Help: Name my new kitten?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 21 Oct 01 - 07:28 AM

We will be upsetting Gargoyle again if we continue adding more messages here. May I suggest we all adjourn to a new thread The Naming of Cats.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 21 Oct 01 - 05:50 AM

Can't you call her something like 'Bring out your dead' or 'Plague' that would add a certain sophistication when you should you find yourself shouting it loudly on the doorstep one night....

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 05:13 PM

Matthew, you might have a lot of fun trying!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 08:10 AM

If I had a cat called Cletoris how would I be able to find it? BG*

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: CharlieA
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 07:26 AM

Well our cat is called Malcolm (he's black my housemates sister named him after Malcolm X) but he's known to us as Fiend. Another of the cats i've known is called Death Magic but the grandmother gets upset if you use her full name rather than Magic. My parents old cat was named Snuck cos she snuck in and adopted them. Loki is a good name for a cat. Cxxx

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: lady penelope
Date: 20 Oct 01 - 05:55 AM

Well, if I had got on earlier, my suggestion would have been FANG. Now there's something to shout in the garden!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: UB Ed
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 12:02 PM

100!

Mittens

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 11:56 AM

Minge

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 09:28 AM

We don't have ä, ö or ü keys on a British keyboard, Andreas. Where are they on a German keyboard?

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: MudGuard
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 08:54 AM

Or do it the easy way, just use the ä-key on your keyboard as I use it on mine, or the ö-key or the ü-key. They also work with Shift and then give ÄÖÜ instead of äöü

;-)

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Trevor
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 08:51 AM

I was walking in Hyde Park once and there was this elegant old lady calling 'Hercules, Hercules...'. I nearly fell over laughing when a minute Yorkie, complete with ribbons, appeared about of the bushes...

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Oct 01 - 08:34 AM

Firecat, the codes are auml ouml uuml for small or Auml Ouml and Uuml for capital letters - in each case you put an 'and' sign (&) in front and a semi colon at the end with no spaces.

ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü

Or you could just write ae, oe or ue instead -Kaetzchen

WassaiL! V

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: YOR
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM

White cat "Midnight" Black cat "Snowball"

OK, use my cats name "Magic", and sometimes "Stupid Cat"!

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Firecat
Date: 18 Oct 01 - 05:51 PM

I know about Katzchen having an umlaut. I just don't know how to do them!

Firecat (A level German student)

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Gloredhel
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 07:51 PM

my kitty is cuddles, which is intended to be ironic. she can't stand being held.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: SharonA
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 07:15 PM

Haven't had a chance to read the whole thread, so maybe this was suggested already, but...

Your mention of the kitten playing in the coal scuttle brought to mind Silas Marner and the foundling child Eppie: remember when he tried to punish her by shutting her in the coal hole, and she came out covered with soot and thinking it was a great game ("Eppie in de toal hole")?

So my submission for a sooty foundling-kitten's name is Eppie (as I recall, in the story, it was short for Hepzibah).

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 06:01 PM

Cletoris!!!! Oh Lord - about choked!!

Then you could get Cletus to come down and breed it - teach it all kinds of nasty tricks -

Steve

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,Claymore
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 05:16 PM

You could pass on a proud name from a noble member of his species; Genghis Khat, Mouse Murderer of the First Water, Nettle Flayer of Dogs, Reducer of the Avian, and Ruler of the Upper Barn of Equine, who reigned from 1979 to 1992 in Little Britain, Virginia. At 28 pounds, and blacker than your last breath, when he patrolled the barn, the Rottweiler followed in trace, and the crickets stopped chirping...

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 05:02 PM

*RALMAO*

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 04:59 PM

That could be a bit awkward, standing in the garden in a Military town shouting 'Cletoris'.....

specially if she has a small pink nose.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 04:42 PM

Is the feminine of Cletus Cletoris?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:49 PM

Reg?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:07 PM

Stella! Love it, Ihurricane.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 01:04 PM

Well, that one's interesting as it's also what they do in the corner.........take a "lil piss."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Ceridwen
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 12:58 PM

Lillepis. It's swedish (dialect) for 'Little cat'. I think is a sweet name.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 12:19 PM

My cat's name is Meeow-zer! He came to me as a wild tom and he is a BIG boy! I named him meeow-zer because of his very mournful and LOUD roar. I had him "fixed" and now he squeaks like a little kitten ... now I call him meow-meow! Poor thing!

LL

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: MudGuard
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 07:42 AM

Slight correction: it is Kätzchen (with an a-umlaut, not an a)

What about the name Meeow?

MudGuard (trying to protect his native language German)

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 07:42 AM

Funny that, Firecat.... MudGuard and I were discussing that very same point last Friday - that in most languages cat is very similar or is the sound they make (Chinese, Mau-mau)......

Nice to see there is another Shadow around... now how about finding me a nice kitty, placid, female, spayed.... ready to fit into cat loving home where there is already a senior cat, who knows her place is on top.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,Firecat
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 07:25 AM

You could always name her after me!! :-)

Seriously, though, you could call her Cica (Tsi-Tsa, Hungarian for kitten), Gato (Italian for cat), Kotyenok (Russian for kitten), Koshka (Russian for cat), Katze (German for cat), or Katzchen (German for kitten).

