Cute Name for Classroom Pet

[Nazgul Girl]

I don't know why this is so funny and/or cute, but tonight we went with our DD to a restaurant near her house, incidentally called " Toast. "    She told us that she had brought a beta fish to school for her classroom.   The science teacher for the 7th/8th grade has a tarantula in her room named " Timmy, "  so with typical middle-schooler logic, some boys named DD's beta " Jimmy. "   It's just so cute.

[tloonya]

betty? or bitty?

[Apple]

My biology teacher had a boa constrictor named "Cuddles".  He would escape his glass house every now and then and would be found downstairs in the library behind some books on a shelf (always a nice surprise for the librarian putting books away), or in a cupboard in another science room.  I was almost late to class one day because it had wrapped itself around my wrist, and, while it had left room and wasn't squeezing or anything, I couldn't get my hand out, we had to "coax" him to open up some.

Same teacher had a tarantula named "Rosie".  We'd take her out of her little glass house and play with her.  Had to be careful not to drop her though (they are dense, a fall would kill them).

Those are the only names I can remember, probably because they were the only ones I'd actually take out and play with.

[Nazgul Girl]

   A Beta fish is a species of fish ( I guess I spelled it wrong - it's supposed to be spelled betta ).   They are kind of aggressive, so mostly live alone.   They will fight their own reflections at times.   They're very small and have spectacular colors.   The one she brought to school is blue, but he doesn't look exactly like these show specimens.....

    See the examples below in the link.

www.aquariumfish.net/catalog_pages/bettas/betta_males.htm

So, Jimmy the Betta fish and Timmy the tarantula !

[Nazgul Girl]

    A biology teacher in my old H.S. had a garter snake named " Leslie ", although no one knew why.

[dannylion]

We once had a beautiful blue office betta.  The staff wanted a Chinese name for it, so I got to name the fish.  Because it would attack its reflection in a mirror and could not even be distracted by food, I named it "10,000 strikes" (the Chinese go in for hyperbole and are particularly fond of the number 10,000 for some reason).  In Chinese, the word for 10,000 is "wan" and the word for strike is "da."  

[tloonya]

Feb 12, 2014 22:53:56 GMT -5 Apple said:

My biology teacher had a boa constrictor named "Cuddles".  He would escape his glass house every now and then and would be found downstairs in the library behind some books on a shelf (always a nice surprise for the librarian putting books away), or in a cupboard in another science room.  I was almost late to class one day because it had wrapped itself around my wrist, and, while it had left room and wasn't squeezing or anything, I couldn't get my hand out, we had to "coax" him to open up some.

Same teacher had a tarantula named "Rosie".  We'd take her out of her little glass house and play with her.  Had to be careful not to drop her though (they are dense, a fall would kill them).

Those are the only names I can remember, probably because they were the only ones I'd actually take out and play with.

I would make sure Rosie was dropped! Ooops...and be fed to Cuddles.
Where your teachers kind of...strange?
I can just imagine my DD tells me some freaking boa wrapped itself around her wrist!!!!!
I would pickle that mother'boa'...ker as a regular cucumber in a bit!!! geeeeez!

[Apple]

Feb 13, 2014 0:14:11 GMT -5 tloonya said:

Feb 12, 2014 22:53:56 GMT -5 Apple said:

My biology teacher had a boa constrictor named "Cuddles".  He would escape his glass house every now and then and would be found downstairs in the library behind some books on a shelf (always a nice surprise for the librarian putting books away), or in a cupboard in another science room.  I was almost late to class one day because it had wrapped itself around my wrist, and, while it had left room and wasn't squeezing or anything, I couldn't get my hand out, we had to "coax" him to open up some.

Same teacher had a tarantula named "Rosie".  We'd take her out of her little glass house and play with her.  Had to be careful not to drop her though (they are dense, a fall would kill them).

Those are the only names I can remember, probably because they were the only ones I'd actually take out and play with.

I would make sure Rosie was dropped! Ooops...and be fed to Cuddles.
Where your teachers kind of...strange?
I can just imagine my DD tells me some freaking boa wrapped itself around her wrist!!!!!
I would pickle that mother'boa'...ker as a regular cucumber in a bit!!! geeeeez!

The teacher was actually pretty normal, for a biology teacher.

