Attitude(black and white looks like the Maine Coon mix she is) was named because she has an Attitude. Mitzi named her this. I told Paul I wanted to keep her and he let me. She has always had an Attitude, since she showed up with 11 other kittens.The moms(Mama, Biter and Goldie) decided it was time for us to meet them and for them to eat solid food. She showed it really well when she got stuck behind Mitzi's fence and Mitzi let the dogs out. Attitude found a good hiding spot in an area the dogs couldn't reach. I was outside when it happened, I thought she was outside the fence when I had seen her when I came out. She hissed when Mitzi went to grab her so Mitzi left her alone and said she hissed at her. I climbed into the branches that she had hidden behind(the dogs can now reach that area since I broke them getting to her.) She hissed at me when I went to grab her. I said "stupid, knock it off, it's me" and scruffed her to get her out of the yard. She also decided to show it when she decided she didn't want a bath. She needed one because her rear was nasty and I figured if I was going to get that cleaned I might as well give her a full bath. She hissed and was mad but never tried to bite or scratch(she's figured out those are useless because I'll just keep bathing her, guess she decided to see if hissing would work, which it didn't. She is an expert at hateful looks, she just has an attitude and you can tell. She was also the 'test' kitten. One of the moms brought over a kitten, it was Attitude. She was nothing but a fuzzball of black and white fur with no teeth. She let us handle her and her mom(Goldie or Biter) didn't care. We went over the Mickey's thinking she might have lost a kitten since she had Callie and her 3 but all hers were accounted for. We already knew she wasn't Mama's(we thought she was) since she had hissed at her. One of the black cats came over and I told Paul to put her down to see if we found mom, sure enough she picked Attitude up by her head and carried her off back to the trailer until it started to get dark and they all decided to go where ever it was that they had the kittens. Once again Attitude was picked up by the head and whoever it was who had her carried her off with the other black cat following her. She is nicknamed 'Tude, or The 'Tude.
Nuts(tabby, black and brown, short hair) got that name because he's just crazy. He was sitting in the middle of the road and Mitzi drove up[, she honked but Nuts just sat there and stared at her(we don't live on a busy street, Mitzi and b#tch up the street were the only traffic, thankfully it was Mitzi, b#tch would have ran him over just for the fun of it.) Finally she had to get out of her car and physically move him. All the other scattered when she honked the horn. Mitzi was also outside with the dogs and Nuts was antagonizing them and they were barking and he decided to walk through the fence the dogs were behind. Luckily he ran back out before Dylan ate him. I started calling him Nuts after that and decided I was going to keep him too. Him and Attitude were already 'partners in crime' anyways, I didn't want to separate them. He also started standing up to the Siamese everyone hated at 4 weeks old doing a total Halloween cat- arched back hair standing up and hissing at her. It was funny to watch, she didn't know what to make of that.
They answer to their names when they feel like it, like most cats.
Mama was named because she was the one who started it all, she is Callie, Goldie and Biter's mom and the grandma of the 12 kittens(counting Callie's 3) we had last summer(plus she had 3 of her own last summer as well.) Biter got named because she loves to give love bites(in other words she mouths your finger with her teeth.) When you pet her it's almost guaranteed she'll bite you, but never hard. Goldie(RB) was named because of her gold eyes, she disappeared one day never to be seen again, I think she became coyote chow. Goldie was the hardest to name, we just came up with it because we had no idea what to name her.
Runt was named because he was the Runt of the litter, he's now huge so Runt doesn't fit him anymore but he was already named so we kept it. Half-tail was impossible to name I finally noticed she had a short tail so I named her that. Goldie Jr has Goldie's golden eyes(well they all have the eyes but he looks exactly like her, all black.)
Mama is a tortoiseshell Maine Coon and the rest of the outside crew are black cats with varying fur lengths from short to medium length hair.
