How did you name your cat(s)?

[Jill McQuown]

Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to name
me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
Thank goodness she came to her senses!

As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!

How did you name your little critters?

Jill

[JBHajos]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0500, "Jill McQuown"
> wrote:

>How did you name your little critters?
>
Hobo was a half-grown, skinny, dirty, funny-looking stray who
appeared on our patio each evening, when I'd feed him. He did look
pitiful, with long spindly legs that hadn't yet grown into his big
polydactyl feet. I started calling him a little hobo 'cuz he only
came around for a handout, then disappeared to who-knows-where. In
about a month or so, he began to stay and come in the house. I've
often thought he deserved a more elegant name for he has become a
magnificent, gorgeous creature worthy of a regal title.

Speckles was also a stray who settled in quickly - a little tortie
always referred to as "that speckled cat who keeps hanging around."
Over time it evolved into "Speckles." We took her with us when we
moved to another state and she, too, should have a better name. She's
a sweetheart; she's been called my "shadow" because where I am, she
has to be!!

Jeanne

[Victor M. Martinez]

Jill McQuown > wrote:
>How did you name your little critters?

Well, Luna and Maya got their names because they look like ocelots, so we
wanted something mexican-sounding. Basho and Issa have that asian thing
going, so they're names after japanese zen poets. Rufous and Fez... that's
a harder one to figure out. Rufous because of the color and Fez just was
a fun name that seemed to fit the little critter. Xoxo is named for a town
in southern Mexico, Xoxocotlan. We saw the name of the town on the highway
when we were on vacation and immediately decided we should use that for
the new cat on the condos where we lived at the time. He has a very unusual
personality and a very funny face, so it just made sense to give him a name
that was both unusual and fun.


--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

[Sherry]

>As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
>couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
>her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
>then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
>around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
>How did you name your little critters?
>
>Jill
>
That's really neat. You know, many people believe cats will communicate their
names to their humans. When I first started reading about Persia, I thought she
was probably a Persian, and hence the name.

Sherry

[m. L. Briggs]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0500, "Jill McQuown"
> wrote:

>Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
>about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to name
>me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
>Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
>As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
>couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
>her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
>then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
>around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
>How did you name your little critters?
>
>Jill
>
When I adopted TuTu from a shelter, she was called Ginger. It did
not suit her and she really did not answer to it. I adored my Siamese
who had gone to the Bridge a month earlier. I decided to name her
Princess Two. That became Two - that became TuTu which she readily
responded to.

[Mary]

>How did you name your little critters?

My mommy kitty Mimi named herself. She's a mini mommy who meowed "me me" so I
called her Mimi.

My black cat was named Lucky because black cats are considered unlucky. I was
lucky to have him.

My persian cat was called Pretty Kitty and Princess. Then I found out it was a
he so I had to change his name to Punkin, because he had pumpkin colored eyes
and he was super cute. He still preferred being called Pretty Kitty.

I had a cat that I named Shamu after the whale because he had the same color
markings, black with a white belly and a white spot on his back.

My cats Boots and Patches came with names.

[Marina]

"Jill McQuown" > wrote
> Just curious.

Frank was named by the slaves of his mother. He was named after Frank Zappa,
because he has a little black spot on his chin, and they were reminded of
Zappa's beard. Frank was five months old by the time he came to me, so I let
him keep the name that he already knew, and I thought it was a cool cat name
anyway. It is only later that I've discovered that in every single movie and
TV-series in English, there is a shady character called Frank.

Nikki's name came partly from the first cat our family had. She was brought
home by my sister a few months before I was born, and she was named Rikki
after the mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in The Jungle Book (Kipling's, not
Disney's). At the time when I got Nikki, a friend of mine had suddenly (a
few years later than the rest of the world) gone mad about the artist then
known as Prince, and she insisted I name my new kitten after one of his
songs. I picked Darling Nikki, seeing as it reminded me of Rikki, and since
she was such a little darling.

