Has this happened to you? You spend a lot of time and effort to come up with a cute, catchy, or meaningful name for your dog, and then you always call the dog by a pet name, such as doggie-woggie (not coincidentally, the name of this website).

My dog’s name is Shelley, but I’m usually calling her doggie-woggie, goofy-woofy, silly goosie, doggie-wog, woggie-dog, and on and on. I only call her Shelley when I am really trying to get her attention.

I think she likes it, though. She might not know what I am talking about, but she can hear the affection in my voice. She just bounces along, looking happy, when she hears this kind of talk. Combined with petting, it makes her pink tongue hang out while she pants with happiness.

By the way, that’s her picture at the top of the page. Doesn’t she look like a happy dog?

I guess this “pet name” thing isn’t too strange. It’s similar to couples who have been together for a while. They will hardly ever call each other Bob and Sue, but instead will use honey, dear, sweetie, etc. If they do use the actual name, someone is probably in trouble!

So am I the only one doing this? Do you have a “pet name” for your dog, and how often do you use it?

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