I have a lot of runners up, like Amrito for Amy, or Bradinglesmirch for Briar, but I think the dumbest has to be Scott Von Scott of the Scottsdale Scotts Who Did Scott So Scottily in the Battle of Scotteen Twelve.

So I ask you, what’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever called your furry friends?

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I live in Bangalore, India. The local language here is Kannada but I don’t speak it nor do I have many friends who speak it. I named my cat Bacardi and would call him Bacoo. Turns out the word for cat in the local language is also “Bacoo”. So for any local who saw me interact with my cat, it looked like I was calling my cat “cat”! I found out around a year later!

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One of my Cats is officially named Cat. The other’s called Later.

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You need another one to call Choo. Then you can summon them all while saying goodbye to people with “Catch you later.”

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I will take that under advisement.

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I call my cat cat all the time.

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super lucky that wasnt a slur or something

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Yardstick. She only has 3 feet.

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Neighbor down the street called her three legged goat Tripod.

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I’ve called her that too. And Stumpy.

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lol, Prolly could’ve gotten away with calling the goat stumpy too, but not because he had stump.

His limb was a clean amputation, but he liked to try to eat stumps.

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LMAO

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Does “Shithead” count? That’s what I call my cat :P

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Same for my dachshund, he actually responds to it

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My cat is ginger so he gets “ginger shit” a lot of the time

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When my cats Porkchop and Applesauce get in trouble, they are called by their full names, Applewood Smoked Sausage and Porkus Von Chopp Chopp.

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My sister had a lot of cats. We stopped being clever naming them, they got names like “Orange Short Hair”, etc.

Except this one cat that otherwise looked like 2 others, except it had these amazing tufts of hair coming out of its ears, so we named him Ears. Then we found out he was deaf… but we had already named him Ears, so it stuck.

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I’d argue that Ears is even better knowing he’s deaf. And what does he care, he can’t hear you anyway.

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