Nicknames

lrushe

I just realised while out walking my dogs that I rarely called them by their actual name but rather nicknames. The only time I seem to call them by their actual name is if they are misbehaving or I need them to respond to me immediately.
But otherwise it's usually something like this:


BEN
Benny
Benny Boo
Benjamin Button
Fluffy Head

CLEO
Cle
Chi-c
Chi Chi
Little One

BROOK
Brookie
Brooklyn
Pup
Beady Eyes (anyone who's experienced the Rottie stare will understand:))

Just wonder if I'm on my own here or do other people do the same?

belongtojazz

I am so with you in this,

Jazz is generally Jazzy jazz or little one

Boe is boedy or big boy (that one does get me some looks sometimes lol)

Kerry is Kerry Berry or yappy one (she never blinking shuts up) or rabble rouser as she winds the rest up

and finally Minnie is Minnie Moe or sleepy head as she loves her sleep.

My dad thinks I'm mad with all my nick names but he really can't talk as he can never get their names right

andreac

My male rottweiler is known as SNOOZY SUZY, as hes always snoozing at home, lol. He loves his chill out time at home and the name has always stuck. Even my friends call him Suzy sometimes:D

Havent come up for a name for my rottie pup yet. She could be called Speedy as she is so fast and can out run Cooper in a flash!!

Alun

Strange .. I was thinking about starting a thread on this just the other day! Our two cats variously get called ...

Buffy
Buffs
(The) Bufflet
Buffkins
Buffy wuffy
Buffypuss

Holly
Holls
Hollycat
Hollypuss
Hollykins

lrushe

andreac wrote: »

Havent come up for a name for my rottie pup yet.

I've called all my dogs 'pup' for the first couple of years until the next actual pup has come along and then they've adopted the nickname. I still call Brook pup now as she is the youngest even though she is a year and a half.:)

Tranceypoo

Ooh thought it was just us!!

Archie the Dog
Archo Parcho
The Archer
Arch parch
Fat Boy
Fat Dog Slim
Fatty
Fatsorama
Stinky Bum Breath
Poo Poo
Poopy Pants (he's not incontinent!)
We also sing 'Fat pups you are beautiful' (like 'big girls you are beautiful'), he's not even that fat and certainly not a pup!!

Babs the Cat
Miss Babs
Babsy
The Babs
Ginger Ninja
The Ginge
Big fat ginger puss face

keaves

Max aka Slobodan Miloshevich / slobadan ( because he never fails in wiping his mug on our clothes after gulpping down water :rolleyes: )

and rather sadly maybe baby, baba, pudding, woofer and tapper.....i could go on and on and on .... but on a day to day basis he's bubba!

belongtojazz

My youngest dog is 2.5 and she's still the puppy or the baby doggie She still acts like a pup a lot of the time

Kya1976

Great thread:D
I call my husky Leon, 'Burger'. My RR Phoenix I usually call 'Phoenie' and my bf's RR Rua is 'Ruru'.:)

koneko

Awww, hehe

Ripley: Riprip, The Boss
Deekin: Deeeek!
Riddick: Fluffmonster, fluffles
Malak: babyMalak
Neeshka: babydog, cuddlemonster

Sofiztikated

My/Our 2 cats.

Trixie:
Trix
Trixiedoodle
The Puke
The Dose
Cat

Fred:
Fledlick
Superstar Fred
The pup
Freddie Big Balls (He's was neutered first chance we got.)
The Big Jessie (When he gets beaten up, first thing he does is on his side, defensive mode)

My Gecko Kif gets:
Kifster.
Kiferoonie
The K Man

lrushe

Sofiztikated wrote: »

My/Our 2 cats.