Cuddles was at the school for at least 12 years, and was sort of the "unofficial mascot".  I remember when I was still in elementary school, my oldest sister was walking me around the high school and I met the snake for the first time.  I guess we were all just used to it. 

However, I was one of the few brave enough to hold the tarantula.  In fact, I'd only ever seen two others hold her.  The biology teacher and a friend I talked into holding her after I did.  She'd never bitten anyone, so figured I was ok.  When they shed their skin (like a snake does), they pretty much step out of it, and it looks like a full tarantula.  I had a couple girls in my class who would annoy me every now and then, so I'd take just the skin over to their table and watch them jump and scream, freaking out.  Served them right.

[lynnerself]

Feb 12, 2014 23:59:53 GMT -5 dannylion said:

We once had a beautiful blue office betta.  The staff wanted a Chinese name for it, so I got to name the fish.  Because it would attack its reflection in a mirror and could not even be distracted by food, I named it "10,000 strikes" (the Chinese go in for hyperbole and are particularly fond of the number 10,000 for some reason).  In Chinese, the word for 10,000 is "wan" and the word for strike is "da."  

A fish called "Wan da" ??

[Sunnyday]

Feb 13, 2014 1:00:22 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

Feb 12, 2014 23:59:53 GMT -5 dannylion said:

We once had a beautiful blue office betta.  The staff wanted a Chinese name for it, so I got to name the fish.  Because it would attack its reflection in a mirror and could not even be distracted by food, I named it "10,000 strikes" (the Chinese go in for hyperbole and are particularly fond of the number 10,000 for some reason).  In Chinese, the word for 10,000 is "wan" and the word for strike is "da."  

A fish called "Wan da" ??

hahahaj! you're good!

[MarleyKeezy78]

Our fifth grade science teacher had a bullfrog and I think his name was Freddie. When we used to have red ear sliders DH (science teacher) kept them in his classroom for a while. Their names were Oscar and Myrtle

[tloonya]

My ideas are best. 'Bitty'...cute. I won?

[Deleted]

We had a class guinea pig in first grade. It was a curly named "Ruffles".  No other teacher of mine had a class pet. 

[midwestlily]

OK, this has nothing to do with classrooms, but years ago I met a woman who had a python named Sid.  We thought the name was odd...until she told us that her other snake was named Nancy.

[CarolinaKat]

We had a pet hamster in my english class, she was a russian dwarf and her name was 'misha'

[Apple]

Feb 13, 2014 1:00:22 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

Feb 12, 2014 23:59:53 GMT -5 dannylion said:

We once had a beautiful blue office betta.  The staff wanted a Chinese name for it, so I got to name the fish.  Because it would attack its reflection in a mirror and could not even be distracted by food, I named it "10,000 strikes" (the Chinese go in for hyperbole and are particularly fond of the number 10,000 for some reason).  In Chinese, the word for 10,000 is "wan" and the word for strike is "da."  

A fish called "Wan da" ??

Lmao!  I didn't catch that.  I just thought "That's my dog's name!" (We were NOT the ones who named her, she came with it).

[Chocolate Lover]

I'd name the fish Sushi

[bookkeeper]

My son has a pet snake that was previously in a classroom. Stella is friendly and doesn't smell so we get along ok. She was Stella before she came to live with DS.

[NoNamePerson]

some boys named DD's beta " Jimmy. "

Let's hope the boys don't start with the Little Jimmy jokes!!!!   

[weltschmerz]

Feb 13, 2014 1:00:22 GMT -5 lynnerself said:

Feb 12, 2014 23:59:53 GMT -5 dannylion said:

We once had a beautiful blue office betta.  The staff wanted a Chinese name for it, so I got to name the fish.  Because it would attack its reflection in a mirror and could not even be distracted by food, I named it "10,000 strikes" (the Chinese go in for hyperbole and are particularly fond of the number 10,000 for some reason).  In Chinese, the word for 10,000 is "wan" and the word for strike is "da."  

A fish called "Wan da" ??

 

Many years ago, I had an aquarium, but the population living within was very sparse. The pet shop at the mall was having a sale, and I bought a large, colourful, tropical fish for half-off.

The next morning, he was the only one in there, as he had eaten all his new friends.

I named him Country Joe.

Country Joe And No Fish.

[weltschmerz]

[Virgil Showlion]

[toomuchreality]

Feb 19, 2014 20:20:14 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

[Shooby]

  I think "shooby" would be a very cute name for a class pet.