The Name!

I think human names for horses can be hilarious. My friend had an ex-racehorse who she renamed 'Steve'
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Well I've recently bought a pony called 'Trevor' - wasn't too keen on the name at first but it's grown on us!

Also on our yard is a 12hh pony called 'Norman'.

Who gives these names? they just aren't 'pony' names are they?

Used to know a pony called Simon and one called Jim. then someone had a shetland she named Malcolm after our vet!
 
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I used to help with a pony called Porkie - dreadful name!

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!!!! ........... how ruuude ......... !!!!!
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My friend is just buying a gorgeous cob called Eric! She is gonna cheat and add "Mav----k" to the Eric bit to get Maverick. She thinks that way she'll avoid the bad luck that goes with changing a horse's name! By the way, my moggies are also Marks and Spencer. New rescued cat is Ginger Bikkie. Used to have 2 budgies called Cheep and Nasty. 2 black guinea pigs called Black and Decker. And at the risk of causing offence, I had another black and white guinea pig that was named Bradford! I have 30 tropical fish all called Kevin for ease of reference. My horse is Sunny, show name (for when winning 4th place in the egg and spoon race at our local fund-raising gymkhana) The Sunbeam but also fondly known by one and all as the Fat One Eyed Cob! FOEC for short. You can tell I lead a sad life and clearly need to get out more!
 
Not sad at all. my cat has a whole host of names which will undoubtedly lead to therapy.

Mr Stinks MacKenzie
Stinks
Hastinks (as in hey stinks but also like the battle of.....)
Buttface/ratface/batface
Rabbit
Cress as in egg and cress(egg is the tortoise)
Donkey
Monty- name at the vets
and Renoir - the name he came with.
I also in moments of boredom like to test people names on him to see if he prefers them, he was called rupert for two days and bup bup for a week.

He is generally very confused and just responds to the slighted noise in the hope you are talking to him.
 
Otto was renamed by the people we bought him off, when they got him his name was Hannibal !, friend has just bought a horse called tiger tim, another friend never got around to naming her foal so he went through life being called foaly.
 

I had a cracking filly called ' Fungus'- apparently she was wet and slimey when she was born and the name stuck. Until we bought her- she was renamed within a day! ( and went on to be a super mare- very sucessful- so I dont feel at all superstitious about it now)
 
Well Fiddler isnt a great name really but i kinda suits him!!
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I know a "Fish cake" and a "Norman" and a friend of mine had one horse called "Flower pot" and another called "Bath tub"!!!!!!
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Also knew a pony/small horse called BJ... not a black sec d type is it with a huge sandcrack???

Brother called his giant poodle BJ and his brother Raffles.... knowing my brother, probably did it for effect!!!!
 
I once had a cob called Useless.

He was far from it, great little horse.

Rumour had it that his name came about because he used to be owned by an old Gentleman who wanted to pootle along gently at the back of the hunting field, the horse didn't, so he called him "Bloody Useless" I don't know if he ever had another name but I never knew of it.

A friend bred an arab and although he had a posh name, he was always known as "Baby" even when he grew up to be a rather gorgeous stallion.
 
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