How did you get your cats name?

[dontchakit]

I ask because I remeber when I found Mr.Chips, he was just a kitten on the street. I had no idea what to name him so I just waited for a sign or something to give me an idea...

One day I was sitting on the couch eating my favorite potato chips (salt and vinigar) when he jumped on my lap and crawled into the potato chip bag!

I hear crunching sounds and to my surprise...he was eating my chips...soooo from that day forward I named him MR.CHIPS! lol!

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Katie named Brody after Adam Brody in The OC (plays Seth)

[aki]

He just looked like a Chuck to me. I can't 'splain it! LOL

~Aki

[gini]

When Rascal came into my yard, he kept taunting my little calico (R/B).

I kept saying to him - you are such a rascal................so his name became obvious.

When the "twins" from next door decided they wanted to live with me..........I wanted some old fashioned names for the girls - so it became Annie and Emma - and it suits them too.

[elizabethann]

Cosmo was named after the Seinfeld character, Cosmo Kramer.

Maxie was supposed to be Moose but I chose Maxie for some reason. But now he's so fat he looks like a moose....a maxie moose I guess. Oh well. I love them to pieces.

[Glacier]

Ivy and Glacier are both named for the color of their eyes--Ivy's are green like and ivy plant and Glacier's are icy blue.

Kasha arrived named. It actually means cream of wheat in polish, but her first owner told me that she got it out of a fantasy novel. Kasha was a warrior princess in the book!

Onyx is named for black fur. How original of me!

Polly Paws is named for her paws! She's a four paw polydactal. 28 claws in total!

My hubby named Pete. I wanted to call him Pierre, but Stuart said that was dumb and he since he had issues with a Canadian Prime Minister of the same name, he changed it!

Boots was named by the shelter staff and it just stuck.

This is going to sound a little odd, but I believe both Felicia and Beau told me their names. Beau just kept popping into my head when I met him at the shelter(where he had no name and no one knows what his owners called him)

Felicia's name at the shelter was Stardust. One day when I was holding her, I said "that's not your name is it little one?" and as clear as day I heard her say in my mind, "No, I'm Felicia"...and so she is.

[carole]

Ash was named by my then young daughter after Ash on pokemon, he just happens to also be grey like ash, so purrfect, Lexie is the pet form of alexandra and is scottish and named after a character, a beautiful scottish dark haired girl in a scottish tv programme called monarch of the glen, the backyard kitties were already named, Duchess,Victoria and Charles after the royal family, pity their so called owner does not treat them like royalty.

[lldaniels21]

I was looking for a cat from the local animal shelter. I was reading the paper and saw an ad for a cat named Jenna. Well..I went down there the next day to look at her. They already gave her away. I was hooked on that name so when I adopted another cat I gave her the name Jenna.

[Lobodeb]

When Sammy adopted us, Sammy Sosa was the hottest thing in Chicago, whenever we turned on the TV or radio, all you heard was Slammin' Sammy. I was talking to the tv one day, and said, "Sammy this and Sammy that." He stopped what he was doing, looked at me and meowed. I asked him if he liked that name and he meowed at me again.

Sammy it is.

Payton, well, when he was a kitten he was so sweet, that I used to call him sweetness. All of our pets are named after Chicago atheletes so my hubby reminded me that Sweetness was Walter Payton's nick name. We couldn't name him Walter because we have family members by that name, so Payton it was.

[CamCamPup33]

I thought Figaro looked exactly like the little cat from Pinnochio, soo that's where he got his name.

[Gin]

Sasquatch had huge feet as a kitten.

I got the name "Missiger" from a movie.

The name "Striker" was suggested by my great niece extraordinaire, Melanie, who was 10 at the time. This was the perfect name, as practically the first thing little Striker did was punch me in the nose.

[catmandu]

Pouncer Got Her Name From The Way She Pounced On Her Toys.
Scrappy Got His Name From The Way He Stood Up And Fought Pouncer, Before They Became Friends, Lifelong Friends.
Michael Was Named After The Whats Michael? Comic Strip.
Tubby 2 Was Named After Tubby Angel.
Miquelito And Pouncierge Are Named In Honor Of Pouncer Angel And My Michael.
And The Rest Came With Thier Names.

[Sevaede]

I ask because I remeber when I found Mr.Chips, he was just a kitten on the street. I had no idea what to name him so I just waited for a sign or something to give me an idea...

One day I was sitting on the couch eating my favorite potato chips (salt and vinigar) when he jumped on my lap and crawled into the potato chip bag!

I hear crunching sounds and to my surprise...he was eating my chips...soooo from that day forward I named him MR.CHIPS! lol!

I love salt and vinegar chips!

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Seine is named after a character in the movie "Spirited Away," but it is also from the French river, La Seine, which runs through Paris- my favorite city! I think her name suits her well, Seine is a free spirit, just like a river and the movie character.

[G535]

All my cats, dogs, budgies and horses over the years have been named after the Irish relatives as they have such interesting names.