# Punkin' Doodle - or pet names for your pets **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 16, 2005, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607 "2005-04-16T05:36:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/21 "2005-04-16T15:24:42Z")
Apache Blaze is my sweet Sheltie dog. We call him Blaze most of the time. But he’s also Dog, Fat-bellied Boy, and Brown-eyed Boy. The Sweetest Brown-eyed Boy in the World! He’s 9. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/22 "2005-04-16T20:02:04Z")
Six cats in our family! Real names and nicknames in current use: Diana - Princess, Turkeyish Vanilla Cat, Bunkle. Sylvia - Silverbell, Syllabub. Sterling - Sqrzl (pronounced like “squirrel” with a “z” in the middle), Dragon Chompers, Dragon Feets. Churchill - Churchie, Churchmouse, Chunkhill. Jefferson - Jeffie, Jellalump, Jefferump. Marcus - Marculus, the Marklar. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/23 "2005-04-16T20:06:06Z")
My cat of fourteen years was originally named Whiskers by my brother and I, after the cat in the Ranger Rick magazines as I recall. (Come on, we were seven.) My dad took to calling her Miss Kitty after a character on Gunsmoke, and it stuck. She also answered to ‘Stupid.’ My neighbor’s cat, Austin, has developed an entirely new name. He started answering to “KAT,” pronounced like “cot” with a German-style “ch” in there somewhere, then “Filthy KAT,” then “You filthy f\*\*\*ing KAT,” and then to “Rat-a-tat-tat, you filthy fucking KAT.” Now he’ll come to “Rat-a-tat-tat.” ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/24 "2005-04-16T20:44:25Z")
**Barkley** - Barkles, Broccoli, Fuzzbutt, FuzzWuzz, Fuzzy Barkley (I wanted to spell it Berkeley, but Mrs. Topologist wouldn’t have it) is a Keeshond, and fuzzbutt is kind of a generic term for them. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/25 "2005-04-16T20:57:30Z")
Sebastian (female) - Bastard, Bast, Bastian, SeaBass (my husband started that one), BigBum, Bum, Big big fat old bumbum, Prettiest Kitty, Shnookie, Little Girl, Ham Hocks, Pretty Paws, Booby, Squeaker. Keroberos (female) - Kero-chan, Kero, Pretty Baby, Wee Stump, Munchkin, Baby Girl, Beebeebee, Kitten, Wee Bum, Shaved Bum, Itchy Bum, Kissy, Stinker (wee bum, big stink), Little Dove (she coos instead of meowing), Wee Miss, Prettiest Kitten. And just yesterday we got them snazzy new safety collars with freaking bells on them. There will be many more nicknames very soon, I’m certain. ---
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/26 "2005-04-16T21:28:02Z")
The seven animals are collectively The Pack, furbears, furbearers, shedding machines, hairballs, food tubes, poo monsters and other terms of endearment. The three dogs are The Girls; if we’re talking about the two Golden Retrievers, the Golden Girls. Shane (female black mutt): Shane Dane, Shane the Pain, Black Dog Sun, mommy’s girl, green-eyed monster dog (she’s the jealous type), Jake [registred name: Jake’s Bumbler Oy] (female Golden Retriever): Miss Jake, I made a missjake, Jake the Snake, daddy’s girl Loki [registered name Golden Chaos in Motion] (femaled Golden Retriever): Slokey, Pokey, Lokimotion, Golden Bear, Goldilocks, Serious Girl, Lokimon, Lokimonster, mohawk (she has a weird cowlick), Loki Bringer of Chaos and Assorted Trouble The four cats are the kittymonsters; the three male cats are The Boys. Sybil: pyscho kitty, bitchkitty, stupid cat Max: Maxwell Edison, Max Factor, Mad Max, Maximum Satisfaction, Maxiumum Headroom, Maxi-Pad (which totally pisses my step-son off–it’s his cat) Ted: Ted E Cat, Fat Boy Slim, Gray Baby, pretty eyes, loudmouth, talker The Bad Cat: stupid cat, stupid orange cat, Shane’s cat ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/27 "2005-04-16T21:28:59Z")
Plunkette-- Plunky, Fatso and Genius Camry-- Evil Cat, Stupid, PITA ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/28 "2005-04-16T21:39:58Z")
Lucille \> Seal. Karma \> Mudflap \> Flap. Chesapeake \> Chessie \> Carbuncle \> Ittybit. Stinky \> Pooter. Nipper \> Squeezecat \> Squeezy Poof \> Squeezicles Clumpy, though, has remained Clumpy from day 1. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/29 "2005-04-16T22:37:57Z")
Boo gets called Dipshit. Majyk gets called Dipshit. Merlin gets called Dipshit. Power gets called Dipshit. Billy gets called Dipshit. It just makes things easier on me, in that I don’t have to look and see who just tripped me before I yell at them for it. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/30 "2005-04-16T22:48:02Z")
