Jimmy came from the rescue with that name. But I tend to call him Jimothy.
Jiji is a black stray that decided to live on our deck. She’s named after Kiki’s cat in Kiki’s Delivery Service.
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I adopted Bruno from the local humane society. He responded to that name with a head tilt, and often a bark. He insisted on participating on, and being recognized for vocal participation on any calls.
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I love Bruno! We had Bassets growing up, they’re awesome.
And thanks for all the other great stories and pics! I knew this was going to be a fun thread 
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We had 2 bloodhounds (just 1 now). We are in Colorado and got them from someone outside of Nashville, TN. We had them in the hotel the first night before flying home and were trying to come up with names. While walking them in the parking lot, our rental car had Georgia license plates. So now one is called Georgia. The other (black and tan) was the runt and would run around and sometimes fall down. And my daughter and her dance team liked the song Timber. So the second one became Timber. Though my wife liked to say she looked like burnt Timber.
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Boring story here. Got a rescue dog named Lucy. She was TERRIFIED of everything - hid in the bathroom for hours after we brought her home. But she knew her name, so we kept it.
Now she’s 12 and a “real dog”. Loves walks, lots of energy, no longer barks at every person she sees…
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But what is the name???
I’m guessing he’s protecting the dog’s privacy on the Internet
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We have 3 dogs.
Yellow Lab I named Koda and her full legal name is Koda Chrome Montana. Born in Montan
Chiweenie that we adopted from Face Book market place. Her original name was Violet but we changed it to Sadie or Sadie Sue. Violet just didn’t roll off the tongue.
Blue Tick Coon Hound, my son named her Remi short for his first shotgun Remington.
Pet names have to just speak to you a bit and sometimes if you wait a bit it will come naturally.
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I wanted to call Daisy “Covid” since she was a covid rescue but I got overruled.
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Scotty
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we had a pure white cat we called spot. it made sense when she was born she had a black spot on her forehead. But as she developed she lost the spot though the name stuck. It was a conversation piece though. However all of our animals have nicknames.. her’s was peezie.. don’t ask me why I can’t remember why I coined that name but that was what we called her other than spot. We now have a cat names soup.. that one I take no credit for our daughter named him and we ended up adopting him when she left for oversees study. He stayed.he is nicknamed (one of a few) doopie (from super dooper), which morphed to poopie (for no reason other than it rhymed).
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We have Rosie, a female miniature schnauzer who has a beard and mustache. The only feminine name I could come up with of somebody who had a beard and mustache was Rosie Greer. Defensive lineman for the Rams back in the 60s.
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We have a chapter about that in my cat’s memoir
Chapter Thirteen
We are aware that the Humans don’t understand how we call each other nor how we answer to them [see “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot in his collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats - someone must have told him our secret].
For them to spend a few days after adoption to find the perfect “take home name”, was endearing.
To address us by something derivative of that, was annoying, but forgivable.
The practice of resorting to the third or fourth generation nickname, in a harsh, squeaky, cartoonish voice, was absolutely insulting.
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The kids of some friends of mine named their cat “Porchy”. When asked why, the response was “Because he lives on the porch.”
The same kids named their snake Caesar - except spelled “Seizer.” That one, I didn’t to ask why.
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Thanks to “The Secret Life of Pets”, my kids are convinced that we need a dog named “I ate the FedEx guy”. Or Doritos.
We will never have another pet. 
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We fed a lot of stray cats when I was younger. Some stuck around and were essentially ours. There was Little Black Kitty, Middle Black Kitty, Momma Kitty (who gave us multiple litters), Tiger, and Under House Kitty. That last one was a feral cat my dad scooped out of a walled area she couldn’t climb out of. She lived in our basement/storm cellar for the longest time. Eventually, she would let my mom pet her, but no one else. If you tried, she would usually bite.
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