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!