...been similar. The children named their fair share of our pets, all the way up to Tilde, which Ds came up with.

I can see people needing to learn how to pronounce Maike and Kaethe, but Kenzi? I like the spelling change that you chose from the book character's spelling.

I think that most of us have named at least one pet after a character that we like.

I've liked your pets' names, too.