Do your pets have nicknames?

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The other day, I was thinking about all my pets {and my family's pets} and their many, many nicknames. Some are awfully strange. I got to wondering if I am crazy, or if other people have weird nicknames for their pets, too. So I sent out a tweet asking everyone what their pets nicknames were.

Turns out, the majority of pet owners are all a little crazy. And some of us our really crazy.

I thought it would be fun to write a post on my pets' nicknames. I got some hilarious responses on twitter! If you have a pet, please leave a comment sharing his or her nicknames. You know you have some.

I have to plug this at least once. All my pets are rescues, and I am an advocate of animal rescue. I won't go in to the whole rescue vs. breeder debate, but you know where I stand.

I'll start in the order that each pet came in to my life.

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{she looks SO mean here, but I swear that she's the sweetest girl}

First up is Spicy. I got her name off of the SNL skit "Dog Show." Heather Graham was the guest star, had a fake English accent, and walked out with her dog Spicy. Done. I adopted Spicy from the West LA. Animal Shelter the day after I turned 18 {because you have to be 18 to do so}. No lottery tickets and cigarettes for me. I got a kitten. And you know I had to adopt the sick kitten.

Spicy's nicknames: Spicy cat, chatty, chatty cat, spicy le mouse {because everyone should have a french nickname}, spicy mouse, mousie.

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Next up is Bosco. I stole his name from J, who always said he wanted to name his cat Bosco. When my mom rescued him, I asked J if I could use the name, and he {of course} said yes.

Bosco's nicknames: Bosco buttons, stuffy stuffington {he does this weird breathing thing}, stuffy stuffros, which turned into stuffros, which turned in to stavros {not sure how, but it did}, then handsome stavros, stavvy, baby boy bosco, beef, beefy, and beef stick bosco.

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She starred in not one, but two Pedigree commercials. Here is one of them.


This is my mom's dog, Sophie. The Amanda Foundation named her Mary Grace, but since my grandma's name was Mary, we had to change it. There was a huge debate on what her name would be, and in the end, my mom named her Sophie. I don't like it at all.

Sophie's nicknames: My sister started calling her ruppy puppy. I turned that in to Rups. Every single person that I know calls her rups. I also like to call her Roopie.

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{a little grainy, but it's my favorite photo of her}

On to my beautiful and nameless girl that we all call Baby Cat. I found her outside sitting under my neighbor's car back in May 2008. Her name was/is technically Cleo, but she just doesn't look like a Cleo, so it never stuck. I like to pretend it's Olive, but it really isn't that either. She was my first experience with a farrell cat. I trapped her, but it took weeks until she realized I wasn't trying to hurt her every time I reached for her. She is the best girl in the whole world, and is one of the loves of my life. I absolutely adore this girl.

Baby Cat's nicknames: I used to call her mamma namma noo, which turned in to nommie. Everyone calls her nommie, and my youngest sister calls her nom. I also call her babycat, beautiful lady, and norm. Yes, norm. She is the sweetest and most wonderful girl. I adore her.

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On to my Buddy. I got him back in December of 2008, when I ran into a pet store during an animal adoption. I had no plans to rescue a dog, but he had a broken leg with a cast that said "rescue me", a Christmas sweater, and looked up at me. I was done.

Buddy's nicknames: Naming this guy was a nightmare. I love names like Winston and Franklin for pups, but he didn't look like either of those names. Nothing fit. He sort of ended up with buddy {truthfully, I cannot stand it and dream of changing it all the time}. He has a bazillion nicknames. Buddy bear, Peep {I refer to his thing as his peep, and constantly tell him how much I don't like it. He isn't fluffy, so you cannot help but notice it. So awkward}. Not sure how he got this one but we call him Sturfley {stir-flea}, and Sturfey.

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My little Milo. I got him last September, the week of my birthday. I was at the vet with the pup, and they had these tiny little rescue kittens. I asked if they had any older cats, or cats that no one wanted and was told there was a kitten that wasn't friendly that they couldn't find a home for. Without seeing him, I said I'd take him. It took lots of love, but Milo is one of the sweetest and most loving cats I have ever known. He is amazing.

Milo's nicknames: I usually call him Smilo. My sister started calling him Nugget, which spun into Nuggey and Nuggelet {nugg-uh-lit}.

And last but definitely not least, my new little monster, Dexter. This is seriously the last time I will name a cat after a serial killer. He is insane. My mom found Dex on the front lawn the night my sis and I got our Christmas tree. He was not supposed to be my cat, but decided that I was his person. I ended up taking him to Chicago because he has this thing for sneaking out of the house, and I was worried they'd lose him while I was away.

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Dexter's nicknames: Dex, dexy, dexter pants, dexter pints {pin-ts. in is pronounced "in" and not like the word pint}. That turned in to pintalonius, pinty, and pints.

What are your pet's nicknames?