Most of our cats when I was growing up were named after characters in books,
or historical characters. There were Thomson and Thompson after the twin
detectives in the Tintin comics, there was Carmen after the opera, there was
Ulrika Eleonora after a Swedish queen. I can't remember them all.

--
Marina

[lrulan]

We bought Jazz when the Disney movie ALADDIN just came out. The lady at the
pet store told us she was a she, so my daughter insisted on calling her
Jasmine (the princess in the film). Well, when we took the kitty to the vet
for 'her' first visit TED told us 'she' was actually a 'he'.
He had already gotten used to us calling him Jasmine, so Jasmine became Jazz
instead/
He is called several other things like
Jujube
Mimi
my sweet baboo

Jazz's mama

--

Irulan
from the stars we came, to the stars we return
from now until the end of time


"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...
> Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
> about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to
name
> me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
> Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
> As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
> couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
> her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
> then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
> around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill
>
>

[Tanada]

Jill McQuown wrote:
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
>

For the sake of brevity, I'll stick to the ones we have now.

Tanada: the previous owners named her Alley, which didn't fit. We'd
been reading Robert Lynn Asprin's "Myth" series, and had already named
Guido, the Mafia Hitcat after a character in the series. Tanada, is a
trollop, just like the character in the series. We tried it out on her
and she obviously liked it, so Tanada she is.

Berfert: Another character in Robert Lynn Asprin'g "Myth" series. In
the series, "Berfert" is a salamander, and Berfert walked like a
salamander with his legs to the sides and his toes pointed in. It also
fit his quirky sense of humor. Berfert seems to love his name, except
for when one of the kids teases Mike and calls Berfert "Pervert."

QC: Named after the Quality Control office that Rob used to work in.
The QC shop started out being called the TI shop, then went to the QC
shop, and is now back to the TI shop. We were trying to come up with a
name that Rob would agree with since he kept saying that we had two cats
and that was enough. QC won him over without her name, but it fits her
any way and she seems to prefer it.

Merlin: When we brought him home from the soldier who was giving him up
at PetSmart, his name was Tiger, which didn't fit him one bit. I had
the kids + Jason, Mike's best friend helping us name him. Jason said
Merlin, and Merlin went up to him and started Rubbing against him. The
two are still best friends.

Pine Cone: A bit of a joke this one. We had hired one of the neighbor
girls to take care of our cats while we were camping. I promised her
that I not only would pay her, but bring her back a pine cone. PC found
us and adopted us and I joked that I would bring him back to Elizabeth.
Needless to say, Elizabeth's father said no way to having a third cat,
and Pine Cone took over the house. Pine Cone, really fits him in some
obscure way, we're still not sure how, and he prefers having a different
name.

Penelope Marie: I can't remember who named Penelope, just that I tacked
on the Marie so that her initials would be PMS. She seems to prefer
being called Miss Pretty Penny, but will also answer to Penny or Penny
Marie.

PFC (tomorrow he gets promoted to Specialist) Huey: Named by Rob's
unit. They found him on Blackhawk St. on Simmons Airfield and decided
that Blackhawk was not a good name for him, so dubbed him Huey. Huey
made himself at home in the hangar until we could get there to take him
home with us. When we arrived, I thought he looked like a private
lounging around between jobs, and added the PFC (Private First Class) to
his name.

Squeakers: When he was rescued from our front yard, the only sound he
could make was a kind of squeak. We didn't think he'd make it through
the night, let alone into the handsome young man he is today. His daddy
is going to be so proud of him when he comes back from the Middle East.

Rascal: We didn't name her. Jim's sister decided that she was a rascal
and gave it to her. I think I would have tried for something different,
as I keep getting vibes that she tolerates being called Rascal out of
old age (she's 13) and habit, but it would be too rough on her and the
boys if I were to change her name now.

And that's it. Again, if I were to add in all the other cats, this
would be as long as a feature length movie.

Pam S.

[Kim]

Purrsia would have been cool too.

