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HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?
Simba is: ratface, catcat. the cat. catten, kittycat, bimba, bimby, simby, wimby, pusspuss, girly, prettycat, mummy's little lion cat, old ladycat, pushkin

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A Stupid Baby
Dec 31, 2002

lip up fatty
Duck. My dog is a dug and sometimes a donkey. She has a barky mouth and a sniffy nose and is frequently ranked by a multitude of criteria but always ends up being the best dog in the entire world. I suspect ballot rigging.

Lieutenant Dan
Oct 27, 2009

Weedlord Bonerhitler
My partner has started calling our cat Artemis "Fartemis", and now she responds to it and coos when he says it.

Fartemis

Maully Millions
Aug 10, 2014

Inappropriate.

Lieutenant Dan posted:

My partner has started calling our cat Artemis "Fartemis", and now she responds to it and coos when he says it.

Fartemis

We call our ferret Artemis the same thing. I think the name inspires great flatulence.

Lieutenant Dan
Oct 27, 2009

Weedlord Bonerhitler

Maully Millions posted:

We call our ferret Artemis the same thing. I think the name inspires great flatulence.

Oh yeah, our kitty takes great pride in her mantle of being a fartcat. She's actually better now that she's grown up a little but the nickname was accurate :v:

slicing up eyeballs
Oct 19, 2005

I got me two olives and a couple of limes


I'm currently in a phase of calling my cat "widdle kittums" but only because I'm convinced she knows how degrading it sounds. Previously it was "cat" or "fatass" or "dipshit" because we have a special loving bond

Maully Millions
Aug 10, 2014

Inappropriate.


Fartcreatures Unite!

EXTREME INSERTION
Jun 4, 2011

by LadyAmbien
My sweet muffin

Build-a-Boar
Feb 11, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
The snakes Meg and Marvel become Snip, Snipple, Murderbeast, Snootle, Megaroo, Retard Idiot Snake (Marvel has brain damage I'm pretty sure) and SNAAHH-KAY.

Willow the whippet is Shitdog, Shitehound, Willowpillowpants, Pokkin, Pocket, Dog I Hate, Wrong Shape Dog, Legs Akimbo, Legsy, Willowboo, Fartbox and Nobody Likes You. She responds to them all because they're in a singsong voice and she's an idiothole :)

The geckos all get called Small Dinosaur

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit
Lately when my cat is complaining about something I say "oh, I know, it's tough being a fluff isn't it?"

Terciel
Jan 26, 2016
Used to call my Gila monster "Little Horny".

Uncle ShortyB
Oct 18, 2013

"Do you think since your cat is dead I could

You know

Wear it?"
My dog has a few names. Most of them are things like "Slushy-puppy" but now and then he hears it. His true name, "Fucko".

We also have a cat named Chubby Hugs who earned the nickname Chuckles because he is incredibly angry all the time, and another cat named Itty Bitty who is known as Poodinky because she smelled like poo poo for like a month straight despite being PERFECTLY CLEAN and getting SEVERAL BATHS.

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

Cooper picked up a new nickname, he is called Campbell's Chunky Coop since he has put on some extra fluff this winter

Queen-Of-Hearts
Mar 17, 2009

"I want to break your heart💔 and give you mine🫀"




Olivia is Our lady of the perpetual fluff, god damnit dont eat that, dont start a cge fight on my bed when im trying to sleep, you dicks, Lady Fluffington

RainbowCake
Apr 1, 2010

Refurbished cats may have scratches, dents or other forms of cosmetic damage which do not affect the performance of the unit.
Queen (and Princess) Rattington of the Kleenex Kingdom
Ratface
Ratbutt
Rat
Oh my god you literal vermin go back to the sewer you piece of poo poo
Miss Rat
Rattiecakes

Macnult
Jul 7, 2013

I refer to almost all little cats as "little cat".

My cat's name is Isabel although I call her Isacat because it makes more sense.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

If you see this avatar while scrolling the succ zone, you have been visited by the mcmagic of shitty lib takes! Good luck and prosperity will come to you, but only if you reply "shut the fuck up mcmagic" to this post!
Stupid, Little Stupid, Moron, rear end in a top hat, Poopface.

Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
Wiggly Waggly. As in, "Who's mama's Wiggly Waggly?? Is it you? IS IT YOOOOOOOOUUUUU????" Occasionally I accompany it with a high pitched cooing noise that sounds like wowowowowowow.

