How did your kitty get its name?

[sirrahbed]

The last batch of RB kitties were raised with my Sesame Street generation children and were Oskar, Ernie and Bert
My current kitties - I got to name. Since I am a lit major - I thought they should have "poetic" names and so each is named for a poet - TS Eliot, Emily Dickinson, and Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was suggested my CatsinDenver since he came from the shelter as "Dyllan".

[catnapper]

Allen was named after the Philadelphia 76ers Alan Iverson. I hate sports, so changing ALAN to ALLEN was my little devilish way of making it not a direct link to Iverson! PS: Could you ever guess that at the time we were deciding names for our little orangie boy that the 76ers were going all the way?

Pouncer was named after catmadu's RB Pouncer. Jenluckenbach was his foster mom and named him. WhenI met him, the name seemed so purrfect that we kept it. There was never a moment's hesisation that we were gong to change the name. I swear that his gaurdian angel Pouncer is looking after him... she must be because that boy gets into some crazy things!

[Craftlady]

RB Butterscotch (because of his color)

Skinny (for his size, not now LOL )

Thumper (because of her tail. She hits it against your body when she is happy)

Eleanor (came with that name from PetSmart Adaption area and that was her name from previous owner, so we kept it since she knows it so well )

[rpcathouse]

ok next 3. LOL.
One day the breeder of Mason and Chino. (by the way my daughter has their sister Little. Called and said she has a female kitten who she would love to have as a breeder but she has enough at the moment. Ask if I was interested in co-owning her. Of course I said yes. After owning and reading and asking alot of question. This is something I wanted to do. Well she told me what the kitten looked like big red spots silver and white. Yuck did not sound very pretty to me. I was thinking she would be a beauty. The more I thought about it on the way up to Pa. again I just thought yuck ugly cat ugly kittens. When I got there and saw her OMG she was as beautiful as I thought she was going to be ugly. She was one of 2 kittens and her brother was a very high white cameo. So I told her yes I would co-own her and would come and get her when she was old enough. All of Terri's cats are named after songs so I was trying to come up with a good name. Then the Beatles came on with Penny Lane. So that was her name. But one thing kept bothering me her brother, the way he looked at me. And the first time I saw him I told her she should name him Moses. Well, when I got home I called her and ask if Moses could come with Penny. So home came Moses and Penny Lane. What a wonderful Mom Penny has been. Producing well behave and cuddle bugs (kittens) and Moses is my soul mate. He knew he would be coming home with me. A very wise and gentle cat he is.
This is Mason and Chino's sister Little
Penny and Moses
Penny Lane
Moses

Stella

[CatDad]

These are fun threads.

Well, Bob got his name because my girlfriend thought he looked a little like a Bobcat, his name Bob Cat. Also, I like the name of Bob for a kitty, not sure why. It didn't enter my mind that my boss at the time was also named Bob. It made for some interesting conversations at work.

Joey came with her name. We wanted to change as little as possible to help her get used to the new place. Not a very interesting story there.

Also since Stella posted pictures, I thought that I would too.

Bob


Joey showing me what she brought. Yes it is a pair of socks.

[rpcathouse]

CatDad Bryan,
I love the names Bob and Joey. Those are the names of the 2 men in my life BF Bob and Son Joey. And I love looking at pictures of you cats they are beautiful..

Stella

[Tonya]

There was a woman at the swimming pool of my old apartment with a newborn named Raven. That is where I got Raven.

When I got Ron, I knew I wanted an "R" name. And I knew he needed a manly man name. So, I wound up naming him after my biological father, Ron. (Which my family thinks is really wierd.)

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Originally posted by Equus217
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.

Great names... My friend has 2 pigeons named Vegas and Reno.

Oliver He has green eyes and the name just fit. A friend also had made the comment that he was an orphan (well a stray) and so was Oliver twist.

Raisin It was just the first thing that popped out of my mouth.

Sundae We found her on our porch as we were leaving to go to Dairy Queen one night.

Jimmy He was found in a swamp behind a restaurant called "Jungle Jim's".

Rav (aka Kitten) He was found at a Toyota dealership. Kitten because he is the youngest.

