BS: Name for kitten?

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 08 - 04:43 AM

And if she does, you can change it to Cat astrophe.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 29 May 08 - 03:21 AM

For a female, Magnificat. Though she might tend to get pregnant rather mysteriously.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 May 08 - 03:13 AM

I think it entirely depends on what your next pussycat looks like.

It's no use calling it Smudge or Smokey or Ash if it's a ginger tiger. They're grey names.

We have a black cat named after a black bird (Raven) and a dark tabby called Shadow - when I rescued her, she followed me everywhere and you can't see her in the dark, like my shadow. I don't know what her name was previously but she's not answered to Shadow now for 17 years.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 May 08 - 10:43 PM

Oh, yes, how could I forget:

Miss Pitty-Pat
Kazell
Charlee

and, dog's names which could apply to cats:

Shu-Montu
Merlee
Cinders (my sister's dog)
Wrinkles

Other cats/dogs of related parties:

Baji
Cody
Ming whom I call "Miss Ming-ming"
Taramisu (sp) (The Italian dessert)
Noelani
Kashi
Guy-skee-lee (a lost one we sheltered)

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 May 08 - 10:05 PM

Name it "Don't eat my livah" and say it like Livia Soprano.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: GUEST,jOhn
Date: 28 May 08 - 09:42 PM

Trevor.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Micca
Date: 28 May 08 - 09:24 PM

McGrath, you could sing Hissyfits

" Sweet Minerva waits for me
anchor down and homeward bound
heading for st Andrews quay
Sweet Minerva set me free"

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 May 08 - 07:50 PM

We've had

Saramita (family cat when I was born)
King Arthur
CW (for the c and w markings on his forehead)
Shadowfax
Kaysha
Sasheen
Heyoka
Beau Geste
Boliver
Dashiel
Kipling
Trystan
Emily aka Emileena
Mo-kitty

and, others I cannot remember just now


They really do love ess sounds!

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 28 May 08 - 07:11 PM

Abraham Delacey, geoseptacasey, thomas O'malley, O'malley the alley cat!

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Emma B
Date: 28 May 08 - 07:10 PM

The kitten we 'rescued' as a companion for her older stray 'sister' we named Dara meaning 'the second one' but she was always known as just 'Kitty'

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 May 08 - 07:06 PM

I believe in giving cats dignified names - which can be adjusted to something less formal if that seems appropriate.

Right now we are down to one cat, Joshua, and considering getting a companion kitten, so thinking about names. Minerva is one I rather like. (After all, it's good enouig for Professor Minerva McGonagall, who makes a very fine cat when she chooses to do so.)

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: SussexCarole
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:42 PM

Many years back I 'rescued' a beautiful blue persian called Noushka from a well to do home who got fed up with her as soon as she grew out of being a pretty kitten. I renamed her Noo Noo and we both lived happily ever after!

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:37 PM

Cats supposedly respond to "s" and "sh" sounds, so a name with lots of those sounds in it should work well.

"Sorry-Assed Sack of Shit" would be a great choice.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Micca
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:35 PM

Mine, a long haired tortoiseshell is called "Morgana the Flatulent" because when small she farted when you picked her up and as she was recently weaned and just switching her metabolism from milk to meat and cereal, her farts were vehement!!! She is usually known as "Little Wugsie" tho' and "Moglet"
I knew a master of wine whose Mog was called "Muscat"

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: frogprince
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:32 PM

A girlfriend of many years past had one named "biscuit". Don't ask me why. If it caught you laying on your back, it would bounce on it's front paws alternately, rapidly, on your belly.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:28 PM

Nathanial Pawthorne?

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:15 PM

As a young lad a tabby named Giddildy sounds like the beginning of a limerick.

I usually name cats for things (I had one named Garlic) and dogs for people, but right now I have a cat named Galya (pronounced Gaia) and one named Fudge, who was originally Pudge but I didn't like that.

How about Mudcat, or is that too obvious?

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:13 PM

Problem is, it all depends on the personality of the kitten. And they change as they grow, to make it more complicated. Had a cat called Bundle once who became a very dignified adult cat, so he had to be renamed Cato, after the Roman politician.
Bonnie Shaljean and I once shared two cats, one named Dunstable and one called Felicity. Sort of summed up their personalities. (Bundle/Cato was Dunstable's kitten, as it happens). My cat these days is Cleo, but I had no hand at all in the naming of her as she was my husband's cat before we met. She also answers to "Mog", "Madame la Mogue", "Pops" and "where's that cat?" but gives me very old fashioned looks if I call her Furryfeatures or Fishface.

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: GUEST,Calico
Date: 28 May 08 - 06:04 PM

Well, if it's the COMMONEST type of alleycat you could name it "Chairman Mao."

I once knew someone (a psychologist) whose cat was "Walter Ego."

