Let's exchange info on our cats' names!

I had known for years my first daughters name would be Sierra. The moment Sierra and I met, that was her name. There was never any question. Elizabeth is such a lovely, elegant name and goes so well with Sierra, her full name is Sierra Elizabeth. My sweet baby girl! To me, Sierra is the most beautiful word in existance!

Oscar- Oscar the Grouch because all he does is FLOP HIS TAIL! He's an angry cat, I guess.

Scooter aka Poot-Named for characters in Ron White's "They Call Me Tater Salad." I think my s/o was drunk when he named this one.

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WE LOVE THAT VIDEO LOL

Stumpy: found him in my storm cellar as a not-quite-weaned kitten with half his tail chopped off. He's affectionately Stumpy-Lumps or Stumpy Speed Bump.

Koko Taylor and Muddy Waters: 2 of the blues kittens - their momma died when they were 10 days old and they had the blues.

Bob Marley: So mellow that he looks like he's on nip most the time. Our Rasta-cat.

Little Oscar: he just looked like the Oscar Meyer Weiner when we found him. He was tiny and took a year before he really started to grow. Now he is really the "Big-O".

Spanky: he's just a little rascal.

Eightball: black and white - we weren't creative at the time.

Tigger: was the bounciest kitten we ever met. Tigger from Winnie the Pooh had that bouncy spring to his tail.

Lucky Pierre: survived a tornado and was the only kitten in his litter that didn't contract FeLV from his positive mom. The Pierre part just sounded fun.

Scarlett and Pinky: we were way-laid with red tabby ferals for a few years and ran out of creative names so we started naming them after colors. When we ran out of colors, we switched over to Irish names.

OTB Bogart: sophisticated and a lover. A true gentle-cat that won the hearts of anyone that met him.
OTB Shep: named for George of the Jungle's faithful (elephant) doggie Shep.
OTB Boris and Natasha: we were on a cartoon kick for a few years. Not related, but she was large for a female and he was a tiny runt always on the scraggly side who weighed about half of Natasha. They looked like Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
OTB Rocky: found him at 10 years old un-neutered. He had been in so many fights in his life that the name just worked for him.
OTB Little Mom: a sweet feral girl that looked like her mom.

I'm sure I'm missing a lot!

Alright here we go..

Dutchy aka Dutchess Rodell: It took me a while to come up with her name. I found her on the side of the road as a little one, and she only had part of her tail. Well one day my friend and i were watching a movie with toby mcquire in it, Ride with the devil, about the civil war. Anyways tobys character was named Jake Rodell, but everyone called him Dutchy because he was Dutch, and he got his finger shot off, and so he had a "nubbin" well..my little kitten had a Nubbin too...so..she became Dutchy, but than she needed a proper name, so it was Dutchess, and she is one, so Dutchess Rodell is her full name.

Loki: Well Loki became loki for two reason. One is that I do love mythology. I truly to, and Loki is the norse god of mischief. But when I got this lovely persian Fluffer. I was also on a kick with the movie Dogma, and loved the character Loki as well. so it fit for him and he IS a little mischief maker..

Jellie and Bellie, i took these two little girls in when they were about three weeks old. Momma was run over by a tractor. I was going to call them Itsy and Bitsy..but i came in the room one day and they were fighting over a Jellie Bellie bag..so Jellie and Bellie they became..

LG Loki the Grey: Lg came to us with the name of baby kitty..he wasnt supposed to stay..but when it looked like he was going to we started calling him Loki the grey, because he is grey and looks kinda like loki and him and loki are best buds. And we like LOTR...well Loki the grey started confusing LOKI so we went with LG

Callie: Aka Calpurnia, Dutchys daughter, and just like her momma she needed a royal name. Calpurinia was Caesars wife and that seemed good to me. But we needed something shorter too..for steve, lol. so Callie the Calico it is

Halen: Callies brother. Steves first kitten of his very own..named for one of his fav bands..Van Halen. it suits. hes loud lol

Aragorn: hes not staying with us. but he is keeping his name. his adventurous and we liked the name

Halle: we thought she was a boy and called her Haldir..for my fav elf..but shes a girl so it moved to Halle shes going with her brother Aragorn to live with my friend in AZ

Lily and Lace: I wanted matchign names for these lovely girls, and my first persians for my cattery. I wanted pretty, matching girlie names. their full names Are Irish Lace, my favourite kind, and Lily of the Valley..mays flower and my bday is in may.