I have yet to get on my hands and knees and chase the dog around the floor, like my mother does with her dog. It's the one line I won't cross.

blackmarketlimb
Dec 27, 2005
I started calling my old Newfoundland "Palooka" because even as a puppy he looked like a big, dumb black bear.

My mom was super pissed at me back then because she really wanted to name him Rocky, but all he'd answer to is Palooka after I started calling him that. He passed away in '14, unfortunately, but at least he had a good 13 year run in the country where he got to run free and swim in the river like an otter.

He was also scared of thunder so during storms, he'd hurl himself on the couch to huddle against me and I'd always say, "do I have to tell you about the rabbits again, Lennie?" and calm him down.

I really miss that dog.

german porn enthusiast
Dec 29, 2015

by exmarx
my sister named her cat momo. my dad can't remember aanything and call her moo-moo.

so of course i've mooed at that cat.

"moo-moooooooooooooooooo!"

Vampess
Nov 24, 2010
I call Tiger; fartypants (because she wears a pants made of farts), smooshie-face, gurly-wurly, fluffbutt, and a bunch of dutch petnames :)

kaworu
Jul 23, 2004

I'm beginning to think it's odd that neither I nor anyone I've known in my family or otherwise has cutesy cat nicknames involving flatulence and/or feces. Who knew!

Also, I forgot that another really common thing I call my cat is Lickitung, generally when she does her obsessive licking thing and uses her massive freaking paw to hold my hand down while she obsessively licks the gently caress out of my fingers, usually on both of my hands.

I think my cat is particularly obsessive about her grooming, though. She basically gives herself complete baths, daily. Probably has to do with why her fur is so particularly soft and silky :) Which reminds me of another nickname I call her all the time: Teddy Bear, or more often "Who's my sweet little Teddy Bear??" While cuddling or nuzzling my face into her shoulder, of which she is amazingly tolerant.

But I say that because her fur is just so soft and fluffy that it does remind me a bit of really soft, plush teddy bears. Or maybe I've just forgotten how they feel, it's been a while..

kaworu fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Mar 8, 2016

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

kaworu posted:

I'm beginning to think it's odd that neither know or anyone I've known in my family or otherwise has cutesy cat nicknames involving flatulence and/or feces. Who knew!

I think it's odd that only the cat owners use nicknames involving farts, poo poo and butts as well. The dog owners tend to use names that revolve around friendship. We all know our dogs poo poo and have butts but we tend to focus on the more fun parts of having a dog.

wtf cat owners

slicing up eyeballs
Oct 19, 2005

I got me two olives and a couple of limes


gnarlyhotep posted:

wtf cat owners

It's the :toxogond:

El Gar
Apr 12, 2007

Hey Trophy...

Your pets can't actually understand you.

kaworu
Jul 23, 2004

El Gar posted:

Your pets can't actually understand you.

If I say a random name, my cat will more or less ignore me. If I say her name, she picks up her head and looks at me. Dogs can obviously be trained with commands.

But even more to the point, pets understand us in different ways. When we use these silly pet names, we often also use a particularly affectionate tone of voice; we use body language that can easily be read as loving and affectionate, often because we are petting them/lovin' on them, whatever. Pets absolutely understand this - they get what's going on. To what extent we can only estimate and surmise.

Obviously, they aren't literally understanding the affectionate nicknames we give them. But I think there's a case to be made that they recognize the tone of voice they're said in and the set of behaviors they're combined with and figure out pretty quickly the overall gist. Cats can be dumb but they aren't TOTALLY dumb.

El Gar
Apr 12, 2007

Hey Trophy...

kaworu posted:

Cats can be dumb but they aren't TOTALLY dumb.

Hmm no. I've made like a hundred videos where I talk to my cat about everything from gender theory to politics to what's her favorite movie and she never does anything to make me believe she understands me.

Dekenai
Mar 11, 2009

gnarlyhotep posted:

I think it's odd that only the cat owners use nicknames involving farts, poo poo and butts as well. The dog owners tend to use names that revolve around friendship. We all know our dogs poo poo and have butts but we tend to focus on the more fun parts of having a dog.
One of my dogs was named Li'l Poot by my daughter - he gets called Poot, Pootle, Patootle, etc, as well as Fartarse, Fartacus, Li'l poo poo, poo poo-for-brains and rear end in a top hat. It's all about the :yosbutt:

My other dog is Katie, Katie-potatie, Fluffybutt or Mad Dog (pretty boring, but she's hard to insult affectionately).

kaworu posted:

If I say a random name, my cat will more or less ignore me. If I say her name, she picks up her head and looks at me.
My cat (Marla) gets called many names, none of them flattering, but she only actually responds to Stoopid Cat or Hitler.

