Story behind your cats name

Stoli - After Stolichnaya Vodka, he's a Russian Blue (yes I know there is debate on Stoli being Russian...(vodka))

Some other names we thought of: Rocco (love that one, but he's not a Rocco), Blu Czaru (still like that, it flows...but we'd have called him Blu for short), Boris, Ivan(hoe), Russian-esque..

Luxor - After the city in Egypt and the resort in Vegas, he's an Egyptian Mau.

Some other names we thought of: you know, I really can't remember but they all were Egyptian Pharoahs or something.....And I was driving home the day after we got him and every license plate I saw had an X on it....so I went with Luxor.

Trinity is named for Trinity from the Matrix. When we first got her she would play fight with our puppy and they seemed to defy reality!

Pooka-Mari is named for the mythical creature Pooka and Mari is a creature that DH and I made up for a RPG that we were running. Both are mischievous but good natured creatures and that is exactly what Pooka is.

Ezekiel is named after one of DH's characters from an RPG. The Character is a vampire and Zeek likes to smurgle my neck all the time, so he got named after the vampire.

Originally Posted by LoveMyCatsWSQ

So how did your cats get their names?

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Alley actually came from the Alley in L.A.

Since Persi is a Persian, I just dropped the last two letters!

Originally Posted by badninjakitties

Trinity is named for Trinity from the Matrix. When we first got her she would play fight with our puppy and they seemed to defy reality!

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We had a cat named Trinity too, RIP we had to put her down last July. We named her that because she only had three legs. So we named her Trinity which thought was pretty but also poked a little fun at her lack of leg.

We really miss her.

When my mother was a girl, she had a black long-haired cat named Smoke; after they got married, she and my father had a black long-haired cat named Smudge.

Our next cat was an orange-and-white shorthair called Woodie, because he lived in the woods. He absolutely decimated the chimpmonk population!

Then we had a dog.

After the dog, we got a grey long-haired cat called Smog.

Then we had another orange-and-white who looked like Woodie come back. We called him PurrPuss because he purred so much.

I've elsewhere told about the present cat. He showed up in father's neighborhood living on his own. He had obviously been someone's cat, as he was neutered and declawed, but he didn't belong to any of the families on the cul-de-sac. In spite of his lack of front claws, he seemed to have no trouble catching birds and mice and squrrels (sp.?), but father worried about what he would do come winter. I urged him to take him in; we had never had more than one pet before, and father was reluctant, but I talked him into it. (I should mention that we did not live together then. He was in Ark. & I was in WV.) He at first called him The Gray Cat, but at the urging of my Aunt (a retired English teacher) he became Zane (because he's Gray.) PurrPuss never got along with him--father didn't go about properly introducing them, just brought Zane inside--and just curled up and died. Father brought Zane to WV with him, and when father died I took Zane in.

Trinity Well she is a tri-color (calico) and Matt suggested the name after we had met her but before we got to bring her home. I loved the name so it stuck!
Bentley He has a bend in his tail and when he first showed up, I was calling him "Bent" because of it. That turned into his full name, Bentley.
Mercury If you haven't noticed the trend so far, this one also has to do with hos he looks. He is blue so when I first saw him I thought of the element mercury. I also had a little stuffed animal dog that was about his color when I was little and it's name was Mercury.
Nemo I had to break the trend with this one. Actually, I couldn't come up with a name that was good enough for my odd eyed beauty for like the first two weeks I had him. I was searching the internet one day though and came across Nemo. I found that it meant "no name or nobody" so I thought since he had no name for so long, the name seemed to fit.

For some reason, I feel like I have answered this one before but I looked through the older pages and I didn't see a response from me. I apologize if this is a repost.

Maggie is 7. I got her right after my mom passed away because she was afraid of cats. My mom's favorite doll was named Maggie.

Louie is 4. He belong to my father in law. My mother in law was afraid of cats also. When she passed away I got him a kitten. The adoption shelter had named him Brady but 2 months later my father in law passed so I brought home his kitten. Since Brady was still just a baby and we really didn't like the name, we changed the name to honor my father in law. He was an extremely devoted fan of the St. Louis Cardinals so that is how Louie came about.

Lexi just got her name because it just fit her. She is a tiny cat. I've never seen a cat as petite as her

I love reading all the names

My last cats name was Kudos names after Kurt Cobain (its was his nickname) and it also meant glory and fame apparently in greek and Kudos did believe he was full of glory and fame.

Our new Russian Blue baby girl has been names Nevaska (prefix) Anya Mika and the reason we chose the Anya Mika is because Anya means grace in russian and Mika is God's Child in russian so Grace God's Child! we like to have meaning behind the name and we call her Mika for everyday use which is just cute by itself and she answers to it! We took days of going through russian girls names before we both agreed on her name it was a toss up between Lilia and Anya (Lilia being a form of blue in russian).