Ares: Good strong male name, and keepign with the goddess god theme around the house my first persian boy! well that wont be fixed that is.

Merlin, Arthur and Gwenevyre: Jellies babies. My dad named Merlin, he looks like Loki and my dad has always loved Loki so he is going to take little Merlin..my dad loves the story of Arthur..and i just kept with the names

other animals:

Athena: our basset hound. I was just saying a buynch of names for Steve when she was a baby and he liked Athena, said it was a good strong name and he liked that it was the goddess of war and wisdom.

Isis: Our siberian Husky I wanted something wintery since she is a husky, and with blue eyes. And i had been toying with diffrent vartations of ice..finally steve said Isis...and i loved it. Not only was it ice like, it was an egyptian godess name and went with Athena.

Sf MinniTundra SnoVixen: Arab/QH mare, call her Vixen. shes from minnesota, i got her int he tundra, and she is sassy! nuff said!

Sf Vixens Tita Laira, I wanted something to go with moms name and dad, dads name was Shadow Dancer...i didnt want to call a baby shadow, thats what her dad is called for short. So I looked up in my Elvish book....Tita Laira, means Little Shadow we call her Laira, (pronouned Lyra)

Sh Foxy Lady: Pintabian Mare, didnt name her, but her barn name we did give her, Mishka, cause we liked the sound of it, and it suits her!

Sf Alada Rare Gold aka Kiss: Barn name is for Steves other fav band. lol..her registered name is Alada for her grand dad Alada Baskin, rare gold, because A I like the perfume, and B she has some Rare gold crosses in her .

I think i got everyone..

Well our cats are "family" cats. Like joint responsibility and lovin' time between me, my bf, his parents, and his bro (although his bro does nothing for them... but that's a different story). So we all had our own ideas in our head of what the kitties names should be. But we just couldn't decide what the official name should be. So eventually we got tired of having "nameless cats" and decided to do something. We just decided that everyone gets to write down two names that they think is appropiate on a piece of paper. Then we put them all into a hat (or bowl) and someone draw a name. And THAT will finally be the cat's name.

We got Monkey first.

I recall my name suggestions being Skippy because he was the most energetic spunky little kitten you have ever seen and he seemed to skip around. And Monkey was my other one! hehe. Obviously Monkey was the name that was drawn out. It's appropiate because he is a freaking monkey in a cat suit! I swear! He is just so active and always climbing and doing fun monky/cat stuff.

Like this for example. This was taken a week or so after we got Tigger. Monkey and Tiggy totally bonded instantly and would play and snuggle like brothers. Here is Monkey getting really wound up while playing with Tigger. Lol. True Monkey stance.



Same name drawing process for Tigger. I think my names were Lucky because he was a stray that my bf's dad's co-worker found wandering though the woods. My bf's dad instantly fell in love with his cute little face and brought him home. And my other suggestion was... Tigger! lol. Tigger just seemed to fit him for some goofy reason.

Same playing session, slightly after the above picture was taken. Tigger gets smart and gets in position to pounce on Monkey.



Yep, so basically I kinda sorta named both kitties.


mwahahahahaha! Sorry but I just couldn't help showing off my boys while talking about them!

Cute Kitties!!!!!! Love that pouncing shot!!

Originally Posted by Arlyn

Vash was named after the main character in the anime, Trigun, Vash the Stampede.
The anime character is good hearted and loveable, abhors violence, but finds himself in many sticky situations where fighting is necessary, leaving a wake of destruction.
It fit our Vash perfectly.

