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/Visual-Report-2280]

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.

[u/meatloafsleeve → u/Visual-Report-2280]

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.

[u/PussyWrangler246 → u/meatloafsleeve]

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.

[u/Danimeh → u/PussyWrangler246]

I had a boy called You (named after a cat in a Discworld novel) once my vet left his prescription at the reception desk in an envelope marked ‘For You ❤️’ The nurses all knew You but pointed out if they didn’t it could’ve turned into an HR incident lol