Names you wished you'd called your cats...

momof3rugratz

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Honestly Taffy should of been called Templeton... That mouse off a cartoon can not recall the name right now but it is because he is Lazy loves to trip you because he doesnt feel like moving and also the way he begs lol.
 

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My grandmother named my cat Duke but I think I might have called him Deacon or somthing like that But Duke suits him because he think's he's royalty.
Sibohan's nickname is sibby or sib-sib. I love her name I was up in the air about a couple like Boudiccia and Gia but Sibohan suits her.
 

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Ophelia is definitely Ophelia. No other name suits her. Well, except for her nicknames of course.

Trent was either going to be Trent after Trent Reznor or Rozz after Rozz Williams. Sometimes I think he would have been a good Rozz.


Ginger is Ginger Cookie, which Eileen's cousin's kids named her when she was being fostered by them. They did real good in choosing the perfect name for her.


Mojo...well, we still wonder about that. That's the name she came with, and was named that when the shelter thought she was a boy.
I think we should have named her Lily Munster, Earl is now convinced we should have named her Nibbler after Leela's pet on Futurama.
 

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We should've just named her Kitty Boo because that's what we call her 98% of the time *lol*

...although I probably should have called her "STOP IT!" because that phrase is said to her alot
 

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When I brought home Emily, her original name was Gwendolyn..and I changed it to Emily...the other just didn't fit her...
 

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Originally Posted by silentNate

I wanted to call Sonic 'Galloway' after my favourite radio talkshow host but Epona said no
I think Sonic & Radar are great names. I like themes.
I have a few names on my future list, such as "Underfoot" and "Heyu".
But I couldn't name a cat without meeting it first to get an idea of its purrsonality.
 

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Originally Posted by KitEKats4Eva!

I was just thinking today after seeing another thread here that Seamus is just a great name for a cat!

Sometimes I think of great names and think to myself, now, perhaps I need another cat for this one!


Sunday was always going to be Sunday - it just suits her so well. But Cairo was going to be Delilah and my then husband wouldn't let me call her that. I love Cairo a lot as a name though - it suits her. But I think Delilah would have suited her more...

Sashka started out as Scratchy because I'd had her three weeks and had NO names coming to mind at all. I went through dozens and ended up calling her that because she just had the most razor-sharp little claws that she used on everything (she was my introduction to TCS, incidentally, crazy kitten that she was!).

But Scratchy wasn't a nice name so I changed it to Saskia and then Sashka, which means to spring, or jump, in Russian. Being a Russian Blue and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, it seemed appropriate. But it never really `clicked' for me, either.

Ruby was Ruby from the second we got her, but I wanted to call Chester `Dougall'. I'm glad we decided on Chester though.

Have you ever changed your cat's name? Or wanted to call it something else? Or have you got names picked out for your future kitties?
When we brought Persi home, we called him Puffy. But DW (who is Persian) pointed out to me that Puffy was a Persian cat so why not just drop the last two letters. Persi the Persian cat. In any case, all cats I have ever had had a name that ended with the sound of a long e. I read in a cat book that cats will learn their name better if their name ends with that sound. I have no personal proof of this, but the book stated that many thousands of cats were studied to come to this conclusion. There are thousands of names that end with this sound and I will say that all of my cats did learn their name. So when we adopted our last cat we called it Alley because it was found in the alley and also because this is another name that ends in the long e sound. Persi comes when he is called but Alley does not so I do not know if that disproves anything because all of my other cats did come when called. But, I never had two cats at the same time before and Persi and Alley sound a lot alike to a cat, I suppose.
 

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well, when we saw Stanley on the web, he was listed as a girl named Stella...when they called us back (after much confusion) they said we have an idential cat, but it's a BOY...so "Stella" became "Stanley" and we picked out Bella because I couldn't stand the idea of hearing my husband yelling "Stella!" for 10 or 15 more years.

So, long story short I guess it all worked out for the best because Stanley fits him pretty well and Bella, is well, Bella.
 

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I can't say that I've regretted any of the names I've had for my cats. I've only had 2 cats that I haven't named and that was "Toby" whom I adopted when she was 10 years old. I had her 3 years before her kidneys failed on her. And "Abby" whom was 4 months old when I adopted her. I figured that their names were part of who they were and I was good with that. Just like if I adopted a child that already had a name I wouldn't be seeking to change it. Their name is part of who they are.
 

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Actually I give a LOT of thought to naming cats so never had the problem of "what would I have choosen".
I picked their names on color related or personality. For example, Spooky's name (being white) was registered as Top Secret as he was the secret cat we were getting at the time.

Tom E Hawk was Spooky's nephew - red and white like the red-tailed hawk.

Charlie was named for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory since he's a chocolate spotted oci and the breeder mainly has chocolates (hence Chocolate Factory)


My choco-silver oci will be named Captain Jack Sparrow - something to do with "money" and I love the Pirates movies, especially Sparrow
 

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I kinda liked the names the Humane Society volunteers had given our cats: Spike was named "Martini" and Oz was named "Russell." I think those are good names for cats, and actually, they would've suited the boys. But I can't really imagine Spike as anything other than Spike. He's just so ... Spike-y!
 
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