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.