And, yes, if he's the peein'est of the litter, you name him Liberace.

If you're a B. Kliban fan, you could name the kitty "Meatloaf."

And there are many wonderful cat names in T S Elliot's "Old Possum's Book ..." on which the musical "Cats" was based.
< a href="http://musicals.net/cgi-bin/synopsis?sn=13&show=Cats">Names of Jellicle Cats

E.g.,
Rum Tum Tugger
Grizabella, the Glamour Cat
Bustopher Jones
Old Deuteronomy
Macavity
Mungo Jerry
Rumpleteazer

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 May 08 - 05:24 PM

I have an Ed, a Fred, an Alice and a Lizzie. I repeat Amanda and George.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: topical tom
Date: 28 May 08 - 05:10 PM

As a young lad a tabby named Giddildy
   A tom named Rattagirder
   Satan
   Jezebel
   A stray named Berliosc The composer)

   The present one is a female (spayed, of course) called Ashley, an 18-pound grey-brown beauty who is very affectionate .

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 May 08 - 05:10 PM

Kitten Tikka Masala?

Lunch?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: GUEST,Chief Chaos
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:53 PM

My Father in law has one cat named "spot"

I suggest "Kaboodle"

As in Kitten Kaboodle

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:52 PM

Ours have been

Velocette (named after a kind of old British motorbike with distinctive quiet purr)
Velcro (her clingy sister)
Gunther (named by her previous owner, an opera buff, after a character in Wagner)
Muriel (so-called because whe was grey)
Ishmael (named after the writer Ishmael Reed because he had the same big soulful eyes)
Ishtar (his sister, I'd have preferred Ishfemael but Marion didn't like it)
Mingus (I was on a roll naming black cats after Black artists)
Zeke (named after a nasty Usenet troll on one one of the cat groups, just to annoy him)
Chloe (named by a previous owner)
Splodge (he just looked at me and told me that was his name)
Marblecake (ditto)
Marblecake's kittens:
- Poppy (darker striped like a poppyseed cake)
- Eccles (mostly black like an Eccles cake)
- Gerald (he just looked like a Gerald)
- Siouxsie (weird punkish markings, so named after the singer)
- Pip (named after one of Marion's relatives)
- Ollie (ditto, or short for Apollo the sun god since he's bright golden)
- Polly (she just wanted to be called that)
- Courtney (another punkette and has lived up to it ever since)

I think the cleverest cat names I've ever thought up were for somebody on Usenet who didn't use them. They had two black kittens and were fixated on demoniac names for them. I wanted them named after two Black brother cats with impressive meows, Wynton and Branford.

There is a computer geek on rec.pets .cats.anecdotes who called her cat Cat-5.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:37 PM

He wasn't ever going to get another. He said many times. So, how about Invisible?

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: strad
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:34 PM

Guy I know had three cats called Bad, Very Bad, and Cooking Fat!

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Cats
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:19 PM

SAt the moment I have Bathsheba Everdeen from Far from the Madding Crowd and Isolde of the White Paws from traditional tales. We have also had Merlin and Morgana and Deuteronomy and Nehemeziah. Old testament and celtic names work well too.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: bobad
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:17 PM

"Dog"

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:16 PM

At one point all my cats had sailing names.........Cutter, Luff, Genoa, Vang, Hobie..................Think themes maybe.

Or, when we got our Cornish Rex, living here in the States we thought "Moggy" was sort of neat. Now we just have somewhat common names.......Roamin, Bixby, Sloop, Pepper, and Shug.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:12 PM

Amanda or George

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: Becca72
Date: 28 May 08 - 04:05 PM

I have one named after a character in the movie 'Willow' (Madmardigan) and two named after Montreal Canadiens, at least they were when I got the cats..(Sheldon for Sheldon Souray and Mikey for Mike Komisarek and the Life Cereal kid because he hates everything but dry cat food).

My family tends to name our pets with human names rather than the tired old "fluffy" and "boots" and such.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: irishenglish
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:47 PM

Although may I add, Pain In The Ass, and Damn Cat would have been acceptable names as well!

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: irishenglish
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:46 PM

We named ours (brother and sister) after song titles- Lukey (Lukey's boat is painted green) and Rosie (I know Rosie...) by Dave Swarbrick.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: frogprince
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:42 PM

You just observe the cat and compare him to the rest of the litter.
If he's the fuzziest, you name him fuzzy.
If he's the jumpiest, you name him jumpy.
If he pees the most, you name him Liberace.

Subject: RE: BS: Name for kitten?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:36 PM

"NO!"

My latest two are isabella and clarabella ( sisters)

Subject: BS: Name for kitten?
From: gnu
Date: 28 May 08 - 03:34 PM

What should I name my next pussycat?

Fishbreath? Furball? Stopthat? Ignoreme? Don'teatthat? Ouch?