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31 comments

  1. My cat, Phoenix, goes by: Phoe, Pheebee, Nix, Peanut (which evolved to Poe-nut, somehow), Pumpkin, and Baby Girl.

    My parent's cat Isis (like the Egyptian goddess) goes by Is-Is (like "is" doubled), Is, Is-y, Ice, Icy, Tubby, and Tubs.

    Throw in the fact that they randomly get called by _our_ names, yeah, they get their fair share of confusion :)

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  2. You are so right on with the pet nicknames! Our lab's name is Cash and we call him Balky (as in Balky Bartokomus from the old comedy Perfect Strangers), Cashy Baby or Cashy Bartokomus. Ruby, our beagle, is called Rue Rue or Ruby Tuesday and AJ, our wiener dog, is called Rae Rae Rasha (not sure how to spell Rasha like it really sounds).

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  3. We have a Pug named PRINCESS. Our fav nickname for her is Prinny or Girl.

    My aunt has a cat named Stinky butt. Yeah for real. I have no idea the story behind it. yeah.. *sigh*

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  4. You have adorable pets! How lucky you are to shre your life with so many great four-leggeds!

    For some reason all of my animals have "B" nicknames or derivations of them.

    Hudson (Newfoundland): Hudson Budson, Budson, Boo, Boo Boo, Boobers
    Rita (Newfoundland): Rita Bita, Bita, Bee, Beeters, Bee Bee
    Desdemona (rescue kitty and queen of the house): Desi, Desdemonie, Desdemoaners, Munchkin, Munchers

    Funny how we spend so much time trying to find the perfect names for our animals and now I hardly ever use their given names!

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  5. I have two cats: Lewis and Clark.

    Lewis is... Lewie, Fat Lewie, Little Lewie, Mr. Penguin, Love Bug

    Clark is... Mr. Clark, Chunkers, Fattie (He's a kitten who actually weighs a healthy 18 pounds. My vet says he is the largest kitten he has ever seen! More like a tiger than a cat!)

    I love my babies! :)

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  6. We have an airedale terrier named Emma. I have always used nicknames for her: Emma Lou, Lulu, Lula, Lula Girl...

    Your pets are all adorable. I love that first picture of Spicy - what a snarky look she has, too cute!

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  7. too funny!! i have a rescue redbone coonhound named jake. his nicknames are jakey, jakey pants, noodle, poodle, and noodle poodle.

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  8. Our dog Emily had so many names - chicketta, chicketta benneta, Ems, emmer, baby girl, fatty fatten butt (no she wasn't fat just loved to eat) Emmy sue la hula who, hoolilahand.and so many others it's funny how some of them came abt and some who knows where they came from.... Thanks for posting this it made me laugh.. Emily died 3 months ago and tomorrow would've been her 12th b-d and it was nice to remember....and smile

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  9. WOW! You have A LOT of nicknames for your animals. We have a Yorkie Poo named Fritz. We call him Fritzy or Fritter. Our other dog is a Pit/American bulldog mix, Reese. He often gets called Reesey Or Reesey Piecey.

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  10. My golden's name is Takeo and we call him Booboo Bear :) Love your pets nicknames and think it is wonderful that you rescue them!

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  11. All my pets are rescues.

    I have a 16 year old Lab / Short Hair named Samantha who has a myriad of names to go along with that. Sammie, Sammers, Hamkins, Ham, Hamwise, Squirrel (when she was younger she loved to chase squirrels, once she caught up to them she would out run them looking back the whole time).

    My Calico is 8, her name is Neko – meaning cat in Japanese. Her nicknames include Mrs Nesbitt (cant remember why), Snoops (like the henchmen in the Rescurers), Nurse Cat, Mrs Snoops, and Princess Snoops.

    I have a Grey Tabby named Buster. Nicknames include Buster-Buster, B, Bear, Bitters (had to cover him in apple bitter he was compulsively licking all his fur off), Bister, BBKat, and Dr B.

    Lastly is our 5mo old Rottie/Lab Mix Ruby. Her nick names ar little girl, Roo, Roo-roo,Rubixcube, Ruben, Roobear, and RubyQ

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  12. you have so many precious animals!! Love them ALL! I have 2 cats and have been begging for a dog for about 5 years ... my day WILL come!! :P

    We have Pumpkin (orange tabby) we call him pump, and fatty mcfatty (he's a little chubby) haha

    next is Molly (white and orange - Molly is a boy) we call him Mr. Molly, Molly-boy, and Knucklehead. :P

    This was fun!!

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  13. You're not the only one
    Well...We have a cat, her name is LUCY (from narnia)
    We/I call her...
    Luc Luc (Loose loose), Lucy Lu, Lucy Baby, Lucy Goosey, Woosey, "My Little Alarm Clock" (she wakes me up in the morning LOL), My wittle puppy (she acts like a puppy, Eats off of floor, scares away "other" dogs LOL) and I think there is like 1 more...But I can't remember! See? I have weird nicknames!

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  14. So funny!
    We call our cat (Clyde) C-monkey or C-monster. He's gone through quite a few nicknames, but those are the ones that stuck!

