How did you name your cats?

Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon at
one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:38:39 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:

Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered
behind her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename
him Gideon at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend How did your cats
get their names?

Tweed

Chloe, Tigger, CJ, and Snowball had those names when I got them.

Fleagor, Mudpie, Millie, Ozy, Dandy, Avery, and Snooch are named after
web comics characters.

Chubby, Hilde, and Curly were originally named after Wagnerian opera
characters, but were renamed. Hilde is simply short for Brunnhilde, but
the other two were renamed for physical characteristics: Curly has a
strongly curved tail that curls around and touches itself; Chubby was so
chubby as a kitten that the vet thought she was pregnant (Hilde is now
the chubby one).

--
Ted Davis )

"Christina Websell" wrote in
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Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered
behind her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename
him Gideon at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed


George - my favourite Beatle
Joey - called him "the little one" for months, and Joey just happened
Peaches - peach coloured
Misty - grey like the mist
Tuffy - one tough fellow and trouble from day one
Deek - found on Deek's Side Road in the middle of nowhere
Sonny - named by previous owners because he loves the sun

I'm terrible at finding good names for pets.
Bobble

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon
at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed

I have no idea how Waffles and Pickles got their names, because they were
already named when I got them. Nanki-Poo (RB) got his name because he was
serenading me on the way home from the shelter and a song from The Mikado
popped into my mind. Herbie (RB) got his name because he was such a little
love bug. Pyewacket got his name because as a teenager I saw the play Bell,
Book and Candle. The main witch in the story had a familiar that was a
black cat named Pyewacket. At that time, I never expected to have a cat,
but I decided then and there that, if I ever had a black cat, it would be
named Pyewacket. About 15 or 20 years ago, that happened.

Joy

Christina Websell wrote:

Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon at
one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend

I always chuckle when I think about your story about sitting in the
waiting room at the vet's office, when they came out and called "Boyfriend"
and you had to get up to bring him in, hoping not to meet anyone's eyes.
LOL.

How did your cats get their names?

Smudge - my ex named her. Smudge has a few, well, smudges of grey fur on
her nose, in the middle of a white muzzle.

Roxy - As a kitten, she looked just like one of those aliens that you see
pictured in UFO stories, with the pointy chins and huge eyes. I wanted to
name her something that would refer to the alien thing, and a friend
suggested "Roswell" (a town in Nevada which is the site of a supposed
alien ship crash in 1947). Roswell quickly became "Rozzy", but I didn't
like that, so that soon morphed to "Roxy", and the rest is history.

Licky - I had a hard time coming up with a name for this guy. He's so
elegant and dapper looking that I wanted to name him after a star of the
silver screen. But I'm not a classic movie aficionado, so the names I kept
coming up with just didn't mean that much to me. You might remember that
I engaged RPCA in a "help me name my kitten" thread. I got a lot of great
ideas from that, but none of them stuck. Meanwhile, a friend of mine was
badgering me frequently to "name that poor cat, already!" She took it upon
herself to make this happen, and would call up with lists of suggestions
on a regular basis. I hated most of the names she suggested, but then she
said, "Licorice", and I went, "hmmmmmm....!" I like licorice candy. It
seemed to suit him. And best of all, I could easily call him "Licky", which
was also cute. He's the only one of my 3 who responds immediately to his
name, btw.

Joyce


--
I only like dreaming, all the day long
Where no one is screaming...
-- Men at Work

Lacey was Callie when I was trying to rescue her because she's a
calico. DH didn't like that name so I came up with Lacey because she
has all the colors of a lacewing butterfly and I was able to keep the
ie/ey sound at the end of her name.
I thought Barnabus was a female cat - he just looked too pretty to be
a female so I called him Miriah until we rescued him and took him to
the vet. Then because he was solid black (and I'm a fan of the
original Dark Shadows TV show) I named him Barnabus.
Meeka is Native American for wise raccoon. She is very smart cat and
because she is part Siamese she has the same mask of a raccoon.
DH named Rosco and Spagola - well, Spagola ended up with his name
because DH suggested it and I said, "That's not a name! We can't name
him that" and therefore he became Spagola. Had I said, Oh what a
wonderful name, I wonder if it will fit his personality, we probably
would have named him something else. After 26 years you'd think I
would understand this reverse psychology

