# Nicknames you give your pets..

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 8, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756 "2009-03-08T19:56:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/61 "2009-03-11T19:49:15Z")

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Louie: aka Lou, The Beast, Foofy Cat  
India: aka LBC (“Little Black Cat,” although “Lazy Black Cat” is also a possibility)

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/62 "2009-03-11T20:07:34Z")

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My 15-year-old, tuxedo-ed cat Tosha:

Tosh  
Tish-Tosh  
ToshCat  
The Toshinator  
Toshatron  
Toshanatron  
Puke Face

…but usually we call her Kitten (or Kitton, like the aliens on The Simpsons).

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**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/63 "2009-03-11T20:24:02Z")

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I just remembered - we also call Andy “Tick-Tick” for the sound he makes walking on the wood floor.

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**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/64 "2009-03-11T21:15:13Z")

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Our corgi mix, Max Power, is known as:

Maxy  
Maxter  
Maxwell  
M  
Little Man  
Little Guy  
Baby Dog  
Honeybear (H-Bear, Bear, Teh Honeybear in email)  
Ass Face  
The Frotterist

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**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/65 "2009-03-12T05:57:30Z")

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We have a brown and white border collie mix named Ginger. When Star Wars, Episode One, came out, we started calling her Gin Jar-Binks. Now a lot of times it is just “Binks”. She seems to like it.

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**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/66 "2009-03-12T16:41:34Z")

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Sydney Sapphire Churchill, the English bulldog, is known as

Syd  
Stripey Butt  
Little Miss  
Smelly Dog  
Snuffles  
Cutey Patootie with the Stripey Booty

Zaney the cat is aka

Empress  
My Little Kitty Buddy  
Your Worship

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**Author:** ![Sue\_White](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Sue\_White](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_White)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-you-give-your-pets/488756/67 "2009-03-12T18:26:56Z")

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Our yellow lab mix dog (5 years) is Zoe. Nicknames include:

- Zissou (like Steve Zissou, “Life Aqautic”)
- Zoba Giordano
- Zobers
- Zobe
- Zoesaphina
- Zoben
- Sally Jane

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