How did you name your cat(s)?

[furrykidsmother]

Garfield: That was his name when we got him and it sure seems to fit him.

Gidget: When we got her she was just called "little one", so being little we thought of Midget, but that didn't sound nice so we came up with Gidget.

Rusty: When he was born he was a little orangy, rusty ball of fluff so we named him Rusty.

Fluffy: She is a long haired kitty and as a baby she was a little ball of fluff too so she was named Fluffy and she has got the fluffiest tail, so her name is well suited to her too.

[Rie Rie]

My Annie was orphaned by her mother along with a sibling, so as soon as I laid eyes on her at two weeks old, I said her name would be Little Orphan Annie. Of course as she grew into an adult, she should have been named something like Spitfire, as she is full of it!!!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Oliver- was named for his olive green eyes.
Raisin- was named because she was so small when I found her, when I was telling my friend about her I said "she's so small, I swear she's no bigger than a raisin".
Jimmy- was found behind a restaurant called "Jungle Jim's". My friend named him.
Sundae- we found her on our way to get ice cream at Dairy Queen.
Kitten- his real name is "Rav", which my sister (he was originally her cat) named him because he was found under a Rav4 at a car dealership. My sister ended up being very allergic to him so he came to live here. We didn't like the name Rav, but didn't want to chance his name. We just started calling him "the kitten" which turned into Kitten being his name. It's not really all too fitting, but yet I couldn't imagine calling him anything else.

[Sonia59]

Peppito was named by Italian friends visiting us 2 days after we had him home. In Italy and Spain it is a short name for Humans, but he is almost human, right?

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

My turn!

Maya: when we rescued her for the shelter, she had a name that didn't fit her at all: Pitou. That's a dog's name! So I looked for a sweet name, and then remembered this name MAYA. This name is perfect for her!!!
Inka: we saw she was a wild little kitten; my daugher suggested to take the name of another Indian tribe, the Inca's. So, that's how we named her INKA!
Sydney: his mom's name was Darwin. As a souvenir to our visit to Australia, we named him after another Auusie city: SYDNEY!!

[smokey the elder]

Mobius: because when she was a kitten she curled into a position that made me think of a Mobius strip.

Diva: came with the name

Diamond: she has a white diamond-shaped locket on her chest

TicTac: black with a white Tictac shaped spot on his chest

Smokey the Younger: her temperament is EXACTLY like Smokey the Elder's was!

Bosun: came with the name, former foster

Bubba: Used to be Blubb, hated the name. He's a big sweet no-neck cat, so became Bubba. Another (failed) former foster.

[sirrahbed]

I was a literature major and like poetry - so wanted the kitties to have poet names
Emily is Emily Dickenson
Eliot is TS Eliot
Dylan is Dylan Thomas
Robbie is Robert Browning
Lizzie is Elizabeth Barrett

well, they are not really called by their poet names though - I do prefer "people" names for my kitties - not sure why!

[catlover4ever]

A lady at my local bank asked if I knew anyone who would like tiger kittens. She had a brother and sister pair and Mark and I took them in. I decided that because I loved Tigger from Winnie the Pooh so much that I would name the girl Tigger and Mark decided that he would name her brother Tony after Tony the Tiger from Frosted Flakes cereal.

Smokey was an easy one....because of his "smoke" color.

Tucker got her name because I was not sure if she was a boy or a girl so Tucker I thought fit for either.

Mystic was supposed to be Merlin but he turned out to be a she so I had to improvise on the name. Because she was almost completely black I wanted to stay with something mystical so Mystic became her name.

Abner.....well Abner was just the name that shouted out to me for him. Thank goodness he turned out to be a boy after all because I don't think I could have come up with a name.

Gracie and Gabriel were special. I saw a post from Queen about 2 little blind babies and I talked Mark into letting me adopt them. Because they were a sibling pair I wanted their names to start with the same first letter....like what we did with Tigger and Tony. I had the girls name Gracie but was undecided for a boys name so I asked the fine people of PT to help with a name.....hence Gabriel.

That's how all of mine got their names.

[Don Juan's mom]

Don Juan got that name at the Humane Society. I kept it, as it suits him. He's really affectionate ESPECIALLY with women and just a little naughty.

Zerlina was originally called "Zana" by the group which had her at Petsmart, Hopalong Pet Rescue. I renamed her after a character in the Mozart-Da Ponte opera Don Giovanni, and I thought the name was close enough to her original to make the transition simple.

Funny how these things work out. In the opera, Don Giovanni comes upon Zerlina's wedding in the country, and very nearly entices her away from her new husband, Masetto... but fails in the end. At home, Don Juan (who was neutered by the Humane Society) tries to mate with Zerlina (spayed by Hopalong Pets), but never succeeds.

Liz