Story behind your cats name

[LoveMyCatsWSQ]

Quincy is named after the character Tommy Quincy from my all time favorite show Instant Star (you should know it if you have The-N or are Canadian). I don't know he just is such a handsome cat and has that coolness about him . Much like Tommy.
Here is what Tommy looks like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGwXI...eature=related

Wicked I just thought the name fit her. Since her colors are so pretty and usually thought of as halloween colors. But I didn't want to give her a generic holiday name. I was reading the book "Wicked" for the second time and just thought it fit. And it really does and she definately has been living up to her name.

Smidgeon was simply named this because when we found him he was so tiny I could hold him cupped in my hands. He had the shortest stubbiest little legs and the biggest head. He had to have only been 4-5 weeks old when he was thrown out that car window . So I named him Smidgeon cause thats just was he was a little Smidgeon. Which is funny because he is now lanky and is looking like he is going to be thick and big.


So how did your cats get their names?

[Petstorejunkie]

Well, at the adoption center he had the name Leo, which for me was too common, he didnt respond to, and it didnt suit him. when i made the decision i wanted to adopt him, but was waiting to hear back from hubby, i walked outside and it started to snow.
The first name that popped into my head was Nanuk (as in nanuk of the north, the polar bear), and ironically he responds to that! He is very wintery in his look too, so it suits him even if you havent heard the snow story.

[mews2much]

My Sister named Coco.
I wanted something differant with Meeko
Sasha I neamed that because she is part Russian Blue but looks like she is Pure
Oreo was already named when I got her from my Brother
Coco Black and White but Reddish Brown in the Light
Meeko Tabby but she has orange in her
Sasha is all Blue
Oreo Black and White

[Catkiki]

When I was a little girl, I had brother and sister kitties. They were both ginger tabbies.... with 1 inch tails! I named them Rusty and Dusty

Well, when we got the girls last weekend, the hubby and I were discussing names. I was laying on the floor, watching the kitties sleep behind their litle kitty condo, I mentioned the names Rusty and Dusty. Mike loved the names and so did the girls, because they woke up and looked at me as if to say... What do you want meowmy?

So the ginger tabby is Rusty and the muted tortie tabby is Dusty...

They are soooo sweet!

[xLaydeexTaniax]

well, Glamorous is named after the song "Glamorous by Fergie", & as for the other's, they got there's because i wanted cute/girly names hehe

[mistressotdark]

well.my little boy is named salem..just cause i like the name..and also ..thats the cats name on "sabrina the teenage witch"..and of course..my little girl's name is sabrina...
go figure.

[RobertB]

Special Agent Fox "Little Buddy" Mulder [redacted] - the last was his real last name, Little Buddy just...sorta happened, and the rest speaks for itself.

[nanner]

My two fosters - Larry and Lena - came to me as Sylvester and Cinderella. He's black and white, hence "Sylvester".

For some reason, those names didn't come easily or naturally for me. I like Norwegian names for cats - the two I had for 17 years were Torfinn and Gudrun.

So I re-named the girl Lena, which is a shortened version of Caroline, my Norwegian grandmother. And my mom's got Curly, and my brother's got Mo, so I thought we needed a Larry.

So, there they are - Lena and Larry. And I think they definitely know their names!!

[SarahArizona]

Zampy was named "Cyber" when we got him. Ick. Zampy is short for "Zampano". We started calling him that as a joke (Zampano was a buffoon-like character in a Fellini movie) and it just stuck. Rosie is Rosie because she just looks like a Rosie! And of course they both have dozens of nicknames

[bnwalker2]

Leo - It was the first name I thought of when I was naming him.

Tabitha - John wanted to call her "Tabby" because she is a red/white tabby but I insisted she needed a full name so he called her Tabitha.

Spike - It took us forever to name him and finally I made a list and told John to pick one and that's the one he picked.

Spooky Bear - He got his name for several reasons. The Spooky was because he was so scared when we found him and also because he is a black cat and it was just a few days before Halloween when we found him. The Bear was because I collect teddy bears and he looked like a little black bear cub.

Lilly - It was the first name John thought of.

Grabat - John's dad named her that because when she was little she kept running inside and he'd say "Grab 'at cat!"... it became her name when she was allowed to stay indoors.

Captain Squishy Fuzzypants A.K.A. Slingshot - John came up with it.

Garfield Hoppington IV - John also named him, said he looked like Garfield.

Lieutenant Bear - We originally called her Lilly Bear ("Bear" for the same reasons as Spooky Bear), but one day we were at a flea market and saw a license plate that said "Lt. Bear", it was perfect and we dropped the "Lilly" from it shortly after.

Roxy - John named her.

Sofia - I've always loved the name.

Taco - John named him before he was born, he said we needed a kitten named "ChiChi Rodriguez A.K.A. Taco Salad"... the "Taco" part stuck.

Woody Jr. - Named after my beloved cat Woody who passed away in 2004.

[tab]

tabitha - just love the name. i think i probably first heard it from the show bewitched.

milo - from the band yourcodenameis:milo.

shinobi - lostprophets is my favourite band and one of their songs is called shinobi versus dragon ninja.

janet - my beautiful boy who crossed the bridge last october. he was called sandy (predictably for a pale ginger cat) by the previous owner and we originally called him kenji, middle name of one of the members of the band linkin park. after getting to know 'kenji' it became clear that he was the most eccentric cat i had ever met! he basically was a feline dame edna, so we had to come up with a name that suited him. janet just seemed perfect as indeed he was.

confused the heck out of everyone who met him though. my dad always refered to him as a 'she'. even the vet who only met him a couple of weeks before he died thought it suited him perfectly.

[nanner]

Originally Posted by tab

janet - ...... he basically was a feline dame edna, .....

Ohmigosh. I literally have to wipe coffee off my monitor. That's great!!



Some great names here.