BS: New Kitten!!

Subject: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 02:46 PM

I finally found my calico kitten. She has been here about a half hour. Dogs and other cat are fine with her. No name yet....I'll put up pics when I have a chance.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:39 PM

Give her a big meow from my and my significant other's cats.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: open mike
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:41 PM

my momma cat got spayed yesterday....
the 3 kittens are romping together.
Glad you found the one you were looking for.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 03:45 PM

Palico?

Mudcalico?

Calicat?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,Blackcatter
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 04:03 PM

Well I don't usually care for non-black cats, but in this case, congrats! Raise em up on good folk music and your have a happy kitty.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:36 PM

I have a silly calico cat named Clementine. There are a couple of links around Mudcat to a photo of her. Calicos are sweethearts, but they can shed on ANYTHING you're wearing and some bit of their fur will show up.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 05:43 PM

How about "goddammit kitten!"

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:45 PM

Aaaawwwwww - felicitations to your new kitty from my four.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Micca
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:50 PM

Cooking Fat? well thats what Dad called it when he fell over it in the dark... Well I THINK thats what he said...

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:56 PM

I got a pair when I moved to Toronto. Named them Gawd and Dammit, respectively.

A

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 06:57 PM

Maybe Tansy...suggestion from Megan. Not sure yet. She has been 'helping' me in the chat room......and killing everything on the computer desk.are-034r----

See? I told you so! LOL

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:13 PM

BTW, for the Yookers, over here a 'calico' is mostly white with black and orange patches. Also called a Money Cat...

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:22 PM

PS....Google Image search page for calico cat She doesn't look quite like any of these but they are so individual. I'll see if I can find pics of what we call tortoishells, or torties.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:23 PM

Friend of mine had an Orange cat - It was actually black and white , but it wore a sash and a bowler hat !

I'll get my coat .

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:24 PM

What Yanks call a tortie

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:41 PM

LOL, Terry. Now for equal time, she needs a Green cat....

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,Blackcatter (too lazy to reset cookie)
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 07:51 PM

Hey,

Do many people in the U.S. call them "Tortie"? I've never heard it used before. Yes, Tortoise Shell and definately calico. But I've only lived in Cal., Colo. and Florida.

We used to have a kitty years ago that was orange and white and gray. Her name was Snickers. Someone at work suggested the name after learning her colors. I've never figured out how she arrived at that.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: CapriUni
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 08:30 PM

Blackcatter -- maybe "Snickers" came from the colors of a Snickers candy bar (milk chocolate, nougat, caramel, and peanuts)?

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: JennieG
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 09:03 PM

Our Binky is a tortie with more white on her that the kitty in the picture - my sons named her after Death's horse in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. She is usually known in this house as The World's Friendliest Cat, especially at 5am.......she loves us to death then.....
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: freightdawg
Date: 16 Jul 04 - 11:11 PM

Meow!!

Congratulations on the kitty! May she live long and prosper. (That would make her a Vulcat!)

We have two little kitties now. One is a long hair Tortie, the other is a short hair cross between a Tortoise Shell and a Tabby (her tabby lines are very soft, but noticeable.) I've heard Tortoise Shells called Torties, and we live in NM and truly love our kitties.

One day we will get pictures up in the Members section.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 01:53 AM

Clementine. A sweetheart who is every bit as dignified as this photo suggests. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 04:19 AM

With the right herbs and spices, they can be excellent.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 04:40 AM

If she is very fond of dancing (allow me to remark) what about the name Dorathy Drew - Drew for short.

Calico Printer's Clerk

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:24 AM

Why not give it 2 names? Pip and I call cats different things and although Pip does not approve, the cats don't seem to mind as long as I give them food - in fact 3 out of our 4 are more likely to come if I call them than if Pip does by their "posh names".

We have

Oedipuss/ Weedypuss
Mewan/Fleabag
Delia/Chitling
(Bella is just Bella but she never "speaks" to me)

Now I've got thinking... Isn't there something by TS Eliot on the names cats have?

