[Niamh.]

Any of your pets named after a Celebrity? I have a dog and a Cat the cat is named Eddie after Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of my favourite band Pearl Jam, the dog is just Pips though after no one


http://www.thejournal.ie/animals-cat...34595-Oct2014/

NEW RESEARCH INTO what we name our pets has brought bad news for traditionalists everywhere.
It seems the Gandalfs, the Hectors and the Bonos have taken their place alongside the Rovers and the Fidos of this world.
New research has looked at data from 70,000 pets and found a trend of people giving their animals celebrity names.
In the list of 200, many traditional names still featured – although some former stalwarts were less popular than might have previously been thought.
The names ‘Rover’ for dogs and the name ‘Whiskers’ for cats were listed between numbers 150 and 200 on the list of popular names.
Also examined in the study was the divide between the northside and southside of Dublin when it came to naming animals. North of the river the names Sam, Jack and Ben came out as most popular, while on the other side of the Liffey: Daisy, Roxy and Buddy were favoured.