Unusual Cat Names
Michael James Burke
little stories about cats, now I want to know something.
My cat was named before I got him. I had heard that it is an old
superstition that to change a pet's name is bad luck. So I kept his name.
I have two felines. One a 5-year old female that is part Calico and part
Tiger-Striped and the other a well documented 27-pound, 4-year old male
Siamese.
The female I was really original with on the name -- Callie. However, my
other is a more creative -- Useless. He fits his name too.
What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
Thanx
Michael J. Burke
cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
sallie j kudra
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
The most unusual name I've ever given one of my babies was Tree. He was a
splotched tabby and the markings on the back of his head when he was born
reminded my of a big oak tree hence Tree. He had a brother whose markings
on the back of his neck resembled a kite and he was named Kite. The rest
of the feline residents in my life have had fairly mundane names.
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Letha Burchard
James Burke) wrote:
>
> What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
> these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
I have had cats most of the time when I was growing up, and for the most
part, their names were not very original (i.e. Cristobell, Snowball, Tiger,
Tigger Lee). So, when I go my new kitten, I wanted to give her a special
name. She is a small, black, playful, and skittish cat. She was half wild
when I got her (I got her from a family that had moved into a new home that
came equipped with a mother cat and four kittens that were not used to
people). They had called her Holly, short for Halloween, and although I
thought it was a cute name, I wanted something that was a little more
unusual. In a thesaurus when I was looking up synonyms for the word
sprite, I came across the word 'nisse' (pronounced nis-sa). It is from
Scandinavian folklore and it means 'a friendly spirit or brownie' (brownie
being a household spirit, not a dessert or a little girl in a brown
uniform). So, after a week of being called kitty, she was duly named
Nisse, and both she and I are happy with her new name.
By the way, I now use her name as the standard by which I judge library
dictionaries. I had to go to two different libraries before I found one
that had a dictionary that was big enough to have 'nisse' in it.
From Letha and Nisse
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Stacie A Shirko
In article <2qr244$f...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>,
Michael James Burke <cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote:
>I've been reading a lot here about medical help for cats and quirky
>little stories about cats, now I want to know something.
Stuff deleted
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
>Thanx
>Michael J. Burke
>cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>
Two of my cats are named Dillinger and J. Edgar Hoover (no, he doesn't wear my
underwear around :-)). I got Dillinger first and named him because he used to
take money (bills) out of my purse and run off with them. When I got Hoover I
took my time naming him. I noticed that he seemed to bond really well with
Dillinger so I finally named him J. Edgar Hoover because he arrested John
Dillinger.
Stacie, Dillinger, Hoover, Chelsea, Edward and Sam, the totally cowed by four
cats big dog.
Mary Lou Kenny
> What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
> these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
My 6:
Lucky (black cat) -- named by my SO's father -- real unusual :-) !
Fraidy -- fits her name (semi-feral). My friend named her because as a
kitten
was frightened at her reflection in a mirror
Sparky -- I wanted to name her Spunky because she's so stubborn, but my SO
thought it had bad connotations, so we settled on Sparky
Grey Bear -- she's grey, she looked like a bear as a kitten
Sam I Am -- does not like green eggs & ham :-)
Murphy Brown -- a black cat whose kitten fur was brownish. We sometimes
call her
"Mur-flea" because she was rescued from a Goodwill bin at approx. 8
weeks
old and we got over 75 fleas off the poor thing.
not so unusual, I guess, but they're all mine and I love them!!
When I was a kid in the early 1960's, we adopted a cat we named Caroline
(after JFK's daughter) -- our last name is Kenny. She had kittens, one we
named "Maynard" after the character on the Dobie Gillis show -- facial
markings looked like a goatee!
Meow!
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mlk
Kalynnda Berens
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
>Thanx
>Michael J. Burke
>cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>
My 13.5 lb black and white "formal" cat was given the name "Twilight"
because he's part dark/part light--and Dawn just didn't fit his
male dignity. :-)
Of course, he also answers to "Blubber-wimp", which is much more
descriptive of him. (Of course, he'll come running if you call out
"TUNA", too. Cats.)
--Kalynnda
Carol Reed
three socks, one with a hole in it, and a shoe
i call her socks for short.
the other two are tribble cuase she looked like a star trek
tribble when i got her and hedi, short for butthead because
she butted her head (gently, of course) into everything when
she was a kitten before she would smell it or anything! weird!
Harvey Bernstein
developed an intestinal disorder. This caused her to frequently deposit
large (sometimes longer than her) smelly deposits in her litter box
several times a day. She immediately picked up the new name of Trots, and
was known as Trots till the day she died.
TGB
erin rebecca miller
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
Well, we found our male kitten by the side of a highway. He was 5 weeks
old and the vet estimated by his state of malnutrition that he had
probably been on his own for about a week. Apart from having many maladays
(respiratory infection, ringworm, more fleas than fur and Feline Leukemia)
he rejuvinated pretty quickly. However for the first week he wouldn't
leave his food bowl for more than five minutes. He would stop playing and
go back to check and make sure the food was still there and have a bite,
then go play and then stop and go check on the food, etc.
