Are your cats named after someone/something?

How great it is to read all these wonderful stories! There is always a tale (tail? HA!) behind a name.

Believe it or not, Nelson is named after Nelson Munz (muntz) from the Simpsons - the one who goes haaa ha all the time. My hubby is a huge Simpsons fan.

In fact the first kitten we got was called Krusty (after the Simpsons clown) - unfortunately we got Krusty from a shelter which was rapant with cat flu and he died 7 days after we brought him home.

The other animal we have had was a dog called Happy - named after the character from the movie Happy Gilmore (another fav of hubby's). He too died (we had to put him down)as he had a heart mumur and at age 31/2 his poor heart finally gave out...

Zoe is Zoe cos we liked that name!!

Faile is named after a character in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. We were both reading those books when she came into our lives.

Molly is named for my good friend Molly. She (the human Molly) thought it would be a great name for our new kitty. She's the only person I know who likes it when her friends name their pets for her.

I renamed Sphinx from his shelter Number to Sphinx (named after the Great Sphinx in Egypt) because it seems to fit him - being somewhat regal and all.

Loki is named after the norse god od mischief. Did not know what to call him at first but after a week or so it just was so appropriate, and that has not changed!!!

Both the two we named Logan & Lady D are after comic book characters yup a child at heart always. Riely was already named so wwe kept it, although he has been thinking he's turning Irish on us. All the Oh Riley's you hear in our house .

Samantha is named after a neighbor's cat that I used to pet sit when I was a teenager.
Their Sam cat was a black and white boy kitty who disappeared when he was 7 and I was away at college at the time.
A couple of years later I got my own girl Sam cat who looks a lot like the original Sam. I call her Sam or Sammy for short.

Amber came with her name. and since she has a little orange blaze on her head, I thought it was fitting.

she is having a 'snack' in these shots.

YES! Franz is named after Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer, known esp for his piano works. He is a 15lb Maine Coon, Black and White so he looks like a baby grand piano ! He adores listening to Liszt CDs...taps his paw to the music...he is so sophisticated! He likes Beethoven as well, but I couldn't hang him with the name Ludwig!

YES! Franz is named after Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer, known esp for his piano works. He is a 15lb Maine Coon, Black and White so he looks like a baby grand piano ! He adores listening to Liszt CDs...taps his paw to the music...he is so sophisticated! He likes Beethoven as well, but I couldn't hang him with the name Ludwig!

YES! Franz is named after Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer, known esp for his piano works. He is a 15lb Maine Coon, Black and White so he looks like a baby grand piano ! He adores listening to Liszt CDs...taps his paw to the music...he is so sophisticated! He likes Beethoven as well, but I couldn't hang him with the name Ludwig!

Originally posted by blondiecat
I named Sammycat when he kind of got stuck in the bathroom when he was a baby. He reminded me of "Little Black Sambo" from the childrens book that I had as a child. So I just changed it to Sammycat.
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"Little Black Sambo"!! I remember that! Haven't thought about it for eons.

I picked "Rosie" because all the cats my parents had were either, Sooty,Blackie,Tufty, fluff etc.... Not that theres anything wrong with them names because i was always allowed to pick them anyway.

I just wanted a girls name, plus i thought the name suited her

It was that or Lara after Lara Croft from Tomb Raider which my ex boyfriend wanted

Well, at least one of mine is! Max just looked like a Max and my husband loves that name.

Simon is named after a cartoon. who remembers Alvin and the Chipmunks?

When I first got Simon he was a scared little stray kitten. I put him in a cat carrier to bring him to the vet and have him looked over. When I looked into the cat carrier, he was backed up all the way to the back. Since he's black, all I could see were these huge green eyes. It reminded me of the chipmunk in the cartoon because he wore glasses and his eyes were always magnified by them so they looked huge. So that's how he became Simon!

Yeppers! I'm a HUGE Ottawa Senators fan and their mascot is Spartacat, a big lion. So, having gotten a longhaired brown tabby, I figured that was a perfect name. But then Spartacat became a mouthful so I shortened it to Sparta. I like to call her Spartakitten sometimes. And then when I got Ares, I figured since Sparta also happened to be the name of a (an old? I don't know my history or anything like that well) Greek city, I'd stick with the Greek theme and picked Ares, which is the greek god of war. It's perfect for him as he's always trying to start a "war" with Sparta!

YUP - Loki was named fittingly after the Norse God of Mischief!

Jeepers was a scaredy cat when we first got her so we named her after the 'Jeepers Creepers' film (I saw it the night before we got her and jumped out of my skin a couple of times ).

Axl is named after Axl Rose of Guns N Roses because he is ginger and has long fur.

Some of mine are! Gizmo from the Gremlins, and Mia from Mia Hamm(sp)the U.S. Soccer player because she was kicking around little balls when we brought her home. I think that is it?

YEP! Zebra was named because she has markings that looks exactly like a Zebra.

Buddy was selected because he LIKES to be around me and other people.

Spike was named after the vampire in the shows "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel" because Spike LIKES to bite (lightly) and chew on carboard (ripping it to shreds) and my video cabinet (wood!!)Actually he would chew on anything hard. I've caught him chewing on a cat statue!!

Pepper was named after Salt & Pepper- due to her coloring of Black/white and she's full of SPICE and SASS!

I didn't (and still don't) like the name of Red Cat, but he already had that name when we got him. I tried re-naming him Caruso, due to the volume and frequency of his "singing," but since he answered to Red Cat and had to be called so often, it was just impossible to change.

And I'm sure you can guess where the long-haired Purdy got his name. He's just such a "purdy" kitty cat.