Do you have nicknames for your dog?

Oh yeah, both of my boys have a range of names that all fit them. Their real names are Patches and Ringo (I didn't get to name him, but he had a brown ring around his tail when he was born). Patches is also known as Patch, Patchy, Camel, and Leech. Camel because he has the weirdest drinking habits. He drinks 2 or 3 times a day and will sit there for 5 or 6 minutes just lapping up water. Leech is my grandfathers name for him because whenever he is sitting down Patches will leech onto him and will not move until grandpa does. They have a unique bond. Ringo is known as Piglet because that dog will seriously eat anything. He has even had broccoli before and begged for more. We also call him our little show-off because he knows a range of tricks and will do them any time of the day. He loves to do all of his little tricks for anyone and everyone. lol I think dogs are smart enought to understand that they may be called more than one thing. It might confuse them as puppies, but I can tell that my boys know that we are calling them, whether it be Patch, Piglet, Leech, or Ringo. They know which names are theirs.

Yes, my dog has nicknames too. I know we should only call him his name, but I just can't control myself call him his nicknames. I sometimes call him Baby, or BB or sweetheart. He will know I am talking to him even when I speak out a nickname the first time.

yeah of course, my dog's nickname is artu and marble..we have two puppy at home and i love them a lot..because they are so cute, and they don't bark visitors if they bark it's not like angry it's like feeling excited of seeing other people. They are like human being too.. happy mylotting.

My dogs name is FLuffy, but we call her different names such as pretty girl, fluff, fluffer, fluffer nut. She doesnt seem to get confused at all. In fact, I think she likes the attention she gets when we are calling her by her nicknames. When we do, she will dance for us or wag her tail, but its always a way for her to show her love for us as well

Hi lotter yeah i had a female dog named chinky,she was very close to our family ,but now she is no more and we all in our family miss her very much.

my own dogs name is roxy.he was german sheffred.his second name is ROXY.why u dont make your dogs name roxy. in india this name was very famous.

My dogs name is Ike, sometimes I find myself calling him "honey", "Mr Stinky" or closest nickname to the real thing is when I call him "Mr Ike". I really don't think he cares what we call him, he's spoiled and he knows it!

i have a couple of nicknames for my dog. hehe I call him booger a lot... mr. snorts (he sounds like a pig sometimes i swear! but its funny) sab, sabergater, pretty boy.. those are all names i call him..sometimes i call him stupid too lol i don't think it's confusing too much if it is any... i think once the dog knows its name it's fine to give them nicknames as well..

I think that kind of confuses him but maybe he is just relying on your gestures. My dog's name is Moochie and we would sometimes call him Mooch, Ching or Ching ching. He is used to hearing those three nicknames so it's really not causing him troubles. He is a pretty stubborn dog so calling him does not necessarily mean he is going at your direction. Lol!

My dog has its nickname as COCO. Because its skin is brown.It's very cute and smart. And it has a good appetite.

I don't think dogs get confused by their pet names at all. I have 2 adopted dogs, one whose name is Julio and one named Chica. Julio resembles a doberman and Chica a rottie. I call Julio, who, who who, big boy and the whoster. Chica comes to cheeks and blondie (for obvious reasons, she's not real bright. But they both come running to whatever I call them with their little nubs just a wagging!

i have 2 cats..lulu and kate,I pick lulu in a rainning day..hehe .they are female.when lulu is sleeing ,she will make some voice..lu//lu/..so i called hei lulu ,kate so graceful like pricess,i ive hei a pricess name..

I think everyone has some kind of nickname or way of getting their dogs attention, wheather it be a word or sound. My dogs name is Marley. After I think about it I often call him Mar, but but besides that I mostly refer to him as Marley. My girlfriend on the other hand has too many name to even list for my dog. Everything from Marley to Moo Moos to Pup Pups. Some of the name she comes up with dont even make sense. Do you know anyone who makes up srange nicknames for their pets?

My dog named diandian !When he came to my home from my grandmother's, he only 1 month tears old!He was so little that I counld put it on my hand!But he was very beautiful and cute!He was very clever,because after one day ,when we called diandian ,he knew that we were calling him,and quickly came to us .Sometimes I also call him baby ,I love him very much, and I know he love me too!

My German Shepherd's name is Kelly, but I often call her other nicknames here and there. When she's sleeping, I sometimes call her Peanut. The Peanut nickname goes back to when she was a puppy and real little, the way she curled up into things she looked like a peanut lying in a shell lol. Of course it doesn't really fit her now, she weighs in at around 75-100#. She's the same way as yours, as long as the name you're calling her is given during attention and love, she doesn't care and still will do as she's being told to do. I don't know, but I don't think it's all that confusing to them because there is the basis of 'love' & 'master' still behind it all.

I don't think it's confusing to them. Like was said above, it's more about the tone than the actual word. My Akita is named Keyser Soze. I usually just call him Keyser, but I also call him Mr. Soze, Kaidor and Dog. I figured calling him Dog was easier on my toddler who has a speech disorder. I have no clue where Kaidor came from. My dad calls him Bernard...again, no clue where that came from. But, Keyser comes to all the names. Heck, I could probably call him Toad and he'd come! (He thinks he's a lap dog too...at 95 lbs!)

I dunno, I call my pets with nicknames too. As long as it's in soothing sounds, I think they'll like it. Like our puppy Suri, I at times call her baby or pretty girl. Our cats Bosco and Toby, now I call Toby usually as fatty. Coz he's really fat. As well as my pretty baby boy. Bosco, I call him Bossie, my darling, my darling boy. They all seem to love it, so why worry? =) hehe

I have a couple of nicknames for my dog. When we first got him we named him Benjamin and hes a little cockapoo weighing about 11 pounds now. We seem to call him Benj, Benji, Pookie, Pook and he comes to all of them, i think maybe because he knows are voice really good. He also listens to are voice because when we get mad and want him to come in and we have a mean tone to our voice he knows to get in the house now so he doesn't get a spaken. My in laws have a sharpay and he thinks e is a little dog but hes a really big dog and he wants all the attention and to lay on you. Hes not so tiny to be laying on you. His name is wrangler, but they also call there dog Pookie. Its funny how we give our dogs the same name.

When I was a kid we had 2 dogs. The first was Persiverance because my parents said that my brother showed this trait in going after getting a dog. He wanted a dog so bad and nagged and nagged about it. And looked up adds in the paper... taped the adds on the fridge. Haha. Anyhow, it was kind of weird to go around calling a dog that long name. So we just called her 'Percy'. The second dog we had was Von Spiken Burg. Okay, so we just picked him up at the local farm supply store one day. And he was part German Shepherd and part Rottweillar. And my dad was like, those are both German dogs so he needs a German sounding name. And, he came up with that one which made us kids laugh and claim it. But, we always called him Spike. Spike is actually still alive now. He is living with my brother and his girlfriend and her dog 'Benny' Haha. Anyhow. I don't really have a dog living with me at this time.