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[[File:Spots first walk.png|link=Spot the Dog|frame|Are you related to that other dog named Spot? Or that other one?]]
{{quote|"If there must be a cat, do not, for the love of God, name it: [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Magnifi-cat or similar pun]]; Mr. Adjective-Anatomical-feature; with two or more words [[Alliteration|all starting with the same letter]]; or with any name plus the surname of the cat's owner."
|'''''[[How Not to Write A Novel]]'''''}}
Sometimes it's just not worth making up original names for animals. These are names that have been used forever in real life for (usually domesticated) animals, and carry over well for animal characters in fiction. Sometimes its an [[A Worldwide Punomenon|obvious pun]] or [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|description of the animal's appearance]].
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==Dogs==
* Spot, Rover, Patch(es), Fido, Rex, Buster, Sparky.
** "Spot" has been a Stock Dog Name in multiple languages for ''thousands of years'' -- for example, "Cerberus", name of the three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hell in Roman and Greek mythology, is the Latinized form of the Greek ''Κερβερος'' (Kerberos), which means "spotted".
** Likewise "Fido", Latin for "faithful".
* For more aggressive dogs, Spike, Wolf, Fang, Killer.
** In the UK they're often named after boxers. Tyson in particular.
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