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We got a kitten years ago that was quite grey + shiney, almost silver! So she was cutely named Lucy Locket.
Upon taking her to the vet to have her tubes cut it was discovered Lucy was a boy (the usual story) and so a new name had to be thunk. Hence he was labelled Lucifer (the fallen angel).

Fast forward a few years and Lucifer (child of evil) has grown into his name, he is big, lean, has a mouth like a sabretooth's and likes to hunt, kill and eat wild adult rabbits whole.

Oh, and we live on a farm so plenty of oppurtunities for funny namings. Orphaned lambs came in groups so had related names such as Muffet, Tuffet and Spiderman. Cows must have cute names like Buttercup and Duchess, Duchess had a daughter whom we named after a spoilt pretentious premadonna cousin of ours, Princess. One of the Buttercups, as there were several, had horns and pinned spiderman to a wooden partition wall with one horn above and one below. She became Tellie, a cutesy version of William Tell.

BTW, Duchess and Princess are scared of Lucifer (the dark one) and he can herd them despite being about 0.1% of their mass.

Oh yeah, Scrumpy (the dog) comes from the west country. She's a little bit slow and sometimes chews on straw. I'm not kidding.

One of my sisters insanely called her kitten Mishka. I'm not sure if I'm even spelling it right because it's not a real word. What the hell is a mishka? What was the reasoning behind this? Who knows, it's insane! At least Hamlet (the cockeral) had a history and some sort of cultural reference. There was reasoning behind his name (he had some sort of war with other chickens, I forget the details). But my sister had to donate her contribution, Mishka. When asked why she said "I dunno, it looks like a mishka"

EDIT: I forgot our original feline. Queen Tabitha II. No explanation available.
(nonproffessional, Wed 25 Feb 2004, 15:59, Reply)