Nicknames

[margaret]

I liked reading some of the recent posts in this section where some of you have mentioned the nicknames or "pet names" for your cats (the names you have for them in addition to their given names). So now I'd be interested to hear what nicknames everyone has given to their cats! It's funny how we can give cats multiple nicknames! My kitty's name is Saima, but I also call her: Saima Sue, Mooshoo, Meeshoo, Booboo, Kitty Bumptious, Little One, Bugaboo, Little Girl, Snookums, Babycakes, etc. I think if anyone ever heard me talking to my cat in the way that I do, they'd think I was off my rocker!

[lhg0962]

Amen to your comments, Margaret!! Mimi, our cat, is also called "Louise" (something my ex started years ago, don't ask me why), "Meems" and "Weezie" (I guess we got that from Louise). Mimi is 11 years old and answers to all of the above!
Isn't hilarious what we do? Our Golden Retriever, Honey, is called "Honey Bunny" much more often than her real name, and our other Golden, Lilly, is more often referred to as "Lillian", "Lil" or "Licking Lilly" (a very appropriate name for this very loving dog).
So glad you brought this up!

[carrie]

Hi,
My Borris is also known as Spook or Spooky and answers as well to all three names.

[This message has been edited by carrie (edited October 26, 2000).]

[4 feline house]

I'm so glad to hear how many other people silly-ize their pet's names! I thought I was the only one - I, too, wonder what people would think of me if they heard me talking to them in baby talk calling them all these silly names! I try to stay civilized when company is over (especially my teen son's friends - I know how kids can be) but sometimes I'm caught out.

Since mine have SO MANY names, I'm just going to list my current residents:

Peaches was named by my son, and it quickly became peeswiz because that's how he pronounced peaches when he was young. It soon evolved into pieces, reese's pieces, peicespee (anyone seen that screenname on AOL and wondered what it meant?) piece-aahhs, swiz, swizzy, swizzle, swizzle stick, swizzy-pee, piecie-piecie-piecie-pee and saahhs. (I told you we were silly.) She answers to every name.

Big Mac is her only son - again, named by my son. Since Peaches was a pregnant stray when we took her in, he was born under my bed. He was one of three and was not large, in fact he was not even the biggest in the litter, so I was never sure why my son picked out that name, but he wouldn't pick any other. WELL! Little did we know that he would surpass his sisters in days, and by four months would already weigh 8 pounds (when his mom weighed 7!) so most of his nicknames make reference to his considerable girth. The obvious ones, Big, Bigs, and Biggie, appeared soon after his birth. During his kittenhood he took to licking my feet in the middle of the night, so Likitung (after the Pokemon) became the preferred handle for awhile. When he started ballooning so did the names - Big Mac the Jumbo Jack, Biggie Fries (I like Wendy's, my son likes McD's and the Box), Tubbie, Tubs, Tubbie Two-Tone (since he's a black and white), Mr. Big Stuff, Major Tubbage, Bigga Macka, Macka Big, Biggle, Biggle Wiggle, and Squeakface (he has a high-pitched meow). I think that's all, there may be others! He turns belly up at all of them.

Then there's Cookie - she's also a black and white, thus her name. Soon I was calling her Double Stuffs, like the Oreo Cookies. So, of course, she's also called Double-de-do and Dubby, as well as Cookiekins, Cookiekinsy-winsy, Winsy-kinsy and Coo. She has the fewest nicknames, but she comes running for sugars at each of them.

Lastly, and littlest, is Pepper. We named her because we realized we had a food thing going with all the others and this was the only other food name we could come up with! But it fits her personality and appearance (brown tabby). Pepperoni soon became Pepperoni Pizza Pie, Pie, Pepperoni-roo, then Pepperoni-roo-poo. As she was growing up we would sometimes detect a faint odor from her rear end so Stinkerbutt got popular, then Stinkeroni, Stinkeroni-roo, and, yes, Stinkeroni-roo-poo. Soon Roo-poo-roo showed up, and the occasional Stinkeronious and Pepperonious. She kneads my leg no matter what I call her.

So, now you see why when company comes they are strictly Peaches, Big Mac, Cookie and Pepper! Ha ha!

Well, I've gone on too long, let's hear everybody else's silly names!

[Gina]

Great "Q"! This is going to be long!I'll work from the eldest to the youngest:

Puca(tabby, dsh (f)) becomes- Pooky,Puca luca loo, contrary knickers!

Juju(full black,dsh (f)) becomes- Doodoo, Ju ooh, Little cow, girlie!

Willow(grey &white, dsh(f)) becomes- Willow ello ello, Wills, willikins!

Candi(grey tabby, dsh(F))becomes Bandy Candi, Candi wandy woo, cutey girlie!

Pearl(full grey, dsh(f))becomes the beauty, pearlie girlie, Pie-elle!

Harry (full black, dlh(m)) becomes bully, brat, Harry baby, Dirty Harry, the fuzz, Harold, Haroldo, my Best Boy, Biff, The Reverend Harry Bob Cat!

Rufus (ginger &white,dlh (m)) becomes Rufeo, Mr. Rufus G. Bagpuss, mad cat, Pumpkin puss,roofy baby, my little man, Chuck!

Phew! that's it !

[margaret]

Hee hee hee! Thanks for posting, everybody! I really enjoyed reading all those "silly" names!

[andi666]

Well My "kids" Dio (named after the heavy metal singer Ronnie James) also answered to Bean,Big Bean,or Beanski
Rio (named after the Las Vegas hotel we were married) Ree-Ree,Ree-Bean, or Peanut
Fu117 (Black,fast and silent like the F117-Long wiskers like Fu Man Chu)Fuppy,Fupper,Pooper,Fupper-Pooper...Pain-in-the-a*** It is too much fun!!!!!!

