List your pets' nicknames here and any silly rhymes you recite to them

[Ladyhawk]

The subject: an eighteen-year-old double yellowheaded Amazon parrot named Gabby who has lived with me since age four months.



AKA:

His Royal Greenness, Gabby the Velociraptor

Gab

Gabs

Gabbles

Gabby-Wabby

Flabby-Gabby

Crabby-Gabby

Gabblety-Wabblety

Cabby

Bir

Bir-bir

Birdles

Biggles

Greenness With No Penis (although male, like other parrots, Gabby possesses only one testicle and no penis)

Mean Green Thing (I think of him when I listen to "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors

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Birdie Rhymes:

You're so good
You're so green
You're so nice
You're so mean

You have feathers on your face
You have feathers every place
You have feathers here and there
You have feather underwear!

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Gabby-Wabby, two-by-four
Can't fit through the kitchen door
Gabby-Wabby, two-by-six
Couldn't win at "Pick Up Sticks"
Gabby-Wabby, two-by-eight
Couldn't get over the garden gate
Gabby-Wabby, eight-by-ten
Drank a tub of bathtub gin

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Question: do we lose our sanity when we talk to our pets? :crazy:

[meow2u3]

1. I have a couple nicknames for my cat

Boots, Boots Mobile (pun on Boost Mobile prepaid cellphone service)

A boot is something that you put on your foot; a Boots is a kitty.

Boots Mobile is cellphone service prepaid with catnip.

[Greylyn58]

2. Well let's see

I have several for my Golden Retriever. His name is Sheridan, but I also call him:

Boo Boo
Mr. Dog
Pooh Bear
Sher
Sweet Boy

Sheridan is 9 years old, but still acts like a puppy. I admit it...he's my baby. B-)

[Ladyhawk]

7. I really love golden retrievers. :) What a beauty. :) n/t

[Greylyn58]

9. Thank you for the compliment

He's my best buddy and the first Golden I've ever had. His father (Simba) and grandfather (Striker) are both champion show dogs.

His grandfather won Best in Breed at the 1996 Westminster Dog Show and went on to represent the bred in the Sport Group Ring.

[Longhorn]

3. We use the nicknames almost more than the names!

Sparky: a.k.a. Barky, Spark-a-mungus (Rhodesian Ridgeback mix)

Buddy: a.k.a. Buddy Boy (White Lab mix)

Paco: a.k.a. Pacacita (She's a female black Lab mix with a male name, thanks to our daughter who brought her home in the first place.)

And finally, Brutus: a.k.a. Bootie (Dachshund)

[yellowdogintexas]

4. Clark is often called Slick because he is so black and shiny

CatZilla is called Zill, zilly, and fluffball

Lewis is called Goor, which is short for gorgeous and my daughter has a goor song she sings to him, which I do not know. Of course he gets called WideLoad, LardAss, Lard butt, whale

Thomas is mr T, Tommy sixtoes, T Tommy, Ole Blue Eyes,

collectively they have become "the boys"

I sing the belly mojo song to them, the words change according to what they are doing.

kitty cat belly mojo,
playing in the hall
kitty cat belly mojo,
bat the little ball
kitty cat belly mojo,
sliding down the wall


or whatever strikes my mood.

belly mojo is when they roll over on their backs and just double dare you NOT to stop and pet them. Zilla can be hypnotized by a belly rub

[Lorien]

5. Too many

Oberon: Obie, Obbers, Obi Kenobi, Obi Wan, Yetiboy, Fuzz Butt, Giant sack-o-fur, Sofalynx, The Big Baby, Boo, Bug.

Puck: Puckus the Ruckus, Imp, Brat Cat, brave gladiator Puckus Minimus, Freak,Dangerkitty, Robin Goodfellow, little Hobgoblin, She Who Must Be Obeyed.

Miro: Puddin' San, Jabbacat, Fatty Plumpkin, Sweet boy, Moo-ro, Tubby Chubby, Kitty Lumpkin, Lardbutt, chunk-o-burning love, dim Bulb, great lumbering Wildebeest.

Miro is the only one with his own theme song:

Kitty, kitty plumpkin,
He's my Fatty Lumpkin,
Tubby kitten Moo-ro,
how your belly do grow!

[Ladyhawk]

8. ROTFLMAO...those are great!

I thought I was the only one who made up rhymes for my pets. :D

Obi-Kenobi and Giant Sack-o-Fur...those made me laugh out loud.

[SiouxJ]

16. Lol! OMG Jen, you've been hanging out at Disney too long

that song sounds like something from one of your Disney animated features ;-) . Very cute!

[SW FL Dem]

6. Ok you asked

The eldest is Jamie the cat, aka Jamie Worthy (because she lived with Magic Maggie in Los Angeles in the 80s) Jamie will be 17 in a few weeks.

Kelsey is a cairn terrier who joined our family as an 8 week old puppy in 1999. She is Kelsey, Schmelsey, Schmoopie, Poopie and stinker

Bowler is a cairn terrier who joined our family at 2 1/2 in 2000. He is known as Boo Boo, Boo, Boopie or Bo Bo.

Libby is a cairn terrier who joined our family at 7 in 2004. She is also Libby Lou and Lou Lou.