I chose Brio's name on www.thesaurus.com. Typed in words that spoke of her
character -- animated, life, gusto, energy, enthusiasm, vigor etc. and saw
"brio" as a synonym time and time again. I thought it'd make a cool name for
my full-of-life kitten. Now people keep asking me why I named my cat after
Italian soda pop. 8-) I hadn't heard of Brio soda until after I named her. I
like the name Brio a lot anyway.


"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...
> Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
> about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to
name
> me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
> Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
> As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
> couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
> her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
> then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
> around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill
>
>

[ann]

Abby came with her name and we were told she know her name. Well I don't think
she did but after a few days of calling her Abby, she knew it. Cinnamon had a
different name when we adopted her. The shelter names their cats to keep records
on them but I was told she didn't know that name. We named her for her colors,
she is a tordie.

Ann

Jill McQuown wrote:

> Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
> about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to name
> me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
> Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
> As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
> couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
> her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
> then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
> around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill

[LOL]

"lrulan" > wrote in message >...
> We bought Jazz when the Disney movie ALADDIN just came out. The lady at the
> pet store told us she was a she, so my daughter insisted on calling her
> Jasmine (the princess in the film). Well, when we took the kitty to the vet
> for 'her' first visit TED told us 'she' was actually a 'he'.
> He had already gotten used to us calling him Jasmine, so Jasmine became Jazz
> instead/
> He is called several other things like
> Jujube
> Mimi
> my sweet baboo
>
> Jazz's mama



Mike (Michael) got his name in a very similar way - I have never been
any good at sexing kittens, and when someone gave me this 3 week old
supposedly *female* kitten, I named him Michelle, because he reminded
me an awful lot of my college roommate Michelle. In time, however, it
became errr, *obvious* that this was no girlkitty, and he became
Michael. I must say, though, that the name Mike suits him, tough guy
that he is. :-)

------
Krista

[cati]

i was a great fan of TS Elliots cats and had always said my second Cat would
be a Grizabella as that was the name of the cat chosen to return again.
Unfortunately my grizabella turned out to be male so he become magical mr
mistoffelees which turned out quite apt as he kept my elderly cat Sily alive
for 10 more months. the cat i then got to help him get over the loss of
silky than had to be a Grizabella, and quite a glamour cat she has become.

Cati
"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...
> Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
> about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to
name
> me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
> Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
> As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
> couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
> her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
> then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
> around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill
>
>


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[Victor M. Martinez]

lrulan > wrote:
>my sweet baboo

Awwww....

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

[Gandalf]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0500, "Jill McQuown"
> wrote:

>Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
>about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to name
>me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
>Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
>As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
>couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
>her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
>then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
>around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
>How did you name your little critters?
>
>Jill
>
I got Lucky (RB) when she was almost a year old, and her former humans
never named her(!). But the story was that the friend who gave her to me
had taken his daughter (they later moved into a no-cat condo) to a
neighbor's farm, where there were literally dozens of skinny, not too
healthy, kittens in the barn. The little girl called out 'here kitty',
and the only kitten that came to her over was the beautiful tuxedo cat I
named Lucky. I figured I was lucky to get her, and likely, Lucky was
about the only kitten who lived more than a few years. The barn wasn't
heated, and the people simply ignored the cats and kittens except to
give them away, if they could :-( I was blessed with 16 years with the
most wonderfully affectionate and sweet cat you could imagine.

