OT: What Not To Name A Cat

The next time you get a new pet and are trying to think up a name, consider how you will sound standing in your front yard calling it. When someone dumped two very tiny, sick kittens in our yard years ago, my son wanted to name them. I let him. The child has long since moved out and is on his own, but his decision came back to haunt me tonight as I was standing in the front yard calling, "Here Stinky.... Come here Stinky! Stinky Girl!!!!" I suppose it's not much worse than some others we've had like Wart, Runtley and Weasel. Connie

Well, yes I could think of some worse ones, but if in doubt there is always "Here kitty kitty kitty....." Dina

I have a cat 2 years old and as a small kitten, she was very cuddley and friendly so I named her lady. She is NOT a lady now. I should have named her trouble. (she is the white one on my profile.) Cherish the gray stiped cat pictured was just put down at age 22 a couple of weeks ago. and I must admit, she was a very cherished cat, very lovable and she made a very good friend to me over the years. Years ago I got one from the pound and was trying out names with her and she meowed on one name only, so she became Muffin. I try to match personality and temperment but must admit I was wrong with the current one.

Martha, I'm so sorry about your furbaby. It's so hard to lose a cherished pet. Big Hugs, Connie

I just got a new kitten 2 months ago and named him Romeo....so now I can say "Romeo, Romeo....where fore art thou?" LOL I had a cat named Stinky once too. And Butterfly, Dancer, Chula (Prince Chulalongkorn from the movie King and I), Arnie, Blip, Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Buff, and my granddaughter's cat is named Bunny. Sally

hee hee... My neighbor had a VERY mean cat. He was declawed and I dont think he ever got over it. If you were petting the cat and tried to walk away he would attack and bite your ankles. And HARD! and hiss and just plain freak out! He was a strange cat...but they named their cat sh!#head. Yep poor kitty!!! That kitty died later on and they got another cat. This is a sweet but spooked girl and they were doing their taxes and ended up getting this cat from the tax collector and so they named the kitty REBATE! YES... poor kitty's name is rebate!!! sheesh. I just got a tuxedo kitty and his rescue name was Motts. We thought it was a cute name. I usually call him mottsie. And I have another kitty named snapples. Big fluffy orange long haired kitty... hes snaps for short. So I have a Motts and a Snapples. brand names. haha

Mine is a tuxedo kitty too. Dark grey tuxedo with white tie and spats! What fun they are. That poor kitty of your neighbors-- if they are declawed (mine is) they should not be outside...if they are outside, they need the defense....he was MAD! Sally

My 'boys' are a pair of black & white Tuxedo cats named Poncho and Lefty .. they 'share' a mustache, and mr mo has contended for the last 14 years they also share a brain.

Ours are Ginger and ArlieCleo -- guess what color Ginger is? She's a sweetheart but should be in therapy. Arlie is Ginger's baby (she got pregnant when she was 6 months old -- the tramp!) -- before you flame me, they're both fixed now! Anyway, Arlie is a calico and has a black mask around her eyes that reminded me of a stock character in 15th Centure Italian theatre -- comedia del'arte -- that character's name was always Arlechino -- but my son, who was very young when Arlie was born, kept calling her ArlieCleo - so it stuck. She's just plain Arlie now, and a pain in the @&&**!!!

Funny, Connie. The only cat I ever had was a white persian that my husband named Kilo (as in a Kilo of Cocaine...LOL...he was watching a mob movie at the time we were thinking of a name for that cat...) We have pigs now (not pot bellied, just regular farm pigs) and their names are Casey, Bootsie, Rene, Babe, Pokey, Annie, Willie, Jessie...and the one we just sent to the butcher's name was "Bacon" These are my son and daughter's show hogs. There are certainly worse things that you could have named your cat than Stinky. Whitney