Bella! Max! Those are the names you're most likely to hear called at a dog park. But that doesn't mean you'll only hear those.

But that doesn't mean you'll only hear those. Thousands of dogs and cats have been given, um, unusual names. Or wacky. Or ridiculous. Or clever. Choose your adjective.

So if you think Max is too mundane and insist Bella is just plain boring, you might find Chew Barka or Pico de Gato more to your liking when it comes to naming your precious new puppy or kitten.

Veterinary Pet Insurance has long tracked the most popular pet names, but now it's also keeping a record of the most unusual names among its half-million insured pets.

For this list, VPI employees selected the oddest names and then voted on them to come up with the winners.

The 15 most bizarre names for dogs:
1. Chew Barka
2. Nigel Nosewhistle
3. Sir Maui Sengkey Schwykle
4. Spark Pug
5. Agent 99
6. Stinker Belle
7. Vienna Sausage
8. Furnace Hills Dante
9. Senorita Margarita
10. Trigonometry
11. Spunky Brewster
12. Captain Awesome
13. Peanut Von Strudel
14. Raising A. Ruckus
15. Flash T. Trousers

The 15 most bizarre names for cats:
1. Pico de Gato
2. Dingleberry
3. Dumpster Kitty
4. Schnickelfritz
5. Koobenfarben
6. Sassy Pants Huska
7. Vincent Van Furrball
8. Kitty Gaga
9. Beefra
10. Mister Bigglesworth
11. Cuddles McCracken
12. Slim Pickens
13. Magnificat
14. My Girl Catastrophe
15. Friar McFergus

--From the Editors at Netscape