We figured Oliver was a pretty good name for a little boy
abandoned at such a young age with a voracious appetite. "Please sir
may I have some more?" 8-).
erin
& Oliver (moggy maine coon) and Jack (american eskie)
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MJ Pickering
> What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
> these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
Raglan - named after a surfing beach/alternative community in NZ. We've
never been there, but it's a tribute to one of our best friends who loves
it. His (the cat's) middle name is Te Rauparaha, which is the name of a
maori chief who wrecked havoc amongst the english in the last century in
NZ. Raglan wrecks havoc in our house.
Anzac (can you tell we're from New Zealand?) stands for Australian New
Zealand Army Corp. This is the name of the combined force that fought
together in the first two world wars and took a beating at Gallipoli
because of some English git of a general who sent them in to die. Cheerful
huh? We celebrate Anzac Day (like Memorial Day) in NZ and it is also my
birthday so it seemed appropriate.
Two very NZ names for two American cats. They suit them though (Raglan's a
boy, Anzac's a girl. My SO and I decided long ago that if we had children,
we'd give the girl my last name and a boy his, so that's the way our kits
are too). When we're not sure who's done what and when they're both being
tutus (pains in the you know what), we call them Ranzac.
MJ
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Anzac and Raglan's Mom.
Bob Allison
are sometimes called. For example, a cat might be named Frederick, but a
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A friend has 11 cats, all with fairly common names (Heather, Arnie,
Champagne, Tigger, Rusty, Shadow...) but one is named Taxi, so named
so that when people wanted her they would whistle and yell, "Hey! Taxi!"
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Alison Weatherston
>I've been reading a lot here about medical help for cats and quirky
>little stories about cats, now I want to know something.
>My cat was named before I got him. I had heard that it is an old
>superstition that to change a pet's name is bad luck. So I kept his name.
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>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>Thanx
>Michael J. Burke
>cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
We adopted Elvis when he was a year and a half old. His previous owners
had given him the truly horrible (IMO) name of Nermal, the terminally
cute kitten from the Garfield comic strip. My SO and I sat in the
livingroom calling out different names to the cat, who sat there, his back
to us, grooming himself. When Dean yelled "Elvis", he turned around and
meowed at us, so it stuck. Elvis is 5 now and answers to his name.
BTW, he's not named after Elvis Presley, he's named after a gorilla in
an old Bugs Bunny cartoon, the one where a drunken stork loses a baby
gorilla and delivers Bugs instead. Of course, this hasn't stopped
Dean from writing "Elvis On Tour" in black magic marker all over his
cat carrier. I sure get some strange looks at the vet's office.
Bogart, the new kitty, kinda looks like Humphrey Bogart would if he was
a 3-month-old kitten. :)
Alison, Elvis and Bogart (& Dean too, I guess)
Cherish E. Bauer
barely fit on his head and of course were infested with ear mites). A day or
two after we got him, he put his ears to the sides and looked almost exactly
like Yoda from the Star Wars Trilogy. We had also considered naming him Radar.
:-) Our biggest fear is that he will grow into his ears, but I somehow doubt
he will. :)
A_A <----Note, drawing is not proportional to actual cat:
('.') Ears are larger than those represented here.
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guess what, he started to terrorize my friend's other 3 adult cats, one of
which is a huge Siamese.
So she had to find him an owner - or him to own
someone rather - he now owns the house, we have to put up with his habits and
he terrorises anybody who dares to stay in our apartment. Once a few friends
stayed over, he basically turned their stuff upside down and destroyed one
expensive silk dress.
We really gave him a name that suits his nature - Adolf.
Janice
Laurie Fagundes
name is Alamo. We named her that in anticipation of the following exchange
(which much to my pleasure has happened quite a few times):
Friend: What's your dog's name?
Me: Alamo
Friend Alamo?
Me: Yes, you remember the Alamo?
Well, it amuses me anyway.
Laurie
Nancy A Howells
Last summer, my husband and I added a third cat to our house. He was
just a wee kitten then, but when we got him in the car, in his
carrier, he let out a meow that was so loud, it was amazing. It was
low, had presence, and hasn't changed one bit when he chooses to be
loud (he has a smaller meow which he uses on occasion as well).
We named him Foghorn. Reason obvious.
--Nancy
(with Foghorn, Cody and Teak as well as Bruce, the hairless cat)
Marie
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>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
>Thanx
>Michael J. Burke
>cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>
well...... my parents have quite a few cats, some of which have several names
(different people in the house have different names for them)
we have a little black bobtail named Spazmanian Devil (Spaz for short) because
when she was a kitten she would tear around the house like crazy..and still
does.
We have another named Gizmo/Bug, the Gizmo is because as a kitten his ears
were just way too large for the rest of him, and because of it he strangely
resembled a certain gremlin. (He grew into his ears, he is now a very large
cat)
Clarkie was a stray kitten I found on campus here at Clark University and I
took her in. My father likes to call her Proffessor, "she's our only cat that
went to college" <g>
Lucky is solid black. The name Lucky is not uncommon, but because many think
that black cats are unlucky...
King Tut - he thinks he rules the place, but all the other cats just play
along. (he looks big, but he's just a fluffball)
Nuisance- she came with the name, just a little indication of what the
previous owners thought of her.