One more outside is Blue, I named him that after he stuck around long enough that he needed a name, he just showed up one day and decided to stay. He mostly stays over at Mickey's(she feeds them, mine usually show up over there to see if she's offering something better than we are, I think we feed the exact same thing, Cat Chow) he likes her porch swing, but he comes over to visit a few times a week at least. He's a Blue cat(he looks looks like a Russian Blue) so he got called Blue.
Sylvester has a name but he won't come near us and hisses at me if he's close when I have the food bowl. Normally we don't name cats we can't interact with but he looks like Sylvester from Loony Toons so we started calling him that. I say hi to him every time I see him.
Not sure if any of them know their names.
Spaz(RB)(all white short hair) got her name because she's a spaz. My boyfriend Patrick(who is now my ex-husband) called her 'little b#tch' and she responded to that better than her own name so it stuck. I still usually called her Spaz, she knew her name just responded to Patrick's nickname for her better.
Maude(RB) came pre-named from the humane society and Paul kept her name the same. She knew her name, she just chose to never respond to it.
Taryn
Nuts(tabby, black and brown, short hair) got that name because he's just crazy. He was sitting in the middle of the road and Mitzi drove up[, she honked but Nuts just sat there and stared at her(we don't live on a busy street, Mitzi and b#tch up the street were the only traffic, thankfully it was Mitzi, b#tch would have ran him over just for the fun of it.) Finally she had to get out of her car and physically move him. All the other scattered when she honked the horn. Mitzi was also outside with the dogs and Nuts was antagonizing them and they were barking and he decided to walk through the fence the dogs were behind. Luckily he ran back out before Dylan ate him. I started calling him Nuts after that and decided I was going to keep him too. Him and Attitude were already 'partners in crime' anyways, I didn't want to separate them. He also started standing up to the Siamese everyone hated at 4 weeks old doing a total Halloween cat- arched back hair standing up and hissing at her. It was funny to watch, she didn't know what to make of that.
They answer to their names when they feel like it, like most cats.
Mama was named because she was the one who started it all, she is Callie, Goldie and Biter's mom and the grandma of the 12 kittens(counting Callie's 3) we had last summer(plus she had 3 of her own last summer as well.) Biter got named because she loves to give love bites(in other words she mouths your finger with her teeth.) When you pet her it's almost guaranteed she'll bite you, but never hard. Goldie(RB) was named because of her gold eyes, she disappeared one day never to be seen again, I think she became coyote chow. Goldie was the hardest to name, we just came up with it because we had no idea what to name her.
Runt was named because he was the Runt of the litter, he's now huge so Runt doesn't fit him anymore but he was already named so we kept it. Half-tail was impossible to name I finally noticed she had a short tail so I named her that. Goldie Jr has Goldie's golden eyes(well they all have the eyes but he looks exactly like her, all black.)
Mama is a tortoiseshell Maine Coon and the rest of the outside crew are black cats with varying fur lengths from short to medium length hair.
One more outside is Blue, I named him that after he stuck around long enough that he needed a name, he just showed up one day and decided to stay. He mostly stays over at Mickey's(she feeds them, mine usually show up over there to see if she's offering something better than we are, I think we feed the exact same thing, Cat Chow) he likes her porch swing, but he comes over to visit a few times a week at least. He's a Blue cat(he looks looks like a Russian Blue) so he got called Blue.
Sylvester has a name but he won't come near us and hisses at me if he's close when I have the food bowl. Normally we don't name cats we can't interact with but he looks like Sylvester from Loony Toons so we started calling him that. I say hi to him every time I see him.
Not sure if any of them know their names.
Spaz(RB)(all white short hair) got her name because she's a spaz. My boyfriend Patrick(who is now my ex-husband) called her 'little b#tch' and she responded to that better than her own name so it stuck. I still usually called her Spaz, she knew her name just responded to Patrick's nickname for her better.
Maude(RB) came pre-named from the humane society and Paul kept her name the same. She knew her name, she just chose to never respond to it.
Taryn
