Admit it! Do you name your newts?

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This thread might die early but with so many newt folks I figure people gotta name their stuff right? Im not one who calls my animals cute, to me theyre like a zoo exhibit, but I still name them and can tell them apart. Dont know about those here who have 100 newts but I got 5 so for those who want to participate for fun, what did you name your newts, and why?

5 Apuanus:

Satan - Raised since egg, always mean, had big feather gills before morphing, like horns
Crip - Had his leg mangled by Satan, but healed perfectly. Has a black dot under eye and lump in throat (still investigating it), looks beaten up
Xamot - Gotten from breeder looks JUST like latter, cant tell em apart.
Tomax - Gotten from breeder looks JUST like former, cant tell em apart.
Krypto - Seemed injured at first, but appears to be healing, was Crip 2 and that changed to Krypto

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Hey Dawn, you beat me to the punch - I was just looking for that thread. Anyway, I did name my Cynops pyrrhogaster adults, but none of the others. Well, my nephew named my first paddle tail and I still do call her by that, but I don't think she would have a name if not for him. I have no intention of naming any of the others.

Edit: I forgot their names. Petey is my first newt, a Cp female, named after Disney's Petes Dragon movie; Dactyl is my male Cp, named for those wild, long toes of his; Speck is my other female Cp, 'cause of the speck on her face; and Muchacho is the Pachytriton. My nephew said he named her that so he could say to her "Hey Muchacho," though she has yet to respond to this...
 
Tomax and Xamot! That's rad.
Knowing is half the battle!
 
I've named a few axolotls like Pirate (actually named by another forum member), Shelly, Smokey, Dopey, and Henrietta. Other than them, I just don't bother, I'd probably forget their names anyways. I remember most of the axolotls by looks, and personality.
 
I had two Chinese Firebellies. I named one Regius and the other Kelly. But Kelly died from bloat as soon as I got them home. The pet store I bought them from didn't have them in the right setup either. So I got a new one. He was bigger than Kelly, and I named him Cookie. But now, both my firebellies are dead. they looked all skeleton-like when they died, and I fed them regularly too. :(
 
SIGH....My wife has taken it upon herself to name some of my lizards but she has not got around to the newts yet. That does not stop her from baby talking to them however...
Chip
 
I've only named a couple of my animals, but when I do outreach, people tend to ask what they're named. So I've taken to letting kids suggest names. Sometimes they stick, sometimes they don't.

So I have:
Bitely the ball python
Chloe and Clyde the black rat snakes
Einstein the roughskinned newt (Pin-pin's former)
Gordy the tiger salamander (Short for El Gordo)
Lewis and Clark the musk turtles
Al the cat

The rest of the herd doesn't really have names, or is named by characteristics (Blue, Lumpy).
 
I must admit that I tend to name all animals I have ever owned, the only pets I didn't name were the babies I was planning on selling (I used to breed hamsters and guinea-pigs). I do also keep names that were given to pets prior to my ownership like my chinchillas (cupcake & muffin). On the other hand I had to name my axie larvae because my step-son kept insisting on it (that came from the same child who named his hamster "Hamster") so for now they were given numbers until they get bigger and they "earn" a name.
Then again I never named my fish as they were hard to distinguish from one another but I did name my red-eared sliders.
 
I've moved this to the off-topic section. Please post threads like this there and there only.
 
I name all my pets too! I have Maxolotl the Axolotl... and his feeder fish are always called Muppy the Guppy 1, 2, 3 and so on (Muppies?). I also have a Mactus the Cactus and when I was a kid I had Mishy the Fishy (goldfish)... you can probably see the theme. I guess that makes me pretty sad :p
 
i name a handful
jazzy - spotted sal
oswald - t granulosa
proximo - western hognose snake
brutus - cornsnake
Leonidas - Milk snake
Gertrude - Ball Python
 
All the newts I've purchased have names; but when my alpine newts had babies last year and I ended up with 40 morphs, I just named all the girls "Jennifer" and all the boys "Michael."

Saspotato, I love your "M" thing. I used to name all my pets with a "-y" at the end, but now that's just for my cats.
The corn snakes mostly get human names (Jasmine, Bambino, Ophelia, Orlandy, Binky, and Niblet) and the newts...anything goes!
My geckos are Fluffy and Fuzzy, the hedgehog is Piglet, and...I have an imaginary dog named "Trusty" (real dogs are too much trouble).
 
Lots of cool names there, I'm quite crazy though, I call 2 of my new newts Paramesotriton hongkongensis, 3 of them Cynops orientalis, 5 of them Tylototriton kweichowensis and for my feathered friend I think "wild-type" is very fitting.
I think they do have other names but I can't prenounce them yet.
 
I have a bad habit of naming everything that comes into my possession. My Pachytriton labiatus is Sushi (hence my signature) and I am planning for 3 Notophthalmus that will be named Nori, Maki, and Tofu.

I studied Japanese for 4 years and lived there for 1, so I tend to name everything after foods I like...

I once had a Betta named Tequila, :p
 
So I have three tiger salamanders. The smallest one is called "the small one". The pretty one is called "the pretty one". The other one is called Bob. Nah. The other one doesn't have a name.
 
I name them if they have to go to the vet. They insist on the animal having a name if it is their patient. I did keep an axolotl named Zeus for my niece for awhile. I eventially passed it on to someone else. I don't know where he is now or if they know his name.
 
Interesting thread. I haven't named my 4 FB toads yet, but I have a 2 yr old black cat named "Ruckous" and a 2 year old Golden Retriever named "Takoda" (Sioux indian for "Friend to everyone").

As far as the toads, I'm still working on it ;)
 
I name all my animals:
Popito (pronounced poe-pee-toe) - paddletail newt - male? - in a 10 gallon

Kermit - firebelly toad - male
Scuba Steve - firebelly toad - female (I know but she was named when we thought she was a he but the name kinda just stuck)
Bombina - firebelly toad - female
all in a 50 gallon

Dooney - flemish giant rabbit - female

Tweeter - american short hair cat - male

Plus I just got 2 baby firebelly toads about the size of a thumb nail this past week - they have no names yet, I am trying to think of some - not sure about gender since they are about a month old - they are in a 5 1/2 gallon until they get big enough for a bigger tank.

I have a ton of mollies, guppies, neon tetras, cory catfish, sucker fish, and 2 loaches but they do not have names.

Angel :angel:
 
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