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.

[kb2yjx]

Spunky was named that because of his SPUNK in standing up to Ashley and Boo when he came to us as a kitten. Barry named Ralph, I added the Syracuse because he is my Orangeman(too bad Syracuse went to just Orange), Norton, was rescued from a sewer and was named after the character on the Honeymooners, Ed Norton, who worked in the sewer.

[lvpets2002]

Well each baby was named by their personality & their charming looks..

[Abby&Buddy'sMom]

well lets see, when we were bringing home Abby from the shelter, my son asked if she was a Tabby cat, I said no , she is an Abby cat . so that is how she got her name.
Buddy was hard to name. He was gonna be Jake, but that is the name I was gonna choose for a great dane puppy that I was (and may in the future ) get. so it was a few days till Buddy actually got his name, from us saying to Abby...." wheres your little buddy?? " and the name stuck....so Buddy it is

[catlover4ever]

Tigger my favorite character from Winnie the Pooh, Tigger also was adopted with her twin brother so we named him Tony after Tony the Tiger.

Smokey because of his smoke coloring.

Tucker because we did not know if she was a boy or girl and I figured that Tucker could fit either.

Mystic was actually Merlin because I first thought she was a boy and was completely black. I think black cats and I think of things mythical. When it was determined that she was really a girl her named was Mystic.

Abner....I really have no idea why he got that name, it was just the name that I said the first time I laid eyes on him.

Gracie and Gabriel, well they were rescued by a very special lady here on PT and when I saw the first picture of the two of them together I knew in my heart that I wanted to adopt them both. Gracie was just a name that I always thought was beautiful and Gracie was adorable as a tiny blind kitty. A post went out for a name for her brother and Gabriel was mentioned by T&P's mom....so I kept the tradition of twins with the same first initials going, however Gabriel is now called Little Dude and we hardly ever refer to him as Gabriel.

Vegas, well Vegas was pretty down on his luck when I started to feed him. He was feral, had been hit by a car, and was infested with worms. All I could think of was people who go to Las Vegas and end up with nothing, well that's what Vegas had, nothing. Lucky for Vegas that his luck turned around and he is now in his forever home...never to be homeless or out of luck again.

[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.