The kitten I'm getting this weekend is Ripley, nickname- brok-a-neck, because
she is so small she looks up and her neck is bent way back, and her head sort
of bobs a little when she does it.
The kitten's sister is named Ajax, nickname- dirtbike, because the way she
skids when she runs around corners.
-Marie
Jane Kather Edelman
my cats name is FIFA! We all like soccer in my family so when we got our
second cat we named her after the Federation International Football
Association if you look on any soccer ball you will see those four letters.
JKE
(Beez)
Carrie Eager
Col. Khmer LaZee- aka "Stupid"
I was about eight when I named my cats. My father is a geologist and
geography professor so and I though Czechoslovakia and Khmer were cool
names cuz they were spelled weird (-8
As you can tell from the codes...I am a little more down to earth...okay,
so Jake is a girl.
Carrie
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> We adopted Elvis when he was a year and a half old...My SO and I sat in the
> to us, grooming himself. When Dean yelled "Elvis", he turned around and
> meowed at us, so it stuck. Elvis is 5 now and answers to his name.
We used to have an Elvis, too, a beautiful grey tabby with white. He
got named because he was a wanderer, and we could ask each other, "Have
you seen Elvis?"
Now we have Angel-eyes, who is named after the assassin played by Lee
Van Cleef in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (which we rented the
night we got the kittens), and Annapurna, who is named after her
kittenhood habit of climbing people as though they were mountains.
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James Walker
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>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
Less than a day after I got my 8-week-old black-and-white kitten,
my brother came up with a name for him - Hecubus. If you've ever
seen The Kids in the Hall, you'll know that Hecubus is the pasty-faced,
black-clad EVIL manservant to Sir Simon, and is "one who could be the
very spawn of Satan himself".
He has lived up to this name, clawing and biting at night (which he has
thankfully stopped), getting into closets if the doors are even slightly
ajar, chewing through string-like things (so far, he has ruined: the
grounding wire and antenna on my stereo, the laces on a new pair of
hiking boots, and a telephone cord), completely destroying any
newspapers or plastic bags that happen to be on the floor or any
flat surface he can get to, killing a budding house plant and scattering
its remains across the apartment, and pulling down everything off of
a tall bookcase. He's getting less evil as time goes on. I can't wait till
he gets out of kittenhood.
James and Hecubus
PS The roommate of an ex-SO has a cat named Aspirin for reasons unknown.
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Felina
>
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
>Thanx
>Michael J. Burke
I have a friend who has 2 cats both with unusual names. One is a longhair
Siamese named Venus and a hug orange tabby named Pumpkinhead. My
own cats are named Sheba (creative, not), Zoe, and Sid. Sheba is a black
longhair female, Zoe is a female calico, and Sid is a gray and white tabby
with an attitude. I named him after Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
>cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>
Felina
Nicole Okun
> >
> > What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up
> with
> > these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
> >
>
I've named a few cats in my time, and some of the more unusual are these:
1) Help (noise this cat made calling from a ditch)
2) The Shadow Nose (all we saw of this barn kitten for a long time)
3) Piefke (a Berlin-German word for someone who's not that bright -- this
cat got hit in the head with a BMW at an early age)
4) J. Walter Underfoot (self explanatory, really)
5) Blondini (what the local Italians call my blond husband -- this was a
blond male cat)
6) Albertus Maximus (he was BIG)
7) Long John Silver (LJ for short, this stray cat had a bad limp and was
blind in one eye)
8) Miss Peggy Legg (long story, but a bandaged front leg figures in it)
9) Point and No-Point (2 half Siamese kittens)
Piefke still lives with us. (As does Blitz, who's approaching his first
birthday.) I miss the others and think back fondly on the days when we
rented a rambling old house on the farm and took in ALL the barn cats, had
them spayed and neutered and generally fixed up anything that needed fixing
-- no wonder we were always broke -- both unemployed and all those cats!
(There were a bunch more with ordinary names like Eddie, Marmalade,
Cruiser, Momcat, Motley, etc.)
These days we are richer in money, poorer in cats.... Well, not MUCH richer
in money -- we have a five-year-old human ;) (who likes to pretend he's a
cat)....
Michiyo Shinoda
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>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
Not a very unusual name, but I had a kitten that we named June... oh
about 10 years ago. She was a tortoise-shell, and was found by my
dad's secretary in the rain. The vet estimated her to be about 6
weeks old -- making her birthday sometime in June; thus the origin of
her name. Sadly, she died a year later (accidently licked up some
weed killer when she ran outside)... in the month of June.
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Geez, everybody's posting to this thread (mostly with good cause
;) ) and I wanna join in.
Molly is probably not a terribly unusual cat name (well it seems
there are a few others here on rpc) but the way she got her name is!
Having been a surprise birthday present from my sister who had
decided that since I liked her cat so much it was time I had one of my own
I was initially quite stumped for a name having had no time to think of
anything. After considering a few possibilities though I started to
gravitate towards Molly for some mysterious reason. It was the name of a
character in the book I was reading at the time: Neuromancer by William
Gibson. Molly was a dangerous woman who had razor knives implanted in her
fingers as well as eyes that were surgically augmented to give her
superior vision. The author never said outright that she was catlike but
it percolated through. The fun thing was that it hit me after I named her.