Trixie:
Trix
Trixiedoodle
The Puke
The Dose
Cat

Our cat is called Cat, I never intended keeping her ( I took her off some kids mistreating her on the street as a kitten) so I never named her but as with cats they somehow manage to hang around so 9 years later she's still here. The vet even has her registered as 'Cat', she is v.prissy though so we often call her 'Miss Kitty'

Sofiztikated

lrushe wrote: »

Our cat is called Cat, I never intended keeping her ( I took her off some kids mistreating her on the street as a kitten) so I never named her but as with cats they somehow manage to hang around so 9 years later she's still here. The vet even has her registered as 'Cat', she is v.prissy though so we often call her 'Miss Kitty'

My Mrs' parents have 2 cats. One is Fat Cat. The younger is Kitten Cat.

carraghsgem

Pandora

dora
dizzy dora
pandy (my mum calls her that)
poochie (an ex used to call her that to annoy me!)
dozjeen (cos she is always snoozeing)
dumpy
dumpy dora
piss pot (hubby calls her that)
little bitcheen (hubby also calls her that!)

ISDW

Far too many to post, but we have a pup here at the moment and he's called Bear, I'm always saying "come on bear", so now he's known as cheese:D

Jedstaff

Staff called Elmo. Somehow morphed into "smeller"?

theghost

Scamp, Georgie and Daisy are usually referred to respectively as Woof (or Woofer), Mouse (or Georgina Rodent if she's misbehaving very badly) and Brighteyes. Good to know I'm not alone in giving them nicknames

sotisme

Charlie
Charlie ba ba
boo boo ba ba
Charlie baby

sionnaic

Obi
Obels
Obi-ness
Obi-Obi

Roly
Roly-poly
Roly-poly Puddins
Puddins
The Poly-ness


both
sweetie pies
cutie pies
the boys
sweetheart
puppies
pupples
puppy-wuppy-uppies
my darlings

...and other general nonsense!

the OH goes with sh1theads and other less "cute" terms of endearment...

God we're all nuts really aren't we!

I blame the cute-ness...gets me every time

bullylover

Jellybean
JB
Jellybaby
Pixie Ears
or when shes naughty "Oi"
loads of others im sure are not repeatable and anyone who owns a bully knows my pain:P

Zeus
Fatboy
Fatty fatty
Mexican
and once again Oi:)
both get bubba or smelly:P

sionnaic

Excellent thread btw!

john t

Sheeba is always called sheeba due too no shorter version,

Whispered

Harley
Harley baby
H
pup
Harls
We also sing songs to him, main three being "hey hey wait a minute mr harley", "if you like it then you should have put a harley on it (all the single bitches)" and "I like big butts" EDIT: when you sing I like big butts he stick his ass in the air

Miller
Milly
Milly poo
Mill
Handsome man

Willow
Willie
Will
Little Lady
Sweetie

Husband
:pac: nah only joking

Rochester

Oscar is:

Ozzy
Oz
Wuzza Wuzza
Ozzy Wazzy
Osk

and Oh for god's sake, I thought I put you out

Shazanne

Thank God this is anonymous:D (At least I hope it is:o)

Millie

Mills,
Milipede,
Pedo (that causes raised eye-brows!)
Mommy's dit gurl (translates in human speak to Mommy's little girl!)
Mommy's baby

Max

Macko
Maxo
Blunder Bus
Mommy's dit boy (see above for translation!)
Christy Brown(may cause offence with this one by his left foot it a bit dodgy!)
Peter Piss Can (due to excessive urination!!)
And one I honestly cant write as I'm too embarrassed but it implies that he has three "urinary outlets" instead of one!!!

TooManyDogs

I've too many to have loads of nicknames for each one but here's mine

Phantom - Phanty, Phant, The teleporter (her ability to escape from any enclosed garden

Oscar - Fatboy, Okish, Oker (thanks to my 3 year old cousin)

Little Dude - Dude, ****head (according to the hubby, at least 5 times a day)

Ellie - Mad Ellie, The Freak

Wiley - Wiles, Famishus famishus, Mutton head

Púca - The Púca, Púca pants, Deafo, Púca Face (sung to Lady Gaga's Poker face ..... P-p-p-p-p-púca face, p-p-púca face, Can't hear sh1t, can't hear sh1t, no she can't hear it cos she's the Púca face.....)