Scampers I have no idea how she got her name, she was Justins when we got married.

Roxy She had her name when we got her. She is a calico and her name fits her very well.

[Tonya]

Penny Lane is BEAUTIFUL! I love the colors!

[rpcathouse]

Thank you Tonya. She is a beauty.

And for the names Oliver, Raisin, Sundae and Jimmy, I love how they came about. And Rav AKA kitten Love it. Would love to see pictures......

Stella

[catcrazylady]

Well this could take a minute!

Sammy-I'm no good at sexing cats! Never seem to get it right so I named our cute tiny new kitten Sally and then over time the "bits" began to show! I had to come up with something close since HE knew his name. Sammy was the only thing we could come up with.

Leroy-He got his name by conning his way into the house. He would come and sit on a table we have on the porch and look in the window. All you could see were his eyes and ears and hubby would refer to him as Kilroy from the comic strip. Kilroy turned into Leroy and stuck.

Peanut Butter-Hubby named him and I'm not sure where it came from other than he said he was the color of Peanut Butter.

Stubby-Well that is obvious I guess. We would laugh at her when she was wild because you could see these tiny, short legs going as fast as could be but she would hardly move. Hubby said it looked like she had little stubs and so she became Stubby.

Lucky-Well, not very original but he was darn lucky to live through his traumatic kittenhood.

Maggie Sue-I named her and I don't know where it came from. She looked very girlie and I started calling her Maggie and Sue just seemed to flow along with it.

Pervy-Poor little adorable girl deserves a much better name but it all started when she was a little wild feral kitten. She was the most skittish of any of them. She would hide until you went back in the house so we could only see her through the window. We referred to her as Nervous Pervis and it soon shortened to Pervy and just stuck.

Pete-Pete does this wierd thing with his feet. He doesn't make normal biscuits! He does one leg for a few minutes and then he does the other leg for a few minutes. I jokingly said he had crazy feet and his full name turned into Crazy Feet Pete.

Pepper Jack-Pepper Jack was the third kitten and since we had Pervy and Pete we wanted another P name. I came up with Pepper and shortly after they moved in Hubby soon added Jack because he is full of spunk like Pepper Jack cheese!

Scrappy Magoo-Scrappy came from catmandu's RB kitty Scrappy and PT folk came up with Magoo.

Shew!! I think that's all of them!

[jazzcat]

Ripley - when we got him as a kitten my husband wanted to name him Sam but I wanted something more original. I thought and thought until Ripley from the Alien movies came to mind and I thought that fit a cat well because he can really rip you one with his claws. My mom always called him Ripsnorter which cracks me up.

Jazz - I found the name on an internet list of cat names. It made our top five list and then we finally narrowed it down to that because we both really love jazz music. I really wanted to call her Boo but my husband hated it so now that is her nickname from me, Boo Kitty.
Her name at the shelter was Chrissy.

Scout - it was on that internet list too and I narrowed it down to either Scout, Rio or Pico. I really wanted an O ending name but when hubby heard Scout he really liked it so there ya go. I also wanted to call her Roo from Winnie the Pooh but hubby hated that too so her nickname is ScoutyRoo.
Her name at the shelter was Goldie.

[Catsnclay]

FLUFFY - My husband named him after he found us. Although he was much thinner then he still had lots of fur.

LUCKY - We adopted him from the AZ Humane Society on Friday the 13th of June at 13 hundred hours. Black cat/friday the 13th - Luck?!

YOSHI - For the longest time I wanted a pure white kitten with big blue eyes.....I think they are beautiful. I had once heard that "yoshi" meant "beautiful" in Japanese. Come to find out that although it is a slang term, "yoshi" also means "adpoted one", so either way it fits. Besides, Yoshi has fooled us, he now has a lot of orange in him.

[Kfamr]

Not my kitty.. but my favorite kitty, Orion..

CountryWolf04 suggested it from the movie "Men in Black" since Orion is an orangie.. it fit and we liked it.

[cocker_luva]

my old cat's name was Stevie, after the famous guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn; may he Rest In Peace.