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22-03-2008, 08:39 AM
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I wondered if any one else chooses a name for their pet and over time call them something similar to the original. For example, My cat is called Jessie and she can be called Jessie-Jones, Jingle-bells, stinky smells, nasty big bad fat cat.(It' ok we do love her) Jang, janger, jing-jang, spanger, spinger-spanger, and so on.
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22-03-2008, 08:48 AM
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We have a 4 yr old shih tzu called Max who is a little monster; has cost us new carpets downstairs, numerous shoes and clothes that he has got hold of!
I think he thinks his name is 'No-Max!' as that is how he is usually referred to! 
My sister also has a cat called Alfie but he tends to go by the name of Alfie-walfie-marmalade! Don't ask 
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22-03-2008, 09:25 AM
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ha ha!!! we have nick names for all four of ours...... 2 dogs Spook & Clive...they get called spookatronic,tronic,white dog (cos she's white!)..Clive gets called Chive,butmunch,spud.....
2 cats..Bandit & Jones....... bandit is nicknamed 'The stupid one',bandito and dito..... Jones gets called 'The orange one'..and Jorange!  |
22-03-2008, 02:29 PM
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My springer is called Lollie, we call her lollie pop..and noggin as she is so clumsy..She answers to Noggin.. |
22-03-2008, 05:49 PM
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22-03-2008, 06:10 PM
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I've got 2 budgies Bob and Dave and a Golden Retriever called Gracie a friend has a cat called Bandit who I think is getting fat as every time I see him his head is smaller. |
22-03-2008, 06:42 PM
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I could tell you the names I give to neighbours pets ... but they might not pass the censors .... |
22-03-2008, 07:41 PM
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I have an 18month old sibrean husky we call snow as she loves it |
22-03-2008, 07:57 PM
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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 ........... ' |
22-03-2008, 08:37 PM
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Our lab pup is called Flynn and i embarress him by calling him Flynnyfloooo! Our cat is Milo but OH calls him Kato as he always likes to hide in cupboards and jump out on us |
22-03-2008, 08:38 PM
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My old cat was called Pappi - short for Papillion. He did look like a butterfly when he was a kitten but grew into his enormous paws He was always called Fat Cat when written and Nuff Puss when called ...unless he was hiding in which case Pappi...or if he was in trouble - then Papillion. Having said that i was only ever called naomi at home when i'd oversteped the mark!!
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22-03-2008, 08:43 PM
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we have a goldfish affectionately called 'fish'
a cat named Suki
and a yearling called Arran as we live near the isle of Arran.
my wife has a pet name for me but she has a restraining order against her so that she cant call me it again
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22-03-2008, 08:45 PM
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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.
i wish
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22-03-2008, 09:04 PM
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When I was drinking I had two cats called Whisky and Brandy. Don't drink anymore and have two different cats called Pepsi and Cola.
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22-03-2008, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by DaiTheDragon When I was drinking I had two cats called Whisky and Brandy. Don't drink anymore and have two different cats called Pepsi and Cola.
Dai | Very telling
Anyone got a Red Bull or Khaliber ....... or Baarbican....... heh! heh! heh!
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22-03-2008, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by agrumpycow We have a 4 yr old shih tzu called Max who is a little monster; has cost us new carpets downstairs, numerous shoes and clothes that he has got hold of!
I think he thinks his name is 'No-Max!' as that is how he is usually referred to!
My sister also has a cat called Alfie but he tends to go by the name of Alfie-walfie-marmalade! Don't ask | If i had a naughty pet shih tzu...i know what i would have called it and it wouldnt have been "You little Max"
It reminds me....I once paid £9.00 to get into a zoo, when i got in and walked around...every single cage and enclosure was empty...except one...it was a shih tzu " 
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22-03-2008, 09:26 PM
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So does anybody think they / or have been told they look like their pets then?!
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22-03-2008, 10:27 PM
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In my life time i have had a brandy,shandy,red,sheba,rusty and jill,all dogs
whiddy,kissy,tiddles,presious,sindy,tibby,snowy, all cats.
sugar,white rat.
sonny and cher, pair chinchilla
blondy,angel,bluey,sky,charley, all budgies.
elvis,marilyn,sunny and hunny all cockatiels.
betty and ann chickens,
this is in 62 years,some were befor i left home. |
22-03-2008, 10:44 PM
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Ahh - my first cat was called Tibby and err Ginge for short?!?
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22-03-2008, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter If i had a naughty pet shih tzu...i know what i would have called it and it wouldnt have been "You little Max"
It reminds me....I once paid £9.00 to get into a zoo, when i got in and walked around...every single cage and enclosure was empty...except one...it was a shih tzu " | Yes, they are both known as the 'two little shih tz'
And as for that 'joke', all I can do is groan
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22-03-2008, 10:53 PM
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You will never believe this tufftie but tibby was my first cats name,i was about 5 at the time,he was a black and white. |
22-03-2008, 10:54 PM
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Our cat found us... and we named it... well.... CAT. A year later we found it a home up the road and they called it Obi. The cat still comes to see us every day. It gets called all sorts. Obs, obi-dobs, catkins, kitty-cat, puss-cat.... it must have quite a complex by now! |
23-03-2008, 12:17 AM
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Crikey, and there was me thinking I was alone in converting my pets carefully chosen original names into something that sounds nothing like the original and also like something I would never bestow on a much loved animal by choice!  *Shrugs* These things just seem to evolve...
My cats: Blue : now commonly known as Laddy Blish-dish. Merlin : Dishy-miller. Tom: Tajaja. Willow: The sock (at Egg.com).
I will not even attempt to explain how these things have happened, as I fear the men in white coats .... do you hear manic laughter???!!!
D.
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23-03-2008, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Dutchess Crikey, and there was me thinking I was alone in converting my pets carefully chosen original names into something that sounds nothing like the original and also like something I would never bestow on a much loved animal by choice! *Shrugs* These things just seem to evolve...
My cats: Blue : now commonly known as Laddy Blish-dish. Merlin : Dishy-miller. Tom: Tajaja. Willow: The sock (at Egg.com).
I will not even attempt to explain how these things have happened, as I fear the men in white coats .... do you hear manic laughter???!!!
D. | It's always Cats!!
Trying to remember how many names a cat has - Old Possums Book of Practical Cats?!
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23-03-2008, 07:07 AM
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ive a jack russel called flump that mostly gets called flumpy and my mum has another jack russel called patch but only really responds to chicken (dont ask me how that happened?) | |