RockNRoll Jesus
Jan 3, 2008

FIND YOUR GOD FUCKING FLASH DRIVE
My cat has a name but I just call him Cat. Sometimes he'll walk into the room and I'll just point at him and say "Cat!" Occasionally when he's sleeping in the same room as I am I'll yell "PENIS!!" really loud. Sometimes he jumps but he usually just glares at me.
He doesn't give a gently caress, and if there was a cat mafia he'd be the Don.

Git Mah Belt Son
Apr 26, 2003

Happy Happy Gators
I frequently refer to our dog Zane as either a throw rug or acting like the cats because he is the laziest most introverted loving dog I've ever owned. He's more useful as room decor than as a god drat dog. We brought him camping and referred to him as the sundial because he just was sleeping in the sun coming through the trees and every hour would get up and move to the new sunny spot to go back to sleep. He's 10 years old and has been this way for the past 8. He eats fine, drinks fine, and his vet said he's healthy as can be. He's just a lazy poo poo.

He's still a great drat dog though. :)

MrSlam
Apr 25, 2014

And there you sat, eating hamburgers while the world cried.
To the tune of 'Charlie Steinmann 'It Is Such A Good Night'

Issa kiddy baby mow mow,
Kiddy mow,
A baby kiddy mow mow,
Kiddy Wow!
A baby kiddy,
Kiddiddy mowmowmow,
Kiddiddy mowmowmow,
Kiddiddy mowmowmow,
Mow!

Mapparu
Sep 22, 2013

his name is butters but sometimes I call him butterball

Rat Patrol
Feb 15, 2008

kill kill kill kill
kill me now
Pizza Brother is most commonly called The Pie, but he also goes by Pizza, Pete, Pizza Pie, Pizza Deetza and Peetely Deetely.

Ozma is usually The Paws but also gets Ozma Pawsma (or just Pawsma), Awesome Possum, Oz, and Oz Paws.

Both cats get called "douchebag" and "little rear end in a top hat" pretty regularly also.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler

Git Mah Belt Son posted:

I frequently refer to our dog Zane as either a throw rug or acting like the cats because he is the laziest most introverted loving dog I've ever owned. He's more useful as room decor than as a god drat dog. We brought him camping and referred to him as the sundial because he just was sleeping in the sun coming through the trees and every hour would get up and move to the new sunny spot to go back to sleep. He's 10 years old and has been this way for the past 8. He eats fine, drinks fine, and his vet said he's healthy as can be. He's just a lazy poo poo.

He's still a great drat dog though. :)

Sounds like a drat good dog to me.

Echotic
Oct 20, 2013
We have 3 cats:
Garfie who goes by Garffles
Sonic who has recently received the nickname Señor Butthole
And Lily who when is in trouble, i proclaim. 'Na uh Lillian' as from Rugrats.

Rats Tossbag
Jan 16, 2014

Daisy is called "shut the hell up you poo poo head cat" because I feed her and then 10 minutes later she's complaining because she forgot that she didn't finish it.

Blackchamber
Jan 25, 2005

My cat came prenamed from the shelter, and being a year and a half old I'm sure she was used to it so I kept it: Ginny. I've been calling her Ginny Pig since shes always begging for food, although I'm not sure if guinea pigs are at all like real pigs when it comes to eating.

YeahTubaMike
Mar 24, 2005

*hic* Gotta finish thish . . .
Doctor Rope
My cat's name is Panthro, here are his nicknames in descending order of sensicalness:

*pant-mant
*panny-butt (occasionally sung to the tune of the Chili's "baby back ribs" song)
*moo-moo
*moo-moo-cakes
*goobum-cakes

I don't really know where the last three came from.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

YeahTubaMike posted:

*goobum-cakes

My guess would be a bout of feline diarrhea

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Gearfeathers
Oct 30, 2012

My dog Asric is also known as Ham Hunk, Tater Tots, Buddy, and C'mere Lazybutt.

My sister's dog Bandit is Baby Bandaroo, Frito Bandito, Bandaboo, Joe Jonas, Little Bit, and Buddy.

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