What's the story behind your pet's name? (lemmy.ml)

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I'm the human of a cat named Piccolo, because when he was a kitten, he meowed like a little flute.

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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Thank you! Yeah, it hit us pretty badly... Well, to be fair, every loss wrecked us, because we never treated pets as pets, but as family members, but that was the first death I ever experienced in my life. Taught me a very valuable (although unfortunate) lesson about human beings, too...

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