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[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

my cat's name is basically pronounced "cookie", but gets spelled kouki. found it a pretty interesting name because it means hope and/or happines depending on how you write it, it fit pretty well because i got him to help with my depression. and i think it worked pretty well. he is also very handsome.

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[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got a tux Norwegian forest cat we've named Rorschach. Also goes by "Love Shack" and Shaq

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[–] JagFel@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My girlfriend named her cat Neko. I named him Potato.

He often responds to Dumbdumb.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like a person, a cat's full name is only ever invoked when it has done something wrong.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cats have three names, the everyday one, the fancy longer one and their private personal one.

It's completely normal.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] tslnox@reddthat.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also read The Unadulterated Cat by Terry Pratchett

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[–] DagonPie@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an orange cat named Crash and everyone goes “oh like Crash Bandicoot?” And I got “No like Crash Team Racing” and it still is funny to me.

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[–] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had a cat named Jet. His full name was Jet Blackjack Miami Brown.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Sounds like the name of a detective in a 70s' blacksploitarion satirical crime dramedy

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yet his LEGAL name was undoubtedly Meowmeowmeow.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Dread Ensign Westley Snipes Crusher

This is the orange menace himself, The Dread Ensign Westley Snipes Crusher.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My cat's name is Nancy Reagan. She's almost lived up to it. And no, she doesn't like you either and if you try to pet her you'll get what you deserve.

Some cats have official titles. I had another cat whose title was "Chief Inspector." He was known to do home invasions and conduct snap inspections of my neighbors houses. He had more friends in the neighborhood than me.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uhh Nancy Reagan was known as the blowjob queen of Hollywood so....

[–] swab148@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

Please do not the cat

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nancy Reagan, the blowjob queen?

The OG Throat GOAT?

The THROATUS?

That Nancy Reagan?

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still dream of adopting a group of cats named Magnus Nyarlsen, Hikaru Nakamewra, and Gary Catsparov

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[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

One of our cat's name is Hazel. It's short for Hazelnut Megalodon

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my cats is Sadie The Goat (the cat).

She had a really bad eye infection when we got her from my in-laws farm and we thought she'd lose an eye so we gave her a pirate name to be safe

She ended up not losing the eye but its still a fitting name

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[–] NounsAndWords@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to name my cat Lou (short for Lucifer) but eventually he got renamed Mao because he is loud and vocal and apparently we name animals by Pokemon rules in my house.

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[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I have a Shiba Inu I call Levi. But it's short for Leviathan J Foxtrot.

[–] co209@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I recently got a cat that I named Fraldinha ("Skirt Steak" in Portuguese) because the person that gave it up had named it Li-Fraumeni after a genetic syndrome. He is now called Felipinho (Lil' Phillip), but also answers to Pest and Toe-biting son of a b****.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've got a cat that answers to Sweets because she's such a jerk. We added that to her name to remind her not to be a jerk.

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[–] umulu@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)
[–] Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are... are they looking through space and time?

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[–] skyler@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

My cat's name is Possum. Not really a crazy name, but it has caused confusion before.

Once I was picking her up from the vet and said "I'm here to pick up Possum."

Then the lady at the front gave me a confused look and said "We don't treat Possums here."

[–] gsf@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is brother and sister Yeti and Sassy (short for Sasquatch). Yeti has only one eye.

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[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

We used to have a cat we named Julia Hackensplatter, because when we first got her she was so sick she'd cough and shitspray all over the place.

(She got better though, and lived quite a long time after a lot of love and meds.)

[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Mum named a stray that adopted us Honeysuckle Rose.

Once it grew balls we called it Ralph.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

One of our cats "misty" is really named "Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco".
The brother is "smaug"

[–] Lufia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

My late cat Dinah had the full name: Dinahsaurus Dinah the Dinahnator, but we often called her a list of other names. Dinahsaur was her favorite.

Now I have Ryuji aka chicken nugget, nuggie, tiny tiger

Yusuke aka Void Boy, Boy, Mr. Yusker

Yonah aka Yoyo, Demon, Evil One, Brat Cat, Yoner

Kimchi aka Kimmers, Kimmy, Kims, Kimcher

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dog name: Calypso

Cat name: Chunky Tomato Soup aka Dr. Poopenheimer aka Soup Doopington Esquire III (the third)

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[–] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think I've ever had a cat that didn't have a half dozen nicknames 🤣

[–] Howling_fang@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago

Legal name is Bubba since I don't know how to change it on his electronic tag (still registered to me)

For short ,he is Shadow

His full name is, Shadow The Master of Darkness and Deception.

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Mine goes by Bitty, short for Bacon Bit as she's canonically the reincarnation of a stray I once lured in with slices of bacon.

I almost always refer to as The Bitty, in honor of The Cheat.

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have one cat named Luci, Short for Lucifur.

Another cat called L.T. which is short for Lieutenant Columbo homicide detective with the LAPD.

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We've proposed "Routey" (pronounced like "Rudy") as a nickname for a future pet named "Littleton/Route 495" (named after the MBTA Commuter Rail stop). You could also do "Tony" but that's less fun.

[–] drailin@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have in my menagerie of cats:

Gamera: Guardian of The Universe; Nicknames- Gambi, Gambini, Gamberooni, Grayby

Gyaos (pronounced Gauss); Nicknames- Gyaos-a-mouse, Mouse, Goose, Goose-a-moose, Moose

Drax The Destroyer; Nicknames- Droopy, Droops, Droopy-poopy, Drax-attacks, Drakattaka

Marceline the Vampire Queen; Nicknames- Marcy, Moops, MooMoo, Marmie, MooMoo Bean the Stinky Queen

Cookie; Nicknames- Cook, Cookie-Books, Bookie, Book

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[–] bemenaker@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marvin

Marvin T. Rainwater

In college we ordered all of our pizzas under his name. Damn cat loved pizza.... lol

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[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of my cats is called Jack, but her full name is Captain Jack Sparrow. My dad named her when he was drunk on the first day we got her, after we found her in our garage as a kitten. Idk why he chose that name but I loved it so much I instantly agreed and we overruled my mom's attempts at rejecting it. I always make sure to tell vets her full name so they can put it in her file.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My frog's name is The Missile because he is eepy

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[–] Daevan@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago

My male cat name Is "max" but for us Is "Maximilian von blistifer I" or in short "mr blisti"

[–] VioletRing@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

We call one of my cats Soup. It's short for Soup Can

I’ve got a Mrs. Big Kitty. Her late husband was Mr. Bunny Rabbit. She was enormous and he had thick fur like a rabbit.

[–] discordatia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

My great grandmother had a cat named Dirtyface that outlived her by about a decade. It was an orange cat with super dark ginger fur around it's mouth and eyes.

We had several pets when I was a kid so here's a short list of fun names: Patches (a calico), Tom (a one eyed outside cat that yowled at the door if you let him in), TicTac (because we called him ticky-tack because it sounded like kitty cat), Twinkle (a really sneaky bastard that like to swat at your feet from under the bed), Drack (short for Dracula because he liked to bite everyone), Misfit (because she liked to squeeze her body into places she couldn't actually fit).

I rescued a cat a few years ago from a Walmart parking lot. His name is LittleFoot. He's polydactyl so he has extra toe beans making his paws super big and I thought it was ironic to call him that.

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