I got Blizzard (RB) as a kitten. She a was pure white, and raced around
my tiny house, seemly everywhere at once. Blizzard seemed like a natural
name for her!

~~~~~~~~
Life without cats would be only marginally worth living.
TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

[Lois Reay]

"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...

How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill

Rama's full pedigree name is Riokay Like No Other, (that is the name he
came with) I couldn't make a name out of that, tried several names before I
came up with Rama, the name suits him, he is a big boy.

Phoebe's name is Sweet Phoebe, which I chose as I was going through "I like
old fashioned names" at the time (still do, I also had a Hannah and a Emily,
both now spayed and rehomed in a loving pet home) Phoebe is a very beautiful
and regal lilac Burmese.

Bobbi is Roberta Mac, named after my cousin, Robert MacKenzie.

Bruno, Freya and Gigi (all litter mates) came to me with their names, I
didn't really like Bruno, thought it more a d*g name than a cat name but it
stuck as at the time I had so much else going on in my life I didn't have
the energy to think up another name, I liked Freya so was happy for that to
be her name, I still have trouble with Gigi but seeing as I have had these
three cats for nearly two years that is how it will stay.

When I sell kittens I like the new slaves to come up with their names as it
is a real hassle to try and come up with something original, if they want to
wait until they get the kitten home to see if he/she looks like a Boris or a
Doris I put my thinking cap on and name them. I tend to go with people type
names.

Lois

[Brenda Watkins]

"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...
> Just curious. Names are funny things. I know people ponder long and hard
> about what to name children. My mother confided in me she was going to
name
> me after both of my grandmothers, with a hyphen. Hannah-Lena. OH NO!
> Thank goodness she came to her senses!
>
> As you know, Persia found me (it was not the other way around). After a
> couple of days, I realized I couldn't keep calling her "cat". I looked at
> her and said, "What's your name?" She was walking away from me, but right
> then 'Persia' just popped into my head! I said it out loud and she turned
> around and came to me. She answered to it immediately!
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>
> Jill
>
>
I named Bunter after (a character in a series of detective novels) Lord
Peter Wimsey's valet. It was the perfect name for my devoted sidekick.

Emily came with her name when we adopted her from the local animal shelter.
It's a pretty name for a pretty cat, so we kept it.

When we took in my mother-in-law's cat, Fella, I began calling him my little
sweet pea. This eventually morped into Mr Peabody.

My parents got their kittens right around the time of the "Nannygate"
scandal - and so they dubbed the sisters Zoe and Kimba.

Brenda

[Jill McQuown]

LOL wrote:
> "lrulan" > wrote in message
> >...
>> We bought Jazz when the Disney movie ALADDIN just came out. The lady
>> at the
>> pet store told us she was a she, so my daughter insisted on calling
>> her
>> Jasmine (the princess in the film). Well, when we took the kitty to
>> the vet
>> for 'her' first visit TED told us 'she' was actually a 'he'.
>> He had already gotten used to us calling him Jasmine, so Jasmine
>> became Jazz
>> instead/
(snip)
> Mike (Michael) got his name in a very similar way - I have never been
> any good at sexing kittens, and when someone gave me this 3 week old
> supposedly *female* kitten, I named him Michelle

In time, however, it
> became errr, *obvious* that this was no girlkitty
> ------
> Krista

I work with a woman who adopted 2 kittens, one orange one white. She named
them Lucy & Ethel because she thought they were female. So did the vet the
first time they went in. The next visit, however, the vet said "Ahem, I
think we'd better rename these kittens." Their 'nads had dropped and they
became Ricky & Fred! When she told me about this, a male co-worker was
standing up in his cubicle nearby and he said, "How can you tell? Cats
don't have, uh, you know..." She and I busted out laughing. Oh YES they
do! He blushed and immediately busied himself with papers on his desk.

Jill

[Seanette Blaylock]

(LOL) had some very interesting things to
say about Re: How did you name your cat(s)?:

>Mike (Michael) got his name in a very similar way - I have never been
>any good at sexing kittens, and when someone gave me this 3 week old
