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Originally Posted by PMG

I've laughed and laughed at this thread - I hadn't realised that so many of us bend our pets names into 'pet names'

Our Bob the collie was 'Bob-dog': one of the cats got named Chi-Chi which was a corruption of the checheche noise you make when calling a cat but she ended up being called Cheech-i-puss or just plain Cheech and she answered to it!

The other cat was grey and white and had hazel eyes when he was little - so he got christened Jim-Jim after Nicholas Ball who played a private eye (?called Hazel?) and his nerdy brummie cousin called him Jim-Jim - way back in the '80's I seem to remember vaguely?!

Our last (and best cat) was chistened 'Sutty' another play on words as he was always (in Wigan twang) 'sut abhat doin' naht' and he was mostly black so the play was on the word 'Sooty' which is what posh folk thought we were shouting when we were calling him in for his food............

Pauline

PS And as an offside remark - my mam and dad called each other 'Nick' as an affectionate term - apparently to do with the song 'Oh no Nicholas, don't be ridiculous ........... '

hazel?????????????? before my time.
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