Had a budgie that I named after my childhood hero "Biggles". Managed to convince the in laws that they should call their budgie "ginger" after Biggles mate!
We used to have two guinea pigs called Kernighan and Ritchie. (famous programming book) And our latest guinea pigs are collectively known as the "Shut Ups" And the ginger cat is called Chen which always makes the vet suspicious that he is some pedigree cat.
Our last dachshund was called Barney, or Mr B was his VW handle. Was talking to a lass the other day whose miniture short haired dachsy was called Hercules. Well class. That's him and me old beast pal Bracken, playing nice.