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* In ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing|Woad to Wuin]]'', Apropos discovers that he has named his horse Entipy, after a woman he knows.
* In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s arctic story ''Quiquern'' Kotuko the young Inuit hunter has a sled dog named Kotuko. The story implies that this is common practice.
* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novel ''[[Dark Heresy|Scourge the Heretic]]'', an undercover woman has to quickly name an imaginary pony. She calls it "Mordechai" - and then wonders, because she [[Oblivious to Love|has been told that it's obvious she's in love]] with the real Mordechai and she had even started to wonder if it were true.
* In the novel ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' by Haruki Murakami, the main character names his cat Noboru Wataya after his brother-in-law, whom he hates.
* [[Sharpe|Richard Sharpe]] named his dog Nosey, on the grounds that he'd spent fifteen years taking orders from the bastard, so he might as well give a few.
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