For what it's worth, I blame the show's going downhill squarely on Lucas. It is notable that when he became more involved in the series, the worse it got.
He's been very restrained with his use of Plo Koon. The naming of Bo-Katan was just a bit of harmless fluff for him. So, whatever...
I'd name a characters after my cats in a heart beat if this were my show. Then you'd have Abby, Tiger, Wally, and Socks running around.
I heard Wookieepedia wanted to move all the TCW content to Star Wars Fanon. SWF didn't want it though.
That would rule. Actually, those names are better than some of the ones we've gotten, like Ima-Gun Di and Savage Opress.
If incorporating your pets into story-writing is fanon, please disregard Chewbacca just as readily for fairness' sake.
@HJ_hating_troll_AKA_DLT: You can request these emoticons here. That's how we got all the other emoticons as well.