Welcome to the Wednesday Cats of Catster! Each month, we ask our cat-loving Catsters to weigh in on a brand new subject. This week, we requested them about nicknames: What do you name your cat, apart from their actual identify? Right here’s what they needed to say:
Crystal & Ivy
Giving your pet a nickname is severe enterprise – nothing is off the desk, they usually want at the least 3. Hey – I don’t make the principles!
Ivy is a kitty that goes by many names. Her unique, full identify is definitely ‘Ivara’ – my fiance received to call her. Nonetheless, she’s solely known as this when she’s been very naughty! Very similar to your mother and father solely calling you by your full identify whenever you’ve REALLY stuffed up!
Over time, she’s collected fairly a set of nicknames!
Listed here are some private favorites:
- Kitty: Good for on a regular basis use, all the time will get her consideration.
- Kissie: Derived from ‘Kitty.’ Used when she’s being particularly cutesy.
- Skarmunkel: Loosely interprets to ‘scoundrel’ – used when she’s being cheeky, or slinking slyly round the home.
- Klein Baba Ivy: Loosely interprets to ‘Little Child Ivy’ – as a result of she is, actually, just a bit child.
- Skunky: She seems a bit like a skunk scurrying round at instances.
- Biskitty: Her beloved biscuits. It’s solely becoming that she has a nickname honoring them.
- Cookie: Used daily, ALWAYS will get her consideration!
These are however just a few of the nicknames we’ve made for her, and she or he reacts to all of them impressively!
Giving your kitty 50+ nicknames isn’t straightforward, however somebody’s gotta do it! Does your cat have any particularly distinctive nicknames?
Isabel & Milly
I very seldomly name Milly ‘Milly’. Solely when referring to her in dialog. It’s ironic, isn’t it? We give our pets names solely to call them every thing however their chosen title. I believe it occurs as a result of they’re simply too darn cute to have just one, socially acceptable identify.
They want extra. They deserve extra. And it must be both humorously becoming or fully outrageous.
Pet nicknaming is an artwork kind. One doesn’t actively strive to consider a nickname for a pet. It simply comes. It’s a lovely course of, actually. Pet nicknames normally play on their traits or what makes them distinctive. They can be fully random and 100% unrelated to them however nonetheless really feel very becoming.
Permit me to take you thru Milly’s nickname timeline.
Her first nickname as a kitten was “Milandrie,” a moderately widespread feminine Afrikaans identify. It simply got here to us whereas she was inflicting havoc in our pupil residence house. It felt very becoming since you really feel like a mom scolding a toddler when saying it in Afrikaans – “Milandrie, klim nou van die balkonreling af! (Milandrie, get off the balcony railing now!)”
Since then, it has developed into many alternative issues:
- “Mielie,” which is Afrikaans for corn. Completely unrelated. It simply rolls off the tongue.
- “Mielie-muis,” which isn’t an official phrase. In English, it might be “Corn-Mouse.” Once more, fully unrelated – she simply is, actually, generally a “Mielie-Muis.”
- Then it morphed into Mini-Muis (Mini-Mouse) as a result of she generally seems like a small mouse. See photograph above for reference. That is essentially the most frequent one.
- Then some extra outrageous ones are used for particular events like:
- Pof-mielie (“pof” is like puffy or fluffy in English)
- Pof-duif or Pofduifie (fluffy dove or small fluffy dove)
- Hoender-nekkie (little hen neck)
And the checklist goes on. Verify in subsequent month for extra about Milly! And tell us within the feedback beneath what you name your cat.
Cheers vir eers!
(Cheers for now)
Wes & Raphael
I’ve all the time thought pet nicknames are a humorous factor as a result of, supposedly, we already selected the proper identify for them. Nonetheless, we are able to’t RESIST discovering one thing that’s shorter (or generally longer) and matches even higher (or generally worse). Evidently, I’ve additionally fallen sufferer to the curse of the nickname in terms of Raphael. I believed I’d take you thru just some from the gathering:
- “Raphy” – an absolute traditional. For when Raphael goes to take far too lengthy to get out of the mouth.
- “Lovely boy” – not solely the reality however crucial that he is aware of it.
- “Pungent boots” – most likely essentially the most closely utilized in our place. Does he put on boots? By no means. Does he odor? Typically. Both he smells unimaginable or horrible; there’s by no means another.
- “Rapha-smell” – a incredible pun; see above for any additional clarification required.
- “Little scooch” – even when he might perceive what this implies, he wouldn’t get it as a result of, frankly, I don’t both.
Based mostly on the images you’ve seen of my stunning boy, are you able to let me know your suggestions for a brand new nickname? I’m all the time open to ideas!
This text options all of our Wednesday Cats of Catster.
