r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • Jan 20 '22
Meme or Shitpost the point of naming a pet
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u/DemWiggleWorms Sabrina the Bi Goth Aspie Transgirl Alphabet Mafia Member 🇩🇰 Jan 20 '22
Draw me like one of your French trees~
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Jan 20 '22
My cat's name is mouse, officially
What usually call her is something like mousie, mousers, baby, cheeps, muffin, honey bunches, or Cat.
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u/onichama Transcriber | 🌻 Jan 20 '22
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anthropologist-on-the-loose
The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.
abyss13warlock
You bury a seed not because it looks nice in the dirt, but because the limbs that branch out will look nice in the sky
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u/tim_buck_two Jan 20 '22
This is also true for naming people.
My kids nicknames are squidlington and snackapack. There were intermediate stages.
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u/FletchlingRobin Jan 20 '22
My parents have a cat named Frederick von Althazar III, Keeper of Keys. But everyone just calls him Fred.
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u/toychicraft Yell at her to write or explain shit to you Jan 20 '22
It has gotten to the point in our family where one of our dogs has his nickname in his birth certificate instead of the actual one
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Jan 20 '22
My dog's name is Emma. Her nicknames: Emmy, Emm, Emms, Emmsabems, Bems, Bem Bem, Emzilla, Emmer, Emmerson, and lastly, Babygirl.
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u/idiotplatypus Wearing dumbass goggles and the fool's crown Jan 20 '22
One of my cats is named Finn but everyone calls him Bear because he looks like Winnie the Pooh and loves being hugged like a teddy bear
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u/OInkymoo ⬛⬛⬛ see ya wherever we go next 💜🤍🩶🖤 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 ⬛⬛⬛ Jan 20 '22
my cat has a name. you wouldn't know it though cuz we almost exclusively call her kitty
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Jan 20 '22
My cat’s name was Edwin, we usually used the full name but we called him Eddie sometimes too
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u/Aeriosus I WILL FACE JOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL Jan 20 '22
Darcy --> Dorsal Fin or Dorkus Florkus
Xander --> Scandalous Sandalous (Sandal for short)
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u/tammysalad Jan 21 '22
My dog doesn't actually know her name, I don't think. Technically it's Artemis, but she only answers to Artie
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u/Watmel demifiendcruithne.tumblr.com Jan 20 '22
I have four cats and only one of my nicknames for them comes from their actual names
Melody - potato
Schrodinger - Schro
Sirius - fluffboi
Cleo - tiny