We got Phantom first and mainly called her Phant so when we got the second dog hubby got to name her, that's the rule in our house, if I'm allowed to get another animal then he gets to name them. So he named our second dog Ellie, cos he thought it'd be hilarious if we were on the beach yelling for an Ellie-Phant

Whispered

Shazanne wrote: »

And one I honestly cant write as I'm too embarrassed but it implies that he has three "urinary outlets" instead of one!!!

pleeeeeease

Wolfe Tone

I always say "yo dog" How original!

TooManyDogs

One of my friends is fantastic at naming dogs, some include

Tipsy - cos she was found by gardai and locked into a cell, they said for being drunk and disorderly

Oi - As in Oi You!

Deefer - As in D for Dog

GB - Grumpy B!tch

Willy - Cos his mammy nibbled off more than the umbilical cord :eek:

Cinderella - cos she was found outside The Slipper pub

Rabbit - her cat!

Blanket brigade - tamed feral cat that wrapped itself in a blanket and wouldnt get out for the first 6 months

LB6

Jasper - didn't name him - but he was a stray kitten that we took in and my son named him - he's been known as Jasper, Jas, Jasper Carrot and Carrot Sticks 'Tis ok - he'll answer to all of them.

Angel - now she's mine - she was a little kitten rescued from the vets. A pure ball of white fluff. Her days were numbered - we had 24hrs to collect her, I didn't need them, she came home with me straight away. She'd have been an Angel if I hadn't taken her -so that was her name - granted she too has variants of her name - Angel, Ang, Gabby from Angel Gabriel)

Flint - our 10mth old ESS. Can't remember where his name came from - I say I thought it up - other half says he did..... he's been known as Flint, Flintstone oh and ****ehawk when he gets up to no good :rolleyes:

Oh and when I was a youngster growing up - my mother rescued this grey thick coated cat - she was called Squatter mainly 'cause she used to just come into the kitchen and plonk herself down on dad's chair and wouldn't budge. She went on to have two lovely kittens, dad got to name them - Black & Decker

Shanao

Murphy-
Murffles
Murph
Smurf
Smurfy
Murphy-moo
Long Cat
Slinky

Yoshi-
Fat Cat
Fatman
Yoshman
Yosh-Yosh
Fatty-fatty two by four, cant fit through the kitchen door (so inspirationally thought up by the OH)
Bigman
Big Fella
Saddlecap
(He's a big chunky white and black cat who's mostly white with a black saddle and a black cap)

Kiba-
Puppy
Kibbles
Keebs
Keebo
Hairy Moose
The Heap
Furbag

Izzy and Stig then are in turn called either Izzwald and Stigbert, or Izzbert and Stigwald. No idea why.

Whispered

Shanao wrote: »

Fatty-fatty two by four, cant fit through the kitchen door (so inspirationally thought up by the OH)

Shanao

Poor fella, he's not even that fat, its mostly fur. It just kind of stuck though

Vertigo100

Haha I thought I was weird!

Lola- also known as mini fox cos I call my gf fox!

teeky

Stig:
Stiggy
Stiggy the pig
Stiglet
Piglet
Strigarovin
Groovy Roovy
Baby head
Pudding bum

Chloe:
Chloe the bell
Chloe the pretty
Chloe pop
Popatu
Poparu
Popashrew
Shrew
Popatilla
Poppatia
Poptini
Popette
Poplette
Popsickle (Summer months only)
Popkin (Halloween name)
Popateer
Popsock
Popella
Popti
Popalini
Popalicious
Popster
Popstar
Poppins
The Ghost (She's snow white)
Poplar bear
Snow Fox
Ferret
Pop
Angel head


I think thats it. Oh my God, I must have a very confused little dog in Chloe but she repsonds to them all (if there is something in it for her and there always is!)

I know someone else who nicknames her dog 'Peter three mickies" and I think she is on this thread!!!!!

YumDeiseMum

I thought I was the only one, glad I'm not alone

Butterscotch is Baby Buts or Butsy

Pepsi is Pepsi Doo (cos she has a head like Scooby)

Holly is Holly Pops

Tyson is Cuddly Bear

Cherry Blossom

teeky wrote: »

I know someone else who nicknames her dog 'Peter three mickies" and I think she is on this thread!!!!!

