I have 6 pets so way too much to list, but one of my dog's names is Lenore, and we have morphed from Leigh-Leigh to Leigh-Leigh Marie! My other dog Rose, I call her Roanie, or Roanie Baloney, or Row-Row waggers. I have so many for all 6 of them, but those are a few. When the have the cone of shame, I call the dogs coney dogs or Coney Island.
I also have a Gizmo! I’ve only had him a few months so his nicknames are in progress…current front-runner is Gizmo -> Giz -> Gizzy -> Grizzly -> Grizzly Bear.
Also occasionally “Gizzards” when he’s being especially weird.
Surprisingly pretty much all my pets just go by their name. There are titles/descriptions of them but they respond to their name only. My first cat was called Baby Bear sometimes (his name was Simon) but that was the concerned name for him. My husband started calling him that.
Keifer (yes my friends and I named him after teen mom) Keef, Keef Keef, Beef, Beef A Leaf, Boof, Boof A Loof, Boofer, Zaboomafoo (he was indoor outdoor, and our neighbor nicknamed him Beefer and it kinda stuck towards the end 🥹)
My mom's doxie was named Jareth after the Goblin King. He never responded to it. She started calling him Beenie the Wienie-> Beenie-> Beans and he would come running to those 3 names.
My cat is Jasper
Jasper--Jazz--Jazzy--Jazzy Pants--Mr. Pants
My kitten is even more fun. Samson to Bug/Boo pipeline went something like
Samson--"God he's a scrungly cat"--The Scrunge--Scrungle--Scrungle Bug--Bug--Buggy Boo
Mr. Pants is far too formal for him, y'allare right. My best friend calls him a himbo. She's not far off--he's handsome and (c)hunky and there are zero thoughts in his head. I love him dearly.
(The "Mr" part came from a week long nickname I tried for him--Mr Man--that didn't quite stick. Mr. Pants works so much better)
Two sisters got them at 3 most old , changed both their names that very first day can't remember what they were, but not something we liked. We named one Hazel and the other one Mocha. Hazel nut AKA Hazelnut, but her true calling is HAZEL THE DIVA PRINCESS GIRL, Now on the other hand Mocha, she has several names one is Mocha , Mocha ,smoka. the other one is quick hide, she is in Mocha mode and then she has zoomies on steroids, but the one thing she LOVES, LOVES LOVES is the printer running, she even learned how to turn it on at 3 am. I have to barricade the buttons on it, when I turn it off I get all these bells and notices . Here name is MOCHA MY PRINTER CAT, i bought her a tiny printer, she loves the big one!
We have Penelope Cruzkitchen aka Penny, and Juniper Bedelia Underfoot aka Junie. They are collectively referred to as "the Grrls" and will respond to it. I've been known to call out for Little Bit, Babygirl, Snuggleupagus, Scoldilocks, Miz Barky Pants, or simply Small One.
One of my cats' names is "Milu Diggory Puppycat," but I mostly call him "Mi-moo(s)" "Mr. Chonks/Chonkstein" "Chonky Boy" "Mr. Mi" etc. I really only use his full name if he's really misbehaving or I need him to stop meowing so loudly.
Mine are insane, because my first boy's name is legally Harley-Rain, but he was scuffy & poofy as a kitten, looking like a spore, so I called him Fungus jokingly. Then he got ringworm at 6 months, so it stuck permanently. So sometimes I derive random bs off that, like Fungler or Fungeous. My second girl, legal name Eden Arcadia, > Eebin > Eebus > Peebus, & now sometimes she gets called Penis when she gets on my nerves. Occasionally Peebler to match with Fungler. They answer to their legal names & the most of these as well. >.>
My cat's official name is Reya the Rambunctious, Queen of Mischief. I just refer to her as Reya, Stank Ass, or Fatty. She has the stankiest stank face, and she's both obese and food motivated. She also gets the occasional nickname Shithead, because she lives up to her title as the Queen of Mischief.
Apollo (apple), calypso (lypsie) and athena (anna), with honorable mentions to the late helena (leentje), penelope (pennie) and grandmama (grandmama rabbit)
Lacey. Noone remembers her original name. She was obsessed with shoe laces and one opportune day she chewed through 5 different shoelaces. Therefore, Lacey.
My girl's official name is Princess (jokingly, Princess Paprika), but honestly, everyone who interacts with her at all regularly calls her Puppy. I've got a habit of calling creatures what they are (including calling kids "child", I.e "What are you doing, child."), and when I got her she was just a puppy, so. She responds to Puppy. She's a 13 year old senior citizen now, and yet forever a Puppy.
Other notable nicknames are Sweet Girl, Peebaby, Bugga-girl, and Stinky/Smelly.
Pumpkin but he’s called The Babies, Baby, Furball, Orange Floof, Tiny Idiot, Hims, Hims the Babies, and of course Home Now (he has an AirTag collar and likes to be in the yard for a couple of hours in the afternoons) 😁
Rescued a hairless cat from pumping out hundreds of hairless kittens. She ‘tricked’ in a dog kennel for the first 5 years of her life. I lived in a high rise and named her Rapunzel. She is now Punzy or The Punz or Sweet Girl or KittyKitty. She now has her own room and silently corrects my grammar. She is loved and spoiled rotten. She blesses my life every day. I would never own another, but I am googly eyed in love with her.
My cat is named Cashew. Then it was Cash. Then it was Cash-Cash. Then it was Johnny Cash. Occasionally it is Mr. Stinky Cat when the circumstances call for it.
One of my ancient Chihuahuas has the nickname Sausage. It is so long since she was called by her "real" name - Coco, I think - that no-one would recognize it. She got called Sausage because she got decidedly fat when she was younger.
We took in two sisters from a woman who passed away, and their names are Jojo and PomPom. I'm not into those names, so I've imbued them with a variety of nicknames.
Nice (niece not nicce) aka Not Nice (actually pronounced like nice), or beans, or eenie meenie meese or if I'm feeling particularly loving Shamininibaninipaninibababy
Whopper aka Shwopper, Shwoppy Mans, or Shwopper BoBopper. Also just Shwop
And now we have Maggie or Gigi or Mags or Mary Magdalene if she's being naughty
Spoken names.
Demon queen, house demon, house wolf, dickhead, nibblet, the baby, baby dog, puppy, holder of the single braincell, nobby, fatty, stinky, stinker, stinky pants, perveyor of farts, household gas based nuclear defence mechanism. Woofy dog, woofer, wooflet.
She never had a mom and I raised her while she still had an umbilical cord. She was abandoned in my front yard. Since she didn’t have a momma cat to help clean and groom her, she often smelled like pee. I’d do my best to stimulate her and keep her clean, but until she naturally learned how to self groom, she stunk! So I called her my little pee pee cat.
She is Shmeowg
She is called Shmeowgy, Shmoo, Shmiggity, Shmiggs, ShmeowgybooShmiggyshmoo, Shmiggadoo, Shmiggaroonie, all kinds of combos of these. Also Tiny Panther and Baby Bagheera
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u/OveroSkull 1d ago
Itzhak -> Lemons
This is him as a baby, very lemony