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“Cricket” - a pet’s name?

By Will 3 years ago, at the start of April Leave a comment on this post

With my Flickr fascination, I’ve been intrigued by the number of dogs, ferrets and cats that are named “Cricket.” I don’t think I could stretch that far, calling my dog Cricket, but it got me wondering. I hope to get a dog this year, or next (having for 23 years been solely a cat person), so I’ve been pondering what cricket-related names he or she could be named! Some thoughts…

Lord’s - nicknamed, probably, to Lordy
Richie / Benaud / Benny
Fine Leg!

Sensible ideas, stupid suggestions and rude alternatives all welcome in the comments…

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7 Responses to ““Cricket” - a pet’s name?”

  • AKR wrote:
    April 4th, 2005 at 4.06 am

    Silly Point
    Gully
    Glenn (giving you the chance to lovingly say- ‘Glenn, you Bastard, come here!’)
    Ash

  • Nick wrote:
    April 4th, 2005 at 12.31 pm

    My cricket-loving ex-housemate adopted a three-legged cat a few years back, and couldn’t resist the opportunity to call it “Leg Stump”, usually nicknamed as “Stumpy”. I still maintain this was the only reason he chose that cat.

    Great blog btw, keep it up.

  • Will wrote:
    April 4th, 2005 at 5.22 pm

    AKR - brilliant! “Where’s Bastard?” I could yell, whistling tunefully. “Good Bastard!! Well done” etc.

    Nick, thanks for the comments. I too had thought of Stumpy, but much as you have pointed out…I couldn’t call a 4-legged friend stumpy. Or could I? It would get people thinking (”Why Stumpy? He has all 4 paws?” etc)

    I’m quite keen on Hook or Hooker. “Where’s my hooker?”

  • Nick wrote:
    April 4th, 2005 at 7.30 pm

    Let’s not forget of course there has been another precedent, that famous squeaky puppet, Sweep…

  • Nick wrote:
    April 5th, 2005 at 2.53 pm

    I’m think about this too much:

    Neighbours had a dog called Bouncer.

  • Nick wrote:
    April 5th, 2005 at 2.56 pm

    Course, there’s always the insect named after the game (probably)

  • Will wrote:
    April 5th, 2005 at 3.33 pm

    Bouncer! Good one, I’d forgotten about him. Others…

    Wide
    Short
    Long-hop
    Swinger
    Inswinger!
    Slip (slippy)


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