Cat names

[Thegeek]

Live with them a while. Let their personality dictate. Our last cat was named Derp.

 

[MCgrease08]

Speaking as someone who is partially deaf, I'll be polite and just say I disagree with you.

Me thinks the "deaf kid" reference wasn't very nice.

Yeah, it was a bad joke in poor taste.

 

[JettaKnight]

Well our two cats are Sir Reginald Fluffingbottom and Lady Penelope Meowmeowton.


YMMV.

 

[JettaKnight]

There is absolutely no reason to name a cat. They don't come to you when you call them, so why bother.

Naming a cat makes about as much sense as naming a house plant ... a gold fish ... or a [redacted].

At the end of the day, you have to throw something at them to get their attention.

I've named goldfish.

It's not for calling them, it's for identifying them. It helps avoid confusion.

"Hey, the goldfish is pregnant."
"Which one?"
"The white one."
"Oh, the one with a long tail?"
"No the white one with the short tail."
"With the orange spot on the head?"
"No, that one lost the spot last year. It's the one of the other ones..."



But now I have somewhere around two dozen goldfish in the pond and no 8 year old girl to help name them.

 

[foszoe]

I've named goldfish.

It's not for calling them, it's for identifying them. It helps avoid confusion.

"Hey, the goldfish is pregnant."
"Which one?"
"The white one."
"Oh, the one with a long tail?"
"No the white one with the short tail."
"With the orange spot on the head?"
"No, that one lost the spot last year. It's the one of the other ones..."



But now I have somewhere around two dozen goldfish in the pond and no 8 year old girl to help name them.

Are you so PC with your goldfish that you can't just say, "the fat one!"?

 

[JettaKnight]

Are you so PC with your goldfish that you can't just say, "the fat one!"?

Hey she's not fat - she's just "with hundreds of children".

 

[MCgrease08]

I've named goldfish.

It's not for calling them, it's for identifying them. It helps avoid confusion.

"Hey, the goldfish is pregnant."
"Which one?"
"Helen"
"Which one is Helen?"
"The white one."
"Oh, the one with a long tail?"
"No the white one with the short tail."
"With the orange spot on the head?"
"No, that one lost the spot last year. It's the one of the other ones..."

But now I have somewhere around two dozen goldfish in the pond and no 8 year old girl to help name them.

It seems all that does is add an extra layer to the conversation.

 

[JettaKnight]

It seems all that does is add an extra layer to the conversation.

Nah.

"Helen"
"Gotcha"


The hard part is sexing them. Until then, they're all Pat or Chris or even Tracy if you're into country music.

 

[adcecil]

puss in boots

 

[Hookeye]

Have two cats.............Miss Cora and Sable.

 

[Hookeye]

Had others in the past


Scarlett (Himalayan- had her 18 yrs, wonderful pet)
CJ (black cat named after my old Jeep- worst cat)
Wendell
Oliver (snuck out and became road pizza)
and a big tabby with fluffy sideburns...........named Winchester
Had a tom that chased the kids like the Pink Panther fight scenes...........of course his name was Cato.

 

[foszoe]

Magee, fluffball, husky, starch, munchkin, runt, Simon, Melanie, no tail, mommy kitty, tiger, marmalade, tangerine, Blackie.

All have served me well.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Magee, fluffball, husky, starch, munchkin, runt, Simon, Melanie, no tail, mommy kitty, tiger, marmalade, tangerine, Blackie.

All have served me well.

We had a Simon. Well, he had us. It was a neighbor's outdoor cat that would come over and make himself at home. He was VERY needy and even figured out how to get through our screen door. I was on the phone with the wife one day and she said. "Hey. Simon just jumped up on the couch next to me and laid down!" All the doors WERE closed but he figured out how to get through.

Sadly last year he disappeared. We think that a Coyote got him as a new pack was seen in adjacent fields about that time.

 

[PGRChaplain]

Our Cat is HoBo, cuz he's a Bum!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Very few of my pets have ever really kept their original names. I always come up with some other nickname for them that sticks. Our current cat's "real" name is Misty, because she's a calico/tabby mix and her markings aren't sharply defined (they're "misty"). Because she would seem to magically "appear" in places (for example I could walk from one room, where she was laying on the couch, into another room and find her laying in there, looking not like she just gotten there, but as if she had been relaxing there for awhile), I started calling her "Mystical".

Then, she jumped overboard from our boat at night down on Lake Monroe and was lost for 9 days before being found in the woods by a little girl who took her to a vet in Ellettsville. (She was chipped.) When we got her home, she looked like she had swallowed a basketball and gained a lot of weight. After that, I started calling her Chunky Butt. Chunky Butt has now morphed into "Chunkadoodle" or just "Chunkadoo".

We had a kitten show up at our house one day and at first (s)he took to my wife. (S)he is grey and white with white markings on his/her face. When she was so young, his/her "lips" made him/her look like (s)he had ruby red lips, my wife thought. So, the cat's name became Ruby.

A couple of months or so go by and one day, (s)he jumps from my chair to the sofa and there were a couple of surprises now visible. I told my wife, her cat is now obviously a he and not a she. We turned the b around and he became Rudy and has been ever since.

 

[Cameramonkey]

We had a kitten show up at our house one day and at first (s)he took to my wife. (S)he is grey and white with white markings on his/her face. When she was so young, his/her "lips" made him/her look like (s)he had ruby red lips, my wife thought. So, the cat's name became Ruby.

A couple of months or so go by and one day, (s)he jumps from my chair to the sofa and there were a couple of surprises now visible. I told my wife, her cat is now obviously a he and not a she. We turned the b around and he became Rudy and has been ever since.

LOL.

I had a cat named Snots. He had a mark on his nose that looked like he had a booger.

And One of the cats at the shelter last nite was named Sam. Formerly Samantha. Sent her in to the vet to be Spayed and they found testicles. So she came back neutered. He had a condition that caused both testicles to not drop so they were not externally visible.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

We had a kitten show up at our house one day and at first (s)he took to my wife. (S)he is grey and white with white markings on his/her face. When she was so young, his/her "lips" made him/her look like (s)he had ruby red lips, my wife thought. So, the cat's name became Ruby.

A couple of months or so go by and one day, (s)he jumps from my chair to the sofa and there were a couple of surprises now visible. I told my wife, her cat is now obviously a he and not a she. We turned the b around and he became Rudy and has been ever since.

Ha! Surprise!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

LOL.

I had a cat named Snots. He had a mark on his nose that looked like he had a booger.

And One of the cats at the shelter last nite was named Sam. Formerly Samantha. Sent her in to the vet to be Spayed and they found testicles. So she came back neutered. He had a condition that caused both testicles to not drop so they were not externally visible.

A couple years ago, my oldest son was working at Walmart, pushing carts. During one of the polar votexes we had that winter, he found a little kitten and brought it home. We took it to the vet as he obviously needed a little help. My wife and my son were there when the lady vet was examining the kitten and said "he's got the smallest testicles I've ever seen". I guess my son got embarrassed but came back with a good one when he said "that's something a guy never likes to hear". Hilarity ensued.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Ha! Surprise!

Yah...later he became "my" cat and quit hanging around her. Momma wasn't happy about that.

 

[Hookeye]

My next cats will be named......

Nosler
Hi-Brass
CB