>supposedly *female* kitten, I named him Michelle, because he reminded
>me an awful lot of my college roommate Michelle. In time, however, it
>became errr, *obvious* that this was no girlkitty, and he became
>Michael. I must say, though, that the name Mike suits him, tough guy
>that he is. :-)

I'm sure you've seen my story about our "tom" Attilla becoming Matilda
in a hurry when "his" pregnancy became unmistakable. :-) [Don't blame
me, I was probably six or seven at the time, that was my parents'
goof. :-)]

--
Seanette Blaylock
"You attribute perfect rationality to the whole of humanity, which has
to be one of the most misguided assumptions ever." - Alan Krueger in NANAE
[make obvious correction to address to send e-mail]

[Brenda Watkins]

> When we took in my mother-in-law's cat, Fella, I began calling him my
little
> sweet pea. This eventually morped into Mr Peabody.

oops - this should've been "morphed"
> Brenda

[JBHajos]

These are cute stories about gender misidentification/misnaming. We
had a little different take with our cat, Philip. She was a lovely
little girl kitten, and we all knew she was a girl. When my son
brought her home to be his very own, he named her Philip after his
favorite Cub Scout leader. "But Philip is a boy's name." No, she's
Philip. And so she was for her 20+ years.

Jeanne

[Jo Firey]

"JBHajos" > wrote in message
...
> These are cute stories about gender misidentification/misnaming. We
> had a little different take with our cat, Philip. She was a lovely
> little girl kitten, and we all knew she was a girl. When my son
> brought her home to be his very own, he named her Philip after his
> favorite Cub Scout leader. "But Philip is a boy's name." No, she's
> Philip. And so she was for her 20+ years.
>
> Jeanne

Some kids are determined aren't they? When I was about eight I got a male canary for
Christmas. And wanted to name it Don after my very favorite school bus driver. My
family objected as that was far too plain a name for the lovely bird, even though the
gender was correct. So we settled on Dawn. My sister liked the name enough that
she named her third daughter Dawn. (And she doesn't care to be reminded that she
is named after a bus driver and a bird)

Jo

[LOL]

Seanette Blaylock > wrote in message >...

>
> I'm sure you've seen my story about our "tom" Attilla becoming Matilda
> in a hurry when "his" pregnancy became unmistakable. :-) [Don't blame
> me, I was probably six or seven at the time, that was my parents'
> goof. :-)]


Well, when I was in high school, certainly old enough to have a good
grasp of male and female as a concept <g> there was a stray cat who
hung around outside my parents' house. His name was Bubba, and he was
definitely a guy kitty - he had little furry b*lls. Then he started
looking suspiciously fat, and sure enough, he had kittens. The b*lls
got smaller and gradually disappeared altogether. I still have no
idea what went on with this cat, but I must say that Atilla/Matilda
doesn't surprise me. I assume this is all just the mothership messing
with our minds. ;-)

------
Krista

[Sherry]

> I'm sure you've seen my story about our "tom" Attilla becoming Matilda
>> in a hurry when "his" pregnancy became unmistakable. :-) [Don't blame
>> me, I was probably six or seven at the time,

ROFL! Our "Cleo" became "Leo" likewise. :)

Sherry

[Jill McQuown]

wrote:
> LOL > wrote:
>
> > Willie, (I registered her as Wilhelmina). So when we got the first
> > Siamese kitten he said that one must be called Sam. (I register
> him > as Dammit Sam) Just really trying for simple names. The next
> arrival > was a feral Tortie my daughter named Ginger. And when the
> next Siamese > kitten arrived I said if we had a Willie and a Sam he
> had to be Henry > so he was. (Charlie never got that)
>
> LOL! "Second verse, same as the first!" (Now I'm hearing Patrick
> Swayze singing that. :))
>
> Joyce

And he couldn't sing! But he looked good. Dang, now I'm going to have to
dig out that video and watch it.

Jill

[Victor M. Martinez]

Ginger-lyn Summer > wrote:
>Thus, Ginger-lyn Summer was born, in April 1976 :-)

That's a really cool story!

>Ginger-lyn
>(whose DH, Richard, took her last name upon marriage)

Summer? Awesome!

--
Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

[Quetzalcoatl]

My ex-partner and I had seen this Russian film "Dark Eyes", based on a
Checkov short story. It was about an ageing Italian playboy, played by
Marcello Mastroianni, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful young