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  15. Yes my dog has lots of pet names!! We have only dressed her up once it was a chicken outfit from Target and ever since we call her "Chicken". We also call her "Baby Girl", "Devil Dog", "My Girl",and "Daze". Her real name is Daisy and she is a 50lbs mutt from the pound we rescued 4 years ago.

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  16. Oh, boy do we have nicknames for out pets! We have Taz, who we call MeMeMe, Meemers or Tazerson. We also have Sampson, who we call Sammie, Sammie Boia or Samerson. Everyone in the family calls them either of these. I have no idea where they've come from or how they've stuck so long. Even immediate family members and friends have picked up on this. HAHA!

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  17. I am LOVING all these cute nicknames :) Thank you all for sharing.

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  18. I just started CRYING at Sophie's commercial, even though I know she is in a happy home. I get so emotional about shelter dogs, which is so weird because I worked in a shelter and was much stronger then.

    I can only begin the millions of names I have for my pets. Cholula: Lu, Lula, Chalups, Chu Chu, Monster Face...Rosie: Professor Wigglebutt (she has no tail and is not very smart(irony)), P.Wiggy, Lady Grumpbucket. Techron: Price of Darkness, Buster, El Chubito

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  19. My dog Gibson has a billion nicknames, but my new favorite is "Stinkerson" :)

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  20. Giving people and animals nicknames is one of my favorite things ever!!! My dogs have so many nick names it's crazy, the list could go on and on!

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  21. My golden retriever named Lady but I called her LadyBugs, Ladybuggers, Buggers, Bugaboo, Stinky Binky Bugaboo
    MJ another golden is sometimes called Emmers, Emmer Jean, Em & the groomer calls her Emmy
    CB my crazy cat name is Cosmic Bisquit, Ceebers, Seymour, My favorite Stinky Binks in the whole wide world.
    Love & Hugs, Pam

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  22. My Golden Retriever Lady is also called Ladybug, Ladybuggers, Buggers, Bugaboo, My Stinky Binky Bugaboo.
    MJ another Golden is called Em, Emmers, Emmer Jean & the groomer calls her Emmy.
    CB, Cosmic Bisquit my crazy cat, is called Ceebers, Seymour, Ceeber Beeber doop a day, My most favorite stinky binks in the whole world & Stinky Binks.
    Spencer a german shorthair pointer, is called Spencer doodle doo.
    Love & Hugs, Pam

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  23. That commercial kills me! So sad (I may or may not have cried a teeny tiny bit)! But lucky for your mom, she's got a celeb dog!

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  24. CB is also called Chubba Wubba or Tubby Tuba as he is a chunky cat.
    Love & Hugs,
    Pam

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  25. I LOVED THIS POST!! :)

    We have 3 cats:
    TIMMY: originally Ricky Tann for almost two years before we changed his name to Timmy. Ricky Ticky, Ricky Ticky Tann-bo, Tann-bo, Tann the Man, Timmy-Timmy, and Buddy.

    FUZZ: originally "The Fuzz." Fuzz-a-wuz, Fuzz Monster, Monster, Fuzz Bucket, Fuzz Baby

    GOAT: originally Kitty I think. We got her from my cousin who is responsible for changing her name because she eats everything. Literally... had to have surgery, so that explains the name Goat. We call her Goatey Goat, Goatey Girl, Goatamus Maximus, Miss Priss

    I really like all of your pet nicknames. I don't think we necessarily do it on purpose.. it just kind of comes out you know. Sometimes the things we say just stick. :)

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  26. I agree that the nicknames just come out of nowhere because I have never thought about what to call my babies it just comes out of my mouth and voila a nickname emerges. Spencer is a new to us dog even thoug he is 12 so he hasn't had a chance to develop odd nicknames but it will happen as his personality unfolds.
    Another nickname for CB is PurrBuckets since he has always purred constantly.
    Love & Hugs,
    Pam

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  27. Oh yea...many! I LOVE this post!

    Bailey: Baby Girl, BG, Bailey Dawg, Sissy (she's the big sis), Monkey, Pancake, Pup-Pup, Frito Feet, P-Diddy

    Harley: Harley Bear, HB, Sue-Sue (she was Susie when we rescued her), Waffles (she got into syrup and smelled like waffles - then we added Pancake for Bailey b/c of her light coloring)

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  28. OMGosh - I can't believe I forgot Har-Har for Harley. We probably call her that 90% of the time!

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  29. the cats are too cute! I call my cat fatty, or fatso. or farty (but in swedish) - not because he farts alot, at least not that I know of, but because it sounds funny

    I looooooooooooooooove your blog designs!

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  30. My cat, Chloe, is often called Chloe-Belle. My husband also likes to call her Clawy. And when she's done something bad, we call her Chloe Charles (insert last name here.) Charles is my husband's middle name and I needed something that wasn't cute.

    My family dog, Oliver, is often called Oli-fur by me. And Sophie (another family dog) is Sophie-girl. Nothing too creative.

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