Do you use any nicknames for your pet animals?

[oldgraymare2]

I was just curious if anyone has any other nicknames that they call their pets by, besides their given names.

My latest loving nickname for my old kitty is “Meatball,” as she has gained back some of the weight that she has lost from her health issues.

 

[StephieNorthCo]

Yep. Kitty Buffy was often Buff-Puff. Kitty Abby was sometimes Sassy, since she looked like Sassy from Homeward Bound. Our current boxer Carmen is sometimes Putz because she -well- sometimes acts like one.

 

[Greenfields]

Our black and white cat Lewis also went by the name of Boo Boo.

 

[Milt]

Our cat, Spanky , is often referred to as Lord Fuzz Ball by most of the household.

 

[Greenfields]

The cat as my avatar is called Leo, but also gets called
Marrill and Marrilly -Moo Marrill is kind of how he sounds when he meows

 

[Kathleen18]

Abbott, my Boston Terrier has a couple of nicknames; “Good Old Puppy Dog, Smoochies, and Mr. BooBoo!” Just to name a few.

 

[oldgraymare2]

Thanks for your responses!

I like hearing about them.

I also call my kitty “bunny,” as she has that really soft and silky fur that some kitties have. It’s really soft like a bunny’s fur.

When she’s getting into mischief, I’ll call her “troubs,” which is my shortened nickname for trouble, or “monster.”

She’s still very curious–even at her ripe old age–and she’ll look for things that she can poke her head into.

 

[shazirah]

Our cat was variously “Kittyface”, “Kitty-baby”, “Empress”, and “Trash Kitty” because she liked to try to get into the trash when she was little.

 

[oldgraymare2]

I like “Trash Kitty!”

It’s very short and descriptive!

 

[Talitha712]

Our cat Autumn was “Kitty Love,” “Kitty Heart,” and we used to sing the old song “Baby Face” to her - but with the lyrics switched to “Kitty Face”!

Our Shetland Sheepdog Shadow was “Shad-ee.”

Even the betta fish got nicknames! Bonnie was called “Bon-Bons,” Enya was “Blue,” Tinkerbell and Vixen were Tink and Vix respectively, and Jack and Haku were both called “His Royal Fishyness” (cuz, you know, why not have a nickname that is several syllables longer than the actual name?? )

 

[oldgraymare2]

Hi Talitha,

That’s cute, regarding your fishy nicknames!

I love having fish as pets. When I was younger, I had both fancy goldfish as I called them–and then some of the more common goldfish as pets–too.

Some of them lived a really long time, even though the kitty I had at the time liked to try and fish them out of the fish bowl, until my Gramma and I found a way to “cat proof” the bowl so that he couldn’t get to them.

I love to watch fish swimming in a tank. I find it to be very relaxing and soothing.

 

[Jeanne_S]

Yes our kitties have a,ways had nicknames that we actually called them by more than their given names.
Ramona was Beanie,Lucy was Tootie,Abby was Abby Tabby ,Our first pet Toby,a fox terrier who was a real jerk T times was called Jerkly Von Jerkly

 

[Talitha712]

My father had a pair of goldfish that lasted to nine and ten years of age. I agree, fish are relaxing to watch! And a bit smarter than people tend to give them credit for. I actually managed to teach some of my bettas a few simple tricks. For example, they all follow my finger because I point to whatever food they missed, but I took it one step further with Enya. I would point to her leaf bed, she would swim onto it, and I’d give her a treat. I started turning on a particular light in my room whenever I was about to do this. Eventually, it got to the point where the second that light came on, Enya would shoot to her leaf, throw herself on it, and turn her head up in expectation of a treat!

 

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

Does “40LBS of stupid” count as a nick-name?



My dog gets many nicknames. Mostly because she’s dumb as a bag of rocks.

 

[StephieNorthCo]

The two goldfish were named Frick and Frack so they never got nicknames. The cats would sit and stare at them for hours with visions of sushi dancing in their heads.

Ever see a goldfish with high blood pressure?

 

[oldgraymare2]

LOL!!

Jerkly Von Jerkly!

When we were first married, my husband and I got our first kitty together. He was a little black mischief-maker.

He would get into so much trouble while we were both working.

We’d come home to find the toilet paper pulled off of the roller and destroyed, and the roll of paper towel chewed and destroyed, too.

My husband nicknamed him “dirt ball,” since he was so little and still a kitten, and because he was this cute little black ball of fur! LOL!!

He was a little black terror, and he finally started to calm down when we got another kitten the following year. We finally figured out that he was just bored and needed more attention, and once we got another companion, he started to calm down and they would play with each other and chase each other around.

 

[oldgraymare2]

My kitty that “went fishing” in my bowl when I wasn’t home, finally managed to fish one of my fish out of the bowl one day!

I actually found the poor fish struggling to swim and to breathe on top of my dresser.

It was partially dry, laying on my dresser!

I don’t even know how my kitty had gotten up there, since it was pretty far off of the floor. He had probably done some kitty gymnastics to do that.

I carefully put my fish back in the bowl. He/she had sustained some permanent damage to its tail fin, but other than that, it had revived and survived without any permanent damage, and lived further.

After that incident, that is when my Gramma helped me come up with some netting to put over my bowl so my cat couldn’t get into it again.

She named my fish “Mike and Ike,” so that is what I called them, in her honor.

She knew how much I had wanted fish again, so she had bought everything for me one day, and brought them home for me, all of the way from downtown on the train and bus, using public transportation. That was a labor of love from her, for me. I never forgot that.

She loved pet fish too, and she would take care of my fish for me when I wasn’t home. She would feed them for me and would make sure that they were alright.

 

[oldgraymare2]

One of my past little kitties was very sweet and quiet.

We had adopted him when I was first married, and we seriously think that he had a rough start where he might have been one of those poor strays who was sadly mistreated.

He didn’t seem to act quite right in some ways, but he was very devoted.

I’m sure that your dear dog is like that, too.

 

[Xanthippe_Voorhees]

One of my past little kitties was very sweet and quiet.

We had adopted him when I was first married, and we seriously think that he had a rough start where he might have been one of those poor strays who was sadly mistreated.

He didn’t seem to act quite right in some ways, but he was very devoted.

I’m sure that your dear dog is like that, too.

She was adopted, too.

She just…

…I don’t know.

She is a good dog but just not bright. I had a fox terrier before her so I think my view is skewed.

She is also naughty. She runs away. She countersurfs. But she always does it in a way she gets caught. Every.single.time.

I’ve had her for 10 years and she’s 12. We have trained SO much. Dosn’t seem to have any impact.

 

[TK421]

I was just curious if anyone has any other nicknames that they call their pets by, besides their given names.

My latest loving nickname for my old kitty is “Meatball,” as she has gained back some of the weight that she has lost from her health issues.

You’re not the only one. “Meatball” is what I call my sister’s pug. Because… she IS a giant meatball.