Russian woman whilst at a health spa. When he meets her he spins her a line
about a "miracle cure" he'd heard about whereby if you spoke a Russian word
it acted as a "tonic", and so looking about she came up with sabatchka
(which means "little dog") after setting eyes on her wee lapdog. When we
got our 1st car as a kitten we both thought of naming her that at the same
time, so... Sabatchka

Meeshka, Sabatchka's daughter, we got from looking in a Russian-English
dictionary for appropriate names (having a liking for Russian), and found
"meeshka" (which means "Teddy bear"). She's a roly-poly tortie, and so
looks like a Teddy bear anyhow...

Sid got named by a friend who played with him when he was a kitten. He was,
and still is, very over excitable and tends to get carried away when playing
- i.e. he bites and scratches too hard! So... Sid, as in Sid Vicious!
--
Miaow!

Amedeo (Moggies - http://www.kipple.fsnet.co.uk/moggies/)

[Jill McQuown]

Victor M. Martinez wrote:
> Ginger-lyn Summer > wrote:
>> Thus, Ginger-lyn Summer was born, in April 1976 :-)
>
> That's a really cool story!
>
>> Ginger-lyn
>> (whose DH, Richard, took her last name upon marriage)
>
> Summer? Awesome!

Funny, I always hated my name. Got the Jack & Jill jokes more often than
not. Now, 24 years later, I often wonder if I actually graduated from high
school. Around 1976 I started signing my name Jyl on all my school papers.
It just seemed more 'cool' than Jill. Next thing I knew, they were
enrolling me as Jyl without any supporting documentation. My diploma says
Jyl McQuown graduated in 1978. Hmmm, does this mean I didn't? (laughing)

Jill

[William Hamblen]

In article >, LOL wrote:

> I don't - what's the reference?

Think of the widow who wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam, but
had had seven husbands named Henry. If I were 'Enery the Eighth
I'd be doing all the cooking.

[CK]

Jill McQuown wrote:
>
> How did you name your little critters?
>

Laku already had his name when we got him and we didn't want to change a
name he was accustomed to. His mommy's hoomins had named him Laku, which
means licorice in Finnish as he's solid black, well, very extremely dark
brown, not blue-black, but still black, all the way from nose to
toepads. The only time he can seem to have some other color in his fur
is under direct strong lamplight or sunlight, which makes a reddish hued
tabby pattern appear.

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Email: christal63(at)yahoo(dot)com
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[CK]

Kim wrote:
> I chose Brio's name on www.thesaurus.com. Typed in words that spoke of her
> character -- animated, life, gusto, energy, enthusiasm, vigor etc. and saw
> "brio" as a synonym time and time again. I thought it'd make a cool name for
> my full-of-life kitten. Now people keep asking me why I named my cat after
> Italian soda pop. 8-) I hadn't heard of Brio soda until after I named her. I
> like the name Brio a lot anyway.
>

Well if Brio's full of life, so can a can of soda be if you shake it and
release the pressure... :)

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Christine in Vantaa, Finland (Europe)
Email: christal63(at)yahoo(dot)com
Photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63

[Steve Touchstone]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 19:58:07 GMT, CK > wrote:

>Jill McQuown wrote:
>>
>> How did you name your little critters?
>>

Sorry for piggy-backing, but have jsut now finally gotten around to
posting this. I've pretty much always named pets something that sort
of describes on they look.

So, Sunshine, or Sunny, the cocketiel is named for the yellow and red
spot on the side of her head. Tiger, the other cocketiel was named for
his striped wings. Tiger was purchased as a companion bird for Sunny,
and she has always hated him, even though they get along well enough
to share a cage.

Mittens (RB) was a tuxedo cat with six toes on the front feet. His
legs were black with white feet starting about the ankle, so it looked
like he has on white mittens.

Little Bit got her name since she was such a skinny little thing when
she moved in - not nearly as little now as she's gained three pounds,
up to 10.6 pounds.

Sammy started out as Sambo, don't really know why, as the upstairs
neighbors named her when they were trying to decide which of Little
Bit's kittens to keep. Anyway, I dropped the "bo" and Sammy has always
seemed to fit her.

Of course, you know about Rocky. He started as as the "mostly white,
black and white tom cat", and was renamed Rocky after the Rocky movies
