What was your cat's original name?

For those of you who adopted from a shelter..what was your kitty's original name? Or if you had some other situation in which your baby was named already...did you change it? What was it?

My kits were originally Gabriel and Chicky Baby Those had to go. I think Leo and Lola suit my little city kitties much better!

Opie was originally named "Garfield" - too trite for me. Since he is a mischievous redhead, "Opie" suits him much better.

Rowdy didn't have a name, she earned it within the first couple of days with us and Buddy was already well-named, when I got him.

Oliver's name was Goulash (I'm serious! Isn't that the worst?)
And Emma's name was Extra, hence my user name! We decided to changer her name to something a little more feminine once we had her home for awhile!

Well, Tigger was already named, and while I didn't think it had a lot of originality, I didn't want to change her name since she was 14.

On the other hand, I once adopted a BEAUTIFUL blue gray cat whose name was Fuzzball! Yikes! Once home, she became Martha, and it suited her perfectly.

CJ was Perry. eww. that is nothing like him. CJ doesnt really stand for anything really, but it works with him. Perry just didnt do it for me or him. He wouldnt even answer to it.

Lucifer was a porchfind so I don't know what previous name he had, if any.

But the orange kitty I used to have before him, I got at a shelter. I don't remember his name exactly, but it was something typically cattish like "Scratches" or whatever. And I thought it was ridiculous, so I renamed him. Of course, I went and renamed him 76, so, uh... heh heh. *Sheepish*

Sunday hadn't been named yet as we got her the day she arrived and she was only 5 weeks old.

Cairo was called `Bootsy' (uggghhhhh).

Sashka was called Scratchy - I came up with both names but I didn't like Scratchy because it wasn't nice or pretty (even though it summed her up perfectly at the time...lol) and she's a sweet, pretty little thing. Sashka means `to spring' in Russian, and she is a springy, climby, jumpy little Russian Blue so I thought it appropriate - and it sounded enough like Scratchy that she didn't get all confused on me...lol

Cats have always found us - the few that we adopted at a shelter we kept their names cause they simply fit them. We've changed the names of most of our dogs. Our greyhound was called Dobber which we changed to Doug. Jethro was once Rufus. Sam was originally Buddy (but we had a cat named Muddy and didn't want to confuse them).

Originally Posted by OllyExtra05

Oliver's name was Goulash

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what! that's terrible!!

my little girl was named "Jasper". which is a boy's name and boring.
I renamed her Tola which means priceless in Polish.

All our kitties have come to us without names, with the exception of Gryphon and Nibs, who were looking for new digs at the age of 6. Didn't seem fair to rename them. I actually liked the name "Gryphon" -- dignified, for a dignified kitty. Nibs was a little weird, but he was so neurotic when he came to us, I wouldn't have considered adding the trauma of a new name.

I have no idea what Usva was named before we named her that (Mist in Finnish). The only info from the ex-owner, who had adopted her first, but couldn't keep her presumably because of their older cat couln't stand her, was that "she is a lap cat and knows how to open doors". Perhaps they wanted to give Usva a clean slate? We wanted to name Milla Ruska (Autumn colours in Finnish), but her foster familys daughter had already named her, so we decided to keep the name.

Since I bred Lonestar, Elmo & Bridget here we chose their names.

Holly, Sophie & Muffin came from Nana's so we chose their names too.

Benja came to us as Bear but we had already had a few bears so we changed it to Benja!

Max was originally Marble, but I didn't like it. Alfie hadn't been named as his mums owner thought he was a girl!

My childhood boy Tigger was called Ambrose when we got him from the rescue centre, named after the woman who had found him and his littermates dumped in a gravel pit (Tigger was the only survivor). Absolutely gorgeous cat, lived to about 17 and was the light of my life

Pickles was a feral kitten, born in a barn. We got her when her mum was run over. She didn't have a name before we got her.

Ginger is a, funnily enough, ginger tabby cat that turned up on our doorstop about 15 years ago. He was once owned as he had a collar, but the collar was so deeply ingrained in his neck that he was obviously a stray (he's had a scar ever since, no fur will grow around his neck there). No idea therefore what his name was, but noisy little toad would be appropriate!

Oscar is my Dads pedigree persian, the name on his papers is Billy the Kid. No idea where the name Oscar came from!

Eviecats original name was Poppy - She's definatly noy a Poppy

Molly's original name was strangly Hartley

Abby's name was Zelda. There was no way we were keeping that!

Marlee was listed as Katrina, b/c I went and picked her out the week of the hurricane (or maybe right after). The lady at the shelter expected me to have a name for her already, to put on the adoption certificate. I wanted to wait til I got her home, and spent a little time with her before giving her a name, so it still says Katrina on the adoption form. Oh well, she's my little Marlee, and thats what everyone knows her as!

They were not named...we named them