My sister has got to be the queen of silly pet names! Although she thinks they're normal... I tend not to name animals and just refer to them by their dominant characteristic, or else someone else names them something sensible for me.
So... my sister has four ducklings called Butterscotch, Vanilla, Lemon, and Mirangue. She has a white Silkie/Frizzle chick called Sherbet. She has a Frizzle rooster called Domino (actually not too bad; it's black and white in large patches). Some of her rabbits are called General Flopsey and General Fluffy (has anyone watched MIHigh? There's a fat white rabbit called 'General Flopsey' on that.), even though I had originally named those two Twitch and Sniff (because when they were babies they did that a lot). She has another rabbit called Bubby (????), I'm sure there are a couple of other silly ones but I can't remember them all.
My quails are called Quincy and Mrs Quail (I couldn't think of a good name starting with 'Q'. My mother said I should name them Q and Lady Q). One of my Frizzle roosters is known alternately as Frizzliest and Wimpy. The other is called either HodgePodge or Other Rooster. One of the OEG Bantam roosters is called Willis (my dad named him; he claims it's because it's in English name and an English bird [?] and won't believe me that the etymylogical origins of the name 'Willis' [including 'Wallace' and all variants thereon] came from the word 'Welsh' which is where all the owners of that name come from. So now he named the other OEG Bantam 'Taffy').
We have another old OEG Bantam called Grey, an old white hen of unknown breed and quite apparent past mistreatment called Feet (because of her lack thereof), a Leghorn hen called Floppy (I have never seen a combe that large on any other hen!!!), and one of the other Leghorns is called Vegemite (yes, I have named a white chicken 'Vegemite'!)
Our cats are Patch (aka Patscherkofel [my father], aka Blobby [me], aka General Blobby [my sister], aka That Fat Cat [my mother], aka Schnurrdiburr [me - we read a poem in German school called 'Schurrdiburr, das Katertier']) and Caspian (aka Houdini [my father], aka Capsicum [my sister and I], aka Socksey [my father], aka The Not-So-Fat Cat [my mother]).
from Rachel.