some came with their names, others the name kinda just came and it stuck. others have some interesting stories behind them too.
in order of appearance:
Pocket: she loved riding in pockets and at the time i couldn't spell cerebues (adn apparently still can't... hade's three headed dog)-pocket suited better anyway.
Lyiint: to go with pocket as i got her as a friend for pocket. so i had pocket, lyiint. the name got mangled in spelling when i tried to use it as a password, it kinda stuck that way, not sure why.... my mother uses it as a pen name for her fanfiction writings now too. i don't know if any of her readers now the real reason behind the name.
Dust & Myght: were christmas gifts and named together. this was back when i kept trying to keep name pairs that separately could stand on their own adn together meant soemthing as well. going with the theme of lyiint's spelling butchering i purposely misspelled myght's name too.
Nezumi: she was my first true rescue. she had quite a long story for her 4 months of life before she came to me. the people (i use that term loosely) that had her before called her critter, snakebait, and rat among other things. when i heard that and looked at her nezumi came to mind instead and she stayed that way until she died at 18 months old.
Spider: was supposed to be part of a name pair (spider and webbs). it was originally thought when i saw how she would scale the cage and hang upside down from the top bars.
Snicketts: was supposed to be webbs in the naming pair with spider, but my mother renamed her snicketts and it stuck, even though to this day my mother can't remember her name....
Iedani: japanese for dustmite. when we were getting her and her daughter kakushi we knew we were losing nezumi and myght to their respective illness and in a way to honor their memories i combined the language of nezumi and myght's name into iedani.
Kakushi: japanese for pocket, in honor of my first rat.
Bea Twix (twix) & B. Tween (tween): she's an aqouti and i happened to pick her up around lunch time and i was hungry. she reminded me of a twix bar and once i called her twix the name seemed perfect. i couldn't think of a name for her sister right away though and i wanted another name pair. so i asked dad for help and he said i should call them betwix and between. i thought that was neat and so called them that. it got shortened down to twix and tween and spelling mangled pretty quick.
Sweetipie: when i first picker her up she started kissing and kissing and kissing. and she looked so odd and familiar at the same time. then it hit me, she reminded me of my best friend. her pet name is sweetipie since we were in elementry school together so i named my new christmas gift after her. the original sweetipie wasn't thrilled at a hairless dumbo being the rat to remind me of her but there it is.
Violet: she came with her name. her nickname was violent though and i don't understand that. she's never once bitten me but she has tried to lick my skin off. she took a bit of convincing to introduce to other rats at first but now at 30 months old she's one of the most tolerant of new comers.
Babydoll: another insta kisser and a sweetheart. by this time my friend had learned about her namesake and i thought to even it out and because she was such a doll that i would give this rat my pet name.
Bribery: i was actually bribed with him. a friend called on st patty's day asking us to come to her place for aprtying but she would only come get us if i went too. my other friend that was with me at the time had a crush on this first friend and after i repeatedly said no, i don't want to go, asked if i could be bought. we were both a little buzzing from the festivities and when i said a neutered breeder bred male he agreed. nearly $100 and we had bribery home and neutered. true to his word he paid for all of it even though the next day when he wore his really cool pants he found out i could have been bought with them just as easily.... :lol:
Ink & Eyes: i was only supposed to get eyes and she was supposed to be called inkeyes (gamer boyfriend was supposed to name the next one) but i came home with 2 instead. eyes has such beautiful and stunning red gems for eyes that there was nothing else to call her really and ink looks like she had a ink pot spilt on her. given her character had i an ink pot she would find a way to spill it on herself. in a round about this was also a name pairing.
Stewart: came with his name. nothing else to say on that.
Sweet-ums-she was just that sweet. unfortunately she died very young.
Smeag: i was watching a lot of red dwarf before stubbling across her. my favorite saying was smeag-head. its just funny to say. i don't know... anyway, thanks to that smeag ended up with her name.
tasche: german for pocket in memory of both pocket and kakushi (she has the same coloring and markings of kakushi which is why i thought of it).
Lydia and Rosie: Came with their names
Magi: shortened form of magic. i started calling him magi instead and it stuck. black magic was his original name but he often went by magic instead.
Chop Suey: honestly, your guess is as good as mine on that one.... it was better then the other suggestions my friends were giving me at the time. its stuck now.
Zen: he was so calm and thoughtful looking. you could do anything to this man and he would just look at you patiently. just like a bhuddist zen master...
Serraphim: combination of the boyfriend and myself again. he named her after a magic card of an angel thing called sera, i thought of the angel that serraphims are. it fitted her perfectly. the boyfriend often shortens her name to serra while i often shorten it to phimy...
Chancey: i was going to call him chance. after all it was extreme chance that he ended up at my door. my friend suggested chancey instead adn i liked that better then just chance, so we added the y to the end.
when spider and snicketts had their babies, with a few exceptions they were all named after family members. mom named deuteronomy (deuter) and a few of the names just fell into the old style names rather then actual family member's names (we didn't have enough names to cover all 24 babies). some were renamed by their new parents, others kept their names, such as godmother's edith and SQ's lyman and lois...
/life story
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