As I posted in Crossing the Bridge. Ollie sadly and very unexpectedly passed away 48 hours ago. Some of you who have been on this forum for at least 3 years might remember that the primary motivating factor behind adopting Ollie at the time was to help Ally feel comfortable by never being alone - b/c due to her traumatic experience as a kitten, she's always had abandonment issues. Ollie's passing is certainly going to make that worse.
I personally was and am devastated about Ollie's death. That night is probably burned into my memory forever.
Anyways, Ally still can't be alone. I'm on winter break, and start school again in a little over 2 weeks. I decided to get another cat to be both her and my friend. No cat can replace Ollie, but another cat will hopefully help Ally feel less alone, and I'm sure I'll get incredibly (possibly overly) attached to the new little guy too. In order for the two of them to be friendly enough for me to leave alone in 2 weeks, I needed to get moving, regardless of how depressed I feel right now. Without another cat, because of how much work law school is, Ally would get virtually no attention (maybe an hour a day), and I can't have that.
So, I went out today and got lucky. I found a ~4 month old kitten up for adoption through Adopt-A-Stray. Coincidentally another red tabby, but doesn't look like Ollie very much at all. Very different. I feel bad that I adopted from a no-kill shelter/adoption program because I think I really should have adopted to save a life, but they told me that they adopt from the kill-shelters to save cats, so therefore adopting and freeing up resources still should help save a cat from a shelter that is ok with euthanizing unadopted animals, just indirectly (or so I'm telling myself).
I will take and post a pic soon, but he's got marbling rather than stipes, a lot of white (including socks), and is adorable. His shelter name was Fred. Ollie's was Harvey.
Here is a pic of him from the Adopt-A-Stray website - I don't think they'll mind me posting it since I adopted him:
And another (he's on the right)
I'd have adopted his sister too, but I have a 2 cat apartment limit (or so they say, some people in my building have more), and she's going to get adopted with a third red tabby kitten, so she won't be alone.
I don't like Fred as a name, but I can't think of a name for him. I think the thread for naming Ollie is around here somewhere, but I've gotten kind of rusty on how to use forums from being away and hardly being on here for so long.
I want the name to be within a similar naming scheme to what there was before. It's kind of a theme. So, it was Ally and Ollie before. Now it's Ally and _______.
Names that people have suggested are Wally, and Opie. I'm not sure I like either. If you could, please help me come up with names within the scheme/theme and then I can put them up as a poll. Thanks.
, and congratulate you for the new kitten!
All I could think was what I would change his name to if I adopted him... But some other cats that I was looking at had names I liked - Brock, Liam, and Harrison. I don't know if any of those would fit your guy, but I thought they were cute (oh - and manly...
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I agree with otto that you might want to consider a name that does not sound like Ally or Ollie. But if you are set on ending in a "y" sound, how about Rudy?
