What was your cat's original name?

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Originally Posted by lionessrampant

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!
ChiChi's original name was Ms. Kitty she never responded to that name
When she was little she was just a big ball of fur and my Dad said she looked like a chia pet so thats where ChiChi came from. I left Murphy as Murphy
he just looks like a Murphy lol
 

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Originally Posted by ugaimes

Zelda?!?!?! She is far too pretty and sweet to be a Zelda!!
Thanks Amy.
Thankfully she had only been at the shelter for a few weeks so she didn't know her name yet. I don't think they really called her by that name because they had to go through the files to figure out who she was.
 

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Oz was named at the rescue centre. And we thought it suited him, although he tends to get called Ozzy now, it's easier to call.

My daughters rescue siamese were already called Jenny and Pip from their previous owner, she didn't like the name Jenny so changed it to Penny, as it sounded similar.
 

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Hammie used to be named "Simba" from his foster momma! My daughter renamed him.

Dusty was named "Greta". She was given up at around 6 months of age by her previous idiot. (I will not call them owners or parents cuz they GAVE HER UP for no reason)... I renamed her Dusty cuz she looks... well... dusty.

 

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Harley's was named Downy before we got him, I knew that immediately had to change!!
 

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Sylvester and Annie's foster mommy had named them that, and I just didn't have the heart to change it.
Ultimately they fit them anyway.
 

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Dazee and Mazee didn't have names, we picked those out due to personality.

Chanzee - we hadn't decided, a vet office receptionist encouraged that one.

Grazee was Patar (french for fireworks) until we found out she was a little girl not a boy!
 

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I`d named Toby ROWDY (cause he was!)...but hubby kepst calling him Toby...so i let him "win". ;-)
Tedy`s name was garfield before we got him....but we wanted a "brother name" for him to go with Toby.
Toby and Tedy are cute names together...but it does get confusing sometimes.
Linda
 

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Aristotle was called Ghost by his foster mom. He was renamed because all our white kitties have had "A" names. (Aloysius, Alouette and Ariel, and ALexander.)
 

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Meish was just called Blue when she was at the shelter.....


... they also told us she was a male....
 

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Buffy, Thomas, Cadbury and Blue all arrived as adults with names that they had had since kittenhood, so i didn't change them.

Tinga was named Princess when at the rescue, now we just call her Princess Tinga.
Robin was originally Dibbles. Kendra had been named Sally. I named Caleb several weeks before i got him from the rescue so he was always known as such.
 

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cookie - no name
oscar - no name but nicknamed fatty.
tiger - no name but nicknamed fatty bum bum. and little kitts
 

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I only changed one name and it was a girl cat and they had named her Forest... Now I call her Abby
 

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Jamie was "Tertius". He and his four litter mates were "numbered" by the foster family. Primus (actually "Prima", as she was the only female), Secundus, Tertius, Quartus, and Quintas. The foster family kept Secundus and Quartus, so they still have the same names. They later took in a dainty stray (male) who looks just like Jamie (standard tuxedo, or "Felix" type), but tinier, so "she" has been dubbed "Tertia". Quintus crossed the Rainbow Bridge a few months ago, and "Prima" has been renamed, but I can't remember what she's called now.
 

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The only one of mine that came with a name was Gracie, formerly known as Shanainai. The two nuns who cared for her feral colony named her after a character on the TV show, Martin, who had a lot of attitude. They they thought the kitten did too!
It's still her middle name.
 

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Joshua was named Bandit by his previous owners. Probably because of the "mask" over his eyes. But I thought he was too sweet to be a Bandit.

Kinah was named Trina by the shelter. Strange thing is, the similarity between her past name and current name is not on purpose.
 

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Let's see, we found CJ and Billy's litter, and we were gonna give them all away, so I didn't put a lot of thought into their first names... just what popped into my head. I called CJ "Blue" because she had the brightest blue eyes I had ever seen. Billy was actually taken by my brother and his wife, but their other cat had litterbox issues, and their dog didn't make it better, so they decided cats just weren't right. Their dog's name is Cleo, so they named Billy "Ceaser." When we got him back, we changed it to match the western theme. When CJ had her kitties, I didn't think I could keep them, either. But I put a little more though into the names, I must admit. I called Annie "Al" at first, because I thought she was a boy, and Al stood for "Albino." When I found out that he was a she, I changed it to "Elle," but when my father said I could keep her, I stuck with the western theme.
Belle
was named Mirah, because she was a little chunky, and loved attention, just like the cartoon character, Elmirah. Changed it to match with the western theme when my dad totally surprised me and said I could keep her. Belle Starr was perfect, because the actualy Belle Starr's name was Myra.
 
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