We've only been 'cat people' for a little over two months - since Pixel wandered into our garage - but Pixel has had three names...

Since we first saw him on Christmas Eve, framed by the headlights of the car when coming home from Candlelight service, I started refering to him as 'Christmas Kitty'. We left him food, water and a bed in the garage, but he was real skittish.

Then it got bitterly cold, and we invited him in. I kinda figured that once the cold spell broke, he'd want to leave - so we didn't worry about giving him a real name. The snow ans cold went away, but he stayed - so of course, we had to call him something - 'Christmas Kitty' was too much of a mouthful.

unintentionally, all my dogs have had names starting with 'T'. So we thought a 'T' name would be appropriate. Since the kitty was very quiet, kind of serious and not 'playful' - we named him 'Teal'c after a character in Stargate SG1 (We're sci-fi fans)

But that didn't last long, either. Once he really relaxed with us, his playful and affectionate side came out, and the image of the very controlled "Teal'c" just didn't fit! ( and he didn't respond to it, anyway!)

Plus, we had adopted another dog, whose name is 'Fizz' and we're not changing that - so there went the 'T' theme!

i was re- reading a favorite book, "The Cat Who Walks Thru Walls" by Robert Heinlein and I suggested "Pixel", the name of the cat in the book. Heinlein's Pixel is an orange kitty, too, but he has Blue eyes instead of our kitty's gold ones. Our Pixel also 'walks thru walls' - or at least, thru the doggy door! Which we think is pretty neat! 'Pixel' fits him much better, and he's starting to respond to it already.

Laura