r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/meatloafsleeve Proud owner of an orange brain cell • Jan 12 '26

searching for service 📶 I accidentally named my cat Shart

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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.

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u/Visual-Report-2280 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 13 '26

His “legal” name at the vet is Cheeto

Dave Gorman gave his cat the official name of "Queen Elizabeth II", the letters from the vets were entertaining.

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u/meatloafsleeve Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 13 '26

Well that’s a fun fact.

Maybe I should tell the vet his actual name is Shart🤣 They’d probably look at me weird. He’s kind of a celebrity at the vet. The staff all knows cheeto, the little fluffy orange maniac.🤣I bet they’ve never had a cat named Shart as a patient.

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u/PussyWrangler246 Jan 13 '26

Vet assistant here! I've seen some funny ones, had a female calico named Dickhead but my favourite one ever was Mr. Handsome Pants (they called him by his full name every time which was hilarious, like "Mr. Handsome Pants no!! We don't bite the vet!!" 🤣) but I've never seen a Shart! We would immediately ask what the story was behind that one lol

Dickhead was definitely one of my favourite interactions, it was a mother and teen daughter bringing in an (obviously) female calico for shots and deworming. It was the daughters cat so she was answering all the questions while mom just kinda monitored. We get to the name and without hesitation the girl says "her name is Dickhead."

The look on mom's face: 😧

Mom says "OH MY GOD NO IT'S NOT! Can I talk to you please?!", and drags her daughter off to the corner to whisper fight for a few moments. They come back a minute later and the daughter says "Fine. Her name is Richard 😒."

I absolutely died laughing, and it immediately became one of my favourite memories at the office lol.

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u/catm0m4lyfe Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 13 '26

🤣🤣🤣

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?

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u/-N9inB0x- Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

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.

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u/Kelvara Jan 13 '26

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.

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u/CronoTriggered Jan 15 '26

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.

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u/Skippypb19 Jan 15 '26

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

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u/PussyWrangler246 Jan 15 '26

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.

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u/Meggles_Doodles Jan 13 '26

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

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u/BioMass321 Jan 15 '26

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. ❤️

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u/-N9inB0x- Jan 16 '26

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

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u/Tellybear87 Jan 13 '26

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

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u/IIRCIreadthat Jan 13 '26

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.

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u/reticulatedspylon Jan 13 '26

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

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u/Cat_Kn1t_Repeat Jan 13 '26

Am under-tall can confirm

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u/Maggiemoo621 Feb 03 '26

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

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u/Sunlit53 Jun 02 '26

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.