By Azulie Von Dayme
It’s probably lucky that pets don’t get a choice of name going by some of the inventive, cute and downright weird titles registered across the Sunshine Coast last year. And whether a dog given the name ‘Basil Albatross Piccaninny’ would stay man’s best friend for long is certainly debatable.
The council recently revealed a list of top names; Bella, Luna and Charlie were top three for both dogs and cats. Perhaps more interesting were some of the original names given to pets, including the cats called ‘Benito Burrito’ and ‘Blackie Chan’.
The Sunshine Coast Council unveiled some of the more unusual pet names to promote annual registration renewals. While some names were predictable, like ‘Frankie’ and ‘Coco’, others stood out for their inventiveness.
A few pets held noble titles – ‘Duke Augustine’, ‘Sir Waddlesworth’, and ‘Archduke Orion Averii Odain II’ – while others preferred maintaining anonymity and mystique, like ‘Random Puss Puss’.
Some stand-out pet names include ‘Albie Dumbledog’ and ‘Frenchclown Highrhodes Opal’ the dogs, and ‘Artichoke Gaynor’, ‘Schrodinger’, and ‘Medusa la Gatita de la Luna’ (‘Medusa the Kitten of the Moon’) for the cats.
The council revealed that there are currently more than 66,000 registered cats and dogs in the region.
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