Julie

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon
at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed

Persia told me her name. She'd been with me close to two weeks and I'd just
been thinking of her as "cat". I never really wanted a cat (shame on me!).
And I wasn't entirely sure I was going to keep her. But I decided I
couldn't just keep calling her "cat". One day as she was walking away from
me in the living room towards the kitchen. I was looking at her, thinking
what is your name? The name just popped into my head. I said, "Persia!"
and she turned around and came running back to me. Oh! Your name is
Persia! And she's answered to it ever since

Jill

-violette, because she wa so shy and there is a cartoon called shrinking
violette.
-Tiger because mourice seems so common.
-tv because when a kitten he was all the shades of a black and white tv, it
fits as if this weren't his name it would have been tater, for couch potato.
-OEJ, one eyed jaquline, because she had an eye infection, and i knew a
radio host who went by one eyed jack and hates cats.
-chester, named by the shelter, dh says his name should be that actor withe
jowels that escapes me atm, the vet says his name should be jake, and i call
him chester the ingester
-barbi, because she was so little and skittish i suggested barberella and DH
vetoed that, so she became barbi,
-Trudi, for intruder kitty, she answers to trudence, and trudi, trudi, purr
machine, done to the shaggy tune.
-MH, originally i thought he was a girl because of his meow and behavior, he
was so very matted we started calling him matta harri... one day while
working on matts, i grabbed yet another matt, pulled it gently away from his
body... evidentally NOT gentle enough, he let me in no uncertian terms, it
was NOT a mat, and he did NOT intend to let me remove it with a sizzors...
so he quickly became mathew harold thanks to dh, as i was at a los, Lee
"Christina Websell" wrote in message
...
Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon
at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed

On Nov 15, 7:38*pm, "Christina Websell"
wrote:
Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered behind
her like an apprentice. *It stuck although I did try to rename him Gideon at
one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Tweed

Marbles - a calico named by the children because of the circular spots
on her white fur.
Ginger - named because of his color
Eva - named for a short story character
Buddy - (a "rescue" cat)), hid under furniture for the first six weeks
while I tried to convince him we could be real
buddies if he would just cooperate
Crystal - had brilliant blue eyes and was too young to be away from
her mother when she was given to me.
I returned her
to her mother and when I took her back 3 weeks later the blue eyes had
turned golden but the name stuck.
Norma

Christina Websell wrote:
Unfortunately, Boyfie got his name because he appeared to be KFC's
boyfriend, the only cat she would allow in her garden and wandered
behind her like an apprentice. It stuck although I did try to rename
him Gideon at one point.
That did not work so his name will always be Boyfriend
How did your cats get their names?

Like amny people, the names of the current crew happened organically.

Pickle was "Jasper" and Suki was "Indigo" when we adopted them, "Jasper"
after the friendly ghost, and "Indigo", because of Suki's blue eyes.

Suki became Suki pretty much straight away because she is such a sook.
(note, previous owners also thought of Suki as agirl, so its not just me). I
even liked the name Indigo, but it just didn't seem to fit.

Pickle was going to be "Kunks" there for a while because although he looks
100% white he has a very very *very* slight darker stripe on top of his head
and I thought a 'backwards skunk' was funny. We also tried T.D. for a while,
but it didn't take. Eventually Cary decided that *his* cat was to be called
'Pickle', and darn it, Pickel answered to 'Pickle' straight away, and thus
the name stuck.

Previous Cats:

Shadow was named Shadow because she always kept in the shadows and seemed
somehow haunted. I don't know where she is now (the next set of owners could
keep her from straying either, I found out recently, but she's not come back
here, and no-one has called me about her chip, so I can only pray that she's
found her family... *somewhere*....)

IBKFergus was called IBK for "itty bitty kitty" and well "fergus" is a cool
name for a cat, even if she was a she-cat and not a he-cat. We called her
"Fergs" anyway.

Shmoggleberry started off as "Spooky" wich didn't work, then "Moggy" then
"Shmoggy" and then because he was so cool he got Shmoggy-berry, which got
twisted into Shmoggleberry, and there it stayed.

