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Who calls their cats by their actual names?

110 replies

HelmutFrontbut · 26/01/2019 15:07

I've recently taken to calling mine by their gangsta names:

Woody is D-Wood
Tabitha is B-Tab
Rosie is C-Rose

I need to get out more don't I? Blush

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HirplesWithHaggis · 26/01/2019 15:12

Mine are usually referred to by their colour, one black, one white and one ginger. Although the ginger is also known as "That fucking trip hazard" and the white one as "Greedy bastard".

ragged · 26/01/2019 15:19

ha! Mine are "Fat Cat" "Fluff-brain" & "Cuboid".

Toddlerteaplease · 26/01/2019 20:20

Magic is magic or Magey-moo. Cheddar is cheddar, or chefs, or pain in the backside!

strawberrypenguin · 26/01/2019 20:24

Mine is often a shortened version of her name or kit/ kitten. She's roughly 16 so definitely not a kitten anymore!

mimibunz · 26/01/2019 20:25

The bunz, bunny, my sweet boy, your cat as in “Your cat was just sick on the stairs,” said to DH.

jessstan2 · 26/01/2019 20:28

I call my cats by their names, they all have proper people's names, like Sidney and Margaret for example (though I would shorten to Sid and Maggie).

AfterSchoolWorry · 26/01/2019 20:29

He's nicknamed Pushkin. 😼 I luffs him. ❤

Roomarmoset · 26/01/2019 20:31

Arwen is trouble, toothless or bagheera and Nala is narls, Nala Bala or gnarls Barkley 😂

Who calls their cats by their actual names?
Who calls their cats by their actual names?
Who calls their cats by their actual names?
jmh740 · 26/01/2019 20:33

Hamish is hammy, fatty, hamwich, Molly is molls or Mildred

HelmutFrontbut · 26/01/2019 20:34

It does get embarrassing when you're trying to call them in at night. Woody also answers to 'Stripey bum'

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FuckOffMeadowSoprano · 26/01/2019 20:37

Mine rarely gets called his name. He usually gets referred to as a variation of fluffy bum/fatty potato/my baby sausage.

None of which are his name.

theworldistoosmall · 26/01/2019 20:38

Your cats answer to their names?
Although they might think their names are ffs stop trying to trip me up. Or if you moved out of the way, I would be able to.....

Gloopy · 26/01/2019 20:40

My boys nickname is Yowly Bastard!! Never know a cat to fucking witter on like him... 😂

Minimammoth · 26/01/2019 20:43

Fluffalo ( she only has the two bottom teeth)
Hecate
Het

MadameJosephine · 26/01/2019 20:43

Mine is officially Cleo but when I’m speaking to her I call her Pusselina

Minimammoth · 26/01/2019 20:44

Also bootiful girl, and sausageBlush

DobbyTheHouseElk · 26/01/2019 20:46

Mine was baby bear. Not his name.

ILoveMarmiteToo · 26/01/2019 20:47

I call my cat “Bunny Rabbit” as she hops down the stairs like a rabbit and “Worm” as she also wriggles down a couple of steps Blush

She is also known as “Moggytron” and “The Creature”

Blush Blush Blush

UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 26/01/2019 20:49

BigCat: muttonchops, hairy horse, flufferpuffer, mittenfish, fluffypuggagelump.
LittleCat: bunnypaws, daintyface, softy, ohgreatempressoftheworld.

CoolCarrie · 26/01/2019 20:51

Tom is Major Tom, which is the name on his vet records, or Tom Tom, or furry bum.

RagingWhoreBag · 26/01/2019 20:52

Nope - Luna is Lamb Bhuna, Boony, Poopy head, Looney Tunes, Tuna etc

Link is Pinky, Lickin Chicken, Locken Chocken, Fluffy Bumpkin, Tumpkin etc

Our old cat was just referred to as the Vomiting Cavalier.

None of them have ever answered to anything except the sound of a Dreamies packet opening.

Snowdrop30 · 26/01/2019 20:53

Precious Puss Girl or Milady Blush

Mentounasc · 26/01/2019 20:55

DCat has a large number of nicknames that get used in preference to his own. He doesn't care either way as long as we keep the food coming.

We have: Buster, the Boss, Mr Boss-man, Sir, Fatso, Baby Boy, Precious Boy, 7.1 (one of DH's names for him after he was weighed at the vets and came in at 7.1 kilos - well over his ideal weight).

Ski37 · 26/01/2019 20:57

Snugglepus, fluffybum or jinglejangle (due the bell on his collar). These are not even close to his real name and unsurprisingly he gives me a look of complete disdain when I call him these- I just can’t help myself though 😂

hazeydays14 · 26/01/2019 20:59

Honey is Moo Moo, Meowington or Kit/Kitty
We didn’t pick her name (rescue cat) and she tricked us into thinking she responds to it, she doesn’t...

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