History Main / ADogNamedCat

* Mouse’s dog in ‘’Literature/TheTwistedOnes’’ is named Bongo. She makes it clear early on that he’s named after the antelope, not the drum.

* WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH has a cat named Dragon; named this because CatsAreMean and it helps fit with the HeroicFantasy themes of the movie.

* ''Literature/{{Catwalk}}'' has a rabbit named Mouse, so-named because of his mousey brown fur.

* This is common in ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', because most dragons are named after things in their environment. Examples include Fruit Bat the [[HollywoodChameleon RainWing]], Ostrich the [[BewareMyStingerTail SandWing]], and Orca the [[TokenAquaticRace SeaWing]]. The prequel book ''Dragonslayer'' reveals that this applies to humans as well; one of the protagonists is named Wren. Prince Undauntable also has a pet cat named Dragon, which Wren thinks is ridiculous.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Reese sort-of adopts an attack dog, who he names Bear.

* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'' is a gorilla. The reason for this is because when Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto was trying to come up with a name for his gorilla character, he accidentally thought that "donkey" was another word for "stubborn". The "Kong" part was an homage to ''Franchise/KingKong''.

* In ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'', Violet owns a dog named Alligator, which fits Violet's own aggressive and violent personality more than her pet's. WordOfGod says that she also considered naming the dog Scorpio, Dragon or Cerberus before settling on Alligator.

* ''VideoGame/{{Incision}}'' has the bio-launcher, an eldritch, multi-tentacled, slug-like creature serving as a LivingWeapon who spit projectiles at your enemies while you take aim. Which you decide to name "[[FluffyTheTerrible Kitty]]" as a joke.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Deedee finds a turtle and thinks it is a bird egg. Despite Dexter's efforts to tell her otherwise, she names it Birdy.

* In the old ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' films starring Creator/JohnnyWeissmuller, he has a chimpanzee named Cheetah, a character who appears nowhere in the original ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' novels by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs. Nevertheless, Cheetah was a regular feature of ''Tarzan'' media through [[Film/TarzanTheApeMan1981 1981]], after which ''Tarzan'' adaptations started getting TruerToTheText.

** Mouse herself skirts this trope, since she’s a human, although Mouse is just a nickname.

--> '''Misaka 10032''': A cat named "dog". Heh heh heh.

** Pokémon names as-is can also be examples of this trope. For example, Sandshrew is considered a "Mouse Pokémon" by the Pokédex, while having skin that makes it resemble armadillos or pangolins more than mice or shrews.

* Defied by official ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' video game competitions, where one of the rules is that Pokémon are not allowed to have a nickname that is the same as another species' name. So, for example, a player couldn't enter the national championships with their Charizard named Pikachu.

** Lena Sabrewing a duck [[spoiler:(or more specifically, the LivingShadow of one)]] [[InterspeciesAdoption adopted by a family of violet sabrewing hummingbirds]].

* ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' features a story where one student has a cat named "Dog" and another has a dog named "Cat." In two other stories, one student has (or at least had) a cat named Skunks, while another has a goldfish named Shark. "It makes him feel important," the student says.

* Falco Lombardi from ''VideoGame/StarFox'' is a pheasant, not a falcon.

[[caption-width-right:300:He's also one-sixteenth wolf with a touch of wolverine.]]

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and [[LampshadedTrope lampshaded]] in VideoGame/Yakuza1 Kiwami. One of the conversations Kiryu and Haruka can have involves naming a dog. Kiryu mentions possibly naming a male dog something strong, like "Dragon". Haruka thinks it's a silly name for a dog.

* This applies as part of a plot twist in ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: The Tiger Prowess'' to one of the characters featured in it. For specifics, [[spoiler:Counsoler Gecko is actually a dinosaur who intends to bring a revival to the dinosaur era]].

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has one of the Misaka sisters finding a stray cat and naming it "dog" because she thinks it'd be funny.
--> '''Misaka 10032''': A cat named "dog". Heh heh heh.

* In the Restart arc of ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', the magical girl Cherna Mouse's behaviour suggests that she's a mouse transformed into a human. The short story collection "Episodes" reveals that she's actually a hamster in her true form.

** Lena Sabrewing, who is a duck, [[spoiler:(or more specifically, the LivingShadow of one)]] [[InterspeciesAdoption adopted by a family of violet sabrewing hummingbirds]].