:)
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Scott Dann
>In article <2qr244$f...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Michael
>James Burke) wrote:
>
>> What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up with
>> these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
We originally rescued two cats from the shelter, and carried them home
in their cardboard carriers via public transport. One of them shredded
the inside of the box, while the other just stuck her nose out of the
holes. Thus we called them Scratch and Sniff!
Since then, we have been given another cat (an overactive choc. point
Siamese) who grabs any small thing that is laying around and carries it
about for a while. Or puts it under some large piece of furniture...
Anyway, her name is Snatch! Hmm......
For better or worse, the names have stuck.
SD
Michelle Demopoulos
Fud - Pronounced as it seems, but based on an incorrect spelling of
food (she can't get enough) &
Cockroach - because when I catch her scuttling around on the
counter-tops she bears a striking resemblance to a furry
one.
Ellen Savyon
down and got one for her husband who has put up with her 2 cats,
presently weighing just under 20 lbs each!).
They named the puppy Edgar (ugh) and a few weeks later (after the
puppy learned its name) found out that the 'he' was a 'she'!
Ellen
Nancy A. Turner
After a trip to Eastern Europe we got two cats just to name them Buda-
and -Pest. They really lives up to their names: one was fat & rotund,
the other was extremely obnoxious.
Currently we own two cats named Binford (named after a famous
archaeologist who is large, brash and indignant - again the name fits
perfectly) and Moki (after a trip to the Hopi area in the Southwest).
-Nancy
Kelly (the wonder chemist)
a PhD in Physical Chemistry -- which has much to do with
Quantum Mechanics, for one. Plus there is Erwin
Schroedinger's famous (well, in chem and physics..) cat in
a box thought experiment. Plus Frederick Pohl wrote a novel
called _The Coming of the Quantum Cats_ which had to do with
alternate timelines created by quantum fluctuations.
But mostly it was becuase when he was a kitten he seems to go
from point A to point B without ever being in between -- hence his
motion was quantized. Since he's a big cat now (16 lbs) his motion
is more classical than quantal. :-)
He also has a habit of being in 'forbidden energy levels' in the house --
like the tops of shelves and cabinets...
Kelly, owned and operated by Quantum.
Mortis
I don't know what was going through my head. :)
So when I got my new kitty about a year ago, I decided to get a more
appropriate name. She was nameless for about a week before we settled
on Cypress. She's a black kitty, with lethal claws. Cypress, according
to old supertitions, is symbolic of death. What better name for my
psychotic little cat who likes to hide under the furniture and leap out
to shred one's ankles. :)
Though in retrospect, I might have named her "Caoineag", which is a name
for a Scottish banesidhe also called "The Little Weeper". (Kitty is not
a *quiet* pet. :)
Of course, my husband refers to her alternately as "Raptor" and "D*mned
Furry Speedbump". <grin>
:the Lady Cessair
mcmu...@cobra.uni.edu
> birthday.) I miss the others and think back fondly on the days when we
> rented a rambling old house on the farm and took in ALL the barn cats, had
> them spayed and neutered and generally fixed up anything that needed fixing
> -- no wonder we were always broke -- both unemployed and all those cats!
> (There were a bunch more with ordinary names like Eddie, Marmalade,
> Cruiser, Momcat, Motley, etc.)
>
> These days we are richer in money, poorer in cats.... Well, not MUCH richer
> in money -- we have a five-year-old human ;) (who likes to pretend he's a
> cat)....
>
>
Growing up on a farm, we always had tons of barn cats.. Never on purpose,
they'd just keep showing up.. One time due to some rather extensive hunting
by the local bobcats we found ourselves down to just one female and 3 male
cats.. since this was a managable number of cats, I took them in and got them
fixed. Still cost a pretty penny at the time.. During the week while they
recovered THREE stray female cats came and had kittens 2 on or in our porch the
other in our well-house... Can't win for losing....
diana
Anne E. Bevilacqua
wrote:
The first cat _my_ family had was Horace Van der Gelder, named after the
character in _Hello, Dolly_. At least, that was his official name; my
mother called him Boo Boo Kitty (the stuffed cat on "Laverne and Shirley").
Looks like my mother was closer to the mark -- Horace got pregnant.
My mother has a talent for cat names, actually ... since then, we've had
Killer, Melvin and Tyrone ... but I drew the line at my current feline. I
wanted to name him Dudley Pippin after a children's story. She was set on
Shithead.
Her second choice was Chlamydia.
I think I'll do the naming from now on.
B) ANNE
Ruth Milner
>My cat has 2 names depending on her behaviour and my mood
>Fud - Pronounced as it seems, but based on an incorrect spelling of
> food (she can't get enough) &
From the Far Side by Gary Larson. :-) I *think* the original shows a dog
trying to catch a cat using a baited trap labelled "Cat Fud". We generally
refer to it in this manner when discussing the shopping list, and pronounce
"Fud" to rhyme with "hood". :-)
--
Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
Manager of Computing Systems rmi...@aoc.nrao.edu
Daniel K. Jarrell
cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu writes:
>The female I was really original with on the name -- Callie. However, my
>other is a more creative -- Useless. He fits his name too.
