How did your kitty get its name?

[DJFyrewolf36]

I'm sure this has been asked about a billion times before but I'm curious so I have to ask. How did your kitty get his or her name?

With Remus, it was wierd. I had a dream about going to the shelter and picking up a cat named Remus *the cat in the dream was black though* When I went to the shelter and found my kitty, the name really seemed to fit him!

For some reason, my BIL calls him Kibby *he has since he met Remus * and the name got extended into Kibbyashi Maru *Star trek fans will get this joke *

So "Officially" he is Remus Kibbyashi Maru...but we only call him that when he is being Naw-Tee!

[Lacey]

Oooo! Fun topic! Zelda is actually the name my sweet Zelly-girl had when I adopted her. Since I'm a sucker for old-school NES and happened to love the name, that's the name she kept. And so she is my Princess Zelda!

As for Mowgli, when I first caught him, he was such a wild child that naming him after the main character from The Jungle Book just seemed unbelievably fitting. Though he was almost named Crowley after one of the demon characters from Good Omens.

[Equus217]

My RB Lola was a stray kitten at the vet clinic I was working for in college. They named her "Maple" because the lady who found her and dropped her off ( ) was named Ruth Maple. I thought she deserved a name all her own...and Lola seemed to fit for some reason.

Vegas and Reno, my two shelter kitties were just called lucky #1 and lucky #2 for the first couple of weeks I had them. I thought their names were original and fit the lucky theme.

Fun thread...I can't wait to hear everyone elses!!

[catlover4ever]

I like threads like this...

When I first got married I asked my husband if we could adopt 2 kittens...a boy and a girl. Since I love Winnie the Pooh and the female was a tiger stripe she was named Tigger....her brother, who was almost her twin in the stripe department....was named Tony for Tony the Tiger of Kellog's.

Next came Smokey and because he is completely grey he was named Smokey Joe.

Next was Tucker and because she was a stray and I could not get close to her for quite some time I wanted a name that I felt could apply to either a boy or a girl.

Mystic was supposed to be Merlin....but Merlin turned out to be a girl and therefore no longer applied. Seeing that she is almost entirely black (except for a big white spot on her tummy) I wanted something "witchy"...so Mystic (as in Mystical). Her other name is Flubby Ann....because her tummy is so, shall we say, plush.

Last but certainly NOT least is Abner.......well what can I say about Abner....the name just came to me when I first say him and the name stuck. His full name is Abner James but I also call him Abbey which confuses my mom because Abbey is for a girl.

So that's how my crew got their names.

[Kirsten]

Well, the story behind my girls' names is't very exciting... I guess I just loved the names!

Kirsten

[rpcathouse]

When Jez was a kitten she walk with her butt wiggling back and forth. She looked like a little Jezabelle walking with her tail held high. Her sister Weezie. We named Geez Louise. Because BF walks around the house saying "Gees Louise where is -----?" or something to that effect. Also she was suppose to be a sickly kitten with lung problems and weezed alot. So called her Weezie after a couple of days she stopped weezing. But still call her Weezie. Then Dixie who came from the north of the Mason-Dixon line. I had a name pick out for her but all the way up there I kept seeing Dixie this and Dixie that. So when we arrived she looked like a Dixie. Her full name is Dixie Blaze because she has a blaze.

I will do a few more later.

Stella
This is Jezabelle
This is Dixie

This is Weezie

[Grace]

DUFFY - we wanted a name beginning with D, and by process of elimination came up with Duffy - as in my daffy, Duffy darling.

REESE - I opened the box and saw this pathetic creature and immediately thought Rhesus Monkey. In actuality, I should have thought Capuchin - due to the *cap* of gray on her white head. But it was Rhesus, and REESE she became - instantly. Also known as Miss Priss.

ABBY - Abigail means source of delight. I had her picture on the web before I had her, and she looked like an Abigail. Now she is Abby, or Abby-dabby- doodlebug. And a source of constant delight to us.

GRADY - this is one of those *POOF* cats. He started life up the street, but ended up in our yard last September. They have never missed him; far as I know they have never even looked for him. Anyway, we started out calling him Little Gray - he's charcoal colored. But he grew, and grew, and grew some more. He was used to the sound of *gray* - so became Grady.

