Hi all
Bunny number 6 has come home today and I wanted to pick your brains for ideas.
I've got myself into a bit of a naming tradition with my rabbits. My first rabbit, Bandit, was a pedigree born from a pair (+1) rejected from the breeder and sold to my school farm. I have no idea what their original bunnery names were but at the farm there was a sort of common theme (Smokey, Dusty, Shadow) so twelve/thirteen year old me gave her a middle name (Mist) to honour that. Sealy was in the same situation (a rejected pedigree) but his middle name is unrelated to his parentage.
Following on from that, I had Schatje-Oren Turin (known as Oren), Pandora Bea and Mattie Harigen. Aside from Pandora, who was born at the rescue and already (fore-)named, there were reasons for each name chosen. As anyone who speaks Dutch might suspect, Oren was a Netherland Dwarf and Mattie was a longhaired Dutch cross. Bea came from B-Buns, a nickname for Bandit.
Pandora's new husbun is the hunky chunky Bailey B, so called because the rescue already had a Bailey. If they'd named him Bailey 2, as they have with others, then he'd simply be "Bailey", but I used to work there at the time and he's been in rescue for three and a half years so the "B" became part of his name.
So I have a dilemma now... What does the B stand for? I don't really want it to be something as normal as "Bunny" lol but I can't think of anything that feels right so far... or do I leave his forename as "Bailey B", essentially middle initial him, and make him "Bailey B Something"? Preferably I want something actually relevant to him in some way...
He's a six year old English spotted rabbit with megacolon syndrome. His previous wife was called Mars.
Bailey B on the left. (Image from the rescue's blog but originally taken and posted by me to said blog)
I have a feeling this is going to be a really tough one...
:?
Bunny number 6 has come home today and I wanted to pick your brains for ideas.
I've got myself into a bit of a naming tradition with my rabbits. My first rabbit, Bandit, was a pedigree born from a pair (+1) rejected from the breeder and sold to my school farm. I have no idea what their original bunnery names were but at the farm there was a sort of common theme (Smokey, Dusty, Shadow) so twelve/thirteen year old me gave her a middle name (Mist) to honour that. Sealy was in the same situation (a rejected pedigree) but his middle name is unrelated to his parentage.
Following on from that, I had Schatje-Oren Turin (known as Oren), Pandora Bea and Mattie Harigen. Aside from Pandora, who was born at the rescue and already (fore-)named, there were reasons for each name chosen. As anyone who speaks Dutch might suspect, Oren was a Netherland Dwarf and Mattie was a longhaired Dutch cross. Bea came from B-Buns, a nickname for Bandit.
Pandora's new husbun is the hunky chunky Bailey B, so called because the rescue already had a Bailey. If they'd named him Bailey 2, as they have with others, then he'd simply be "Bailey", but I used to work there at the time and he's been in rescue for three and a half years so the "B" became part of his name.
So I have a dilemma now... What does the B stand for? I don't really want it to be something as normal as "Bunny" lol but I can't think of anything that feels right so far... or do I leave his forename as "Bailey B", essentially middle initial him, and make him "Bailey B Something"? Preferably I want something actually relevant to him in some way...
He's a six year old English spotted rabbit with megacolon syndrome. His previous wife was called Mars.
Bailey B on the left. (Image from the rescue's blog but originally taken and posted by me to said blog)
I have a feeling this is going to be a really tough one...
:?