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:31 AM

Found it:

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 12:54 PM

CapriUni,

I knew that was the connection, but really, the cat was white, gray and orange. Not exactly colors you find in a Snickers Bar.

I'll put up a picture and provide a link. She was a remarkably beautiful cat.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Blackcatter
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 01:06 PM

Here:

Snickers

As a kitten

As a misanthrope

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sonnet
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 02:36 PM

Blackcatter - Snickers is beautiful. I'm about to get two kittens in a fortnight. One is a chintz, the other a bundle of soot! Can't wait! We'd decided to call them Maya and Seamus (poetic connection) but Jan, the work colleague, I'm having them from, half remembered and has been calling them Mia and Shadow (nearly a song!), so that's stuck!

Sorcha - it'll be a comfort for you to realise you'll be a few weeks ahead of us in the mahem stakes!

Jay McS

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Little Robyn
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 06:00 PM

Blackcatter - my Twiggy is a similar colour to Snickers, but without any white. She's smokey grey and pale ginger with faint grey lines all over. A muted tortie, perhaps. She was very skinny when we rescued her, hence the name, but she's filled out nicely and is wearing her winter coat at present.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: CapriUni
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 07:15 PM

Blackcatter -- what great pics!

Maybe your friend just thought that "Snickers" would be a good name for a kitty?

I remember once that I tried to write a piece of collaborative fiction with someone by email, and I gave one of the characters a pet cat named Pheno Menon -- "Pheno" for short (neither the fiction nor the friendship really worked, unfortunately).

Thinking of it as a two-part name is still the best way I have to remember the spelling of "phenomenon." :-)

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 09:59 PM

She still doesn't have a name. She REALLY isn't telling.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 10:35 PM

Loki, Freya, Lilith.....

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: CapriUni
Date: 17 Jul 04 - 11:41 PM

How 'bout Agent X?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Cats
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 03:47 AM

Isolde and Bathsheba send all purrs and meowws to the calico cat. The naming of cats is particularly important as you have to be very careful of what you call gods.....

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 10:13 AM

Call her "Fiddle Strings"

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,jennifer
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:10 PM

Our cat is called Smudge. Usually Smidge-smudge, he likes that. All my transatlantic correspondents have said what a great name so you can have it if you like!
smudge

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:22 PM

She's got a name, courtesy of Sabine in the Chat room! She is now offically Boudicca....!! GREAT name!

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:36 PM

Great Name

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 06:26 PM

Boudicca was a cat among pigeons - saw off the Romans good and proper.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 06:43 PM

Nuts! Too late! I was going to suggest that since cats supposedly respond to names with "s" sounds in them, "Sorry-Assed-Sack-of-Shit" might be a good name.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 07:38 PM

Heeere, boodie boodie boodi..... booty..... butt cat??????

Hey! Do we really not have a text symbol for a musical note?????

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Bert
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 08:29 PM

쳌ô

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 08:44 PM

All I see (avove post) is a square and an o with a hat on. :~( No, I meant an emoticon-type figure to build a note; could not find characters that would do it.

./' was as close as I got.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 08:45 PM

_/ or _/'

??

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 08:48 PM

We also have a new kitten - from a litter that a feral cat had out by our barn, sick and abandoned and snatched from the jaws of death.
Weighs 1lb now, and likes to sit on your shoulder while you watch TV.
Occasionally sneezes into your hair with unfortunate results, hence its name: Booger.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Gypsy
Date: 19 Jul 04 - 11:38 PM

Congrats, Sorcha! nothing more divine than a baby cat, specially a techicoloured one. Oh yeah, diminutive, would be Sephie, don't ask me why. But i know a Bodicia (same pronunciation, yes?) and that is her "short"

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 08:07 PM

And, the last 2 pics on this page are of my new kitten, Boudicca.

Subject: RE: BS: New Kitten!!
From: open mike
Date: 26 Jul 04 - 09:59 PM

o/~
oh what a cutie!
I found a home for Leo,
the male lion-like kittie.
the female, Elsa, will be
adopted next week. The one
that was a keeper is Cinder,
a dark grey tabby with orange
spot on her third eye (do cats
have third eyes?)
yours is Bodacious..