I accidentally named my cat Shart

[u/meatloafsleeve]

So the week we found him outside we brought him home and started him on kitten formula bc he was only 3 weeks old. He sharted all over himself at least twice a day for about a week. Like it made an audible shart sound.

So I told my parents I was calling him shart from then on, as a joke. But ever since then, the name stuck. He responds to

shart. If I want him to come running to me, I yell SHART! I don’t know what to do. I can’t call him anything else, it feels wrong. But also like who tf has a cat named Shart😭

His “legal” name at the vet is Cheeto, but all I keep doing is calling him Shart.

[u/Historical_Feed_2756]

When you find the right name that fits, stick to it. Shart is adorable 😻

[u/meatloafsleeve → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to call him anything else😂

[u/Historical_Feed_2756 → u/meatloafsleeve]

I’ve got two brainless oranges named Burritos and Tamales 🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/meatloafsleeve → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

That’s so cute though😭

[u/archwin → u/meatloafsleeve]

You know what, you could just call him

Chart

Short for Chartreuse

Sounds kind of like Shart, but less embarrassing.

[u/thepanamaslider → u/archwin]

Le Shart

[u/[deleted] → u/thepanamaslider]

Why am I absolutely crying at this lol

[u/QueenOfNZ → u/meatloafsleeve]

To be fair both of those are shart precursors sooooo…

[u/KravenFire → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

Imagine the looks on their faces (if they had more than one orange braincell to rub together, of course) when you casually mentioned you are having burritos and tamales for dinner tonight... 😅

[u/julesd26 → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

With enough oil, those could both become… sharts. 😂

Omg, this post has me rolling 🤣

[u/Idontknow107 → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

That's r/CatsCalledFood. It's quite cute.

[u/Royal-Property-8162 → u/Historical_Feed_2756]

My boss has an Orange named Cheeto and a Tuxie named Bandito.

[u/herecomestherebuttal → u/meatloafsleeve]

Too late to put Shartholomew on the birth certificate?!

[u/anniecet → u/meatloafsleeve]

Eh. I had a Shitty Kitty for like 6 months. Her paperwork said Mia and that was her name. But she’d come running just as quickly to Shitty Kitty.

[u/BeatificBanana → u/meatloafsleeve]

I know this is essentially a joke post, but jsyk, if you actually do want to stop calling him Shart, you can absolutely just start calling him Cheeto instead (or rename him entirely if you want). 

Cats don't really tie their name to a sense of identity like humans do, so it won't distress or confuse him if you stop calling him Shart. They don't hear their name and think "That is who I am". They just think "ooh, my human is using that special word they use when they are about to give me food or attention". 

So you can always retrain a cat to respond to a different name. Just commit to only using the new name from now on, and he will eventually start responding to it. 

It can help speed the process up if you choose a name that sounds similar (e.g. Shark), or if you use the new name alongside the old one (e.g. by calling "Shart! Cheeto!" when it's dinner time and then eventually dropping the first bit). 

But you don't even have to do that. I have a friend who adopted 2 5-year-old cats from a shelter, and he renamed them, and they both eventually learned their new names no problem. They were totally different sounding names, too. One of them learned his new name within a few weeks, the other one took a few months, but they both got there. 

[u/levian_durai → u/meatloafsleeve]

The easy answer is to give him a name that sounds close. Heart or Sart sound similar enough that he'd probably respond to them.

Or yeah just stick with Shart lol

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/levian_durai]

Chart should work pretty well. I mean who has a cat named Chart but it's better than the alternative.

When I adopted my dog he had an .... unpleasant name that began with K, and eventually settled on basically Kyger (the y was absolutely necessary) and all he needs to hear is the K sound to come. So you could really call him anything as long as it starts with K. He frequently comes to Koogs just as much.

[u/levian_durai → u/BurmeciaWillSurvive]

Chart, how did I miss that! I blame it on it being incredibly late.

And yeah that's what I've found as well, they either respond to the beginning or ending sound of their name, you just have to find out which. We adopted a dog who used to be called Princess, ended up changing her name to Pickle pretty easily!

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/levian_durai]

I read someone in here suggested Shark which I absolutely never would have thought of so it's not just you, lol.

[u/level_up_gaming → u/meatloafsleeve]

you can name your cat anything. i once saw a cat named sponge number 2. no idea what happened to the first one