Pet Names (21)
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Apr 2, 2013
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Don't Call Them Cool Cats: 10 Cat Names on the Decline
By Kristen Seymour, Feb 25, 2013For every name that moves up a mark on the list of the top 100 most popular cat names, another name has to slide. And some names have fallen more than their fair share over the past decade, with a… Full Article ›
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The Year's Trendiest Cat Names
By Kristen Seymour, May 14, 2013If you didn't see your cat's name on our most popular kitten names list, fear not; that carefully chosen kitty moniker could still be right on trend. Many names that weren't in the top… Full Article ›
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What’s in a Champion’s Name? The Stories Behind the Monikers of 8 Westminster Dogs
By Laura Cross, May 14, 2013To the uninitiated, AKC-registered dog names like GCH Palacegarden Malarchy and GCH Foxcliffe Hickory Wind (Westminster Best in Show winners from 2012 and 2011, respectively) might sound… Full Article ›
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It Used to Be Popular: Dog Names on Their Way Out
By Kristen Seymour, Jan 23, 2013Just as today’s second-grade classrooms are no longer filled to the brim with Jennifers and Jasons, the dog names that were most popular a decade or two ago are no longer at the head of the… Full Article ›
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Top 10 Trendiest Dog Names of the Year
By Kristen Seymour, Jan 14, 2013We've already examined the most popular puppy names of 2012, but just finding out which names we're most likely to hear at the dog park wasn't quite enough. We wanted to look at which… Full Article ›
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Most Popular Kitten Names of 2012
By Kristen Seymour, Dec 6, 2012Using Vetstreet's records, we've looked over the names of more than 643,000 cats born in 2012 to determine the year's top pet names. As we sorted through this data, we saw that some… Full Article ›
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Most Popular Puppy Names of 2012
By Kristen Seymour, Dec 4, 2012We've examined the names of more than 1.26 million puppies born in 2012 from Vetstreet's records to determine the year's top pet names. In the process of pulling this data, we… Full Article ›
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10 Most Popular Kitten Names
By Shayna Meliker, May 14, 2013Naming your new cat is a difficult and important decision — after all, he'll have to live with that moniker for the rest of his life, and so will you. But naming a kitten can also be… Full Article ›
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10 Animals With Halloween-Perfect Names
By Linda Lombardi, May 14, 2013Halloween has its traditional creatures — black cats, spiders and, of course, bats. But if you just stick to these familiar species, you'll miss out on some animals whose names… Full Article ›
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10 Say What? Animal Names
By Linda Lombardi, May 14, 2013Some critters have all the luck and get nice, respectable names, such as horse and tiger and bear. But other less fortunate species — like these 10 animals — are just lucky that… Full Article ›
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8 Surprisingly Misnamed Animals
By Linda Lombardi , May 14, 2013Animal names . . . you just can't trust them. Sure, the yellow-bellied sapsucker has a yellow tummy and eats sap. But not all monikers in the critter kingdom are so obvious — and… Full Article ›