What was your cat's name?

When we took in Mutty when I was 9, my mother named her Monique.
I hate hate hated that...so at age 10, changed it to Mutty.

Sophie was supposed to be a girl, when we found out he was a boy, we changed it to Ophie, but that didn't work out..... So his name remained Sophie.


Lily has been Lily since the day I laid eyes on her.
The woman who had been feeding her while she was an outside stray had been calling her "silly", which we found out after we named her Lily, so that was kind of a sign that her name SHOULD BE Lily.

Ironically Summer and Chevy both kept their shelter names. I like both of them, and they seemed to already respond to them. However, if I didn't like their given names, Iwould have had no problem re-naming them, especially with some of the weird stuff they come up with sometimes.

8-Bit ~ Lucas. After George Lucas.... it didn't fit him at all.

Scratch Fury Destroyer of Worlds ~ Rocky. He wasn't a Rocky, he'll never be a Rocky, and didn't ever look like a Rocky. I wonder what his foster Meowmy was thinking.

Dr. D Claw ~ Hendrix. I just liked my name better.

i go by personality.

Tess is short for Goddess. she is a lil goddess, and that is actually the nicname of the woman who is going to adopt her,lol

Dugan got his name from a Celtic book, name meaning Dark one, Dark colored, and it fits him to a T,lol.

Kali, i got lazy, she is a calio, and she responded it,lol.

Sace and Uno were named before, and i havent changed them.

Bear, cause he is a big pudgy boy, and acts like a bear to the others but me,lol.

Prue, from the show Charmed, she has that personality.

Tigger, cause all he does is BOUNCE kitten like,lol and hes orange and white

Reeses was named "Callie"...she's a calico, how original...*lol* She was actually named before we even picked her. We had a choice between her and her sister and knew that they were both Calicos. I had no idea what a Calico was, so my wife and I looked up pictures, and decided on the name right there. Then we picked Reeses based on her pictures (she was prettier than her sister) and the description of her personality.

The only cats who came to us with names were Gryphon and Nibs, and since they were six years old it never occurred to us to suggest different names to them. All our other cats over the years have taken very little time to tell us what they wanted to be called. The only "change" was Samuel -> Samantha. Since we thought we had a little boy, when "he" said "Sam" we took it to mean "Samuel" -- we soon learned different.

Velvet's name when she was a kitten was Topsy

Jasmine's name was origionally Jasmine...then another owner got her and called her Mia and when they brought her back to the rescue, they didn't change her name on her paperwork so i went by the origional name (which i thought she knew) so i called her Jasmine again. We didn't find out they had changed her name to Mia until a few weeks later after i had started calling her (what i thought was her origional name) again So she's back to Jasmine

Kojak i origionally named Kolar....but everyone hated that, so Colin changed his name to Kojak (i like it better )

Isabella was my foster kitten from the time she was itsy bitsy- so I named her

Fosters, our Australian Shepherd was origionally named Noah because he was found wandering down a street called Noah Lane Colin named him Fosters because it was the first Australian sounding thing that poped into his head (even though i tried to tell him Australian shepherds are from America )

Whiskey our Carolina Dog was origionally named "Digger" I HATED that name so i changed it to Whiskey to go along with out "alcohol doggie theme."

When we adopted Roxie her name was Demi... we thought it was cute but changed it because we had already picked the name out for her.

We adopted both our boys from the local Humane Society.

Spike was named "Martini," which I actually kind of liked, but we had already planned on adopting two cats and naming them "Spike" and "Drucilla" (after the characters on Buffy: the Vampire Slayer). We only adopted Spike at the time (no girl-kitties to name after Drucilla), and now it just sort of suits him.

Oz was named "Russell." We had wanted to get a girl-cat (this being a few months after we adopted Spike, and us still wanting to name her Drucilla), but Oz insisted on us taking him home instead, so we just continued the Buffy theme. Possible names for him included Giles, Rupert, Xander and Angelus, but none of them really "fit" the way that Oz "fit." And he just didn't seem like a "Russell" to us, y'know?

We named them all ourselves except for Ivory and Cassi.

Cassi was Cassiopeia, Ivory was Ivory, she's still Ivory on paper, but we just call her The Bug.

Mooch and Noodles were Black & Grey respectively, at the shelter. Bunny was Bunny and Pumpkin was Pumpkin. Olivia was my Aunt's cat, so we kept her name -- which is Olivia Elizabeth officially

Glory was from a cosin's cat's litter and I picked her out when she was just a few days old, so I named her first! Tinsel I have no idea! And Tiger was my step-dad's cat when he and my Mom met and got married.

I don't know what Chynna's name was when she came to live with me. Her owners abandoned her when they moved.

Abby was always Abby. The girl I got her from told me that she had named her "Abby", short for "Abigail" because of her red hair. I liked the name and didn't think it fair to the kitten who had known that name for 4 months, to change it. So she has always been Abby.

Bo
Duke
Cooter
AKA - The Cat Brat Gang
Tiger


Tonka

I named all of them except Tonka.. His was Max... The others were born in my closet

Quill was originally named Chopper ... But I hated it. He fits his name well ... my sweet silly boy

Carly kept the name the rescue gave her. I couldn't come up with anything better.

Lucy was Paloma (as in Picasso).

I only have a few that had shelter/foster home names:

Azrael was originally Pumpkin
PeeWee was originally Socks
Sammy was originally Nera (which I thought was a girls name. They could have at least gone with NerO )
And Buddha, although not a cat, was originally Alex - which we considered keeping because it does fit him... but we wanted something that went well with Karma

Jack, John Doe, and Tryon adopted us off the street so they didn't have names that we knew of.

Karma came from a shelter, but she didn't have a name... only a number.

Milo's was a SPCA kitten...his name was Sid
Georgie was a rescue from our horrible neighbors..she was Penny
Lucky was 6 weeks old so we got to same her first...same with Jake 10 weeks when we got him.
Pickles came with his name, he is 6 years old and we just got him a month ago. I wouldn't have named him that...kept it b/c it's his name.

Originally Posted by GoldenKitty45

I've never renamed a cat before - most of mine came unnamed so I got to choose

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I've never renamed any of mine either. I did change one of my sisters cats names though from Casper to Boris. After 6 years of being called the 'wrong' name he seems to like it