Pet Owners! Do You Call Your Pets by a Name Other than Their Real name?
@ihearttinytim (614)
United States
April 20, 2008 3:10pm CST
Hello, folks! Just wondering how many pet owners actually call their pet by thier real name. For instance, if your pet hamster is named Nibbles, do you actually call him/her Nibbles, or do you usually call him/her some made-up, cutesy-wootsy nickname instead, like "schnookums," or "pun-kin," etc.
I have a female cat named MissChief (pronounced as mischief) and I usually call her either "boo-boo kitty," "pretty-kitty," or "mee-shee," which is short for MissChief. I also call her "little momma," because she's sassy. Oh yeah! She talks back! lol
I also have a blue parakeet named Herbie. I call him "my wittle blue man," or "little blue peep," because he's kind of chubby and looks like a fat little blue marshmallow sitting on a perch - He's so cute!:o)
**(In case you're in a different country and don't know what peeps are, Peeps are little marshmallow candies shaped into birds or bunny rabbits, and can only be found in stores at Easter time). Attached is a pic of bird Peeps.
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@Malyck (3425)
• Australia
27 Apr 08
looks like a fat little blue marshmallow sitting on a perch
ahahahahaa!
thank you for giving me the best mental image ever.
That sounds so cute.
And thanks for including a definition of peeps, I just took it to be a play on words of Little Bo Peep, which helped with the hilarity of my mental image. =)
My cat's name is Mia, and I normally call her Mia, or Miss Mia, or Mia Cat, or Fat Cat (even though she's very slender, but that's what my boyfriend calls her and it just stuck =P), I also call her meany, and pretty and princess.
And on various occasions I just use baby speak that can't be deciphered, but contains a lot of syllables =P
thank you for giving me the best mental image ever.
That sounds so cute.
And thanks for including a definition of peeps, I just took it to be a play on words of Little Bo Peep, which helped with the hilarity of my mental image. =)
My cat's name is Mia, and I normally call her Mia, or Miss Mia, or Mia Cat, or Fat Cat (even though she's very slender, but that's what my boyfriend calls her and it just stuck =P), I also call her meany, and pretty and princess.
And on various occasions I just use baby speak that can't be deciphered, but contains a lot of syllables =P1 person likes this
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
27 Apr 08
LOL glad I could add some humor to your day. And, yes, he's adorable - my little fat blue munchkin (a new name for him, btw). I also call him munchkin butt. :o)
LOL I do the baby speak thing too. You use every letter of the alphabet at least twice, but in no sensable order...lol That's hard to type, so I decided not to mention it, but since you brought it up... lol
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Most of ours we call by name but we do have one that has a nickname. Our one cat Tabby suffers horribly from allergies. Due to these he's allways congested. His breathing can sound like an obscene phone call and when he's purring it's even worse. So he was nicknamed Snuffy. He answers to both names. He doesn't seem to mind what we call him as long as we give him lots of love.
Below is a picture of him with his brother Pumpkin. Tabby is the white cat with some black dots.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
26 Apr 08
You're very welcome. I'm glad you like them. We have a bunch of cats and these are just two of them. Of course right now Pumpkin is laying right next to my monitor.
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
26 Apr 08
Awwwwwwwwwwww.... thanks for sharing! Cute kitties! :)
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@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
26 Apr 08
I was wondering... How were you able to upload those photos?? I tried to upload a photo to go along with a response to another user's topic, but I didn't see a link to do so. :(
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@MGjhaud (23240)
• Philippines
21 Apr 08
Yes, my sister and I used to. We used to call our pets as "Baby". Because we don't have a kid in the house and they're the only thing we have that needs to be taken cared of. Sometimes if they look like lonely or not in the mood especially when it comes to eating time, we used to be sweet on them and call them Baby. Sometimes too, if we can't find them to say goodbye, we just shout Baby and they'll come out. We call them all Baby. hehehe..
@Rosepetal (352)
• United States
2 May 08
Isn't it strange how we all do that. I named my cat KJ, then my boyfriend starting calling him Fluffy. His new name is now Fluffy.
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
26 Apr 08
My dog's name is Jack and I have about a million different nicknames for him! I call him Pony, Po Po, Boo Boo, Jackson, Frodo, Jacky Whacky... the list goes on and on!
It was really bad when I accidentally called my boyfriend "Boo Boo"! He looked at me funny, and I said, "I am so sorry! I don't know why I called you that... That's what I call my dog!"