>
>What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up
with
>these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
My wife (Kay) picked up a cat at the Humane Society. Her first owners
had to give her up because the baby was allergic (to the cat not my
wife). The name on the cage was Callie. Because of a distinct tortise
shell patch of fur Kay wanted to rename her Bishamon after a
tortise-shell needlepoint design from Japan. I checked my dictionary and
found that tortise shell is bekko in Japanese. So her cat now answers to
Bekko.
My cat (15 years and counting) is named after a character in Katherine
Kurtz's Deryni books. I called her Jehanna because she was magic and
didn't know it.
(Kay's first cat was named Kelson-after Jehanna's son.)
Dan Jarrell
(looking forward to kitty cuddles after a hard day at work.)
---------------------------------------------------------
Alexander Macintosh of Islay- Archers don't use duct tape
Argue for your limitations and Sure enough they're yours.
Richard Bach, Illusions
Saraionn foighne an chinniuint
just likes the sound of his own voice. Since he was a stray and hung around
for a while before I officially let him in, the people in the rest of the
triple decker know him as well. The people on the first floor call him
"Hobo", the woman on the second floor calls him "Blackie".
Even though my second cat was/is very small cat, she *thumps* to the
ground when she jumps off something or goes down the stairs and has no grace
whatsoever. Thus was born "Elephant Cat" (Ellie for short).
They also get called "the bad cat and the smart cat" (who's bad, but knows
enough not to get caught).
One morning when I was dropping Elephant off at the vet's, another woman was
dropping her cat off at the same time. She gave me a strange look when the
receptionist asked if I was dropping off "Elephant". I got the last laugh when
I found out the name of her cat: Boo-boo.
Beth
Andrew Peed
Mischief -- it was appropriate in his kittenhood, but is less so now
that he's a (13-month-old) mature, dignified cat, thank
you very much.
Pixel -- after the title character of The Cat Who Walked Through Walls,
by Robert Heinlein.
Other cats in my family's history:
Taffety -- originally "Taffeta", but ...
Trillium -- she trilled. 'nuf said.
Hershey -- he was a gorgeous chocolate brown.
Magnum -- as in champagne (his color).
Magnifi -- A classic Siamese, and the one pun-name that my mother
ever came up with:
Me: "What's his name?"
Ma: "Magnifi."
Me: "WHAT?"
Ma: "He's a Magnifi-cat."
Me: "OOoog."
Friar Tuck -- in monkish grey
Felicity -- Friar Tuck's twin.
Sylvester -- He looked exactly like the Warner Bros. character,
and was a comic to boot.
Hercule -- for Hercule Poirot, complete with a very meticulous
mustache.
Imp -- and he was, too.
Pipsissewa -- after the striped plant of the same name.
Tigru -- Rumanian for "tiger"
Tricolor(e?) -- with the French pronunciation. Calico.
Soit -- another French name. I forget the meaning.
Penumbra -- as in the shaded region surrounding a sunspot
Brulee -- as in Creme Brulee. A smoke-point siamese.
Toasty -- a tabby point siamese.
the list goes on, and on, and on, and on...
-- Andy
John F. Shampton
Temmoku (shortened to Moku) after the Japanese stoneware glaze
with the same characteristics.
Our 17 1/2 lb. tonky is officially named Figaro (after the Barber of
Seville -- the idiots we rescued him from shaved him to keep
the shedding down!) but for obvious reasons he's usually referred
to as The Moose.
Natasha Ivanovna, a russian blue (of course) answers to Tasha.
They all answer to the can opener.
DrJohn
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John F. Shampton, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
sham...@onramp.net (214)579-5787 FAX: (214)985-9293
TWU pays my tolls on the Infohiway. Where I go is up to me.
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Todd Hawley
>>Champagne, Tigger, Rusty, Shadow...) but one is named Taxi, so named
>>so that when people wanted her they would whistle and yell, "Hey! Taxi!"
Well, I don't feel so bad about this one..when I was a kid in the early
60s, Sunkist used to make popsicle sticks..well we had this orange
long-haired tabby named "Orange Popsicle"..over the yrs it became Popsicle.
One of my mom's friends had a cat named Skim Milk (don't know where they
got the name). Before I was born, my folks had a cat named "Mossner"
(short for "monster"). My ex-neighbors had a black-and-white cat named
Oreo. I used to call her..using the chorus from Wizard of
Oz..OR-RE-O..YOOOO..OR-RE-O..YO.OO! :)
-th
Karen Smith
Our two cats were named more-or-less by accident as I was only 10 at the
time. Holly and Jingles were christmas kittens, and the names seemed more
than appropriate, especially Jingles...who is completely gray/blue/silvery
in color-just the color of a jingle bell. Her nickname is "Jing Jing" and
Holly, who is my devoted one, is nicknamed "baby".
Our friends had a siamese for years and years named Tai Kai.
We also housed three strays for a year or so while we lived in the
Philippines, and called them Thief (the all-black one...my personal
favorite name), Cinnamon (a brown striped one) and Pusa, the mutt-black and
white and all sorts of small bits of other colors...pusa was the word for
cat in Tagalog, one of the Filipino dialects. Unfortunately we had to
leave them behind when we moved back, but they are well cared for and now
and then we even get pictures!
