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Help[Opinions] Re: Names for Rats?
in reply to a message by SunnyShade
My favorite naming scheme for multiples is to go for very ostentatious, over-the-top names for the first few, and the last pet just has the most mundane name ever. Their introduction to strangers would go something like this: "This here is Ignatius. Next we've got Ebenezer, Alphonsus...and this is Steve."
But if that's not the style you're going for and you're looking for more pop-culture or silly, I would think that Houdini, Magellan, Peepers, Da Vinci, all three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's names, Beethoven, Papageno/Papagena (from The Magic Flute), and Pfeiffer can sound pretty endearing.
Plus I kind of love the idea of giving female rats very classy, refined lady names as a way to offset their 'dirty vermin' reputation: Geraldine, Caldonia, Henriette/Henrietta, Cordelia, Bernadette, Eugenia, Priscilla, Harriet, Alberta, etc.
(Alberta would be an interesting choice given that Alberta, Canada is one of the few places on Earth where rats have essentially been eradicated and have no sustained populations)
But if that's not the style you're going for and you're looking for more pop-culture or silly, I would think that Houdini, Magellan, Peepers, Da Vinci, all three of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's names, Beethoven, Papageno/Papagena (from The Magic Flute), and Pfeiffer can sound pretty endearing.
Plus I kind of love the idea of giving female rats very classy, refined lady names as a way to offset their 'dirty vermin' reputation: Geraldine, Caldonia, Henriette/Henrietta, Cordelia, Bernadette, Eugenia, Priscilla, Harriet, Alberta, etc.
(Alberta would be an interesting choice given that Alberta, Canada is one of the few places on Earth where rats have essentially been eradicated and have no sustained populations)