since he's looks like an ex-boxer.

Among the neighborhood cats who come to eat there's Black Tom (Tommy),
a tuxedo who looks enough like Sammy that it takes a couple looks
sometimes to make sure she hasn't managed to slip outside, There's
Gray Kitty, a gray fluff ball of a cat. Ring-a-Ding, a gray and white
stripped little guy who has rings on his tail, and is still too
skittish to pet.

[Quetzalcoatl]

in article . net, Diane L.
Schirf at wrote on 1/9/03 6:39 pm:

> In article >,
> Quetzalcoatl > wrote:
>
>> My ex-partner and I had seen this Russian film "Dark Eyes", based on a
>> Checkov short story.
>
> The Lady with the Dog?

I know not the name of the short story, just the film (I thought it was the
same). Sorry...
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Miaow!

Amedeo (Moggies - http://www.kipple.fsnet.co.uk/moggies/)

[LOL]

"Annie Wxill" > wrote in message >...

(snipped)

My Jim
> suggested naming her Rosie. He said it was like we had picked a beautiful
> wild flower (complete with thorns) and brought it inside.
> Annie


That is a very sweet idea - I love that! It sounds like a very
appropriate name, too. :-)

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Krista

[bewtifulfreak]

polonca12000 wrote:
> Very interesting! Thanks. Can you tell us what is the name your
> parents gave you?

I was wondering myself.... :)

[Ginger-lyn Summer]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 23:17:10 +0200, "polonca12000"
> wrote:

>Very interesting! Thanks. Can you tell us what is the name your parents gave
>you?
>--
>Polonca (being nosy) & Soncek
>
Hehe. Well, it's already out there on the 'Net on my genealogy pages,
so I don't suppose it hurts anything to post it here.

And actually, it's more complicated than that (like everything in my
life! lol!). I actually have *two* given names. I was adopted; and
in 1976, shortly after changing my name, I found my biological family
and found out what my first name was. My bio-fam named me Ramona Lynn
(*that's* where that came from! ;-) ) Hinshaw. And when I was
adopted, I become Deborah Kerr. Got really, really tired of the
"movie star" jokes, as you can imagine. And I sure never felt like a
Debby, which is what I went by when I was growing up. I think I'll
stick with Ginger-lyn :-)

Ginger-lyn

[Cathi]

Jasper just seemed to fit. We got his mother at the same time, and both
came up with Jemima, so we needed another J name to go with it.

Carrie came with her name, so we saw no reason to change it. She seems
quite happy with it.

Izzie (RB) is another story entirely. I got her from the friend of a
work colleague; friend was emigrating, and needed to home said kitty. I
went to see her, and picked her up for a cuddle. She wasn't having any
of this, and jumped, landing very neatly with all her feet pointing out
like a dancer. Working on the dancer theme, we came up with Izzie as in
Isadora Duncan. Unfortunately, she was no-where near as elegant as the
real thing, being a very clumsy kitty!

Purdey was brought home by Tigger (both long since RB) on a snowy night
back in 1977. I was only a kid then, and deeply into The New Avengers
on TV. Mum told me that the kitten was a girl, so I named it Purdey
after the Joanna Lumley character. By the time we got Purdey to the
vet, and it became apparent that she was a he, the name had stuck. He
was a very purry cat anyhow, so maybe it *was* suitable.
--
Cathi

[SUQKRT]

In article >, ann > wrote:

>
>Abby came with her name and we were told she know her name. Well I don't
>think
>she did but after a few days of calling her Abby, she knew it. Cinnamon
>had a
>different name when we adopted her. The shelter names their cats to keep
>records
>on them but I was told she didn't know that name. We named her for her
>colors,
>she is a tordie.
>
>Ann
>
>Jill McQuown wrote:
>
>>
>> How did you name your little critters?
>>
>> Jill
>
>
>
>

Spice/Spicey like Cinnamon was named because of her coloring. Its a mixture of
brownish/cinnamon, black pepper, and salt white. She's not a Calico, I've heard
her described as a Money cat which I've never seen before. She recognizes her
name. She makes eye contact, but then usually does as she pleases.
Suz
Iron Chef Macmoosette
Thank Heavens There's Only One
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Chocolate heals all wounds.

[Jette Goldie]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 06:13:18 -0500, "Jill McQuown"

>How did you name your little critters?


Apache was supposed to be called "Patches" - she's a
