The Best Pet Name Book Ever [Paperback]

W. Eldridge (Author), Wayne Eldridge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1996

A pet's name should say something about the animals that possesses it. It should also say something about the owner who chose the name. This new and expanded edition of this popular reference suggests more than 3,000 names from categories such as film and TV personalities, historical figures, mythology, and cartoon characters. Amusing illustrations throughout.

Editorial Reviews

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"… a lively and humorous book packed with helpful suggestions…."
--Pet Dealer

If a new pet is coming into your household, this book will help you choose your new friend's name. Whether you're acquiring a dog, a cat, hamsters, lovebirds, or even a pair of goldfish, you'll find more than 5,000 imaginative ideas for selecting an appropriate name. Suggestions might describe your pet's appearance or personality, but other ideas take inspiration from names of sports personalities, literary characters, historical figures, characters from recent movies and TV shows, and many more. Humorous illustrations add to the pet-naming fun. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

?? a lively and humorous book packed with helpful suggestions
Pet Dealer magazine

If you?re a new pet owner, or even if you?re just thinking about acquiring a pet, this imaginative and entertaining book will inspire you with more than 3,000 ideas for naming the newcomer to your household. Whether you've got a dog, a cat, or any other animal, large or small, you'll find exactly the right name somewhere in these pages. This edition has been updated to include inspiration from recent movies and TV shows, sports celebrities, famous public figures, and lots more! It's a bonanza of pet-name ideas, divided into categories from a pet's appearance and personality or suggestions of terms of endearment, names of artists, historical figures, cartoon characters, and much more. Humorous line illustrations add to the pet-naming fun. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 2nd edition (August 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812096614
• ISBN-13: 978-0812096613
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,177,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful & totally entertaining!, November 11, 2001

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Joann Charlesworth "Ciairra Contessa" (NJ : the Armpit of the USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best Pet Name Book Ever (Paperback)

I'm a "dog" person & I put a lot of time & energy into naming my dogs! People who hear me talk about them assume they're actual children because I give them "human" names! None of this "Rover" or "Spot" stuff for me...I give my pets first & middle names! This book was extremely diverse & comprehensive in their name sources..to the common everyone-knows-a-Max-or-Sheba names to the really unique ones! Anyone looking at getting a dog should read this..it truly has a name for every dog personality one could possibly think of! A terrific read & one I'd recommend to anyone!!!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Pet Name Book Ever!, April 9, 2006

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J. Weaver "book collector" (USA) - See all my reviews
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I am enjoying this book. We raise registered goats and each goat has to be named to be registered.This book will make it much easier to name 15 baby goats at one time.Thank You.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is SUPER book for unique pet names! YAY!! It's comes on Kindle, March 5, 2011

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MJB "mjb" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Best Pet Name Book Ever (Paperback)

This book is great help for thinking of really unique names for your pets. It will spark your imagination as the author, an experienced veterinarian, promises. I had been to all sorts of internet sites trying to find a good name for our new kitten. Finally I bought this book on my Kindle and it helped me come up with a couple of good name ideas, Hucklepurry being one idea (from literature section -book reminded me of Huckleberry Finn and our kitten is so purry!). Author suggests sticking with 1 or 2 syllables that your pet will recognize (so now we are thinking of what we could shorten Hucklepurry to). Even if you don't use any of the names suggested, this book will help you think of some things you never thought of before and jump start your own creativity to come up with your own original name. The book is broken down into different chapters with each chapter being a different category: appearance, personality, human names, terms of endearment. literature and art, pairs, greek & roman mythology, and many more. I loved the cute illustrations for each chapter too. I think I'll probably buy this book in book form too b/c it's so fun to read and browse through.

The only negative comment I have is with the Kindle formatting. Each chapter had a lead "intro" then next comes the list of suggested names for that category or topic. The font size on the suggested names in some of the chapters are very very ridiculously small and the font/text size adjuster on Kindle only adjusts the text of the text in the intro for each chapter, not the part that lists the suggested names. It was pretty frustrating to be straining to read the names. The name part is why I bought the book!! I finally figured out to adjust the orientation to landscape which seems to somewhat increase the names font sizes so that you don't feel like you are going to pass out, they are readable. I suppose these types of problems with Kindle formatting are to be expected while e-readers are so new. Regardless of this issue, I found the book very helpful and entertaining and I would recommend it. I don't want to scare readers away from the Kindle edition, you CAN adjust the orientation and see the names and the problem doesn't occur with all the chapters. It just took me a little time to figure out how. I think this kind of formatting issue should have been addressed when they were formatting this book into an ebook. GREAT BOOK though, really! I highly recommend it.