Nationwide highlights furry, feathery and scaly friends with Wacky Pet Names celebration

Choosing a name for your pet is the perfect time to unleash your creativity and embrace the unconventional. Whether a name is playful, pun-tastic or just preposterous, it signals thoughtfulness about a pet's special place within a family.

Each year, Nationwide® hosts a public vote to decide the most imaginative names among the pet insurance leader's recently enrolled pets. This year's Wacky Pet Names celebration spans species beyond dogs and cats to include avian and exotic animals with rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, a bird, a tortoise, and a pot-bellied pig represented among this year's honorees.

Voting is open June 5-9, 2023 at petinsurance.com/wackypetnames . The wackiest names in each category will be announced on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. Below are the nominees with their home states and links to their personal profiles:

Dogs

Cats

Exotic Pets

Barkimedes – Georgia

Business Cat – Pennsylvania

Audrey Hopbun - California

Boolaloobalala - Florida

Evil Twin - Georgia

Birdie Sanders - New Jersey

Captain Good Boy - Colorado

Green Bean Catserole - South Carolina

Leapus Maximus - Alabama

Doc Pawlliday - Oklahoma

Homeboy Thumbs - Alaska

Me’Shell - Illinois

Everybody Loves Raymond Orr Else - Ohio

Inigo Meowtoya - Texas

MooMoo Mozarella – Georgia

Maple Bacon on a Biscuit - Florida

Moira Rose McMurderpants Queen of Hearts – Oregon

Peanut Butter Pancake – Rhode Island

Scooby Moo - New Jersey

Prison Mike - Minnesota

Piggy Smalls – Florida

Sir Arthur Cowvin Moo Moo the Great - Pennsylvania

Sir Catrick Stewart - Missouri

Rabbit Downey Jr. – North Carolina

The Dude LeBowWowSki - California

Sir Woodrow Agustdus Scuttlebooty the Third, Esquire - South Carolina

Spicy Queso – New York

Whiskey Tango Furball – Virginia

Spicy Beef Purrito - New York

Will Ferret -Virginia

Tips for choosing a pet's name Taking into account the science behind how pets hear and respond to different sounds, keep these naming tips in mind.

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