Noodles

Noodles is an English word name taken from the beloved pasta, from the German Nudel meaning a type of pasta or dumpling. As a pet name it is entirely food-inspired and humorous, celebrating a long, floppy, cheerfully silly quality that suits certain pets with extraordinary precision.

Noodles is a name for a pet who is soft, floppy, and thoroughly endearing — the animal equivalent of a bowl of pasta in the best possible way. Long-bodied dogs like Dachshunds are natural candidates, as are cats who go completely limp when picked up or pets whose long fur has a certain noodle-like flow. Noodles is part of the beloved tradition of giving pets delightfully absurd food names, and it delivers maximum warmth with minimum effort. It is also extremely easy to say with love, which is all any name really needs to do.