name my cat

I just can't think to add thinks up to get a good name I have gotten some really really awsome names..Now were just have to do a little matching and then she will answer to what she wants I had a cat one time we named tinker she just upped her tail walked away and ficked it at me like not on your life..She did take to the name pandora and it was the perfect name we found later..Wendy

Naming a cat is such personal business, I don't know if I can help I kind of have to see her, or be with her. Ya know? But I have confidence you will pick the very best name for her! My kitties pictures are on my website. Here are their names: Romeo - A great big cuddly love bug. He had his name within 5 minutes cause he just loved me up from the very instant I picked him up. Cosmo - After Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld, cause he was such a big dork of a kitten! He was easily 2 heads taller than his littermates, clumsy, and just the meanest little dickens ever! He growled and snarled at me when I picked him up, and I knew I just had to be his mommy. Koko Bean Kittenpants - Yes, thats his full name. Not very dignified is it? Well he is simply THE sweetest chocolate point siamese that ever was. Mojo - Cause hes a black magic kind of kitty. Siamese through and through, but all black, with a voice as loud as I've ever heard. He cast a spell on us, and Koko, his bestest friend. Kitties who went to live with thier Daddy when we divorced: (the girls went with him, the boys went with me) Clooney - I have NO idea why I had to name her Clooney. One morning when I was walking out to go to work, I was startled by a very loud meow coming from the top of our woodpile. I looked up and there was a teensy ball of orange fluff. She was still there when I got home, and over the course of a week she became Clooney, and came inside to live with us. Domino Puss Puss - Named because she is a black and white tuxedo cat. She was the oldest cat I'd ever rescued. It was a very cold, snowy winter in Maryland, and she was sleeping on the convertible top of my car. I started feeding her, and inviting her into the house. She would go directly to the woodstove, ignoring all the hissing, snarling, cats around her, plunk down in front of the fire and go to sleep. She of course stopped requesting to be let back out. Kitties who are no longer with me: Scooter - She was such a lover girl. She got her name because her favorite game was to find a piece of paper on the floor, put her front parts on it, and scoot herself across the floor with her hind legs. She did this her whole 13 years. Yoko - Named in honor of Yoko Ono. She was a very shy, demure sealpoint siamese, with a very "interesting" voice. She passed a year after her partner Scooter died. So have you noticed a pattern in the names? I didn't notice I was naming all my cats with two o's in thier names until after Cosmo =) Michele

I usually pick more "human" names for my pet. My own dogs are Maya and Max. I have rescued a cat and another dog recently, which came already named. They are Molson and Mini. Molson, the cat, is named after our beer company. LOL Mini, is a very undersized Jack Russell terrier, so she fits her name perfectly. I have to agree that naming a pet is very personal. You have to take that animal to the vet and you don't want a name that you can't explain or that seems to childish for an adult. Enjoy your new baby. Animals are precious. Karen G

I usually find a name for a new pet based on something the cat does or how the cat looks combined with something that is happening at the time the cat comes to me. Sometimes I just let them be for awhile to see what pops up. Years ago, my family had a calico cat who was black and rust, with smaller spots of white. My mother named her Nutmeg, which changed into Meggie and Meggie May. When I got my first apartment, I went to the local Humane Society and 2 kittens adopted me. My mother and I were planning a trip to Egypt at the time, so that took over in my name choices. King Tut was a marmalade cat with really long legs. His sister Nefertiti was a tuxedo cat with a bent tail--looked like it got crushed in a door. A few years later, I adopted 2 adult cats. They were named Dave and Giaccomo. "Dave" fit him quite well. He was a very stocky cat, short legs, and his favorite way of sitting had both of his legs together on the floor. He wasn't a lounging cat, didn't stretch out the way lots of cats do. His name was kinda short and stocky, too, and fit him well. Giaccomo, I'm not sure where they got that name but he knew it was his name so I didn't change it. That one I morphed into Jocko-Locko-Mocko Man. I had a black and white tuxedo cat who I adopted the weekend that Gone With the Wind was rereleased in the late '90s, so I named him Mr. Rhett. He also had huge ears and paws when he was a kitten (although he grew into them), so the ears and Clark Gable kinda matched, too. His sister looked totally different, brown and beige tiger stripes with peach colored spots here and there. She was named Smudge, based on the smudge of peach color that went across her nose and forehead. I adopted a kitten at Christmas time in '97, and my favorite Christmas movie is "It's a Wonderful Life". Her name is Zuzu, which gets morphed into Zazu and Dudu. My sister wanted to name her Poindexter. In 2000 I adopted another brother and sister pair. When I received them, they were 8 weeks old, and their coat colors weren't fully developed. The male looked very much like a Siamese, with a light cream colored coat with brown ear tips, tail and tush, dark blue eyes and a pink nose. I named him Mr. Tipper due to the tips of color. Now he's white with dark brown markings (although some of the dipping in the tush area got removed when he was "fixed"). I debated naming him Frankie for the blue eyes. He also gets called Mr. Pink Nose or Mr. Blue Eyes. His sister is a brown tiger striped with big green eyes. Her name is Rosebud, as she came to me when the roses were blooming. That gets converted into Rosey Posey. I adopted a senior cat a few years ago who is named Bailey. She is about the color of Bailey's Irish Creme, so I'm sure that is where her former owners got the name. Her name gets changed into Missy B and Miss Bubie. When I first got her, as part of our get-acquainted ritual I would sing "Bill Bailey" to her, substituting Miss Bailey for Bill Bailey in the lyrics. I also found a website containing pet names awhile back, but I can't find the link I saved. There were a lot of suggestions there, but I don't think I used it as my final name choice at the time. Good luck finding a name. Such fun. sue O.

I have 2 cats and one is named Gypsy and the other XuXu(pronounced shoosha, long story with that one). And honestly, neither one of them knows that they have a name. I think naming them is for us, now them. Pick whatever you like.

Hi Wendy ... I lost my "beloved" Tiger earlier this year ... he is survived by his brother, Sunny Day, and I am contemplating adopting two girl kitties, Callie (a calico), and her sister (who was named Pumpkinhead, but I want to change her name to Capri). A friend of mine rescued her cat ... in a plastic garbage bag, thrown away in a dumpster (I, too, cannot understand the ignorance of some people). She named him Dino, and was asked (by her then, very young niece), "Why didn't you name him Oscar? Oscar lives in the garbage can!" ... Karyn

that is too cute I just don't think about things like that..The more name the better thanks Wendy

Hi! My cat is white with a black tail, 3 black spots on her back and a black mask. If it was a boy we definetly would have named her "Zorro" because of her mask. We were thinking of giving her a dalmation name because of her spots. But we didn't feel right naming a cat after a bunch of dogs. So eventually we settled on "Oreo". Like the cookies! She knows her name and would you believe she actually comes when she's called? go figure! Have a great day! Becca

Well guess what I have an oreo too,,shes a mini rat terrier...and its such an easy name my birds have picked up calling her so now she so confused..she kinda dumb she stand in the living room loking around like whose calling me... I think I'm going to be calling the cat voilet my son thinks its stupid I explained shrinking voilet...He said that cats going to be bossing everyone around shes huge...just give her a week.. so I'm going to revisit the list and look at the others.. Wendy