I was talking to a colleague, Mike from editorial, while playing cards in the lunchroom at work, and he started telling a story about his two cats. I asked what their names were, and he said they didn't have names.
"I don't understand. What do you mean they don't have names? How do they not have names?" I asked.
"Well, I sometimes refer to them as stupid or fatty if you want to count those as names," he replied.
This left me dumbfounded. While I at least understand that not everyone names their cars or plants (yes - I name all my cars and plants) who doesn't name their pets?
So of course I took it upon myself to give them names. Since they are brothers, they have the same last name. And since love the name Herman for some reason, I dubbed my colleague's cats Herman and Sherman Whiskers. I then informed Mike that that's what he was to call his cats from now on.
"Yeah I'm not going to do that," he said, and wouldn't relent, even when I tried to sell him on the idea that it would be hilarious to call his cats these names in front of his girlfriend.
Therefore, in Lichtenstein, if you don't give your pets a name within the first 30 days of ownership, a name will be given to them, and it will be against the law not to honor that name. There will be an appeals process if you would like to change your pet's name, but that's on a case-by-case basis.
This law would most likely extend to cars and plants because it's way more fun to say, "I'm going outside to water George and Phil."
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