Karen
Trudi Marrapodi
seal points and a creamy body that has become browner and browner
as the years go by, he looked, as a kitten, like a Kahlua-and-cream
when it hasn't been stirred for a while and the Kahlua begins to
separate from the cream and collect at the bottom of the glass.
My family had two different cats as I was growing up. The first was
named Kikken because at the time we got her, my baby sister (who is
28, married and pregnant now...how time flies) couldn't say
"kitten." Everyone in the house tried to get that cat to come to
some name when called (the original was "Smoky Gray," because she
was a gray-and-white Maine Coon). She wouldn't answer to anything
until little Krissy called to her "Kikken!" She came running. That
was it.
After Kikken went to cat heaven we got Rhiannon, another Maine Coon
(this one with some brown, including "half a mustache" on one side
of the nose). Rhiannon was named for the Fleetwood Mac song. Too
bad she turned out to be a he. Not that he cared. He went to his
grave as Rhiannon, at the ripe old age of 15. It was probably
illegal but Kris and her husband buried him in their backyard. For
me, it's nice knowing I can visit them and know where they put him.
My mother and my older sisters (with her at home) are now the
keepers of two minxes named Dylan and Duchesnay. I don't remember
how they told me Dylan got her name, but Duchesnay was named after
the brother-and-sister ice dancers Isabelle and Paul Duchesnay.
Dylan is more of a shorthaired gray tabby and Duchesnay is more of
a Maine Coon type, or at least a longhair. A black-and-tan-and-gray
brindle on white. I'll be visiting them over Memorial Day weekend--
can't wait! I didn't grow up with these two like I did with Kikken
and Rhiannon, so they still think I'm a stranger at first when I
come to visit them from two states away, but they'll come around!
As for nicknames--endless. Kikken used to get "Me Too Funny One"
because whenever you had food, she mewed as if to say "Me too!"
Rhiannon got Rini, Yanna, Yanna-Boy, you name it (I used to love it
when my mother called him "big fat nothing" or "Nonafutsky").
Kahlua gets Lua, Lou, Louis, Angel Dove (don't ask why!), Sugar Bee
(another don't ask why!), and for some reason, Pooty (or Poots). If
I listed all the names my sisters have called Dylan and Duchesnay,
I'd use up all the bandwidth in the world. They made a list one
time and it must have been two feet long. Usually I just call them
Stripey and Brindle.
Trudi Marrapodi
tam...@rit.edu
(my first post--I've been lurking longtemps!)
Benjamin Lewis
my brother and I were in high school, and gave them the honor of
naming whatever new additions to our household came along.
Xavier, a summer exchange student from France, named our scrawny
black and white cat `Schtroumpf,' which is apparently the french
word for Smurf. We're not exactly sure why he picked that,
except that Schtroumpf was pretty small at the time.
A stray that I picked up while working at a hotel at Lake Tahoe
(she was abandoned on the roof by her mother at 3 weeks) was named
`Karumi' by our Japanese exchange student. I understand that this
is a fairly common cat name in Japan, where we're told it means
something along the lines of "almond." I had to leave Karumi
with my parents after I brought her back to Indiana on the
plane, as I was in college, and wasn't allowed pets in my
apartment. She is now an enormous monster cat, and it's hard
to believe that I spent endless hours feeding her with an eye-
dropper (not to mention almost all of my earnings from the summer
taking her to the vet and bringing her back in the passenger cabin).
We made the mistake (both times!) of not having the exchange students
write down the spelling of the names, so please forgive me if we've
managed to mis-spell them.
-Ben (ble...@vet.vet.purdue.edu)
ez04...@dale.ucdavis.edu
cats, so we finally broke down and bought a baby name book. Consequently,
I've been (temporarily) owned by: Ashton, Ashley, Gwendolyn, Isabel,
Arthur, Murrey, Nightshade, Rigby, Cecily, Coco, Aphrodite, Isis, Henry,
Oscar, Mr. Wonderful, Jessa, Molly, Fiona, Oliver, Violet, Sophie, Brady,
Katie, and several others whose names escape me at present. My parents
live with Gretchen and Abagail, my sister with George and Emily, my other
sister with Anthony and Carson, and I am permanently owned by Rebecca and
Sebastian.
Jennifer
Sheryl Stover
sometimes as much fun as "official" names... Hemingway earned his official
moniker by virtue of being silver-blue, extremely serious-looking, and
neutered :) but I soon learned that his serious expression was just a ruse
designed to lull me into thinking it wasn't him who ate all the ferns out
of my flower arrangements or patiently dismantled my entire CD and tape
collections while I was out. Hence, hearing 'Hemingway' called in the
house is rare, but 'Booger!' is a bit of a mantra. :)
--
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Sheryl Stover (& Hemingway & Clio) = sst...@bach.seattleu.edu
And I run in the rain til I'm breathless/When I'm breathless I run til I drop
- Led Zeppelin, "Fool In The Rain"
Linda McKinley
every year our mom farm cat (Wheezie, she had asthma and wheezed all
the time) had a litter of kittens, and ALWAYS had one who looked like
it was suppose to be white, but got dirty somewhere in the process of
birthing. Needless to say, none of the Dirty's ever lived. Then this
last spring ('93), Wheezie had a very small litter (only 2) and the
other one died, and "Dirty" lived!!!! I HAD to bring him into the
house and make a house cat out of him. I'm so glad that I did,
because, we have not been able to find Wheezie this spring (I think she
died, she was VERY old--like maybe 90's in people years). Now, in
looking through a cat book, Dirty looks like a blue point himalyan, and
you can see why he's call "Dirty".