RED - a one-eyed stray who wandered into our life last winter. I called him Red because I needed to call him something. Now he's ours, all ours. I tried to change Red to Rudy - he got depressed. I'm working on Ben, as in Big Ben, right now; until then he is Red.

[ChrisH]

From right here on Pet Talk!

After I got her from the shelter I asked Pet Talkers for suggestions, and from a looooong list I got down to a choice of two, Ebeth, from sasvermont, and Ebby, from Cataholic.

And thats how Ebony became Ebby!

Chris

[Desert Arabian]

DUDLEY- Used to be my grandma's kittie, she named him Sir Dudley.
SAMMY- my mom's co-worker has an orange male named Sammy, so we thought we would name ours Sammy, we liked the sound of the name, and felt that it fit his looks and personality.

[kuhio98]

Our Rainbow Bridge kitty (Kuhio) was named for a Hawaiian Prince. Kuhio turned out to be a very prissy girl, but she always acted like royalty.

While we were trying to think of a name of Halo, we would answer "hello" everytime she meowed. That morphed into Halo after a while. If we had thought about it more, we might have called her Hilo to keep our Hawaiian theme going.

Cammie was called Roberta at the shelter. After a few days home, it was obvious that "Roberta" meant nothing to her. We started calling her Cammie (short for camoflage).

We named Pepper after her "peppery" personality. She is full of pep even though she has a profound heart murmur. The vet said she won't have a long life, but evidently no one told her she's supposed to be delicate. She is a non-stop action cat. She only weighs 6 pounds (almost) but she rules the roost. Halo and Cammie give into her because she is so strong willed and persistent.

[rpcathouse]

Ok, time for next 3 cats.
The next boy we went to look at was a brown and white Maine Coon Male he was a cute as could be. And we name him Chino. like a cappuccino with whip cream on top. Well, while we were there we saw his brother a brown tabby. What a cutie he was. So on the way home we tried to talk oursevles out taking 2 kittens. It DIDN'T WORK. So we had to come up with a name. Alfredo, Angelo, Vinnie, you would not what BF was tossing out for suggestions he was suggesting Mutt, Jeff, Aft, Moe Larry or Curly, laural or hardy. He was relentless. But then we remembered Dixie. These kittens will come from Pa. and when we crossed the Mason-Dixon line, into Maryland, we both knew.
His name was Mason. So we had Chino and Mason Brothers
Next came Tyler. The Ocicat. While watching a friends cats while she was on vacation Momma Ocicat had her kittens. (Thought they were not due for another week or so. WRONG! I went to feed and check on all of them went into the bathroom to get water and found a kitten born on the bathroom floor. Well gathered up mom looked for other kittens found none and took them to the vet to make sure they were all right. Told the vet if a girl kitten Tilly if boy Tyler. Well it was Tyler. Mom did have other kittens found them as soon as I bought the mom and Tyler home. They were in a closet with a very tiny opening. A total of 6 healthy kittens. When they were old enough my friend gave me Tyler.
This is Chino

This is Mason

This is Tyler

Stella

[DJFyrewolf36]

Wow, had to comment! Chino is Gorgeous!!!
Youve got some really great looking 'coons there!

[lexibent]

I love fancy cars, and in my younger days I always dreamed that I'd have a black Bentley by the time I was 30. After graduating from college, becoming a teacher, and supporting myself for awhile, I realized that wasn't going to happen for me! So, when I adopted my tiny black kitty, I named him Bentley- therefore fulfilling my dream of having a black Bentley (at only 25!) Then a few years later when I decided to add to my family, I needed an equally regal sounding name, so my precious grey girl was named Alexis. So, at the young age of 27 (and living on a teacher's salary) I had a Bentley and Alexis. (ba dum bum!)

Corny, but what can I say.

[bluekat]

Well, just because my favorite color is blue, and since he's a blue point, we wanted something that started with "Blue" and Blueberry sounded cute

[rpcathouse]

I love it. You got the best when you got Bentley. And then an Alexis. What a great story. And you still have money in the bank.

Stella