How did your Cat(s) get there Name(s)?!!

blondrebel76

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cupid was named i guess at the shelter where we adopted her, and it stuck.

my grandma named callie, i dont know why but when i took her in the house for the first time she said, "awww how is miss callie doing". So that was that.

Boo was named by my sister, she was one of the three she found in the trash dumpster at work in a plastic bag, just before halloween. There was boo who was the smallest and shyest. A orange tom, she called pumpkin and a tortisshell she called spidey. She said they were halloween collors and it was halloween time so they all got halloween names.

Dixie before we got her was called Sydney, and i didnt like it and could never remember so i spent the first two days calling her dog. Her former owner said she didnt even know her own name and told us we should probably change it. So it took me a day and half trying every name i could think of and Dixie was the only one that seamed fitting. She started answering to it right away.

The kitty cafe cats get their names by whatever pops in my head when i see them, usually they dont get named until they are frequent visitors. There is smokey, porkie, Screach, PepsiJoe "pj" (named by the kid down the street that rescued him from a tree), Jade, Ivory, Amber, Queen, princess, dutchess(who were king, prince and duke until i got close enough to see that they were females), Booger, Killer(a simply terrifying tom cat that is enormous and tries to eat anyone who gets within 10 feet of him and has long points of fur on the tops of his ears like i have never seen before), Skittles(a beautiful callico that i have an adoptive home for if i can ever trap her again, last time she attacked me and because i was bleeding i let her go), Dot(who has major bad luck with the neighborhood dogs and has almost been killed twice now), KitKat, Roscoe, Enis, Lovebug, brother, and mr. ghost(a beautiful white tom cat that used to belong to the funeral director until he passed a couple months ago, now his son takes care of him) and probably a couple i am forgetting or dont have names.
 

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Delilah: She's named after the song Hey There Delilah which I first heard right after meeting her; plus it's a beautiful song.
 

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Givi - his 'official' name is Holiday, but i dont like it. so my hubby and i started picking a new name for kim. first I was thinking about Kiwi, but later we decided to change it to Givi, which is a georgian name. Dont know what that means though...
 

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Teddy is called Teddy cos he looks like a little fluffy teddybear. As soon as we saw him at the in-laws place we straight away decided on Teddy
 

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Tibby, my very 1st cat was a tabby.
Fluffy, was a 1/2 persian & fluffy, Smokey, was a pure persian & silver coloured.
Present cats
Coco - now my mum's cat, is a torty.
Blossom - has a brightly coloured face reminding me of a flower.
 

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mine are all named after computer-related things. Pixel [& Mouse], Cable, Java, Chip & Firefox. Firefox's nickname is even computer-related... it's 'Puter Bug.
 

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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.

Hope I didn't forget anyone!! LOL
 

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Tailer is the only one of mine I can take credit for, because he was the only one that we actually got to name. When he was a kitten he had two outstanding features: a disproportionately long tail and unbelievably bad breath. He came really close to being named "Lavoris".


Forest was named by the vet who rescued him after Forrest Gump because of his obvious challenges. The techs at the vet's office even taught him to come running when you say "Run, Forest, run!"

Harvey, my recently RB cat, was named after the invisible rabbit in the old Jimmy Stewart movie. He was so shy that nobody but the family ever saw him.
 

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Pepper got her name from my cousin. We got Pepper on Christmas Eve Eve - the day my family has it's Christmas. My husband and I were't able to be there this year. When we brought her home, I called my family and had them all come up with cat names for a girl who was all black. Pepper won the vote!
 

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Tigger, named by my son when we got him 11 years ago. Cause he's orange and kinda psycho and bouncy like Tigger on Winnie the Pooh. (not so bouncy now that he's older)

Cricket, cause she's black and jumps around a lot

Kahlua, cause she's a tortie and just kinda reminds me of Kahlua and Milk.

Tia,I always called her my sweet T. I miss her.
 

