i'll answer your question if you post it over in weekly themes--no, wait, animal safari--where it belongs.

only teasing =) the cat's away anyhow.

i have a the sweetest little treefrog in the world named Hyla and another one that's not as friendly, named Shyla (i had another one, named StickyWicket--which one of the Board members came up with, maybe rapunzel? but it died ). my fishies don't have names, but they're cichlids.

there's more on the subject of pet names (as opposed to hypocorisms) at http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=19154