Friday, February 17, 2006

Pet Names

Kevin just started reading "My Cat Spit McGee." It's by Willie Morris who wrote "My Dog Skip," and it's about his unlikely relationship with a cat later in life. I read the book years ago, but I remember that Spit was a real character and the book was full of tearful moments (from both laughing and crying). Last night, Kevin read me a paragraph about all the nicknames Willie has for Spit, which (of course) led to a conversation about our pets' many funny nicknames.

Mackenzie, my sweet baby, has tons of names, the most popular being Kenzie. We also affectionately call him Kenzer Benzer, Mack, Mackie Mo, the White Lion, Kenzie Cat, Mr. Kitten, Kitten Face and Cutie Patootie.

Natosha, our independent woman, is most commonly referred to as Toshie or just Tosh. She's also been know to respond to Tosher Bosher, Bosh, Bish Bosh, Boshington, Tiger Lily, Toshie Tooter and Big Beautiful Woman (she likes to strut her stuff!)

Gilmore is Gil most of the time, or Gilly. We also call him Gilly Will, Dottie Dog, Stinky, Stink, Stinker Binks, Border Collie Baby, Doggie Doolittle, Bubby and The Cute's Toots.

Olive can even claim one nickname: Ollie, Ollie Achtung Free!

If you haven't noticed by now, we're crazy animal people. We've even assigned our pets careers, which I'm sure amuses us—and us alone. So what funny names do you call your furry friends?

7 comments:

Project Man said...

I personally like Mackie Mo for Kenzie! That is the name I would most likely use.......

Katie said...

All the dogs in our house get the name "Doodle" added to the end. So, we have Daisy Doodle, Valie Doodle and best of all, Snicker Doodle.

Anonymous said...

Our cat's full name is Vito Catleone. When he was a kitten, I'd call him "baby" names--"Bubby Boy," "Stinky Poo Poo," and "Sugar Booger," to name a few. Steve has called him "Furball," "Rodent," and "Pain in the ***" (usually after one of many plant-mauling incidents). Danielle has been known to call the cat "Vites."

More recently, Vito's universal nickname has become "Stata Zeech" or, more commonly, "Stata." It's some bastardized Italian phrase of Steve's. Honestly, I have no idea what it really means!

Matt said...

Snickers also goes by "biggens".

Katie said...

Let's not forget the cats...Jessica is Mommy Kitty, Lucy is Lucy Goosey and Ringo (who acts like a dog) is also called Ringo Dingo.

Project Man said...

Miss Molly Marie (our buff Cocker) responds to Molly, Mols, Molly McButter, Butter, Buddy, Good Golly Miss Molly, Pretty Little Girl, Daddy's Pretty Little girl, That's the Girl, Her Momma's Girl, Hey Girl, Mooly, Molly-Molly-Molly_Moooolllleeeeee......and Melissa calls her Sprocket and/or Scooter......

um... yeah... said...

boy, our animals have us wrapped around their paws, don't they? b/c i won't go into all the nicknames, but my 3 cats have their fair share! :)