Just going on the names of your dogs there, I can tell you, you are right! :pac::pac::pac:

Whispered

Stig and Chloe got my kitty his SS pressies.

Shazanne your embarassing nickname has been outed

bunny&spoon

Bailey

Bails
Bailsey
Gravy face (after food )
Beau
Smelly f*cker (OH goes with that one)
Bailey Boo
Man

Minty

Mint
Mince
Mincer
Minty Man
Man
Smelly f*cker (OH is great with affectionate names!)
Jelly face


They're collectively known as the boys or the Wexford two

gagiteebo

Thought it was just us as well

We have a 5 month old Golden Retriever called Dexter but he is often called Dex, Dextonious, Dexy, Boy, Dexter Fletcher and many other names when he's naughty

boodlesdoodles

Bailey gets called:

Baileyboodles
Oodles of noodles
Bails
Bailster
Bailey Bailey five stick-a-nailey (I dunno )
B*ll*ck chops (OH not me)
Bayleaf
Bobsanici
Squishinstein

For some reason the OH teases him by calling him pr*ck and it gets him really excited, Bailey not the OH! I'm sure our neighbours think we're abusing him.

chiefwiggum

we have a basset hound called bertie and we always call him

bigbertbasset
bertbasset
fatbert
dirty bertie

lrushe

Lovin' all the nicknames, I feel less insane reading them

i-digress

lrushe wrote: »

Lovin' all the nicknames, I feel less insane reading them

+1

Roxie

Roxo Cube
Rox
Roxicle
Roxell Soxells
Baby Girl
Roxo
The Hound (she's not a hound, she's a labrador retriever :rolleyes:)
Puppy dog
Number one bitch
Best Girl
Roxie Smart (Play on Roxie Hart)

There's loads more. We also sing 'Roxie' from Chicago at her with modified lyrics. As in 'The name on everybody's lips is gonna be-Roxie, The doggy eating all the treats is gonna be-Roxie.' And we sing 'All the Single Labbies' instead of 'All the Single Ladies':o

Reading this back I think my husband and I are actually insane.

Shazanne

I think we're all insane:D But don't you just love it!! I wouldn't have it any other way;)

dragona

Love this thread!

Judy beagle gets called Moody Judy, Mariah (because she is a diva), Rude Jude only when she farts, but mostly she thinks her name is Biscuit, cause that is what I call when trying to get her in from the garden!

i-digress

I forgot Miss Wiggles! We call her that because when she wags her tail her head bobs from side to side and her whole body moves!

She's the best thing ever!

ashblag

samson:
samson the great
little poop machine
the killer
the little jack russell used in sentence like: ah sure he's only the little jack russell whilst squeezing him with hugs:D

Cherry Blossom

In order of size smallest to biggest

Poppy
Poppio
wee ba
Licky McLicker
eegit
kitty (cause she rubs against your legs and curls up in a ball and sleeps on the back of the sofa above the radiator)

Daisy
Daisy-doo
Daisy-doodles
My ickle pony (would love to clip the shape of a daisy into her rump, but she won't let me and it would probably look rubbish anyway )

Bob
Bobby-bob
fatso
dusty bin takes everything in
ya little b*****ks - reserved for when I get charged at in the field as punishment for not bringing any food :rolleyes:

Molly
Miss Molly
Miss Molly Muppet
The unsteady neddy
Chicken (buck, buck, buck, buck)

:rolleyes:

toadfly

Yes very rarely called them by their "proper name"

Tilly;

Til
Tilsley
Tilly Vanilly

Ozzie;

Oz
Oswald
Oswald Bailey

Cody;

Toad
Toady
The Toad Meister

Tranceypoo

Whispered wrote: »

We also sing songs to him, main three being "hey hey wait a minute mr harley", "if you like it then you should have put a harley on it (all the single bitches)" and "I like big butts" EDIT: when you sing I like big butts he stick his ass in the air

haha, we sing 'all the single pups, all the single pups, now put your paws up' and lift his paws up. Very sad but I'm slightly relieved to know we're not the only ones that change the names of songs to suit the dog