[Beaverhausen]

10. Oh yeah

Geneva's nicknames:
Mimi
Pooky
Genevals

Annie's nicknames:
Anners
Anner Bananer
Pinky
Stinky
Stinkerbell

[radfringe]

11. ok - you asked for it

The dogs:

Dax -- Dax-max, Daxie-Maxie, nobhead

Sunny -- Sunny-bunny, funny-sunny-bunny,and when he WHINES --Bordeaux or Sauvignon or Chardonnay or whatever other wine name I can come up with

Ibuprofen (the foster dog)-- Ibu, Boo, Boo-boo, PITA (for Pain In The Ass), Hou-doggy (for when he escapes from his crate), Boo-Doody

the cats:

Kudra - Koods, Koodly-oodly, the grande dame, Queen of the universe

Dutchess - Dutch, Dutchy, phantom-furball ( 'cause she hides when new people are in the house)

Gato - Gato-Kitty, catzilla, Mr. Gato, airhead, space cadet

Poohka - Pookly-ooklies, the Pook, budda-belly, Poohka-dot, the huntress

[Eurobabe]

12. Ha-ha, funny thread! I'll play....

The Daemon:



Bubby, bubba, bubba-loo, bubby-freako, freak, freakazoid, Daemon Spawn, Get down!

Sebastian, who ceased being called that years ago because he is ENORMOUS:



Fatty Bums, FattyB, Flounder, Wide Puss, Pussette.

[Dervill Crow]

13. my babies

I don't have any poetry to share, but I do sing to them with variations on the song lyrics.

My dearly departed mastiff Trixie was the Trickster

The dog Daizie (a brindle American Staffordshire)
Cwazy Daizie
Daizeleh
Daizie doodle bug
Daizie dooky breath

The cat Phil (a tux cat)
Philboito
Philbert
Philip
Phil Tat

The cat Chuck (orange tabby)
Chuckers or Chuckie
Chuck Tat

The cat Fluffy
Fluffbutt
Fluffy Muffy
Mama Tat
Puddy Tatters

The cat Cocoa
Cocoa Mocho
Cocoa Tat

[FuzzyDicePHL]

14. Molly

http://mollydog.textamerica.com

The Mollinatrix
Mol-een (in Southern accent)
Freak
Fluffy Girl
Molzilla
Hoo Dat Dawg?
Poopy
The Poopstress
That Dog
Little Monster
The Lickstress
Licky BoBo

[SiouxJ]

15. OMG, it's nice to know you're all as sick as I am

Boris' are:

Bor-boy
Borilla (his face looks like a gorilla's)
Borilla-boy
Bora the Explora (he loves to snoop around)
The Borkin Man (a take off on The Orkin Man pest control co., don't ask me how I came up with that one)
Chubby Boy
Chocolate-chip paws


Natasha's are few,

Tasha
Tashakins
Superstar (she's quite the athlete)

I do have a little song for Boris but it's so lame and juvenile that a 3 year old could have written it, so I won't be sharing it here ;-) .

[Coastie for Truth]

17. Punchkie

That's a Polish Jelly doughnut.

We had a Polish immigrant family on our block - with a house full of cats and dogs -- all called Punchkie. It was her term of endearment.

[AlienGirl]

18. Velociraptor of Cuteness!

Gideon is:

Velociraptor of Cuteness
Destroyer of Technology
Mr. Pliers-Face
Flying Toddler With Pliers On His Face (nickname invented by my nine-year-old)
THE THINKER (see pic below)


Parrot of Mass Destruction
Birdybutt
Goobernut (my general nickname for all silly critters)
Snugglebug (see puc below)


I have borrowed your "Feather Face" song and sing it to Gidi on a regular basis!

Huntington, shown below on my head:


is also known as:
Ting-rat
Ting of DOOM!
Shirt-rat
Rat-butt
Ting-baby
Fuzzybutt
Furbaby
Ting, Destroyer of Cardboard,
and Madness-Ball.

Tucker

[auburngrad82]

19. Here's Our Gang...

This is Crystal. She's a pointer but she thinks she's a portugese water dog. I call her polka-dottie for obvious reasons.


This is Porkchop. I call her Pokemon and she seems to love it. I also call her for dinner (thank you, thank you, I'll be performing all week in the lounge...)


This is Asta. She's named after the dog in the Thin Man movies. We call her the Swedish Meatball or Asshole. The neighbors look at us funny but it fits her personality.


This is Petey. We call him Sweety Petey or Petey Pooh and sometimes Pikachu. He's a great lover (well, mostly a great kisser).


This is Tillie. She's a monster. We call her some very bad things that I can't put on the list. But we also call her the purple dog because she's a blue heeler with "creeping tan" or red. And red and blue makes purple...


This is Teddy the foster dog. He has no manners so we've mostly been calling him "you little bastard" but he answers to Teddy Bear as well.

As far as poems, I use is to the tune of The Coconut Song by Harry Nilson (you know, I put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up...)

I put the dogs in the kennel and I lock 'em all up
I put the dogs in the kennel and I lock 'em all up
I put the dogs in the kennel and I lock 'em all up
I put the dogs in the kennel and I lock 'em all up

Petey likes a Joe Cocker tune that I've butchered:

YOU ARE SO BLUE-TI-FULLLLL TO MEEEEE
CAN'T YOU SEEEE
YOU'RE EVERY DOG I DREAM OF
YOU'RE EVERY DOG I NEEEEED
YOU ARE SO BLUE-TI-FULLLLL TO MEEEEEEEEEE

Hope that clears things up for you.