A Spot by any other name…Follow

Gnarls.

Pullmytail?

Another thing: You can always name him tops. It's spot by a different name. The name is still spot, but it's not =P. Tops is Spot spelled backwards.


I still like Arthas better...

Edited, Aug 20th 2007 8:44:05am by ArthasTheBetrayer

Since a wolf is a dog, name him Buttsniffer. or Howlie (play on the character from South Park, Towelie, the technologically advanced AI "smart-towel" that malfunctioned and only liked to smoke marijuana).

Here's some others off the top of my head.

Lickmyself
Dawg
Wolflundgren

That's all I can think of.

Cletus?
Curtis?
Malone?
Wolfy?
Knowles?
Growler?
RingPiece?

All names are good. I prefer funny names ratehr than Sensable ones, hense why my Cat is called MyMateDave... Everyone has a mate called dave, or know a dave, seems funny to most people and i like it.

I’m kind of weird. Okay, I’m a lot weird but that’s beside the point. I have to choose a pet name that feels right to me. I’ve replaced pets before because I gave them names that I later didn’t think fit them.

I wanted a cutesy sounding name for my pink tallstrider so I finally chose Sweetpea.

I wanted a silly name for my oh so sinister looking carrion bird, so I named her Poltra after the giant bird in a couple of the Jimmy Neutron cartoon episodes.

Sometimes the perfect name will just pop into my head. That’s how I ended up with a pet spider named Splat.

Sometimes I’ll name my pets after characters in books. As soon as Blizzard introduced green warpstalkers into the game I knew I had to tame one and name it Gleep after the little green dragon in Robert Lynn Asprin’s Myth books. And I named my bright red cat Sunspark after a shape changing fire elemental in Door Into Fire by Diane Duane. Oddly enough, if a name is too well known I don’t like to use it. For example, though I like the character, it was my favorite cartoon as a child, I’d never name a pet ScoobyDoo.

Basically I make it hard on myself and agonize over most of my pet names. So I really do appreciate everyone’s suggestions. Hopefully you'll have a bit of fun posting them and maybe one of them will be the perfect fit for my new little wolf pup.


Edited, Aug 20th 2007 7:59:36am by Calabar

Name him "Sir not appearing in this film". :-)

Do you REALLY want to spend tons of time levelling your wolf? There are level 65 wolves with the same skin in Blade's Edge Mountains.

http://petopia.brashendeavors.net/html/mobs/mob_bloodmauldirewolf.shtml

Shideater (since the game won't let you spell it the real way)
Anklebiter
LegHumper
MyLegsBF
Doggystyle

I could go on, but I think you get my point

Wolf naming update:

While there are a few more serious names I’m considering, I’m also thinking of naming my wolf Snuffles.

For those who don’t recognize the name, which I expect to be just about everyone:



Does that remind anyone else of hunters having to keep a large supply of pet food on hand? I thought it might be fun to create an emote something to the effect of, “Vanyal feeds Snuffles a special doggie-biscuit treat.” I could then use that emote each time I fed my wolf. Or if I could figure out a way to make a macro that would do both, all the better.

So, am I completely out of my mind?

This might be a bit pretentious, but I always look up names in other languages. I named my ghost saber Kiruka (shortened from Nkiruka) which means "the future is bright" or "the best is yet to come" in Igbo. I thought it was an optimistic, albeit somewhat maudlin, name for a ghost. My wolf, who is one of those all-around pets, is named Odyma. It means "everything is alright."

I also have a rogue named Banabali, a shortening of the phrase "death in the night." There's also an undead warlock named for the Maori goddess of the underworld, her name translates to "great lady of darkness" but I don't remember how I spelled it.

Anyway, most of my names mean something to me, but just look like ordinary fantasy names to most.

lol I completely forgot I tamed this thing. got bored of it in a day. had no intention of levelling it 35 levels. still in stables. had to get rid of bangalash for him. no bigge, as every hunter has that cat. And I like to stand apart.

oh and being unoriginal, I named him spot.

Edited, Aug 20th 2007 10:14:47pm by thrashering

Awesome, I think the name means more when you choose it yourself especially when you name it after a character in a show or a movie you grew up with or just a cool name you thought of. I named my pet Shir'khan after the tiger in the jungle book, even though King B is not orange with black stripes it's still a cool name and a good movie, I'm 23 and it's one of the ones in my all time favorites.

Edited, Aug 24th 2007 9:47:56am by amayu