0 = hate it; 10 = love it

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[Poll #540965]

also rans:
Everett • Jed(idiah) • Wilson • Eli • Virgil • Preston • Emmett • Sherman • Iakob • Florentius • Fiorenzo • Florenz • Ziegfeld • Ben(gal) • Hooghly (nickname: "Hambone")

Comments

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Riley sounds like a Washington DC area kid's name! or a Washington DC area Labrador's name. Still, it would make a fine cat name.
William Carlos "Hambone" Williams: how about Carlos?
I like Zeb too.
I sense that Hambone will be used though!
I guess I come from the short and sweet pet name school, on the theory that the animal can hear it better and respond to it. Maybe that's less important with cats. But, in that sense, I figure if it has some percussive sounds in it, that can be good too. And all the better if multiple pets don't have names that sound similar.

It almost makes me wanna get another dog, just so I can name it! I wanted and still want a Great Dane, but it exhausted me recently to care for my dog plus an 18-lb dog (A's dog Harper, who is named after singer Ben Harper), but it could be argued that Harper has more energy that most dogs several times his size. (By the way, Harper is quite the romantic, too, as you may have gleaned from my previous comment.) Anyway, those thoughts plus $ make me wait to get a second dog now.