I have to admit that these names are really due to Jon taking what I said in a different direction than they were meant. Goober is just a name that Jon fell in love with and it happens to fit this brown agouti holland lop perfectly! If his name was not Goober, it would have to be Mischief! Pearl was taken from the fact that I mistook the type of coat that the siennub have. I thought they were smoke pearls and it turns out that they were agoutis. Well, Pearl fits our gray agouti holland lop perfectly as well. She is just as unexpected as a pearl, and bigger than one would think grains of sand to become, she is cultured it would seem more than Goober and she tries to always be dignified, except for when she ninja poos which is her way of getting Goober in trouble. She always has an ear tilted to one side and about halfway up…then she jumps to higher ground and does a bunny flop… I think she listens on intently waiting to see if we are fooled or not. I just adore these characters, and trust me, our siennub are just full of comedic humor!
Their names when we adopted them were Cyclone and Thunderstorm. If we had known before we had settled on names, we would have kept those because they are acceptable and fit well, Goober sometimes stirs things up and can run super fast so Cyclone would have worked okay. Pearl looks like she has a nimbus cloud for a coat so thunderstorm could work but we just think that they love these names as well. They know them already even if they do not feel like coming when called., they look up at us and might ignore us otherwise when we talk, although they do understand words like up and treat and no, you cannot have more. They try so hard to get seconds on treats or the high fat content pellets which there are a few of in the normal pellet mix that we feed them beside their second cut timothy hay and greens.
Anyway, this is how they got their names! I am going to upload pictures tomorrow!