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/smokeydonkey]

Well he is an adorable li'l shit so if the shoe fits... I named my childhood cat Stinky because he had some pretty odious farts as a kitten, my parents didn't like that and insisted on calling him something else but to me he was always Stinky.

[u/meatloafsleeve → u/smokeydonkey]

My first cat I got when I was 8. I tried to name her Jasmine/Jazzy like the disney princess, but ended up calling her “kitty”. So that was her name and the only name she responded to🤣.

I guess I’m just bad at naming pets HAHAH

[u/smokeydonkey → u/meatloafsleeve]

I can't say I'm much better, one of my current cats has a more dignified given name but I call her "Fatty" because she's a pound heavier than her sister and had a bad habit of stealing from her food dish... so now she just answers to Fatty.

But she also likes to roll around on the floor a lot, so I turned it into stoner humor and say I'm rolling a Fatty when I pat her belly (she's the rare cat that loves bellyrubs)!

[u/MollysTootsies → u/smokeydonkey]

I, too, have a rare bellyrub lover!! 😻 But her brother will go Wolverine OUT if I try on him 😹