How did you chose your cats name?

Spaz well, she's a spaz.
Shadow, follows my fiance' everywhere, literally his shadow.
Trouble, only lives up to his name at the vet's office.
Vash, our favorite anime character Vash the Stampede, so disasterous, insurance companies have their own Vash clause.
Cassi, was Casseopiea when we got her, too much of a mouthful.
Ivory, well, she's pointed cat, and at nearly 6months, it looks as though she's going to stay an ivory-cream color.

My cats names are Finn and Darci. We have a tradition of Irish names so I picked Darci because she is black and that means dark in celtic and Finn (short for Finnegan)is a beigh brown and black striped kitty so I named him Finn )which means light - just cause I liked it!

Well.... Missy is really short for Miss Mischief. I SHOULD have called her Miss Priss, as she turned from being Miss Mischief, into Miss Priss! Photo below!


--Then I got Spikey and I named him that, because DH wanted to name him ELVIS!!! (and I did NOT want to name him Elvis!) Photo below!


--and then, my Katydid--well, she jumps around sideways all the time, like one of those Katydid bugs--and is always jumping sideways down the hall like a Halloween kitty!

Ok...yeah, That "Cupid"...he's a BEAUTIFUL cat! Great name too.......

We named Jinxie Cat off of the Jinxie Cat in Meet the Parents. Once again, me and my sister had hardly any say in naming him, just like we didn't have much say naming Romeo and Emily... but I mostly call him Jinxie or Jinx for short, so it's not all bad. I've actually grown on it.

Faile is named for a character in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I liked the name and that character, a woman on her own, a hunter.

Molly is named for my good friend Molly, who thought it would be a great name for her.

Arlyn ~ I just love that your one kitty is called Vash! I nearly spewed my drink all over the place.

Dexter and DeeDee: A cartoon called Dexter's Lab (and DeeDee was so so curious that it just suited...maybe not quite as destructive tho lol)
Squid: His whiskers were the biggest thing about him when he was little and positively quivered whenever he was playful or being naughty.

My mom named Katie. I had a name I thought was very pretty, it was Ayla; but as soon as I heard the name Katie I wanted to keep it.

Chuchu was named so cuz when i got him he was sooooooooooo cute...i had to give him a cute mushy name...all i could think were names like janu,
babe-o etc. My mother tongue is Gujrati which is an indian language n all these names are given to someone lovely n cute n adorable n so i finally chose chuchu

We named Gizmo after the gremlin. We found her at 5 weeks old. So she still had the long kitten fluff. She had fleas something AWFUL, and I was trying to pick them off her, but they kept getting tangled in her fluff. So I took the scissors to her and cut all her hair *gasp!* so I coudl reach the fleas. This was Saturday evening, and we couldn't get to the vet until Monday morning. then we gave her a bath with just plain water to rinse the flea dirt off. So there she was, her hair cut short, wet, with just her fluffy little head showing from the top of the towel. She she was meowing! My DH said she looked like a gremlin, so we named her Gizmo. And she's lived up to her name, and acts like a little gremlin, too!
Sasha is a pretty, feminine, little girl. Very small compared to Gizmo. So I wanted a pretty name to go with her. Sasha is what I came up with!

Snickers looked like a Snickers bar as a kitten... caramel (red), nougat (grey) and chocolate (deep brown).

Dusty looks like a walking dustmop.

Miss Jessie got her name from a song... "we could go to Mexico, you the cat & me"... stuff about living by the sea and drinking Tequila!

K.C. stands for Kitty Cat. She's itty bitty.

Zorro cuz he wears a mask! Zorro was a popular movie in the Summer of 1998.

And Hammie, is short for "Hamtaro". My daughter named this orange-n-white monster after a hamster on Cartoon Network cuz he looks & acts like him!

It was hard to come up with a name for my kitty. I could only think of names that would be good for a boy kitty. I wanted her to have a pretty name-- something suitable for my daughter because that's what she is to me. I thought about it a lot and then it hit me. She was born in April and she brings me lots of joy, so I named her April Joy.

Whem my boyfriend and I moved in together, we were too young to have children (we still are) so we decided to adopt to kittens. We decided to get two brothers (I don't know why two brothers but at that time that's who we wanted) The whole adoption process took about a month so we had a long time to think of names. We wanted to name them after a famous pair, but names like Bonie and Clide, Thelma and Louise just sounded played out. There is a European cartoon with two little Bogeys, their names are Kuzya and Nafanya. They both are afraid of people and become friends with the little girl that lives there. So we decided to name them Kuzya and Nafanya. When we came to the shelter there were no brothers but just a sister and a brother. So we took them in and Nafanya has a boys name but I won't tell her.

Here they are (Black - Boy - Kuzya, Striped - Girl - Nafanya)

She was registered by the breeder of course but I called her Quan Yin after the Bhuddist Goddess of Mercy and Compassion. Bhuddism is the prevelant religion in Thailand and YY is Siamese so I thought it was a good idea. As for whether Siamese really are merciful or compassionate, my vet laughed when I tolld her what I had named her - but she is my little sweetheart!! And she is very compassionate! She kisses me when she senses I am down.

Holly came pre-registered since she had been shown, and her full name is Holly Berry. Everybody thinks it's a play on Halle Berry, but it's really because she was born a week before Christmas.

When we were looking for our first Siamese, we scoured the baby name sites for a meaningful name, preferably Native American or Alaskan (my husband is both, although not Native Alaskan). We chose Mika (a Ponca name) that means "Wise Little Raccoon"... now if that just meant "mischevious galloping raccoon" it'd be an absolute perfect fit!

Arlyn ~ Do you have pics of all the kits up somewhere? I would so love to see little Vash. Pity Wolfwood didn't work that would just be too cute.

No pics up yet, have two disposable cameras full of them though, waiting to be put on CD.
I haven't entered the modern age yet and bought a digital cam.

Ah sometimes the digital camera thing is overated anyway... After four years I still haven't figured most of the things on it out.