Alternative name for your pets

We need to come up with some alternative to refering to our pets as "my dog, my cat"etc. I believe the feelings people have about about their special friends transends  the old days where, "it's just a dog", was acceptable. I love my little guys like family members, right up there with a child...I'm in no way trying to be politically correct, but I wish there was a better term for our beloved extended family members. Any ideas?

I never thought of any of my dogs as pets. They were working dogs. They earned their livings hunting and trialing.

I always just called them by name. I've also heard "furkid" and "four-legged son/daughter".

 My 6 year old human child calls Julio (my 13 year old feline child) his big brother.  

Interesting.
 
I call Molly... Wideass, Roadblock, Hoover and Shamu.
 
Daisy is just Lazy Daisy and Daisy Doodle.
 
I love them more than family members.

15 years ago, we adopted my dog from the animal shelter.  They were going to kill her the next day and we named her Angel.  She knows her name very well and responds on command.  Interesting that we got her from the shelter and she was about a year old.  She was house trained and never ever had a in house accident.  I have called her ugly dog several times on the forum but she really ain't ugly.  She has been chasing squirrels for 15 year and never caught one but I am sure that she makes them nevrvous.
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN  

Sally turned into"Lee-loo", Max was "Ax or Nax", And Bo was "Obie-Bo, Obie wan kanobe, or naughty- face" depending on what he was doing or did. As we were unable to have children, they WERE my kids.

On the other hand, I'm sometimes called Big Cat and my wife Middle Sized Cat (or BC and MSC for short).  MSC is away on business and I just got home from a three day trip so Kitty gave me a big lecture when I got home, demanded to go outside a half a dozen times and be brushed after each trip, and is now laying on my feet under the desk.

The two cats, Jake and Gremlin are also called 'The Other White Meat' and 'Tastes Like Chicken'. They don't see the humor.

Sundancer7


15 years ago, we adopted my dog from the animal shelter.  They were going to kill her the next day and we named her Angel.  She knows her name very well and responds on command.  Interesting that we got her from the shelter and she was about a year old.  She was house trained and never ever had a in house accident.  I have called her ugly dog several times on the forum but she really ain't ugly.  She has been chasing squirrels for 15 year and never caught one but I am sure that she makes them nevrvous.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN  

Mr Sundancer - for the past few years I've been following you talk about your ugly dog but I could always tell you take care of her and admire her - but what kind of dog is she?  She's a lucky dog for sure.

Our cat is referred to by my 2 year old as "my brother". (Or at least her approximation of the pronunciation)  Reflecting on that, he is just like another kid in the house.  Under foot and making messes.

baileysoriginal

Sundancer7


15 years ago, we adopted my dog from the animal shelter.  They were going to kill her the next day and we named her Angel.  She knows her name very well and responds on command.  Interesting that we got her from the shelter and she was about a year old.  She was house trained and never ever had a in house accident.  I have called her ugly dog several times on the forum but she really ain't ugly.  She has been chasing squirrels for 15 year and never caught one but I am sure that she makes them nevrvous.

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN  

Mr Sundancer - for the past few years I've been following you talk about your ugly dog but I could always tell you take care of her and admire her - but what kind of dog is she?  She's a lucky dog for sure.

 
I have no idea about her lineage.  She is a small dog and weights about 25 pounds and has kept the same weight for the 15 years I have had her.  She is very protective of my suite and allows no one in there unless I tell her to be nice.  She settles right down after that.  She has never been aggressive and she can scare hell out of my first time visitors, however with a pat on the head, she always remembers that and when they return, she is very courteous 
 
Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

About 8 years ago, after living alone for way too long, I went to the Pound (no other word for it, a miserable place in and of it's self).  There was a small dog there (I was living in a one bedroom apartment, helped me make my choice) that was written up as Shih Tzu / Chihuahua Mix, and was due to be destroyed that day at end of day.  She had been dumped at the pound by some mean spirited people that said she was "overly agressive" with their Grandkids.  Her only problem as I was able to determine was that she chewed, EVERYTHING.  There wasn't an "aggressive" bone in her body.

A friend told me about a specific chew toy which I purchased, and the chewing stopped.

When she "arrived" in my home, her name was a Hilton offshoot, but I changed that to a different Hotel and named her Hyatt.  She responded to that name immediately.

I took her to a dog run the very next day and called her from across the park with her "new name," she slid to a stop and ran back to me.

She is the apple of my eye.  She means more to me than most members of my family, and I would hate to think of life without her.

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Call the dog "Dog."  As in "Hey, Dog! Come Here!"
 

I call my boy Piglet....when he is in trouble I use his formal name Truce. When I talk about him with friends or people I meet I refer to him as The Piglet.
 
I can't imagine being with out him, he is truly my best friend

Our two Scotties react to their 'normal' names fairly well, but we do shorten McDuff to Duff or Duffy at times,  Demi is Demi !
 
One change I do remember was Steve Martin , in the movie, "THE JERK", called his dog "SHxTHEAD"...but in the TV version of the Movie the dog was called "STUPID" !!

My daughter's dog is named Theodore Monster Rex. She and her sister thought it would be cute as they could call him T. Rex. I call him Teddy Monster and refer to him as our toddler with fur.

Gray Kitty is aka "The Big Gray Juan", "The Cat That Thinks He's a Dog" and Aubie (also a cat) is aka "Aubster the Lobster).

My herd of beagles are Canine Americans.
 
Cal, Ruby (Mrs. Sniffy) and Nicholas.
 

Besides all of the other names my dogs go by, I also call them my babies.
 

Daughter No. 1 had strange names for all of our animals. She called Mischief, one of our six cats, Chiffey-snerk. She called Doughboy, another cat, Dobert Maynard. Followme, still another cat was Mowess The Prowess. Don't ask me why. She's always been a weird person.

Your babies are adorable, Mar!!!!!

I hope my babies know how much I love them.

callmebruce


My herd of beagles are Canine Americans.

Cal, Ruby (Mrs. Sniffy) and Nicholas.

GREAT terminology for them!!

I was thinking about naming my ferret chewingthefat. Or Bacon.

4 dogs my kids and wife all have nicknames for
 
fila brasilero mastif ''nala'' we call noni
great dane ''maggie'' we call maggie moo or dumbo
chihuahua rocky we call ruckus
chihuahua chanel we call boogie boo

Our first dog - that we had for 16 years - her name was Nikki but we called her Doobie because she always acted like she was a little more mellowed out than she maybe should have been.
 
Now we have Bailey who has the nicknames of Dumpling and Sweetie but mostly she's called Booboo Girl - it started with the potty training - do you have to booboo?  and stuck with her.  It's a wonder she could distinguish between the two but she's never had an accident in the house since she was 4 months old.  If you tell her she's your Booboo girl she's just happy all over herself.
 
Apologies for sounding so silly over this but some pets just attach themselves to you and you're a goner over them.
Bailey is proof of this.
 
 

Michael Hoffman


I was thinking about naming my ferret chewingthefat. Or Bacon.

Chewingthebacon! Done!!!

Ch.NMK's Make Mine Mocha, JH

 
Mocha is his name, he answers to Mooch, Moochie, Bubba Dog,
A$$ [link=mailto:H@le]Hole[/link], G Dammit, SOB and a number of others!

chefbuba


Ch.NMK's Make Mine Mocha, JH


Mocha is his name, he answers to Mooch, Moochie, Bubba Dog,
A$$ [link=mailto:H@le]Hole[/link], G Dammit, SOB and a number of others!

Handsome, regal!