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Arnie
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 07:13 AM

This thread has attracted more hits than any other which says something about Mudcatters - maybe there's a link between people who like folk music and cat-lovers? Anyway, I got a female kitten last year from the local cat santuary and called her Meg, as I like the idea of referring to her as Meg the Mog! However, it seems to me that only the rattle of her Friskies hitting the food bowl will get her attention so any name is really only for my convenience - I couldn't just keep calling her 'the kitten'! My previous moggy was called 'Raggerty' which I nicked from a female folk duo who used to perform in the South East in the '70's - wonder what happened to them?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 07:10 AM

"words based on poems of T.S. Eliot"

Well, in this case the words are wholly T.S Eliot's, no "based on"- and this site has the whole Book of Practical Cats

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,Souter
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 06:18 AM

I can't afford to spare a name, I have so many cats of my own, but if you like you can borrow one of their names. Some of these names are strays, not mine.
Shadow; Dark Shadow; Freebie; Skinnybones; Tiger; Virtue; Allegra; Roberta; Sylvia; Silie; Ginger; Tansy; Emily Curtis; Cloudy; Kesse; Fiona; Tiamet; Creamer; Pumpkin; GreedyGut(now renamed Rosie); Black Cat; Elotaria; Blue; Baby; Butterball; Missy; Purrfect(now called Jazzy); Killer(this cat is the sweetest little thing, the name's a bit of a joke); Aoede; Mneme; Melete; Klingon; Dragon; Thunder; Dark Angel; Ghost and Shabbos.
Like I said, they're not all mine. Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Morticia
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 05:34 AM

Well, I took her to the vet where she got a clean bill of health, more or less.We've decided to stay with Loki, both for the MC connection and the fact that she truly is the incarnation of mischief....thanks for all your help.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: KitKat
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 04:38 AM

Tortie's are special. I have known four: 2 were mine and the others belonged to a friend. They were all lovely. Their names were Tansy, Rowan, Tinker and Fruitbat. Any help?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Lyrical Lady
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 02:51 AM

mmm...how about "Mussette" or "Pussa" or "Tigress" or, or, or ....

LL

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 02:50 AM

See, despite slagging everyone off about non music threads, you still can't resist posting to it can you Garg!

How about Hedwig then..... or Head Case.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 12:40 AM

Half-pint

Then there's the old joke about the minister who finally makes it out to visit an old lady. She feeds him supper wich he reluctntly eats as the place is none too tidy. When he offers to stay and help with the dishes she says, no that they are nothing that a little soap and water can't take care of. Just as he drives off, he hears her holler from the front step, "Soap! Water!" At which a couple of dogs come running up, eager to help out with said dishes!

My sister had a cat who was wicked about catching moles, even when she was little, so she got named "Mole Kitty" which got shortened to "Mo'kitty."

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 12:36 AM

Mary,Mary, bless your lovely soul for saving this non-musical thread, and for finding precisely the correct key signiture.

THANX

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Bert
Date: 16 Oct 01 - 12:23 AM

Hey Garg, we had a pup named Dammit. A neighbor's kid came visiting once and when told the name of the dog, she said shyly "I'm not allowed to say that". The dog's name was "Darn it" from then on.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 09:05 PM

typos:

Lloyd and Eliot

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 09:03 PM

THE NAMING OF CATS
from the musical "CATS"
music by Andrew LLoyd Webber
words based on poems of T.S. Eliott

The naming of cats is a difficult matter
It isn't just one of your holiday games
You may think at first I'm 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 are 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 will never 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 rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name
His ineffable, effable, effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name
Name, name, name, name, name, name

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: mmm1a
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:55 PM

What about Hermione, Harry Potters friend . Would still be in keeping with the Harry Potter theme. mmm

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:41 PM

Here at the vet clinic we've heard quite a few. I like to go through the computer and print out all the names. One of my favorites was Fartblossom. We called her Blossom for short. I choked the day the nun went on about what a nice name that was.

I've also noticed that kids often name their pets after the latest Disney cartoon. Mustahfah (Sp?) from The Lion King was one I never could spell.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 08:15 PM

DAMN IT!!!

That's what it already knows its name to be.

damn it Where Are You?

Damn It Whatcha Cryin About?

DAMN IT What Did You Get Into Now!!

It is not worthy of the name Gargoyle!

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: GUEST,MudWeasel
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 07:36 PM

Well, another music question that I can answer!
Step it out Mary is a trad. ballad set in (Ireland I think). There's a slightly Americanized version called Step It Out Nancy, with a twist ending: The rich suitor upon find out he has competition, shoots said competition (a cowboy rather than a soldier in this version).
Nancy shows up to the wedding with a heavy pistol and terminates the wealthy Bridegroom, for which the 12 good men of the jury refuse to convict her. Trust the Yanks to put a happy(?) ending on a good tragedy...
Now's the time for Gargoyle to poke his head in and chew me out for discussing traditional music on a BS thread...

I think you should name the cat "Weasel" after me.

-MudWeasel

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 07:11 PM

You hit a bodrhan with Al Gore's wife???? Why?

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 07:03 PM

I was singing this on the way back, and isn't it 'step it out Mary'?

Tipper would be good though - something you hit a bodhrain with....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Bert
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 07:03 PM

Aha! how about renaming Gargoyle, we could call him 'kitty'. I suspect that really deep down there he's just a pussycat.

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 06:31 PM

We (ex-we, thank goodness) took in two grey foundlings which I promptly named Smokey and Fagash (UK for cigarette ash). Not popular names so after a few hilarious name pairs (refused) I got a bit cute & suggested we called the tom James and the queen Jesse. Success! till the penny dropped the next day! But by then it was too late.
If you found the mog on a tip why not call her Mary - as in "Tip it up Mary, my fine daughter. Tip it up Mary if you can......"

Subject: RE: Help: Name my new kitten?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 01 - 06:30 PM

Basing a name on the colour of its eyes isn't really useful, as they are bound to change soon. Wait until you know if it's going to be a green eyed, yellow eyed or orange eyed one. Ceramin was an orange eyed cat. We named him after earwax, because that's what colour he was.... Shadow got called that because she followed me everywhere and you can't see her in the dark. I'd call it Notebook, because it's never where you thought it should be.....

LTS