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Hehe... Cool name
Dax is named after a character on Star Trek DS9 - We were not sure if she was a boy or a girl when we got her so the name seemed approporiate! (The Dax character has many *lives* and has been both men and women)

At the moment there is only 2 cats in my house, not by choice, but by what I can have in an apt.
Both my cats have been with me for more than 3 yrs.
Zeus we adopted from the classifieds( I know bad idea, but didn't know it when I did so). He was about 5 wks and was found in the street by a lady she wouldn't take him to the local spca because he had a cold and they told her he would be put to sleep so she took him home and placed an add. She was calling him blue and I was really unprepared for a cat, didn't have anything, but my kids are just like me when it comes to animals they love them so they begged for an animal and I said lets think about a cat I looked in the paper and decided to call this lady she said she would bring him over for a trial visit. He stayed ever since. I called hims Zeus because Zeus is the strongest greek god and Zeus came to us so small and couldn't even walk right(he was all wobbly) so I decided he needed a strong name.
Hera was planned . Zeus at 4 months was lonely and I decided he needed a friend. A friend of mine volunteered at a local petsmart rescue group and I asked if I could adopt one of her cats. I wanted a black cat(oh yes Zeus is a grey DSH- many say he looks regal) but took one look at this pretty Tortishell cat with the funny markings and she was mine) . Hera is Zeus's wife , but they are more like brother and sister.
That is their story.

CJ was named after "Casey Jones" a song by my favorite band, the Grateful Dead.

And the two new ones, which are sisters, were named Lucy & Ethel, obviously after the characters on I Love Lucy. Alls we need now is a Ricky & Fred. lol

Originally Posted by xocats

I adopted my furkids, when they were 6 weeks old, from a newspaper ad. They were free babies. I lived with my little maniacs for about a week, got to know them...then one day, their names just came to me.

I love their names, because I love them so much.

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I used to have a pet rat named Dexter.
And someone I know has a pet snake named Sadie (10 foot long boa constrictor)

I'm not sure how honored your cats will be to share names with rats and snakes though.

Joshua - got his name from the movie "Life is Beautiful". The little boy in the movie is named "Giosue" or something like that, but in the English subtitles it's Joshua. I thought Joshua would be easier to spell.
For some reason I wanted some sort of old fashioned but cute name for him. Joshua seemed to fit.

Kinah - Because of her coloring (light brown tabby) and her big ear, she reminds me of an african wild cat. So I looked online at baby-name websites for African names. Kinah seemed to fit her just fine.

Princess - we got her from an animal shelter and the name she had there was Princess. She's 4 1/2 years old and I figure if her name has been that for that long why change it. I liked it so I kept it.

Harvey - we got him at the same time we got Princess. His name at the shelter was Whispers. We didn't like it at all. It took us maybe a week to agree on it. I belive Harvey was Weird Al's hampsters name and since my hubby likes Weird Al that's the name he picked.

Neko-Chan: Well, his name basically speaks for itself Neko is Japanese for cat

Tehya Mosi: Tehya's is a little bit more complicated, but not by much *grin* Her first name mean precious and her middle name means cat in Navajo, so her name together is "precious cat."

And of course Tehya's new kittens, though only 2 out of four are named
Marshmellow: He looks like a giant marshmellow, what can I say!!!

Math Book: Yes, poor girl is named Math Book; I call her MB for short, my sister has always wanted to name an animal Math Book, so for her kittenhood before she gets taken to her forever home, she shall be known as MB
Laurel

Both of my cats names came to me in dreams. For elliot, I was dreaming that I was outside on the grass, and I was calling "here kitty kitty kitty!" and he was a kitten and I couldnt see his face but he was red, and I said "Come here Elliot, thats a good boy" and I petted him and woke up. So that is why Elliot is Elliot. I drempt that because the next day we were going to a shelter to pick out a cat, and i had really wanted an orange one. ^_^

For aerowyn, I was staring blankly at the wall in school, bored out of my wits, when the name "Aerowyn " popped up in my head. i wasnt even thinking of the kittens at that time, just blanking out. So that was sort of a "day dream"

I'm not a complete disney head... but for some reason, I decided to go with a disney theme when naming my cats.

Dinah's name actually just popped in my head on the way home after getting her.. it was only later that I realized that it was actually the name of Alice's Cat from Alice in Wonderland. So... there started the disney theme, I guess.

SO... then I got my sweet little boy, ScatCat... just 4 weeks ago...And a whole bunch of cat names from disney popped in my head.. (I was SOOO close to calling him Lucifer (after the step-mother's cat in Cinderella), but then I thought of the movie the Aristocats. I decided to name him ScatCat after one of the cats in the cat gang from that movie.

I adopted Ellie about 3 months ago. Her name was Limited Edition, they called her LE (pronounced just as you say each letter). I decided to keep it but spelt a different way.