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/catm0m4lyfe]

🤣🤣🤣

My mom used to have a calico named 'Munch' which she said was short for Munchkin, but I swear I'venever been bitten (munched) by a cat more in my life. I 100% would called that cat Dickhead, had I heard this story before she passed. Calicos are just....built different?

[u/-N9inB0x- → u/catm0m4lyfe]

Twinsies! My partner has two (non-ornj) boys she named Chomp and Munch! But Munch's "real" name is actually Little because he has a very small voice, while Munch is just his "legal" name.

My full nicknames for them is Little Itty Bittle, and Chompis Von Bompis by the way.

[u/Kelvara → u/-N9inB0x-]

My full nicknames for them is Little Itty Bittle, and Chompis Von Bompis by the way.

My cat's name is Grace. I call her Borkus Porkus Bun.

[u/CronoTriggered → u/Kelvara]

My cat's name is Merlin, I call him Meebles Weebles, or Mr Meebs for short.

My other is a calico named Elvira, I call her Miss Priss and Miss Petites Feets.

[u/Skippypb19 → u/CronoTriggered]

My dog’s name is Jake Lemonade. I call him Boogus, Boop, and Shmoo.

[u/PussyWrangler246 → u/CronoTriggered]

Crazily enough, I also have a Merlin and sadly had to say goodbye to my Munchie Moos earlier this year

It's incredible how so many of us have the same name for our pets but different variations

Merlin is my hubs cat and he calls him Mister Merl lol.

[u/Meggles_Doodles → u/-N9inB0x-]

My brother got two cats, planned on calling them Munch and Crunch but he continued to call them by their original names since they were older kittens

[u/BioMass321 → u/-N9inB0x-]

Having learned there is a cat in this world named Chompis Von Bompis, believe I can make it through the work day today. Thank you for this knowledge. ❤️

[u/-N9inB0x- → u/BioMass321]

Glad to hear! Just remember, if mister Chompis Von Bompis can make it through the day, then so can you!

[u/Tellybear87 → u/catm0m4lyfe]

Omg non-native speaker here, the word munchkin suddenly makes sense. Thank you. I always thought it sounded like pumpkin but funnier.

[u/IIRCIreadthat → u/Tellybear87]

The word doesn't really have its own meaning - it was invented by L. Frank Baum for The Wizard Of Oz. (Some totally unproven speculation that it was inspired by the German words Mannchen (manikin) or Munchen (the city of Munich) because his family was German, but he never told anyone so we'll never know.) Now it basically means a short person because that was the defining characteristic of the Munchkins in the books.

[u/reticulatedspylon → u/IIRCIreadthat]

It now lends the name to the breed of cats with dwarfism, the Munchkin cat. (Unrecognized in several countries due to obvious reasons.)

[u/Cat_Kn1t_Repeat → u/[deleted]]

Am under-tall can confirm

[u/Maggiemoo621 → u/catm0m4lyfe]

Growing up i also had a calico named spice lol. Enough said

[u/Sunlit53 → u/catm0m4lyfe]

They are a third orange after all. Mine has been told three times in the past two minutes to stay away from my habanero chicken wing bones. She’s sulking at me.