this list into the world's longest sig, but then people wouldn't be able to like my Family Guy quote.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

I cannot name the video game names though
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0.0.1 Common Columbian Boa (Damian)
0.0.1 Amel Cornsnake (Kernal)
0.0.1 Okeetee Cornsnake (Guido)
1.1.0 Lhasa Apso's (Monkey, Tiffany)
1.0.0 Rat Terrier (Ricky)
1.3.0 Mice (nameless)
0.0.4 Goldfish (nameless)
0.1.0 Beta Fish (nameless)
0.0.1 Snail (Gary)"Meoow"

Also Canibal the Musical is just about the the most funny movie ever!!!

Ho-oh is a pokemon.

I don't use any themes for my pets, I have a lot of other pets besides snakes. I just pick something that fits the animal. My ball python is called nariko. It means soft, gentle, likes to climb to high places. That fits him pretty well. Once I left him on the floor of my room just to see what would happen, and he climbed all the way to the highest shelf of my bookcase.

That one was sort of a compromise. Ryu and Ho-oo mean dragon and phoenix in Japanese, which I thought really fit my pair of king ratsnakes. I thought the names would pass through the other half of the naming comittee better if I tweaked it to Ho-oh to fit a favorite video game. Which gave me a bargaining position to maybe not name that axanthic het paradox sand boa 'Sandshrew'.
I only name on themes when I have more than one of something. Although I still try to pick ones that fit the little guys.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

I have 2 corns, 1 milk, and 1 jungle carpet python. All have names...
1.0 ghost corn "Janome" (suppose to mean eye of the snake in japanese)

0.1 amel corn "Diamond" (she had a 'diamond' pattern on her head when she was little. It's gone now so I might change her name.)

1.0 tangerine honduran milk "Zorro" (has a mask :0))

0.1 jungle carpet python "Safari" She's cool

I consider all my pets family so they have to have names :0)
Also have 0.4 cats and 1.1 dogs. And last but not least a betta. He is nameless at the moment.

1.0 corn - Warpath
1.0 Black rat snake - Havok
1.0 California king - Bandit
0.1 California king - Moonstar
1.0 Albino Black rat - Malikai (the red headed kid from "Children of the corn" )
1.0 Everglades rat - Deadpool
0.1 Yellow rat - Rogue
1.0 Prairie king - Bishop
0.1 black king - Domino

Can you tell which comics I read?? LOL

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Good luck and Happy Herping
Brian

Boy, I can't compete with Erin for names but I do name all my beasties. It is so much easier to refer to them. I have 20 something snakes and all but the youngest 4 are named. I haven't sexed them and can't name them til I know.
I use names from movies or games or books or anything. Mostly I need it to suit the personalitys. I have three kids and they name some of them.
What we got, off the top of my head....
Spider.....black ratsnake bi!ch-as in Black Widow
Joe....black ratsnake....loved a bazooka bubble gum box hide
Sickle....Everglades rat
Galleon.....normal corn, sorry, no Knut
Blade......corn het for ghost
Binny.....snow corn
Bat Masterson.....snow corn gentleman
Obi....Kenyan Sand boa named by previous owner
Iciss......Antheuristic Kenyan brought home in ice storm
Bull, Pinkie, Urbi nameless babies 2.1.2 Ball Pythons
Tealc- Sumatran Short tailed python
Iryx- Mexican Milksnake
Pig- viper boa
Carl- solomon isl. ground boa
Kitten- Brazilian rainbow boa
Adelaide and Darwin....pair of Childrens Pythons.1 nameless baby
Susami, Slash.....Bearded Dragons...slash is kinked
Vosh and Lula......Savannah monitors
Liz....iguana, 8yo pita
MadEye and McGonagall- pair of mud turtles
Hector- snapper, named after bulldog in old cartoons
Geo, Tammy Faye, Lashara.....leopard gex plus four unnamed babes
Padfoot- Red eyed tree frog
Dee and Dum.....pair of Pyxie frog young'uns
Trop. fish tank with some fish and Gary....the giant golden snail

Furred.....
Scritch- sugar glider
Basher- 120# bullmastiff
Flik, Kelsey- border collies
Lil Girl, Pippen, Geekers.....3 annoying cats
Frodo, Zoe, Fuzzy.....rabbits
Splat, Twiggy, Speck, Lucky, Beater and Biter, Rremy, Riff Raff......rats that I don't feed off

Feathered......
Twister, Otto, Idiot and 10 unnamed parakeets
Dove, BB cockatiels
Ethel- congo african grey

Gotta find a name for a het albino corn baby, female...that thusfar only eats beheaded live pinks....the sicko
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Sonya

Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software.

You should name your corn Elizabeth Bathory....
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?