What do you call your furchildren in addition to their “formal” names?
For example, my oldest cat is 14 year old Gwen. Her full name is “Her Royal Highness Her Majesty Queen Gweniever.” I also call her “Gwenabutt”, “Playcat” and “the shedding machine.”
Mr Spock is a 28lb flamepoint (cream with red points). He is also know as “FatBoy”, “Wide Load”, “JellyBellyBoy” and “Spockums”.
Cricket is “The Incredible Melting Cat”, "CrickerKidderKat’, and “Lap Fungus.”
Sugar Magnolia is “Pretty Maggie MoneyEyes.”
Two of the kittens I bottle raised were Punkin’ Doodle and HouseMouse. A litter of bottle raised beasties went by the collective term “The Pirates.”
Then there’s Heathen Buzzbutt the Yowler, more commonly known as “Boo” or “that damned cat.” If you point at her and laugh, she’ll bite you.
Our oldest cat was named Mr. Bigglesworth (as in Dr. Evil’s cat) but I don’t think we’ve ever called him that. His “real” name is Poopy and we have been known to call him Mama’s boy (or at least I do), Mr. Poop, Mr. Holland’s Poopus, Laura, and Black Beauty (he’s orange.). Don’t even ask. My husband is a strange, strange man.
Our second (may Og rest his soul) was named Pants. He was often calle Sir Pants-alot and Mama’s baby.
Then there’s the Buggy. My husband wanted to call him Baby Buns. I began calling him Bug, which turned into Buggy. He also gets called Mr. Bug, Mama’s guy, Stinky McTwinkletoes, and Mr. Stinky (Og help me, those are all mine.). He puked in my black sandals yesterday.
Our newest is Daphne. Mostly she gets called Kitten right now, or Daph.
Our dog’s name is Weezer. I’m the only one who calls him that. Most of the time he gets called Puppy or Puppy Butt.
Yellowval’s post just reminded me: When my brother took his cat to the vet he had to tell them “His name is Mr Bigglesworth but he answers to Sweetie or Shithead”.
How could I have left out Valentino? He’s a beautiful seal point Siamese who is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. His nickname is “Tino” - so now when I say “no” to any of the cats he thinks I’m calling him. The one cat who comes when he “thinks” he’s being called…dumb as a sack of carrots. He was a Valentines’s day gift from Mr. SCL - hubby said “I want that one, the one that just ran into the wall.” The breeder had 3 pre-teen daughters, so these kittens had literally been hand raised. I’m not sure if 'Tino’s feet had ever touched the floor. Maybe he was just born spoiled.
Right now we have Shilo the Basset Hound, but she also goes by Miss Dawg. And just yesterday we brought home Miss Kitty from the Humane Society via Petsmart. Her nickname will soon appear. I used to have a cat I named Baby, but she was usually called Kittybitch. It fit.
Our ferrets tend to get called “weasels,” “fuzzbutts,” “furballs,” and “carpet sharks.” When it’s time to clean out their litterboxes, it’s typically “poo monsters” for the seemingly large volumes they can produce.
We have a white one with a siamese head and racoon tail named Cricket and another that’s all black named Kermit.
Cricket’s nicknames are:
Abominable Snow Cat, or Snow Cat for short
Babygirl
Rat (my husband’s nickname for both cats - imagine this being said like Jerry Seinfeld says “Hello, Newman”)
Kit
Shit Cat (she used to have a poo problem when she was a kitten)
Senora Conchita Chiquita Chihuahua (sorry - can’t seem to use my tilde)
Kermit’s are:
Babyboy (I’m not very original)
Ass Cat (my husband’s name)
Le Chat Anus (again, my husband’s name)
Rat (see above)
Puddy Tat
'Mit
Katmit
Bond, Kitty Bond
Tanker (15 lb torti medium hair): Big girl, silly cat, Tankalicious, Tanqueray, Tankalocity (and so on in that vein), TankTank, No Legs (when she’s lying with all her legs underneath her.
Jake (10 pound tabby short hair): Monkey, Murphy, Merble, shithead, Damn it Jake, little guy, big guy, little boy, cuddle monster, wiggleboy, Jacob Murphy Chambers (when in trouble)
Hockey (50 lb mutt): Screwball, stupid dog, Puck, pooch, mutt, big girl.
I used to have a cat I named Baby, but she was usually called Kittybitch. It fit.