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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Name: Emily

Nickname: Emmerly. Sometimes I sing "Emmerly and Ivory" to her 😁

Name: Charlotte

Nickname: Char-Char

I also refer to them as "The Sisters" or "The Fabulous Staredycat Sisters" since they are in fact sisters from the same litter and love staring at me, visitors, and each other πŸ˜„

A rare moment of them getting along outside of having fun playfighting:

[–] martine@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Things I love about this comment:

  1. Singing Emmerly and Ivory
  2. Emmerly's mlem matching the cat food bag
  3. "Staredycat Sister's"
  4. The fact that Char Char is a tortoiseshell, because I think they look like orange cats that got stuck in a sooty chimney
[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have two void brothers.

Booker

  • Book
  • Booger
  • Bookbookbookbookbookbookbookabookabooka
  • Booker DeWitt (his full name) when he's being very handsome.

Hollow

  • Holla at your homeboy
  • Scaredycat
  • Boy
  • Fatty

Both of them also get called

  • Mister Man
  • Void (said as many times as feels right)
  • Stinkybutt
  • Boysboysboysboysboysboysboys (into perpetuity)
  • Handsome

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago

My partner and I ALSO have

Mister Man

and

BOISBOISBOISBOISBOISBOIS

!!!

We don’t have stinkybutt, but I do call them β€œpooper”, and β€œpoo tube”

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Name: Miso
Nickname: Dickhead, when he is stupid. Mate, when he isn't being an orange cat.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Name: Luci (disenchantment character)

Nick Names: Lulu, Goddamnit, Dumpster goblin, Lou, Stop that.

Name: Rorschach Nick Names: Buddy, Rory, purrlator, ruru, socks, hungry boi,

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Her name is Beri. Nicknames: beko, bekos, or berko. As you can see in the pictures she's a low intelligence specimen.

[–] martine@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The last pic has big "phone home" vibes πŸ‘½

[–] hactar42@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sushi

My wife and daughter call her su or more commonly su-su

If she's in trouble then it's Sushi Maki Roll <Our last name>

I call her Stink Butt because she takes the smelliest poops I've ever had the displeasure of smelling and then doesn't bury them in the litter.

[–] Remorhaz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This is Zoe, aka Princess Zoe Peanut Butter Garbanzo

She got the name peanut butter from a delivery guy one day who was helping move in a new couch. She just went up to him friendly as can be and the delivery guy just went β€œhey peanut butter” and the nickname stuck.

[–] martine@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Oliver. I mostly call him:

  • Little Boyyyyyyy! (Singsong, obviously)
  • Beautiful Baby
  • Little Baby Man
  • Stinky Boy
  • Goofy Little Guy
  • Crunch Boy (when he's eating)
  • Whiny Baby (when he's feeling talkative)

Oh and my partner calls him Ollie.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Name: Blu

Nicknames:

  • Blauzi
  • Baunzi
  • Stinki
  • alte Kackbrazze

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

General von Mackensen. They look like they fought in both world wars.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She fights every other cat she comes across.

...

And loses.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Aaah, true von Mackensen style

[–] CreateProblems@corndog.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Scout

Who 99% of the time is Scooty.

She's occasionally called: Scootybutt, Scooterella, Scoots, Scootyscoots*, Scuttles, Scuttlebutt, Scoutster (only ever used by my mom lol), Scootypuff Senior (a la Futurama, but she's too old to be Junior. Scooty is 12.)

(*Edit: I should add that when using this one, it's always pronounced as "ScootySCOOOOOOOOOOOTS" in imitation of our friend who coined this while drunk.)

We pretty much only call her Scout at the vet

~~I'll add a picture when I get another break from work~~

Edit: pic tax

Looking guilty after I caught her licking a plastic bag

Asking for attention/if she can steal my chocolate croissant

"Helping" me work from home

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We also have a Scout. We also call him Scoochy, Scoutabout, Scootums, and You-Motherfucker. He's orange and only uses his brief braincell time for evil. He once turned the gas stove on by himself.

Scoutabout and Scootums are both VERY good, we might have to start using those! 😁

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My boy Mo

Or:

  • MoMo
  • Moby
  • Mo-boy
  • Moraca
  • Mohamed
  • Mo-reese
  • Mostly harmless
  • Guiller-mo
  • Slow-mo

And probably dozens of other names I've appended Mo onto. He's a good sport about it.---

Edit: I just realized this was his first time outside after hip surgery. That's why his hair looks weird on the back half.

[–] martine@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm losing it at Slow-Mo and Guiller-Mo

May I suggest, for when he is being a menace (I can tell this boy loves to be a menace)

  1. MoMoney MoProblems
  2. Moby Dick
  3. Quoth the Raven, Never Mo
[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

(I can tell this boy loves to be a menace)

You called that right. He's pretty much a Border Collie in a cat body. Those are definitely going into the rotation.

[–] Cheskaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Name: Aaron Purr

.

Nicknames: Biscuit Boy, Boffin, Little Babushka, Baaronki Paponski the Zoozahzonski, Bahba, the VP, Bisco Pisco Sour,

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Omg you got your cat to sleep somewhere that's not directly on the fucking keyboard!?!? Who are you so wise in the ways of cats?

