Have you ever named a pet after your favorite driver?

Question

Last year before the family went to Darlington for the Busch race, my cats had a couple kittens. Well during the race, my wife became a Tony Stewart fan that night, so I named the little gray boy cat Smoke. Have you done this, come on I know you have at least once.

Answer 1

Yep, I had a little kitten I saved out of a tree and I named it Gordon. For Jeff not Robby.

Answer 2

LOL... Well there was this dog that loved getting pet. (Pettie - Petty) get it? Uh... never mind...

Serious... he was spotted and his spots look like a 43.

Answer 3

i don't have any pets but my future pets will most likely be named after something NASCAR related

i have a friend who has a lot of pets and most of them have something to do with Brian Vickers

i also knew a girl once that had like 3 or 4 cats and they were named Petty (after Adam) Earnhardt (after Dale Sr) Allison (after Davey) and one that wasn't named after NASCAR she named them all after deceased drivers after they passed away

i know of a few other peoplle who have done this

Answer 4

No, but I have a 15 year old son named Dale.

Answer 5

yes i had a chow mix named matt

Answer 6

I tried, the puppy we got for Christmas 2006, I wanted to name him Kyle, my husband and kids wanted to name him Junior, we settled on Charlie..

Answer 7

no but i had a goldenn retreiver named after daytona

Why am i getting thumbs down?

it doest make sense.

Answer 8

Had a Rottie named Winston.

Answer 9

Two of my cats are named after drivers, not my favorite drivers but still Nascar related. I have one cat named Deuce(Imagine that) and I have a Calico cat named Hermie after Hermie Sadler.

Answer 10

Yes and her name is Smoke after my Favorite race car driver Tony Stewart.She is a puggles and she is all black.

Answer 11

Not really, but I've known dogs by the name of Chevy, Cuda, Yenko, Hemi etc.

My son named my only cat, a gray cat, Crash!

Crash Bandicoot is his full name.

Answer 12

good question..and as a fan of 25 years, cat-Goodwrench;

3 miniture finches- Dale, McMuray and Newman; love them all

and they are alive and still kicking..lol

Answer 13

I've been trying to name my pet Gordo after Jeff Gordon but my mom and my husband (both of whom I have pets with) wouldn't go for it, we settled on MrB (long story) for my cat and Diesel for the dog.

Answer 14

Nope, never done that. I don't have a favorite driver... well, besides me that is.

Answer 15

My friend has a poodle name Gordon, she calls him Jeffy, and our Fed Ex driver at work has 2 rescue Schnauzers named Smoke and Denny..Years ago I had a Lab named Fearless after Fearless Freddie Lorenzen.

Go Dale Jr & Hms

Answer 16

Yes, I have. On more than 1 occassion. In the past I have had a Siamese cat named Bristol, a cat named Dodge (cause Rusty drove a dodge), a cat named Phoenix, and a dog named Rusty.

At current my mom has a cat named DJ after Dale Jarrett.

I also currently have a cat named India, but we usually call her Indy.

Answer 17

Well, I named my cat Pussie after my brother's favorite driver Jeff Gordon

Answer 18

I named my goldfish Juan Pablo Montoya. Then he died, and I flushed him down the toilet.

Answer 19

yes I named one of my pets jimmie after jimmie johnson

Answer 20

I have a dog named Dega. Not a driver but a track. It is crazy how NASCAR fans come up and name things after this sport.

Answer 21

yes, pug named kenseth

Answer 22

My dad & mom named their cocker spaniel - Gordon. And my brother's cat is named Winston. He named it that before they sold out.

Answer 23

Nope.

Never had a domesticated pet.

Only a goldfish which died many yrs ago.

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Answer 24

One of our litters of puppies we registered as names of different tracks: Talladega, Pocono, Sonoma, Rockingham, Charlotte, Texas, and Indy. When they went to new homes the only name that "stuck" was Talladega who is now called Tallie.