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He needs a proper name before he goes for his neuter P31 neutered and named.....
- Thread starter Bunny Buddy
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Miss Binky Bunny
Alpha Buck
Harley, as a nod to the Harlequin Magpie, also for Harley Davidsons' as he's such a rebel. I like Dash also 
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Thanks for your input everybody, there's some great names amongst them but I just haven't settled on one yet
So he's on today's op list (might even have been done for all I know) and he hasn't got a proper name yet.
So he's on today's op list (might even have been done for all I know) and he hasn't got a proper name yet.
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
He's got through his neuter uneventfully and when i rang at 3pm he was already eating. so I'm collecting him after work.
I'm really excited to see him again, which is weird as I've been apprehensive about seeing him every time since Wednesday.
I've also settled on a name..........
Little Skunk.
I decided 'Skunk' was just rude/disrepsective (maybe) whereas 'Little Skunk' is playful/term of endearment and it remembers Little Dot by having 'Little' as part of his name.
I think I'm happy with that, though in an hour and a half when i collect him, I may have changed my mind again....
I'm really excited to see him again, which is weird as I've been apprehensive about seeing him every time since Wednesday.
I've also settled on a name..........
Little Skunk.
I decided 'Skunk' was just rude/disrepsective (maybe) whereas 'Little Skunk' is playful/term of endearment and it remembers Little Dot by having 'Little' as part of his name.
I think I'm happy with that, though in an hour and a half when i collect him, I may have changed my mind again....
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Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Thank you.
I don't know how the vet/nurses came through yet though.....
MimzMum
Wise Old Thumper
I don't know, Skunk doesn't seem disrespectful to me. Skunks can be funny, cute animals. Which is what I hope this one will turn out to be now that the hormones are turned off!
I did go online and look up synonyms for skunk though...just in case...and I got a few ideas that made me chuckle.
Wiki says this:
The word "polecat" (with "pole" from either the French poulet "chicken" or puant "stinking"), which in Europe refers to the wild relatives of the ferret, has been attested in the New World to refer to the skunk since the 1680s.[1] The word "squunck" is attested in New England in the 1630s, probably borrowed from Abenaki seganku[2] or another Algonquian language, with the Proto-Algonquian form */šeka:kwa/ being a compound of the roots */šek-/ meaning 'to urinate' and */-a:kw/ meaning 'fox'.
I have a fascination with how words come to be and I think in this case, "skunk" got off easy! :lol:
Skunks are crepuscular, as rabbits, and their young are also called kits.
In Spanish the name for skunk is "Zorrillo".
At the top of the article, there is the scientific term for skunk, "Mephitidae" and then right after that a reference; (in part, see text)
Bonaparte, 1845
So my mind went off on a tangent and thought...there was a little stinker for sure...I suppose you could name him Napoleon?
Don't mean to make it harder for you, but I just thought that was kind of funny. I am really glad to hear he's perked up so soon after his op though. xxxx
(I also hope that all the nurses/vets still have all their digits! :shock: )
I did go online and look up synonyms for skunk though...just in case...and I got a few ideas that made me chuckle.
Wiki says this:
The word "polecat" (with "pole" from either the French poulet "chicken" or puant "stinking"), which in Europe refers to the wild relatives of the ferret, has been attested in the New World to refer to the skunk since the 1680s.[1] The word "squunck" is attested in New England in the 1630s, probably borrowed from Abenaki seganku[2] or another Algonquian language, with the Proto-Algonquian form */šeka:kwa/ being a compound of the roots */šek-/ meaning 'to urinate' and */-a:kw/ meaning 'fox'.
I have a fascination with how words come to be and I think in this case, "skunk" got off easy! :lol:
Skunks are crepuscular, as rabbits, and their young are also called kits.
In Spanish the name for skunk is "Zorrillo".
At the top of the article, there is the scientific term for skunk, "Mephitidae" and then right after that a reference; (in part, see text)
Bonaparte, 1845
So my mind went off on a tangent and thought...there was a little stinker for sure...I suppose you could name him Napoleon?
Don't mean to make it harder for you, but I just thought that was kind of funny.
I am really glad to hear he's perked up so soon after his op though. xxxx(I also hope that all the nurses/vets still have all their digits! :shock: )
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
I don't know, Skunk doesn't seem disrespectful to me. Skunks can be funny, cute animals. Which is what I hope this one will turn out to be now that the hormones are turned off!
I did go online and look up synonyms for skunk though...just in case...and I got a few ideas that made me chuckle.
Wiki says this:
The word "polecat" (with "pole" from either the French poulet "chicken" or puant "stinking"), which in Europe refers to the wild relatives of the ferret, has been attested in the New World to refer to the skunk since the 1680s.[1] The word "squunck" is attested in New England in the 1630s, probably borrowed from Abenaki seganku[2] or another Algonquian language, with the Proto-Algonquian form */šeka:kwa/ being a compound of the roots */šek-/ meaning 'to urinate' and */-a:kw/ meaning 'fox'.
I have a fascination with how words come to be and I think in this case, "skunk" got off easy! :lol:
Skunks are crepuscular, as rabbits, and their young are also called kits.
In Spanish the name for skunk is "Zorrillo".
At the top of the article, there is the scientific term for skunk, "Mephitidae" and then right after that a reference; (in part, see text)
Bonaparte, 1845
So my mind went off on a tangent and thought...there was a little stinker for sure...I suppose you could name him Napoleon?
Don't mean to make it harder for you, but I just thought that was kind of funny.
(I also hope that all the nurses/vets still have all their digits! :shock: )
Thank you so much, that's lovely. Skunk does just seem cheeky rather than disrespectful after reading that. Nurses and vets intact. As the nurse (name withheld!) was letting me out she said I should call him 'Nigel' (after FHB's husband, her boss)... given that he is grey and grumpy! :lol::lol: I'm sure Nigel H-B would be just delighted to have a grumpy, bity rabbit named after him!
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
I'm loving Zorillo too, it's a real contender.
Mischief and Tinker's Mum
Wise Old Thumper
I seem to have a mixture of names.
I've got human names like Theo and Rudy, Barnaby but also Dinky, Binky etc. For some reason I tend to go for the first few letters of the alphabet more than any other but I've been banned from initial 'E' as they are the stasis bunnies
we have:
Anarchy
Barnaby, Benji, Betsy, Binky
Dinky
Eloise, Elijah, Erin, Esme
Gracie
Rudy
Theo, Tinkerbell
Oh, and I adopted him in memory of Little Dot who was a magpie harlequin mini lop of similar build to him, if I could somehow honour her in the name it was be even better.
Didn't realise you had so many rabbits! :shock:
Need photos of them all Hope naughty bun gets a name soon!
Bunny Buddy
Wise Old Thumper
Didn't realise you had so many rabbits! :shock:
Hope naughty bun gets a name soon!
Not sure how that happened :shock: I had 6 when I took on Binky and Shadow and said 6 was definitely my maximum... then I said 8 was :lol:
I really need to take some photographs, I realise the only photos I have of Dinky are of the week after I got her 2 years 4 months ago, she's really precious to me and at least 7 years old, I need to get some good photos/videos of her.
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