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[–] skyler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Possum. Her nicknames are:

  • Poss
  • Poss-cat
  • Poss-kitty
  • Poss-ghetti and meatballs
[–] Outdated4134@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Left: Alcatraz

Alcatraz became Darkness became Dennis. A three year old saying Darkness sounds like Dennis. His name is Dennis now.

Nicknames: Supermassive black hole, big black ass

Right: Ipso Facto

Nicknames: Ipso Catso, Ipso Fatso, jerk, Ipso Untrusto,

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

Miss Caligula, in keeping with a Roman naming tradition. Usually shortened to Cali, or more often than not just goes by kitty.

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two cats. Some of these are translated from my first language (I use it interchangeably with English with these two...)

The calico: Mew

  • Meow
  • Meeeeoooooooow (when she is sad & I have to call her)
  • Ms. Majestic (or something like that)
  • Big Mew
  • House tiger

The void: Tommy

  • Thomas (his official name, when he's majestic)
  • tom (when he's derpy)
  • ROTUND/Massive object
  • Le creature
  • Fat Tommy/Tommy Fat/My-Fat-Tom/My-Tom-Fat (yup it's just shuffling words)

Both:

  • Massive fluffs
  • Le chonkers (or something like that; one came in as a skinny stray & the other was a baby, but they are both very well-fed now)

Tommy is on a diet I promise

Two cats in a bathroom, both looking left.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Name: Nora

Nicknames: NΓΆrchen, Norora Borealis, The Baby, Guardgoyle, My Darling, MΓΌrzel

Nora

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[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 10 points 1 year ago

Mimo, memes, mats shmickelson when eating, captain zeiksnor when annoying and sjattepoemel when sweet.

Mimo

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago

Nyx, but every cat I have is either "kitty" or lately "monkey"

I'm at work with a new-ish phone so I can't pay the cat tax, I don't take many pictures :/

[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Snuggles, Struggles, and Franny.

Although we've started calling Struggles by new names such as Yappy Jackie, Gob, and Screamer.

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No pictures, sorry. Got two of them. (Two of them)

Pistache (Pistachio, classic Calico tabby)

  • Squirt
  • Princess
  • Little Missy
  • Spoiled brat

And, Earl Grey (Super chonky muted tuxedo tabby)

  • Grey
  • Jonathan Chonkstar
  • Fully loaded potato
  • Sweet potato
  • Yam-yam (sweet potato)
[–] martine@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Fully Loaded Potato is perfection.

[–] belastend@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

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Polina aka Apollinaria Cassiopeia last name aka Sackratte (imma let you ecose that).

She's tiny, she's a drama queen and if you pet her the wrong for 3 picoseconds, you'll get the teeth.

[–] tcgoetz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Sabrina -> Bree -> The Cheese -> Cheesy

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Internet is not a safe space to share this kind of information. If you're using any data shared here as part of your password or on recovery methods, please change now.

[–] LycanGalen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joke's on you. My password is Abcd1234!

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like that you took your time to count the characters

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Name: Nomi

Nickname: Nerbals (among many, many others)

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Scruffy aka Big Boy. Since i can't seem to upload, he has no teeth and a floppy ear. When he arrived on my doorstep 6 years ago, his fur was matted, his mouth bloody and inflamed (stomatitis, which got his teeth pulled) and he has a BB permanently lodged in his side from some asswipe that shot him. About 16 pounds.

[–] humiddragonslayer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The standard issue one is Morpheus, and the orange is his younger sister (from a different litter) Avocado Toast. Together they are the international pop duo Morphy and Toasty (don't have anything sillier than that, though I will try to use any that get suggested).

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Taco Bob often gets called Robert or Turkey Bird

Pliny is usually just Pliny or Pliny Kitty.

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[–] thebigslime@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Name: Toffee (left)

Nicknames: Toff, Choff, Meatball, Lil Sis

Not nicknames but things she is: a gremlin, smooth-brained, a domestic terrorist, a princess, just a baby.

Name: Muddy Buddy (right)

Nicknames: Muddy, Buddy, Mudster, Pudster, Putty, Big Sis, Muddy Monster, Mud Bud,

Things she is: a big girl, a spooky ghost, a sad baby.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Not a cat, but I adopted a dog whose name was Doc. I started calling him Docky and that became Ducky and then he started responding to that so now that’s his name.

He has a brother named Dexter that I obviously call Goose lol

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Lubochka / Lulu / Bochka / Bobo / Booboo / Bober / Boober / Luboo / Bochkin

[–] jade52@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is Luna. Her nicknames include: Stinky Lady, Baboona, Beepy Boopa, Loons, Lunar. Plus more that I'm sure I'm forgetting.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We have two brothers. Their names are Rocky and Rambeaux.

We call Rocky "Rockity Pockity Man" and Rambeaux is "Rambles Wambles Tambles Mambles."

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] waggz@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Gadget, or sometimes just Gadg, more often Gadgey-poo. The other brat is Nova, or most commonly Nova-beans. https://youtube.com/shorts/Mn643qQTSlI

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