@ihearttinytim (614)
• United States
26 Apr 08
You just reminded me - I also call my cat Miss Kitty... LOL
@ArtemisHawk (43)
• United States
20 Apr 08
I have an American Eskimo named Einstein but I usually shorten it to Einie when I talk to him. Sometimes when I am wrestling with him I just call him dog, but usually Einie.
@lovespecialangel (3632)
• United States
26 Apr 08
I normally call my animals names that either have their name in it or are close to their name. Like I have a sugar glider named Dominic and I call him "Nic Nic" and my pom's name is Lady and I call her "Lady Bug". Another glider's name is Tails (because most of his tail is gone) and I call him "Taily Tails". I never really thought about the fact that I rarely call them by their real names until this discussion.
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
21 Apr 08
My dog's name is Tinker, but most of the time we call her Tink, we don't really call her any cutesy names, they really don't fit a 75lb dog lol. However, my s/o named her Tinker because he wanted a name that was more fitting a small dog, a bit of his humor. We do refer to her as BSR sometimes (Big Spoiled Rotten) lol My daughter has an American Eskimo puppy, her name is Gabby, but I call her the Gabinator, because she takes on my dog lol she's fearless.
@angemac23 (2003)
• Canada
26 Apr 08
When my cat is bad, which is quite often, lol, i call him something along the line "you little *$#&head!
@AnakSuNamun (2084)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Don't laugh by my dogs' nicknames are Fat *** and Stinky:) And they are proven-she is fat and his breath smells,no matter how much we brush his teeth and nevermind any teeth cleaning biscuits! Must be halitosis
@artexpressionz1001 (231)
• United States
26 Apr 08
My cat's full name is Storm Cloud. Her nickname is Stormy, and that branches off into Stormykins. Which then breaks down to "Kins" or "Kin-Kins." So basically my cat has plenty of names, and if I feel like calling her by her full name, I will, but it's usually just Stormy or down.
@jdyrj777 (6528)
• United States
25 Apr 08
I have 3 manix cats. They have names but i do call them by other names too. Each one seems to know when i'm talking to them. Miss Kitty is also Mama or Babygirl. Sissy is also Missy Sissy, or Missy. Bubba is also Lubby Bubby or Luber Bubber or Bubby or Bubber. Some times he gets a dingle berry so i call him S---A--. They dont come when you say "here kitty kitty ktty" but they each come when called by their names.
@10fingaz2getha4eva (287)
• United States
2 May 08
i have a lil beagle her name is siefer but she has the markings of a cow black and white spotted so i just kinda started callin her moo-moo or moo cow or mulatto or fatty girl(she eats alot but is slender) but shes prego now so i call her mama alot..i also had two cats one named barbosa an the other jack (yes after the pirates) which barbosa i called bo-bo or barbosolo or bosalosa an jack was jackie paper or jacq or jh jh jak wierd right also had another cat named kewie so tiny never got bigger than my hand i found her but yea id call her in addition to kewie lil q dont kno y also had a pit named taj(r.i.p) taj melo called her chalupa cus of her coloring an piglet cus she ate like a horse also called her ma lil taj mahal
@blackbriar (9076)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Sure do! Domingo is my lab/pit mix who also goes by 'pain in the butt', 'Domingo butt', 'Big Baby'...Cats are Lil' Bear who is also called 'Mama', 'Grumpy Old Lady'; Tigger goes by 'Momma's Little Boy', 'Tigg', 'Tiggy', Tigger Butt', 'Thumper' cause you can hear him coming even on carpet; Simba is also 'Simbers', 'Sim', 'Little Boy'.
@sassygirlanne007 (4517)
• United States
21 Apr 08
I always call my cat izzy a diffrent name I call her my babygirl all the time.
@cinderella2007 (2662)
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20 Apr 08
I had a hamster which I named Hammie and did call her Hammie. My mum has a cat called Paws but he's nicknamed as mum's shadow as he's black except for his front paws which are white and he follows my mum around the house! My mum did have another cat called Taurus (we didnt name him, her old neighbour did!) he was nicknamed fat cat as he was on the large side compared to his brother Paws!
I have never seen those Peeps before but they do look tasty!! 
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
21 Apr 08
Yeah, we have 5 dogs, and none of them gets called by their real names. We have a dog named Maxx, we call him Frapp, a dog named Rocket, we call her Rockie head, a dog named Mugsy, he's called Jibb, our oldest female is Riley, we call her Granny, and Joker, we call him Jokie. But we have a friend that gives the names to the dogs, don't ask where he comes up with them..lol.
@shannonjyl (421)
• Canada
20 Apr 08
our cat is named "lincoln" but every one calls him "panther" :)
