I wanted to know how many different names you give shiba.
1) If I want my boy to respond to me or take direction I call him by his name, Xabi (pronounced JAH-BEE).
2) I named my boy after my favorite soccer player, Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso. but I also am a tennis fan. I support the current number one ranked player, Novak Djokovic. I had contemplated naming my puppy, Novak or Nole, but since it's too close to "no" I went with Xabi. But sometimes I call him "Xabi Djoker" which is half of one and half of the other.
3) I also call him Xabi-bibi, which is a variant from my introductory question when I come home "how's my sweet baby?"
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4) Xabi Alonso also plays for the Spanish national team which is sometimes referred to as "La Furia Roja" which translates to The Red Fury, so I sometimes call my guy "La Furry Roja."
I know it's silly, but someone tell me I'm not alone in crafting goofy nicknames for my pooch after a couple months!
We officially named our shiba "Uzume" (pronounced [Oo-zoo-may]), but we end up calling her Zume most of the time [zoo-mee]. But of course, we've added to the nicknames: Zoomer, Zoom-zoom, Zume Zumerson, McZooms-a-lot. We've also used "Dog" when we are displeased in some way and "Poopy dog" when she smells after rolling in *something* outside. My husband will call her "Satan" partly because of the snarling look she gets when she's on her back and partly because of the YouTube Video of the shiba and the lady who asks, "Where's Satan?" and the dog snarls.
Conker's got a ton of nicknames. A couple of them can't be mentioned here but I'll name the rest.
Conk, Bud, Budders, Buddy, Hey You, Pupper, Dude, Buffy. The last one is due to Conker's very quiet huffing bark. It sounds like he's saying: "Buff, buff." When he does it. Everyone else thinks it's hilarious.
We call Maya: Shao-Ma (Shao means "little" and Ma sounds like "horse" in Chinese), Ma-Shao-Ya (breaking up Maya and putting "little" in the middle), Shao-Ma-Go (Go means "dog" in Chinese), or any combinations of Shao, Ma, Ya, and Go...
We usually only use her nicknames when playing with her or when talking about her. We still use Maya when calling her or giving her commands.Shiba Inu Maya's blog and FB page
(A lot of these are jokes, but we really do call him them) We call him: Akio, Akiki, Kio, Princess, Mister Mister, Meme, Kikio, Brat baby, Baby bear, Monkey Butt ect.
I'm sure I could go on all day, but those are a few :P
I call Blaine Blaine for the most part, but my girlfriend calls him either Blainy-poo, Stinky, or Stinky-poo. I call him stinky sometimes too, when he lives up to the name. = /
We call Yuki the Yuki-nator a lot (like the Terminator or the Baconator). We also call her Queen Shiba, Shiba, Demon Dog, Devil Dog, Yukister, and Baby Shiba. She thinks her name is the sound of treat bag's crinkling. =)
PHEW!!! Thought we were the only completely deranged people who did the crazy name thing :) We tend to call Miki (real name Mikado) a made up name that best suits the occasion.... for example: If he leaves a particularly "smelly" gift by the bushes, he is "Stinky McPoopypants" and due to his excitement upon finding a dead mole/mouse/gremlin? by the side of the road, he is occasionally "Mousy McDeadlick" ... sigh. Help us.
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- Hehe, we are almost there...I recently broke my own rule by confessing to Miki that his name means Emperor.. I swore I'd never tell him, lol. I swear we get the "superior" look a little more often these days!
Elwood has a ton of nicknames. My husband jokes that he probably isn't sure which one is actually his name, but he'll respond to all of them. Some of the most common ones we use are Shibs, Shibby, Mr. Shibbleton, Shib-Shib, Buddy, Bud, Fantastic Mr. Fox (since we hear the fox comment daily), Goober, Happiness, Crazy, & "The Mouth".
OMG! Love this thread! We call Nami: Namstee, Namster, Shibster, Shiba, Shiba butt, Namers and Namerses also puppers and pupstee...I also call her sob aka, which means dog in russian and other variations of that....I'm glad we are not the only ones with 100 names for our little devil.
Indiana goes by Indiana, Indy, and when he is getting in trouble: INDIANA JONES!!:) Sage goes by Sage, Sagey, Tagey, and when she is getting in trouble: SAGE ELIZABETH!!:)
Toby, Tobbers, Tobykins, Toby Woby, Tobber Wobber, Tobber Wobbersons, Puppy, Pupper, Little Dog, Little Boy, Little Fox Dog, Cat, Punk, Pumpkin, Punkin, Tobert, Bubba, Bubby, Prince Prissy Paws, can't think of any more right this second....
lets see....maya papaya, maya-boo, maya elizabeth, maya butt, mountain goat, booboo, baby, foxy, little fox, maya fox...ass dog (when she's being as ass haha)
I call mine Tonka, Tonka Truck, the Tonk, the Truck, Baby Truck and my co-workers call him TT (for Tonka Truck...they've even made up a song to go along with it).
But his full name is Tonka Shane (after the Siberian Husky I had when I was a kid...also, then his name sounds like danke schoen, so we sing that song at him too :-P).
I mostly call him Apollo and "Bubba". He's got a couple nicknames in Chinese too. My mom calls him "pretty boy (liang jai)". As an inside joke, sometimes we call him "pineapple boy" because if you say "Apollo" with a Chinese accent it means pineapple lol.
@konpeito we've gone from Pearl to Per-Per for chinese speakers... which lead to perp, as in Perpetrator when she's bad. .. which leads to derp when she's being stupid.
Also, my g/f calls her Chica.. (spanish for girl, amirite?)
oh and Little wolf, but in a talking to baby voice like 'Liddul wulf'
Toby gets: "dipstick".. because of his tail coloring and that was what my husband wanted to name him, "Grumpy Old Man" .. every night when he herds the kids into bed, "Red Panda" .. my husband thinks when he sits up on his hind legs his face looks like one, I don't see it though.
Nikita has not been given any yet other than "stinky"
Saya's nick names are Sai, Mai tai, Sai sai, Chiba chunks because she is so fluffy she looks chunky.. lol Growly pants for when she is growly mood usually when mom came home or she meets someone.
Demon dog, rabbit slayer, and that is probably it. I mainly call her Saya though I don't use nicknames much.
Nicole, 5year old Bella(Boxer), and 4year old Saya(Shiba inu)
Bowdu also gets called "Grumpy Old Man" ... since he was three! LOL. Also Doobs, DuDU, Doob Narcotic Sound System, Buddy (his "Anglicized" name), the Dude, Ichiban no Shiba Inu, the Favorite (says RJ; Bowpi is the "Second Favorite")...
Yuki gets called- Yuki-Puff, Puff-Puff, P-Doggy, Yukster, Baby, Sweetie, Sugarpants, Dance-Dance-Sugarpants, Poopster, Pantaloones and early in the morning when she thinks it's time to get up-Shush!!!
I have some rather ridiculous names for Okami, lol.
Let's see...I most often call her Okami-chan, but I also frequently call her Okami-butt and Fuzzy-butt. Don't ask why, I seriously don't know, it's just hilarious to me xD