[4 feline house]

We had a Bean in our family many, many years ago - in fact, she was the second cat my family had after I came along. My mother bought a pedigree Siamese - this was back in 1963, so she was "old school"- apple-headed and large-boned, not the skinny wedge heads they breed today (not that those cats aren't beautiful too - all cats are). When she was old enough my mom had her bred and the result was 5 snow-white kittens. At the time my parents had a friend who used the word "bean" like most people would use "guy". So when the kittens were born my Dad told my mom "there's five new beans in the box." So the kittens were all "beans". Four were sold and my Mom decided to keep one, and of course by then "Bean" stuck. My mom was always chagrined that her beautiful pedigreed Siamese was "Bean". (Her mom had the elegant name of Samantha.) She never got called anything but Bean or Beanie, though. When I was in college I dated a guy whose cat was Benzoria, but never got called anything but Beanie. So we both had cats named Beanie. Bean, like her mom, was a beautiful, intelligent, dignified cat, but unlike Samantha, Bean would do some really funny, undignified things and always kept us in stitches. She took turns sleeping on our pillows at night. Bean died at the age of 18, of FeLV. This was in 1982, so she just missed out on the advantages of the vaccine. Who knows how long she would have lived if it had been in existence during her time. Anyway, just a fond memory triggered by Andi's post of her "Bean"...

[Chris]

Pet nicknames are wonderful--it's like everytime your cat does something new, weird, wacky or wonderful he/she deserves a new nickname. Our oldest cat, Houdini, also gets called Houdilini the Pasta Cat (he had a bit of weight problem and looked like he ate lots of pasta!). He's also called Houdlums--when he's bad. And Houdi Fajita when we he hides, rolled up, in the bed blankets. Romeo is a more sedate and less robust cat, so we call him simple things like Romeomsters, or just Romesters. Now our younget and newsest cat Sugar gets called by many different names, including Sugar Puff, Sweetie (reference to Sugar although she is very Sweet in her own right. We also tend to start singing the song "Sugar, do, do, do, do , do do, ah, honey, honey. You are my candy girl and I can't stop loving you..." Yes we are silly, but we love it!

Originally posted by margaret:
I liked reading some of the recent posts in this section where some of you have mentioned the nicknames or "pet names" for your cats (the names you have for them in addition to their given names). So now I'd be interested to hear what nicknames everyone has given to their cats! It's funny how we can give cats multiple nicknames! My kitty's name is Saima, but I also call her: Saima Sue, Mooshoo, Meeshoo, Booboo, Kitty Bumptious, Little One, Bugaboo, Little Girl, Snookums, Babycakes, etc. I think if anyone ever heard me talking to my cat in the way that I do, they'd think I was off my rocker!

[gini]

You are all so right!! Unless you are a devoted pet owner you don't understand all of the affectionate names you give your pets.
Patches a female calico soon to be 16 years old is called Miss Do!!! Why? She is always DOING something. For example, knocking my glasses off the nightstand at 4:30AM to get me up. Magic (deceased) was called very affectionately Mr. Boo. As in
my sweet baboo. And my current new orange tabby that adopted me,is called Rascal or
Rascalberry with great affection.

[Gina]

*Chris mentioned that they sang to "Sgar"! Well, I have a confession: We do too !

Pearl gets: "Pearls a singer" by Elkie Brooks!

Candi gets "candi girl, you are my world, you're eveything, everything, you'e everything to me-e! .....

[4 feline house]

So nicknames and singing ARE universal! I'm SOOO glad I'm not alone!

Big Mac (the 17 lber)gets "Mr. Big Stuff" by the Staples Singers. He also gets the Fatboy chorus from the Silverchair song "Tomorrow".

A passed kitty named Yankee (she and her sister Doodle were born to a foster in my closet on July 4) always got "Yankee, Yankee, you're so fine" from that song "Micky" by a singer unknown to me. Her sister never got called Doodle, somehow the nickname Boosie stuck. I don't even remember now how it evolved but I always sang the Talking Heads song "She Was" to her. (I think it came from me always cooing to her "Boo-wuzzy was a fuzzy wuzzy boo-boo, yes she was."

Another passed cat, Cosmo, always got the Michael Murphy song "Cosmic Cowboy".

I left Yankee, Boosie and Cosmo off my nickname post earlier because they died in an accident together almost two years ago, and it's still very painful for me to talk or write about them without choking up, but that trio was so lovable they are the ones that started me hanging all kinds of funny handles on my cats. Maybe if this thread continues I'll be able to list them one day. But I'm suddenly digressing from a really happy post to a sad one! So- cheer me up, tell me what songs y'all sing to your fuzzy friends!

[Raz_Taz_88]

My cat Chaucer has many names like Bitty,Big boy, Wyanerd,wyanski,kitty boo,tootie boy, fatso, lovebug,mr.teddy bear

[HowieDawn]

My Lucy (a tabby) likes to lick. So my husband and I call her Mooshie. We also have a himalayan named Gina (she was named that when we got her) I call her Miss Kitty or Miss Glovies. Since she is a seal point himalayan, she looks like she has on black opera gloves!

[Pam]

My cat, Trevor, is an orange tabby and his nickname is "Mr. Orange Man." We also refer to him as "Uncle Trevor" when speaking on behalf of Andy (my other cat). By the way, don't know if any of your have heard of the band, Spinal Tap (sort of a spoof rock group.....very funny actually) but that's how Trevor got his name. Nigel Tufnell has a ferret named Trevor and my son thought that name also sounded fitting for a cat.