No, not the kind of name you call your [Spouse/Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Invisiblefriend] but the kind you name a real pet, more specifically a male puppy.
I have just got a little male pup and can’t think of a good name, so I was hoping people here could give me some good/clever ideas.
I suppose you could be more general if you want and come up with names for any kind of pet of either gender as a reference for other people getting pets. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Post a picture of him. That will help.
Gadaffi is quite a cool name, as is Stalin…
In fact, naming your pet after famous historical figures is quite common, apparently there are a lot of hamsters called Churchill, I can’t think why…
I have a cat named Winston.
Avoid names like Stain, Puddles, Buckets, etc.
I had a dog named Euripides…
called him “you” for short…
“HEY YOU!!!” and the dog came running…
-Imp
(true story)
My ancient philosophy lecturer’s son was called zeno…
That lecturer was a real crackpot, but in the nicest possible way. An American, as it happens…
hmm…get one of those books for pet names, they have them at PetsMart for sure…
do you want it original? (spike, bingo, etc.)
political/histprical?(ghandi, mao ze dong, emerson, etc.)
alchoholic beverage? (cosmo, whiskey, merlot, charonnay, etc.)
plant/herb? (pachouli, apple, mango,cannabis, etc.)
my cat’s name is marques, and my birds’ names (the ones that flew away 
) were Gosha, Masha, and Matilda 
Hitchcock. That’s a good name for a pet…
hitchcock is when you tie the rooster reigns to the post…
-Imp
imp, you are way, WAY too into puns.
name your dog lao-tzu.
You seem to be into scifi, how about
Asimov
or
Piter
or
Fenchurch
or
Stilgar
or
Ford?
Just some thoughts…
Quite a few good names here. I’m still not sure, but I do like Winston, Cosmo and Ford. Thanks for all your input everyone!
My cat’s name is Milo…
The parrot on Neighbours is called Dahl, after Roald Dahl I think…
or his wife Barbie
-Imp
Exactly. I’ve been blessed not to have seen one episode of Neighbours (I’ve seen enough promos to know I’ve been blessed) but I bet Darl is short for Darling.
It’s a common (and I use the word “common” deliberately) expression here as in, “Thanks Darl”
Aha, but you haven’t factored in the fact of the character Susan Kennedy (now/nee Smith, messy divorce, long story) and her obsession with literature. She’s always banging on about Louis de Bernieres and Jane Austen so it would be perfectly in character for the bird to be called Dahl. Plus, the Kennedy clan as a whole don’t use that particular expression whereas plenty of the other characters do. I really think that it’s Dahl.
You haven’t been blessed. Neighbours is a wonderful show. It lacks the political correctness that plagues British soap operas but never descends into the absurdity of American soap opera, except during that period when Janelle was writing a novel and having hallucinations…
Sorry for the combative tone, but I have a passion for that programme
Each to their own 
You should send them short scripts SIATD. You love wiriting and you’re hooked on Neighbours. You have nothing to lose.
EDIT: You’re right. It’s name is Dahl (but no doubt it’s also a pun on Darl.)
I don’t think that Neighbours need my ideas, they’re doing fine without me. Whatismore I don’t get the shows until about 4 or 5 months after they are broadcast, so at least 6 months after they are shot, so at least 12 months after they are written. Short of writing in a whole new family I think I’d just come up with stuff identical to what they’d already got. Or I’d be writing with characters that are going to leave the programme soon…
Besides, with the mass expansion of television in the UK due to the digital switchover planned for 2012 there’s currently something of a deficit of quality writing. 2 years ago there were essentially no channels that would make the sort of show I’d be good at writing (I couldn’t, for example, write a sitcom - I’ve tried, some of it worked, most of it didn’t), now there is BBC4 and More4, both of which are ‘serious’ entertainment channels. Both show lots of repeats at the moment and there are are semi-regular requests from the BBC for writing material. I reckon that the prospects of me landing my ideal job have dramatically increased in the last few years.
We’ll see, but thanks for the encouragement…