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Top Pet Names for 2012
Posted Feb. 8, 2013
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This week's pets are a team: Shaggy and Scrappy Doo.
Both are 2-year-old Terrier mixes, and shelter staff thinks they might be brothers (or at least best friends). They love people and chasing balls, so come play fetch with this dynamic duo.
Sometimes I wonder why I was named Henry. You know there are some very famous humans named Henry: Henry VIII, Henry Ford and Henry Fonda. I also read that in Italian my name would be Enrico. How fancy does that sound?
This got me to thinking what are the most popular names for dogs and CATS?
Last year in a survey conducted by Banfield Pet Hospital, a veterinary network in Portland, Oregon, 2.5 million dog and CAT names were collected. Here’s the list of the most popular names in order of more to less popular. I didn’t make the list, did your pet?
Top Dog Names:
- Bella
- Max
- Buddy
- Daisy
- Bailey
- Coco
- Lucy
- Charlie
- Molly
- Rocky
Top Cat Names:
- Kitty
- Bella
- Tiger
- Max
- Smokey
- Shadow
- Tigger
- Lucy
- Chloe
- Charlie
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