AIBU to let DS1 name our new cat "Fluffer"?

[MegBusset]

Should I try to gently persuade him that Fluffy is a better bet (he's 3.10 and pretty set on this) or face 10+ years of the neighbours thinking I'm shooting a porn film every time I call out into the garden?

yes - dp has the giggles

Just go with Fluffer. You will get used to doing the walk of shame at the Vet's when they call it's appointment.

My cat has a seriously dodgey name which I can't say for fear of outing myself but let me just say, you get used to it!!!

Brilliant ! That's one which will come back to haunt him in adulthood!

My best friends cat is called Mirkin

Fluffer is Ok, sounds like fluffy/thumper. WIll get shortened to fluff anyway. Just look fwd to the day when dc is a teen and it suddenly dawns on them

No idea about the porn refs, in our part of the world its a nancy euphemism for farting

I like it.

It is better than Fluffy because it will make people snigger.

Especially if the cat is not terribly fluffy.

But does it go with your surname? :o

My cats are Sausage and Pickle. Innocuous, if a little silly. Unfortunately we have all developed a tendency to refer to them as THE Sausage and THE Pickle. Combine that with references to stroking or tickling them, and you have double entendres a-go-go.

Their mother was called Harry Potter. Perfectly good name for a female cat.

Are you sure taffeta? In many other parts of the world (afaik) it's the title of the person whose job (pardon the pun) it is to "help" porn stars be and stay ready for their scenes.

I had a hamster called Balls as a child.

ta for the extra detail, LadyBubba

sure I'm sure. its one of those toe curling expressions round here I can't bear

:o

YABVU! I think you should continue to push Fluffy as the most viable option, lol.

Lol at Mirkin, and let's hope my neighbours are as innocent as some of you lot

I had to google it
Google is great

I had to Google when someone used the expression "LMGTFY".

Oh the irony.

We used to have a cat called Fluffybum.

DD calls our cat Left.

Left gone!! Is a very confusing exclamation to hear.

Tribpot - Tiberius is Captain Kirks middle name

My best friend's 5 yr old has a little dog, called marvin from jls. We just call him marv

We had a cat called Pussy, named by 3 year old sister. Was when we had lots of american friends. We were waiting for the school bus one day when my sister looked down at her jumper and exclaimed, 'oh no! I have Pussy hairs all over me!' my mum and the other mothers were bent over double laughing

I know a cat called Pokey Nose because a small child was allowed to name it. I think it's great.

Apparantlt Fluffers are no more since the advent of Viagra. Soon it will be as antiquated meaning as when it meant people who cleaned the Tube rails :(

So it will just mean your cat :)

babyicebean - oh yes, I know that (I work in IT, such knowledge is mandatory). I don't know the tortoise is named after Kirk rather than, say, the Roman emperor, but in ds' mind the cat would be called after the tortoise. I have no idea why he (the tortoise) has made such an impression, although he (yes, the tortoise) is my friend on Facebook for purposes of Farmville :)

I had never heard of fluffers until now. Apart from that, I think it's a great name. But then we had a cat called Big Boy.