The BFF Thread

[Jared]

Love it.

Our pets have random-ass names.

Captain Jane Sparrow, or just Sparrow for short. She got a pirate name because we got her around when Pirate of the Caribbean 3 came out.

Montecore, or just Monte (deceased). Sparrow's buddy from the shelter, named after Siegfried and Roy's white tiger.

Stampford Ignatious Fishfolck McNally III, or just Stampy. Our Amazon red-foot tortoise. Named Stampy after Bart Simpson's elephant, Ignatious after the street I used to take to work, Fishfolck is a portmanteau of my wife's and my surnames, and McNally was the namesake of our local pub. But basically my cousin and I came up with the long name together to irritate my wife who didn't want Stampy to be short for anything.

Mathilda Tibia Fishfolck, or just Tibi. We hadn't come up with a name yet when we drove to the shelter to pick her up. But when we arrived, an employee informed us that they had broken Tibi's leg in the tub when giving her the required bath. So we named her Tibia after the fractured bone. We turned that into Mathilda so she would have a good resume name. But depending on the day, she's also Tiburon, Tiberius, Tibia, or Shithead (like the other day when she puked something unspeakable up in my back seat).

I often refer to Merlin as numb nuts.

Mim was an outdoor cat. She disappeared right before Halloween last year. I miss her. She was one of those very vocal, very friendly cats tgat was always there to greet me when I got home.

Maud is a 10 year old Norwegian Forest cat that we got at one of the local pounds when she was 9 months old. She was born at the pound and had had 4 other failed adoption's. All failed before she was picked up so she lived at the pound for 9 months. She’s an all around good cat with none of the bad habits that cat haters use to justify not liking cats.

 

[4strings]

I'm a motorcycle and I do wheelies.

 

[gbrooding]

Love it.

Our pets have random-ass names.

Captain Jane Sparrow, or just Sparrow for short. She got a pirate name because we got her around when Pirate of the Caribbean 3 came out.

Montecore, or just Monte (deceased). Sparrow's buddy from the shelter, named after Siegfried and Roy's white tiger.

Stampford Ignatious Fishfolck McNally III, or just Stampy. Our Amazon red-foot tortoise. Named Stampy after Bart Simpson's elephant, Ignatious after the street I used to take to work, Fishfolck is a portmanteau of my wife's and my surnames, and McNally was the namesake of our local pub. But basically my cousin and I came up with the long name together to irritate my wife who didn't want Stampy to be short for anything.

Mathilda Tibia Fishfolck, or just Tibi. We hadn't come up with a name yet when we drove to the shelter to pick her up. But when we arrived, an employee informed us that they had broken Tibi's leg in the tub when giving her the required bath. So we named her Tibia after the fractured bone. We turned that into Mathilda so she would have a good resume name. But depending on the day, she's also Tiburon, Tiberius, Tibia, or Shithead (like the other day when she puked something unspeakable up in my back seat).

When my wife was a kid, she named her cat Volleyball Candle.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

When my wife was a kid, she named her cat Volleyball Candle.

That's a solid name.

 

[gbrooding]

That's a solid name.

It's always my go to suggestion when we get a new pet/grandkid/vanity plate, etc

 

[gbrooding]

 

[Jared]

Merlin is already north of 10 pounds. Getting big.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Holy fucking shit my dog just took down a fawn!

I wasn't there--I'm getting this second hand. My father-in-law was walking her in the woods by his house--which we do a couple times a day when we visit--and she chased the fawn into a swamp and took it down.

Just yesterday I was telling someone how I let her run wild in the woods because she's a shitty hunter and has never caught anything. Worst she's done is disturbed a rabbit's nest.

Ugh.

 

[gbrooding]

Holy fucking shit my dog just took down a fawn!

I wasn't there--I'm getting this second hand. My father-in-law was walking her in the woods by his house--which we do a couple times a day when we visit--and she chased the fawn into a swamp and took it down.

Just yesterday I was telling someone how I let her run wild in the woods because she's a shitty hunter and has never caught anything. Worst she's done is disturbed a rabbit's nest.

Ugh.

Taken down and dispatched?

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Taken down and dispatched?

FIL said he didn't see it, but heard the bleating stop. Said he saw Tibi get a hind leg twice before the fawn made it to the swamp. But Tibi was faster in the mud.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

In brighter news, my daughter got to meet her cousins' pet goose:

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Has science gone too far?

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[Andyman]

Has science gone too far?

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I did not click on it, but yes.

 

[Jared]

At any given time we have a pile of cardboard that I’ll burn off in the fire pit out back. Yesterday, I grilled for dinner and finished off a bag of charcoal. I put the empty bag in with the cardboard and Merlin found it.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Holy fucking shit my dog just took down a fawn!

I wasn't there--I'm getting this second hand. My father-in-law was walking her in the woods by his house--which we do a couple times a day when we visit--and she chased the fawn into a swamp and took it down.

Just yesterday I was telling someone how I let her run wild in the woods because she's a shitty hunter and has never caught anything. Worst she's done is disturbed a rabbit's nest.

Ugh.

Yeah, apparently she brought the family a present today.

I hope it's from the same animal...

 

[Jared]

Yeah, apparently she brought the family a present today.

I hope it's from the same animal...

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So your dog likes thigh meat?

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

So your dog likes thigh meat?

Good eyes. I had no idea what I was looking at.

I just hope that was either yesterday's victim or somebody else's victim and that she didn't draw fresh blood two days in a row.

 

[Andyman]

Good eyes. I had no idea what I was looking at.

I just hope that was either yesterday's victim or somebody else's victim and that she didn't draw fresh blood two days in a row.

Maybe you should have named her Kujo.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Maybe you should have named her Kujo.

Maybe. I thought we were already pretty hardcore, naming her after a broken bone.

 

[bonin in the boneyard]

Yeah...