Linda McKinley
Rochester, MN
Sam Streeper
Angst was moody.
-sam
Phyllis Gilmore
I had my first cat at age 8. I called her Apache--she was a B&W, with
white around one eye and black (partway) around the other. So, like
a pirate, she had a "patch"--hence A-patch-ee = Apache.
My second cat was Sunee (rough spelling on my part), a blue-point
Siamese whom I named for a Thai exchange student I knew in high
school.
Her "sister" was Talitha, which is "little girl" in Aramaic (gleaned
from a Bible translation).
My parent's old cat was a gray tabby--their "gray son," therefore
Grayson.
After all that, Andy (recently gone to his reward), Pookie, and
Maggie seem all kinds of boring, huh? On the other hand, their
"real" names are Lord Andrew Gilmore, Sir James Pookwood, and
Princess Margaret (stuffy British pronunciations recommended).
I'm just the chatelaine around here.
Phyllis
Joy Linn
Bounce, a large seal point siamese - I wasn't involved in naming
him, he was my baby when my sister was born :) (one way to dilute
sibling rivalry I guess).
The next was Fleur, a regal blue-point. Her kennel name was
L'Aube Joyeuse, French for Joyous Dawn (my name is Joy, sister
is Dawn!). She enjoyed eating flowers so I think Fleur was
quite appropriate.
Her companion was Lys, a cute, petite, seal point. She was
Lys for the French Fleur de Lys. Hence we had Fleur and
Lys! We would joke about getting a third cat, "de"!
Now, I live with Catalina, a too-cute tabby. Catalina got
her name from Arizona. I was born in Arizona but didn't live
there (or anywhere else for that matter) very long. From
traveling and living around the world I sort of clung to
Arizona - somewhere I had a claim to. So, I got a map of
Arizona and read through the names of the towns to see if
any seemed appropriate for cat names.
So, Catalina, has nothing to do with her being a cat, really.
Although she never did grow in to her name at 7.5 lbs.
My long, varied, list of cat names and how they came about.
Joy
Sharyn Naismith
[snip]
> The female I was really original with on the name -- Callie. However,
> my other is a more creative -- Useless. He fits his name too.
>
> What I want to know is other unusual names and maybe how you came up
> with these names. Nothing special, I'm just nosy like my cats.
>
> Michael J. burke
> cum...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
We got our two kittens from the Humane Society. The people there were
really adamant about following up on the animals they adopted out, so
they called us to find out what we were going to name them. I told them
that we named the female "Otoko No Hito No Ichiban Ii Tomodachi,"
(Japanese for "Man's Best Friend" or something close to that) and we
named the male "Boggs." She thought I was being a smart a**. Heheh
As it turns out, Tomo (we shortened it) definitely lives up to her
name--cuddly, smurgling, happy baby--while Boggs is sort
of...well...Boggs-like.
-----
Sharyn Naismith
and Tomo and Boggs
David Thomas
Best Bombay, in my lap.
Wendy Klamm, a Francophone allbreed judge, asked, "what
did you say her name was"?
"Aubergine".
"C'est demange", she replied.
--
David Thomas (da...@micro.ti.com)
Texas Instruments, Houston (713)-274-2347
Dean Inada
NAOMILACEYY RUSH
>From: Daniel K. Jarrell <jar...@engin.umich.edu>
>Subject: Re: Unusual Cat Names
>Date: 17 May 1994 19:03:14 GMT
Um ....
we've had ....
JACK
MICKEY
MOPSY (okay okay - not that unusual)
TREACLE
CURRANT
DAISY
GORDON
MINNIE
MOUSETRAP
WARREN
THREEPENCE
PC (for pussy cat)
C.A.T. (prounouced ceeaytee)
um ...
who else?
SQUEAKS
BUBBLES
TRUMPET
anyhow, that'll do
...
our doggies are called Eli and Hannah ...
Tonia Lorenz
> Irving (because the lady I got him from lived on Irving Park Road);
> Mitch (after baseball pitcher Mitch Williams, a/k/a "The Wild Thing,"
because she was so *strange* when she was a kitten. She got the last
laugh, though, when we found out she was a *female*, so now her official
name is "Mitch-Elizabeth");
> Misha (another case of mistaken gender identity! Luckily his name is
suitable for either sex.)
My family once had a kitten that my sister got to name when she was five,
so till the end of his days he was "Softy Jello-Sweet").
My friends have the best name, though. Their cat is Meiko ("Mike-O"),
which is Japanese for "Dancing Girl" (or literally, a geisha whose talent
is dancing).