Snoppy was named so because he was just so curious about everything and was
'snooping' into everything

Blackie, well, she was black.

Other pets:

Fluffy: Tried every name we could think for her. We were *adament* she
wasn't going to have some silly white-teacup-yippy-dog name like Tiffy or
Fluffy. But every time we said we were not going to call her Fluffy, her
ears pricked up and qutie often she came over to lick us. Eventually we
tested all the names we both as individuals and as a couple we liked, plus
Fluffy as the negative control. Fluffy won by a country mile. She was Fluffy
if not all that fluffy. Oddly, it suited her, though.

Brainy. A name given in irony at a budgie (parakeet) that was forever
colliding into walls when in flight. She knew how to fly at top speed, she
just didn't know how to turn, slow or slow down. She stopped by either
falling to the floor or colliding with a wall. Tough old girl,s he was,
considering what she put herself through. She used to drink beer if she got
half a chance, then wobble around drunk. She'd eat the 'herbs' that my ex
liked to indulge in and then go into great birdsong afterwords before
showigh down on the millet treats like no tomorrow and otherwise could draw
blood from your fingers if she felt like you deserved a good beaking. She
put Shmogg in his place very early. A total biker b*tch, but I loved her
anyway

Vomit: Not named by us, but was a putrid yellow-green-browny colour adn was
going to be terminated because a bird that colour was never going to sell.
Previous owner took pity on the thing and offered to save him from being
land-fill, and was given Vomit free of charge. Previous owner used to walk
over to our place to visit with Vomit sitting on her shoulder. Vomit &
Brainy fell in love, and eventually previous owner let us keep Vomit so as
not to keep Vomit & Brainy seperate as they pined for each other. No eggs
were ever laid, but Vomit died a week after Brainy did (we think she died of
cancer - she was about 8 years old) of what could only be considered a
broken heart.

Boris & Natasha, my first fish (black moors). Named after the characters in
Rocky and Bullwinkle, Natasha died very quickly, two days after getting her.
Boris died many weeks later. Alas, in my fish-keeping ignorance, I had
probably killed them both - Natasha I knew nothing about how to set up, and
had simply added tap water to the gravel in the tank and thrown in the fish,
and probably killed her throught he chlorine and lack of 'cycling' of the
water. Boris by too much love. He'd actually come up to my hand and seemed
to enjoy me stroking him. Little did I know that a) my hands are fully of
nasty germs and b) handling fish destroys their natural layer of slime,
which protects them from nasty germs.

Grill (red comet): Coz it was funny to have "Grill the fish". Brutally
murdered by two asshats at work who thought pouring him into chemical
solutions was 'fun'

Fillet, Cutlet, Sushi & StirFry (red comets). Same theme as above. All were
dead when I came in one morning, no idea what of. As they'd lived for 4
months in my office without incident, lall seemed bright and cheerful the
day before, and all went at the same time, I am guessing either a) someone
purposefully killed them like the asshats above (although they'd moved on by
that time) or - far more likely - a cleaner just sprayed something like
window cleaner or fly spray too near their tank and it was a quick death.
I'll never know.

Mortis (shebunken): To overcome the gruseome bad luck I'd had with fish thus
far, I named this one Mortis, after Death himself. Mortis lived to a ripe
old age before I had to re-home him since I was no longer allowed to keep
the tank at work.

Rachess (betta fish): I have no idea why Cary calls his fish Rachess, he
just does. We've had 3 red Rachess (Rachii?) before the current blue
incarnation

Humans:

Cary: I wanted 'Charles', Joel hated 'Charles'. Joel wanted to name him
after his late mother 'Kerry'. I hated the name 'Kerry' for a boy (Kerry
Packer, anyone?). No other naem suited, but as soon as Joel said 'What about
"Cary"?' I was immediately hooked (It helps that we are both big Cary Grant
& Cary Elwes fans, but thats *not* who we named him after). Glad we didn't
have a girl, though, she would have been named Kaori. We both chose that
name very early on and I thought it was a beautiful name then, but really
don't like it now. LOL.