Monday, November 16, 2020

Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d Name a Pet After


Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week's topic is Characters I’d Name a Pet After. I thought I'd split this into two categories. The first one is pets I've had that are named after characters and then the second is characters I'd love to name a pet after.

Pets I've Named After a Character
1. Toby, a Nigerian Dwarf Goat named after October Daye from the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
2. Elphie, a Wyandotte chicken named after Elphaba from Wicked by Gregory Maguire
3. Candle, a Rhode Island Red chicken named after Candle from Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
4. Charlie, a Mini Donkey named after Charlie Lionheart from The Lady and the Lionheart by Joanne Bischof
5. Scarlett and Rhett, a Rhode Island Red Hen and Wyandotte Rooster named after Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Characters I'd Love to Name a Pet After
1. Valek and Yelena, the main characters in The Chronicles of Ixia series by Maria V. Snyder
2. Tybalt, Toby's love interest from the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire
3. Wyatt, Ford, and Knox, from the Montana Marshalls series by Susan May Warren
5. Silas, Rowena, and Izannah, from The Ballantyne Legacy by Laura Frantz

Do you have any pets named after book characters? Do you have names in mind for future pets?
 

20 comments:

  1. I very nearly added Toby (the dog in Sherlock), Elphaba from Wicked, and Janco & Ari from the Study series.

    My TTT

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    1. I thought about adding Janco and Ari too. The Study series has some awesome names. Thanks for coming by! :)

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  2. My daughter's cat is Elphie, too. I had a lot of fun this week creating my list because I've had a lot of pets named for literary charactersMy TTT List

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    1. Yay for Elphie! I had a lot of fun with this topic too. Thanks for stopping by! :)

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  3. Great list! Tybalt would be such a good name for a cat.

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  4. Nice list! Izannah sounds like an interesting name! Here is my Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!

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    1. I think it's such an interesting and pretty name. I'd never heard it before I read that book, so it stuck with me. Thanks for the visit! :)

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  5. I don't any of these series, but with such great names, I will have to check it out! I love the name Yelena. I've just wrote it down.

    Love how you name your chickens! I take it they don't end up on the Christmas table?

    Great selection, here's my TTT: I was named after

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    1. No chicken for me, lol. Thanks for stopping by! :D

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  6. I love how you have a chicken named after Elphaba!
    My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/top-ten-tuesday-290/

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    1. She was awesome! Her personality was so so similar to book-Elphaba's that it was kinda funny. Thanks for coming by! :)

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  7. I was imagining the reactions of Scarlett and Rhett if they ever got to know their namesakes. And Toby! I love Toby; she would take it in good spirit, and probably take the goat home with her. :)

    Happy TTT. My own post here: https://lexlingua.co/book-famous-animals-for-top-ten-tuesday/

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    1. I can imagine Toby and Toby getting along great. I've noticed a lot of my pets have similar personalities to their namesakes. It's so funny how that's worked out. Thanks for stopping by! :)

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  8. I really like Ford and Knox. I haven't read those books, but I have read the names in other books and they always catch my eye.

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    1. I can totally picture a couple cowdogs with those names. Thanks for visiting! :)

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  9. The Ravenwood Saga has some pretty great names. Thanks for sharing!

    Lauren @ Always Me

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  10. Two chickens named after Gregory Maguire characters? I love it! Elphie is such a great name, but I never would have thought about Candle. It definitely works, though.

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    1. Candle was such a unique name for a character and it stuck with me. Thanks for coming by! :)

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