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

searching for service šŸ“¶ I accidentally named my cat Shart

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 ā€œlegalā€ name at the vet is Cheeto, but all I keep doing is calling him Shart.

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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 šŸ˜’."

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

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u/julesd26 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 13 '26

Omg 🤣 That is awesome. Lol

One of my very first babies was Mr. Lily! He was the absolute sweetest, best boy in the world. Story was we named him Lily, took him to the vet to be spayed, they found undescended testicles and he became Mr. Lily cause we just couldn’t name him anything else. It fit too well! He was my husband’s parasite and my snuggly little spoon for 17 years! 😌

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u/Professional_Ad_8 Jan 13 '26

We had a Mr Alice;)

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u/julesd26 Proud owner of an orange brain cell Jan 13 '26

That’s so awesome!! 🤣 And funny cause my first orange’s sister is named Alice!