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I have 7 kitties :]

1) Zooie: Named after Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) (Movie- Zoolander) haha
2) Piper: Named after Piper Halliwell (Holly Marie Combs) (Show- Charmed)
3) Mama: Well... she was pregnant when we got her and it stuck :]
4) Buba: Not to sure how he got that, he's one of Mama's Babies
5) Baru: Irish name my mom liked, he's one of Mama's too
6) Trinity: Name I liked, she's one of Mama's too
7) Nanna: She's a new adopted kitty and she's pregnant and Mama was taken so I call her Nanna :]
 

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Coco my old Cat I bought for my Sister when she was 6-8 Weeks old and she is Black&White but is Half Siamese. My Sister went to Pet Store to get one of the Siamese ones and Coco was the only one left because she didnt look Siamese. Her fur is Reddish Brown in the Sun so my Sister named her Coco.
Meeko I have had since she was a Kitten. I picked her out when she was a few weeks old. I wanted something differat.
Yoshi I got from the Mario Game
Sasha is Russian Blue Mix but looks straight Russian Blue so I used a Russian Name.
My Kitten was named Oreo when I got her so I kept her name.
In fact there is a post from when she was a few weeks old here asking about Fcks. She has that but you can not tell anymore.
 

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Miles was named after Miles O'Brien from Star Trek. Miles has a sister who lives with our inlaws named Deanna (Troy), my husband's side are quite the Star Trek fans.

Min is named after Min Farshaw in a book series named Wheel of Time. We nick named Min "Minja" due to the fact she enjoys hiding in the shadows and pouncing on people, since she melds so well in the dark she reminded me of a ninja... she also doesn't make a sound when she meows (silent meows are so cute! Our Min is definitely "swift like Minja!"

Nymeria is named after a wolf in the book series A Song of Ice and Fire. Nymeria has a husky little bark and howl instead of meowing. I have nicknamed her Pooka because... well she is darn mischievous, and is always up to no good and at the same time being all the more entertaining in the process.
 

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When I was growing up we had Gampy, which was allegedly short for Gabriella, but who was really named after my Grandparent's restaurant.
Then there was Sargent Pepper, who was a black and white scamp. Called him Sarge.

With Ishy.. I had recently made a friend who insisted that cats needed names like "General Lambshanks of the 45th Battalion" so when your friends came over you could say "This is Lamby. You can call him "sir"." Ishkhara was a priestess of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar from the epic of Gilgamesh, and it seemed to fit into the "pretentious names" theory.
 

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Sliver: She has this unique white sliver mark down her left eye.
Snowball: His name used to be Orion but he just looked like a big white fluffy snowball.
Sage: He needed a mellow name because hes a mellow boy.
Sushie: We always loved the name & our little torti fits it purrfectly.
Spooky: We originally named her Sugar but her personality didn't fit that name so we renamed her.
Spici: Shes very moody & that name fit her purrsonality because you never know which spice she will be.
Shilo: Shes a shy girl who is always creeping low to the ground.
Sadee: We loved this name & it just seemed to fit our little girl.
 

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Last year at this date I got pregnant. Me and my boyfriend were starting to look for a name and ZoÃ[emoji]169[/emoji] and Tania were two names we both liked if it was a little girl (we are french, so that's where the french names came from). Unfortunatly, I lost the baby at week 11 of my pregnancy (I was told after the first three months are when it's most likely to happen). A few months later, we adopted two little kittens, two beautiful sisters. The names came up naturally, ZoÃ[emoji]169[/emoji] and Tania! They helped us live through this and brighten our home.
 

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Lorelei and Carter both came with their names from the shelter. I haven't found out where Lorelei got her name. Lorelei was introduced to me when I first started volunteering, and it seemed strange to change her name because it just seemed to suit her - so exotic and pretty like her. She's my pretty lady


Carter comes from a litter where all the kittens have names starting with C - his siblings were CiCi, Chantel, Carson, and one more that I can't recall that already got adopted out. I knew him since before he and his litter were named, and he'd been called all kinds of things by me, though I started calling him "Bastet" after the Egyptian goddess and because it rhymed with "basket". Since he loooooved baskets. I decided Carter was a good name for him and it stayed when I adopted him. Except now I've been calling him "Chirp" or "Mr. Chirp" a lot more than "Carter."
 
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