tortoiseshell (calico - but we don't tend to use that
description in the UK). White with patches of colour -
hence the chosen name. But when she got to our house
and started ambushing ankles, we decided that the name
Apache suited her better. (my uncle is Cherokee and says
that it means "enemy").

Then we got Dakota as a kitten to keep her company (bad
idea, I suspect she'd rather have been an only cat than have
him as her companion <g>). He needed a name that matched
so Dakota he became. He *nearly* got called "Gizmo" after
the creature in "Gremlins" - as a kitten his ears seemed to be
WAY too big for his body.

Mostly they're known now as "Sweetie" (or "Lady") and
"Trouble".


--
Jette
"Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes

http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

[CK]

Sherry wrote:
>>I remember reading a while ago that all cats are tabbies, but the level of
>>"tabbiedom" that actually shows depends on their genes. Even with point cats
>>if you look close enough, you can almost make the rings in the tail. :)
>>
>
> In the summertime, when Frank gets lighter-colored, you can see faint, very
> faint tabby rings on his hiip and tail. He is a Siamese.
>

On Laku, the tabby-pattern only shows on his sides, or then I just
haven't noticed it on his tail... Not much to light up and look at...
even tho he makes his best effort to show everyone his tail, as his tail
is usually either straight up or bent upwards, over his back. And of
course the tail is especially well visible during weekend mornings, when
he comes to see if we're awake and flops his furry butt right in front
of my face in order to cuddle and purr with hubby... :)

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Email: christal63(at)yahoo(dot)com
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[lewe]

"Victor M. Martinez" > wrote in message
...
> I remember reading a while ago that all cats are tabbies, but the level of
> "tabbiedom" that actually shows depends on their genes. Even with point
cats
> if you look close enough, you can almost make the rings in the tail. :)

well you know aby-monkeys - they are just striped the wrong way!
at least that's what I tell Thea & Bono when they are being especially silly
....
(for those of you that don't know any Abyssinians they have a ticked coat
where each hair is light closest to the body then a band of dark then light
again and dark at the tip)

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[OU812?]

lewe wrote:
> "Victor M. Martinez" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I remember reading a while ago that all cats are tabbies, but the
>> level of "tabbiedom" that actually shows depends on their genes.
>> Even with point cats if you look close enough, you can almost make
>> the rings in the tail. :)
>
> well you know aby-monkeys - they are just striped the wrong way!
> at least that's what I tell Thea & Bono when they are being
> especially silly ...
> (for those of you that don't know any Abyssinians they have a ticked
> coat where each hair is light closest to the body then a band of dark
> then light again and dark at the tip)
>
>>> lewe
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi

Tygra's hairs are banded like that as well. But she also has regular big
sweeping tabby marks too. Plus she has tortie colors.. all in all a very
interesting looking cat.

Kristy
--
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight,
because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

[Pat]

"Jill McQuown" > wrote in message
...
> How did you name your little critters?

I was having trouble coming up with a name for one of mine once, so I asked
her grandmother what her name should be. Grandma replied, "Nia." So that
became her name.

Another kitty that I found dying of starvation, feral, but too weak to run
from my rescuing hands, got the name "Spider" because that's what she
resembled.

Abelard got his name from the breeder who gave him to me. He's an
abyssinian, and I wanted a name that could be shortened to "Aby" or "Abbie."

"Cotton", a large white Maine Coon, was so named not because he was the
color of a cotton ball but rather because when he was very small he liked to
play with the waste cotton (motes) from the gin that I used to stuff into
the cracks in the walls of my cabin in the Arizona mountains.

"Safford" was named after a town in southeastern Arizona, the next town up
the road from Thatcher, which is where I found my Tibetan terrier puppy
named Thatcher, because he was the next pet I got after the puppy.