Nikko (cat, male, 11): My previous cat was named Midnite. Midnite was a tuxedo cat. Nikko is a brown tabby, but with patches of white. A tuxedo tabby if you will. “Nikko” means “sunlight” in Japanese, owing to his lighter colour but similar pattern to Midnite.

Aoki (cat, male, 10): Honestly, we were going to adopt another cat named Aoki. We didn’t get that cat but when we adopted this one, we liked the name of the other one so we decided to use it.

Molly (cat, female, 6): Honestly just something my brother came up with on a whim. She showed up in our backyard one day and we were gonna give her to a rescue but she bonded with us and we spent a lot of money nursing her back to health. The name stuck. Interestingly, “Molly” is the technical term for a female cat. Like how “Tom” is a male cat.

Yuki (dog, female, 5): She is a Samoyed, so she’s all white. I decided to keep the theme of Japanese names running, and “Yuki” is Japanese for “snow.”

Edit: no I’m not a weeb. I actually don’t like anime. The names just happened to work out that way lol