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Oreo: She was already named Oreo when we got her from the shelter. She knew her name and we did not want to change it. It fit her fine. Now that she is a bit pudgy we call her Double-stuffed Oreo.

Snickers: We got her as a kitten with her brother (Marbles over the bridge now). She has the colors of a Snickers bar and we thought it was a cute name.

Jazz: He was named Astro at the shelter. I kept thinking of the Jetson's dog so I wanted to change it. He did not respond to Astro so I did not feel bad about changing it. We watched him for several hours and the name Jazz seemed to fit him perfectly. Especially he likes to do the "Jazz hands "paws" ) a lot. Our boys think we named him after the Transformer Jazz.

Monster- when i got him he was really teeny tiny. i wasnt very experienced in sexing kittens, & i asked the man who found him if he knew what sex the kitten was, & he said a girl. so i decided to name "her" Bella, just bc i like the name. he had gone to the vet several times & they never told me he wasnt a girl. but his nickname was monster, bc he was really bad & crazy, but oh-so-adorable. when i finally asked, bc it looked like he was growing a lil something extra, & the vet confirmed that he was infact NOT a girl. i wasnt sure on boy names, so the nickname monster, stuck around as his real name.

Mittens- was already named when i got her, & she comes to that, plus i liked it anyway & didnt change it.

Dion - Named after Dion and the Belmonts old rock and roll band from the early 60's. They sang "Run around Sue".

Frankie - named after Frankie Valli Another Oldies singer.

Bast - egyptian Goddess

Stanley - Named after Stan & Ollie the old comedians.

Ollie - Same as above, they are littermates

Zoey - Is Zoey

These are my current cats. I didn't list RB Cats

My cats now:

Rocky -- Two different explanations for this one. Originally, my cousin (who rescued the boys) named them after Rocky and Bullwinkle, but after "Bullwinkle's" name was changed, she decided he was named after Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, because they were found near there.

Oliver -- Named after the cat from the Disney movie "Oliver and Company" (which is of course, an adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist).

RB cats:

Taffy -- She was a chocolate-point Siamese cross and was sort of taffy-colored when she was a kitten. She also stuck to my mom constantly.

Lucky -- When she was rescued at four months old, she was starving and had fleas and a collapsed lung. The vet didn't think she'd make it to a year, but she lived to be 13 before she went over the Bridge in 2005.

Miles -- His full name was Miles Standish Silverburg Davis Donovan. My mom rescued him the day before Thanksgiving and he was black and white, hence the "Standish." "Silverburg" is after the character on "Murphy Brown," which was one of my favorite shows (yeah, I know that dates me). My godfather added "Davis" after the musician, and "Donovan" is our last name.

Peaches -- The little girl whose mother's cat fostered her and her brother named them, but the name made sense because she was a calico and her orange spots looked sort of like peaches. My dad joked that she was named after the musical duo Peaches and Herb.

Nibbles -- Peaches' brother was originally called Pears but got the name Nibbles after he developed the habit of nibbling on toes. My dad jokingly called him Herb (see above for an explanation).

Whiskers and Kitty -- Not terribly original names, sorry to say, but those were the names they had at the Humane Society when they were adopted.

Samantha -- My mom named her, I think after the actress Samantha Eggar.

Thomasina -- Either because she was found at St. Thomas Hospital where my mom worked or after the movie "The Three Lives of Thomasina"

Silly -- My mom named him, I think because he was always doing silly things to get her attention when he was a baby.

Kisa May:

Kisa: Based off a character from a show I like who can turn into a tiger.

May: The month I got her

Albus's original name at the shelter was Dumbledore, the character from Harry Potter. Albeit a little long, it was a good name for him- he seems very wise.

Shortly after JK Rowling "outed" the character, they changed his name to Gorgeous George. I'm going to choose to believe that the character being gay had nothing to do with their decision to change the name Sometimes, when a cat has been there for awhile, they'll change his name in hopes that the new name will catch someone's eye on Petfinder.com and they'll get adopted.

Anyway, we decided to call him Albus, Dumbledore's first name, since we're big Harry Potter fans and it's a shorter, but still named after the character he most reminds us of....though sometimes it's more like Fred & George

Max & Sarah were the names given to them by the adoption center and we thought they fit we like people names for our cats.

Capone: Came with the name Thumper from the SPCA and that was a little too cutesy for my little terror (oh boy, was he bad as a kitten!). My boyfriend and I love the Mafia flicks so Capone was a pretty easy name to think of for us.

Bugsy: Came with the name Snowball. We named him Bugsy to go with Capone and it was really the only other mafia name we could think of that would be good for a cat. For a long time we just called him “The white one†until we thought of a name LOL. Either way, he comes to any name we call out, my little sweetie guy.