What was your cat's original name?

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Maya wasnamed "Pitou" when she arrived in the shelter. We didn't like that name, as it is a dog's name ! besides, Maya sounds much sweeter for our sweetheart!!

Inka was found and unnamed

Sydney (RB), was named by us from birth

[sirrahbed]

We named Lizzie and Robbie soon after they were born. They are really Elizabeth and Robert but only when they are Naw-Tee.

Dylan was "Dyllan" so we just dropped an "l" so he would be Dylan Thomas and stay with our poet theme.

Emily and Eliot were Lucy and Louie

[Randy_K]

Mango was named "red band" by his breeder because he wore a red collar. They started calling him Mango once we picked the name and then a month later he was old enough to come to his new home. The breeder avoides naming the kittens because, once named by them, they end up keeping them! There is at least a dozen cats from 18 years old to just kittens that are a permanent part of their household. I'd have a hard time parting with them too..

[Suki Wingy]

Originally posted by catfamily
Dominic
Colby

LOL that's funny! Two of your kitties share names with two of my immideate family members!

[LauraT7]

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

[aguu]

Mishka was - Cornelius
Bean was - Tyrone (it so did not suite him!)

[AlleyCat]

Our Abby was originally "Jumper". We were going to keep it (even though I didn't love it, I thought it was okay) but after about a week after adopting her, hubby confessed every time he said her name he thought of "suicide jumper" .. why, I'm not sure, but it's not a pleasant thought so we changed it pronto!

[sandragonfly]

zephyra (heartcat in avatar) was macy gray - from death row, I know nothing about music and promised it'll be the name for my first dream black cat. I grew up in zephyr-city!

ocean was raider - from a shelter, ew. rather than people think I'm a football/pirate fan, something to combine with breeze(zephyra) - we lived about a mile away from breezy ocean! (he could slurp the whole ocean & loves to play with water, fyi!)

miles was, well, he had two; danny boy - from a shelter, just right before we adopted him, he was microchipped twice by mistake and named him micro. micro's offical owner was my ex we adopted together, two years later he gave micro up to me finanically, changed micro to miles so we'd have a new life.

eclypse was eclipse - from rescue group, didn't like how "i" made the name look but loved the "name" because of her odd-eyes - 'eclipsing' together, bright green/blue so changed a bit without changing it too much!

clayton was creme puff - from rescue group, too plain, blanky for me, that's his colors!

shaddow was taco - a feral of a friend who moved out into "no pets" home, named by a five year old girl who loooves tacos! but when I come to visit my friend, we call her little gina because friend was teasing me how whinny I hated the name, taco. and this girl seems to visit at the same times I am there so she's always taco.

whispers since she was born.

midnight (known as peppers first here too) was suki - from a shelter, perky girl at home first came to thought, very peppy! ended up peppers until just last august, she had her oral surgery, part of her was removed - now changed to midnight so peppers no longer makes me sad. midnight sure suits her! all calm, snowy-colored mane around her neck as of a moonlight bleaming.

(lone) star was feathers - stray found off a raining street, I named her feathers because she had a lo-o-ong tail (1 and almost half feet tail). she went downhill a couple of times, and dying on one worst downhill after had her boys and survived like a shinning star!

last, all of star's four boys - first and second names by me, an indecesive meowmie...still am! first name they had was for about a month.

gus was oakster - that is his middle name now.

chance was dante - that name was kept until he had a serve IBD (inflammation bowel disorder), barely lived or being a cat...he had another chance to live!

thunder was/or avalanche? - lol, still not sure about that one, I kept saying "hey my sweet avalanche"... but kept all of his pictures in thunder folder and addressed him aval-uh-thund to everyone. help!

echo was ashton - kept it until thought it sounded too 'hoomany', like to keep for my son. he echos love especially - (he would lick you 24 hours!) ..

okay, the end.

[Uniqueviking]

I gave all my cats their first and only name

[K & L]

All of ours are their original names!

[rosethecopycat]

Mr. Jones was Gregg

Snowy was Bonzai

Bella was always Bella, although named by a fellow foster, who was supposed to foster her (but thank God, never got her)

Almalfi I named.

[Beauty17]

My one-time beloved Myrtille (French for blueberry) was "Cuddles" in the shelter, but she was such an infant, she didn't know. And our cat Indigo was "Oreo" in the shelter - I think she had come from someone's home, because she was so tame and well cared for, so I think Oreo was her given name. Beauty didn't have a name, nor did our now-departed Tzigane (who was fostered by Myrtille's mother - Myrtille was born in the shelter). My first cat Sadie came to me from my grandmother's as an infant, so I named her. Same with my family's first cat, Mustard. I named him. My sister named her first cat, Tribble. My parents got two kittens from a farm, and one was named Elizabeth Taylor because she had such a beautiful face, but my parents changed her name to Zane Grey. The other kitten was not named, to my knowledge, and they named her Majesty, but ended up calling her Magic. Oh, I am forgetting my very first kitten, when I was a little girl - at my grandmother's farm - his name was Minet, and his sister was named Calico. We named them. We got them from the neighbors. Calico was Mustard's mother, and Mustard had two brothers - Mittens and White Spot. There were other cats at my grandmother's, too - she was always having strays dropped off at her farm. There were Stray, Inky, Dinky, Dew, and others. I named Stray, but she named the other three. My son named our black cat Beauty on sight at the shelter, and it took a little thought over the space of a few days for me to settle on the name Indigo for our black and white cat. Thank you for the opportunity to stroll through my memory book of cats.

[Miss Z]

Zsa-Zsa's kitten name was Daisy, and my RB cat Brando's was Tarragon. They weren't rescue cats though, they were from a breeder

[orangemm]

Archy was Watson and Binky was Sherlock!

[caffeitina]

I got Howard at a local pet rescue, and his name was "Howard" there too. I kept the name because, for some strange reason, it just suited him--even as a 12-week-old kitten. Although sometimes we call him "How-Cat" (for short) or even "How-Turd" (when he's being "bad").

Luna was always Luna as I got her from a friend's farm (I had the pick of several barn cat litters). Good thing too, because she's too much of a high-maintenance little princess to be an outdoor barn cat. Sometimes I think I should have named her "Paris" instead. lol.

GREAT idea for this thread, by the way. I've enjoyed all the posts