Well, Evander actually goes by Vandy or Vandy Mae, but I only named her after realizing she was answering to DammitGetDownFromThere. And I used to date a guy whose dog was named Ghost, but whom I called Ghoster Boaster Animal Toaster. She always responded to it. _shrug_ She once ate a foil-wrapped package of Pop-tarts I’d left in my purse on the couch (out of sight of me), and there was nothing left. Not a crumb or inch of foil… Collectively, I address animals as ‘Fuzz’, unless they’re lizards, who I call ‘lizards’, or ferrets, which I call ‘weasels’. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/31 "2005-04-16T23:54:04Z")
Wow, all the replies so far have been so cool and unusual that I don’t feel too weird listing all of mine. 🙂 Bitey has many names and titles: Princess Drin Brin, Minu, Power, Potentia, Imperiatrix Totis Orbis, Kachunka (she likes to Bite things as her name inplies; this was us coming up with a sort of onomatopoeiac name for her behaviour) and the Orange Roughy. My sister in law called her Howard. My husband’s weirdness is only eclipsed by the strangeness of his youngest sister. She rocks. 🙂 Rubicante is just Cante. Sometimes we call him Malebranche (Rubicante is one of the Malebranche from _Dante’s Inferno_; Malebranche means “evil claw”. Guess how someone got his name?) Sometimes my husband calls him “Lardo” or “Mama’s Boy”. Yeah, he is fat and he is mine. 😃 Kitt is often known as Mr. Fancy Pants, Keet, Kittling or Puss in Boots. Bitey and Kitt are both known sometimes as a Rabbitfoxsquirrelmonkey. ---
**Author:** ![singlefile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@singlefile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singlefile)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/32 "2005-04-17T00:20:12Z")
Chance (long haired and quite plump) ‘the Swiffer’ Lucky ‘the stupid one’ ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/33 "2005-04-17T00:26:25Z")
We have a lop eared bunny named Lily who is referred to as “Miss Silly Lily the Persnickerdilly”. Her predecessor was Toodles, who was known as “Miss Tootly Toodles the Persnickerdoodle”. ---
**Author:** ![finn007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90db22/32.png) [@finn007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finn007)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/34 "2005-04-17T00:42:46Z")
Family a few doors from me had a dog called \*\* ORSON \*\* but the families name was **CART** So the dog was called **ORSON CART** ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/35 "2005-04-17T00:45:07Z")
Real name / nickname (or what name we use) Emmy Pizza Can I Get That Delivered To Hometown And Oh Yeah I Want A Large Coke Lastname/ Emmy Pizza or Emmy Lou Puzzles Whack-a-Dog Lastname / Puzzles Whiskers Lawrence Lastname/ Whiskers Biskers (the Lawrences used to own him so we used the traditional old-last-name-shifted-to middle-name format) Oliver Wendel Jones Lastname/ Wendel We’re all giving up our identities in this thread! ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/36 "2005-04-17T01:33:26Z")
Our albino cockatiel, Baby Angel, has a few nicknames: Bird Baby Bird Baby Pigeon Little Chicken ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/37 "2005-04-17T02:11:00Z")
Timmy the Cat becomes Cute-anomous K. Kitten. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/38 "2005-04-17T02:25:54Z")
We have a very furry, rather well-built, teddy-bear-like English Springer Spaniel called Toby. He is also known as “Monster” due to his habit of climbing on top of you when you’re sitting on the sofa, “Fatty” because he’s, well, chubby, and “Little Bibs” because it’s the shortened form of “Little Baby.” Ever since I saw a PBS program on Typhoid Mary, I sometimes also call him “Typhoid Toby” (yeah, I know it’s bad taste, but it’s funny). ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/39 "2005-04-17T02:29:24Z")
My 16- pound Clawdia, who is now in Kitty Heaven (where all of the mice are slow, and all of the dogs are mouse-sized), was often called “Clawdie-Wawdie Doodles”, or Ten Tons O’ Tabby". ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/punkin-doodle-or-pet-names-for-your-pets/299607/40 "2005-04-17T02:30:51Z")
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