--
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Tonia in Chicago E-mail: tlo...@interaccess.com
"Life's essential joys -- receiving love, returning it and reading
baseball box scores." -- George Will
Martha Cather
kitten. The vet said no, just an underfed cat. He was tiny, gray, very
uncoordinated, and ugly....just a little fart of a cat. I always regretted
that name though, when I would go out and call him home for the night.
Also had Nina (with tilde), Pinta--calico manx sisters-found on Columbus day
Bob, Elsa--tabby manxes Bob looked like a real bobcat, elsa after the lioness
Pancho, Lefty, -- after the song
Reno (after a job my husband didn't take)
Negrita (obvious--she was black and tiny)
Harlequin (white and black, looked like a clown)
Barney (who was supposed to live in the barn, but quickly became a house cat)
Casey (no reason at all, just a name)
Tail and No-tail--neighbors cats who live in my barn. They are brother and
sister, and one is a manx and one isn't.
Martha
Sebastien Joanis
The first one was named Curry, after Marie Curry, the one who discovered
radioactivity. My cat was certainly radioactive at the beginning! Haha!
Then 1 month later I got 2 more kittens, at about one week interval. The
place was a war site. Curry of course didn't like the new comers and he let
it know. They fought like crazy in the middle of the night for about 1-2
weeks. Then because the 2 little ones got all the attension (kittens are so
cute and lively), Curry got into a depression. Read the book _How To Get Your
Cat To Do What You Want_ by Warren Eckstein.
I don't have these cats anymore and my appartment now looks decent and doesn't
smell anymore (!). But as soon as I get into my house I'll get another little
furry ball.
SJ.
gll...@leeds.ac.uk
>From: david@parsifal (David Thomas)
>Subject: Re: Unusual Cat Names
>"Aubergine".
I look after two Somali tom-cats. They are called Flip and Flop! Not
very original, but I think they may have been given those names by their
owners' grandchildren . Flip is also known as Green Collar or Rosebud,
Flop is known as Blue Collar or Muppet.
And I love them very much!
Dr. Jane Susanna Ennis
Dept. of German
University of Leeds
U.K.
Diana
Sebastien Joanis <Sebastie...@f257.n163.z1.fidonet.org> wrote:
>Two years ago I had 3 little kittens raging around in my 4-room appartment.
>The first one was named Curry, after Marie Curry, the one who discovered
>radioactivity. My cat was certainly radioactive at the beginning! Haha!
>
I don't really intend this as a flame, but I have to say I'm amazed
that anyone could so completely misspell the name of someone they
hold in enough regard to name pets (or anything) after. That spelling
doesn't even convey the correct pronunciation.
It's Marie _Curie_
Diana
--
It should be against the law for anyone born after 1970
to wear tie-die.
---Stephen K. Baum
Laura Johnston
> In article <76987493...@rochgte.fidonet.org>,
> Sebastien Joanis <Sebastie...@f257.n163.z1.fidonet.org> wrote:
> >Two years ago I had 3 little kittens raging around in my 4-room appartment.
> >The first one was named Curry, after Marie Curry, the one who discovered
> >radioactivity.
> >
> <munch>
>
> It's Marie _Curie_
And she discovered _radium_. Unfortunately, she didn't discover
radioactivity until she was diagnosed with radiation sickness, of which
she subsequently died.
Laura
--
Laura Johnston co...@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
"The American public knows what it wants--something stupid--and
it's not easily fooled." Roy Blount Jr.
Insect God
They laughed when he was a tiny Siamese, but at 18 pounds, it suits him.
And it's all muscle.
-Sheba
James Canning
suits her.
Andrew Street (No Reading MS 96)
In a previous article, J...@UNB.CA (James Canning) says:
> My cat's name is Loki, which is the Norse god of mischeif and destruction..It
>suits her.
>
>My old cat was named Bougie. Which I think mis the wrong way to spell the
Polish word for underwear. (Don't sue me if I'm wrong :-) )
--
Andy Street
ast...@k12.ucs.umass.edu
Phillips Acadamy RULES!
In the words of Billy Grant: Announcement! I am your king. That will be all.
Kimberly Long
The newest addition to my family has bee aptly named Fubar....need I say more?
;-)
Namaste'
Kimberly Long
sib...@usis.com
Pamela Kock
> My cat's name is Loki, which is the Norse god of mischeif and destruction..It
> suits her.
>
>
>
Hey! That's exactly what I was going to name one of my cats, but my
husband didn't like it, so we named him Merlin instead. And though he is
mischevious as a cat can be, he is also _magical_. :-)
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Deborah Sparck
Pamela Kock <pk...@iac.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 1994, James Canning wrote:
>
> > My cat's name is Loki, which is the Norse god of mischeif and
destruction..It
> > suits her.
> >
> >
> >
> Hey! That's exactly what I was going to name one of my cats, but my
> husband didn't like it, so we named him Merlin instead. And though he is
> mischevious as a cat can be, he is also _magical_. :-)
I've got a Loki too! He's all black, and he used to be very mischevious, but
not anymore, unfortunately. (not at 23 lbs) It's a great name!
--
Deborah Sparck Adobe Systems, Inc. Take my advice,
spa...@mv.us.adobe.com I'm not using it.
Beth Rosenberg
typical cat-mischief spirit.
Tim Rauworth
he adores my speakers! ;)