Unique stories: how you decided your cats name.

[dwmills]

My cat passed yesterday, and the story of her name was only known to a few.

Church. She was a double rescue. One by the family that found her, at a church's steps and taken to the ASPCA here in Dallas, the family gave her the name and for all her time it was fitting. She was as quiet as one. Her second rescue came form a 13 yr old boy with christmas money in his pocket and a wanting for a pet that was his and his alone, and thus she came to live with us, and who for all that time was always quiet and as forgiving as her namesake.

[raecarrow]

Originally Posted by Zachariah Atteberry

I named my cat Tiger - cause hes either half or full Bengal and i thought it suited him cause everyday he just runs around the house jumping on everything hes a very energetic and hyper cat.
so hes wild like a tiger

That face SCREAMS Bengal to me. Sooooo cute.

I had a cat named Tiger as well (he was a DSH gray tiger striped tabby). Unfortunately, he had a run-in with a car and didn't make it.

My current Bengal kitties are Teddy and Leo.

I named Teddy because the breeders were calling him Bear because he was a big snuggle bug, so he became Teddy Bear (Teddy for short). I also have MULTIPLE nick names for him, including a few Japanese nicknames. He is Teddykins, Kitten-cat, Ornery Little Monster, Ba-ke-mono neko-chan (monster kitty), and akuma neko-chan (demon kitty). Here is a link to the "Meet My Kitty" topic for Teddy http://www.catforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=63134 be sure to scroll down because I have more pictures and a video of him

Leo, who I picked up from the breeder 2 weeks ago today and who is one of Teddy's littermates, is named Leo because his face looks like a lion's face because it is so jowly. I found that the name is really fitting because he is a little scaredy cat, so I have taken to calling him my Little Cowardly Lion. http://www.catforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=63135

I realized this shortly after I got Leo but I have had a *sing songy voice* Leo, Tiger, and Teddy. Oh MY!

[Judaeus Apella]

The name for my cat starts back about 8 or so years ago, when I used to know a 7 foot tall dominatrix in Chicago who worked in the main city Hospital as the head nurse. We were online friends and talked all the time, and she had a habbit of calling me "Angel". She seemed to drop off the face of the planet and I haven't spoken to her in years.

When I got my kitten from Animal Rescue, I started calling her angel as a pet name, not her actual name. I guess someone calling me Angel somehow rubbed off on me.

I couldn't figure out what to call her... I thought for weeks about it. Animal rescue named her Petunia. Oo Yuck, sounded like someone spitting tobacco.

As I recall something happened... don't remember what, but I was very sad and depressed. I was sitting alone on my bed sobbing and she came up to me, crawled up on my lap and started snuggling me. I guess she was worried. I hugged her and told her she was my angel, and then it occured to me that's what I'd call her from then on and name her Angel. I don't have any friends where I live so I don't really have anyone who cares about me, except immediate family. So if I'm ever sick, sad, hurt, or depressed, she's the only one I can always count on to make me feel better.

Everyone always wants to know if its an ironic name, and I tell them no.

[Gizmokitty]

Well I don't know if it is unique or funny but,

The name for Gizmo started when I was picking out a collar for him when he came home, I couldn't think of anything. For the longest time Gizmo remained nameless, for about a few weeks to be more exact. I had picked out a few names and tried them out on him and none of them seemed to fit, can't remember any of them now. Gizmo was among them though, that much I remember.
Anyway, it was time to take him in for his first shots and the vet tech asked me what the kitten's name was, I ended up panicking, and ended up having one name and one name only come up in my mind and came out of my mouth:
Gizmo
At first I was a little stunned because I did not give him a fitting name, but then I realize how much it fits him because when that name popped up, it was after the little critter Gizmo in Gremlins.
He certainly acts like a little gremlin sometimes.
So, even though Gizmo's name came up in less than fitting circumstances, I don't regret naming him Gizmo, especially since he has about a dozen nicknames that has been given to him.

[raecarrow]

Originally Posted by Gizmokitty

So, even though Gizmo's name came up in less than fitting circumstances, I don't regret naming him Gizmo, especially since he has about a dozen nicknames that has been given to him.

Some of the best names come to us out of the blue. I know all the names I have given to my animals have just popped into my head. I've tried picking names out beforehand but that never really works.

[Heidi n Q]

Originally Posted by raecarrow

Some of the best names come to us out of the blue. I know all the names I have given to my animals have just popped into my head. I've tried picking names out beforehand but that never really works.

Aaahhhh, but sometimes that can backfire, too. That is how we have a cat named "Floofy". We tried to name him "Curly", but that floofy tail of his caught and held our attention ... so that is what he ended up being called.
Sometimes a name just happens by default, too. Like with "that pretty green eyed cat is here again" being shortened to calling her "Pretty".

[Gizmokitty]

Ponders to herself:
I wonder if Gizmo should have been called Monster instead?

Back on topic, I think Floofy is cute, it's unique and brings out a certain characteristic, in this case, an extremely fluffy tail.

Raecarrow, that is how I name things too, like Max and Tweets. Othertimes, if someone wants me to make a suggestion, I just say whatever name comes in my mind. I guess I just don't have the creative power the storytellers in this forum have.

[raecarrow]

Raecarrow, that is how I name things too, like Max and Tweets. Othertimes, if someone wants me to make a suggestion, I just say whatever name comes in my mind. I guess I just don't have the creative power the storytellers in this forum have.

Well, I some how think that the common names we come up with are meant to be. I know my parents have a dachshund named Max and right before I graduated high school my Grandfather, Jack, died. That summer a relative was trying to find a home for another Dachshund who was named Milo, it just didn't fit. We finally settled on naming him Tiny Jack, after my Grandfather, TJ for short. So we had TJ and Max. The funny thing was, the relative brought all of TJ's stuff over in a TJ Maxx bag. We had a great laugh about that one. Like I said, some names are just meant to be.

[ETrescued]

ET has a VERY interesting name. When I brought him to his new vet, she asked me "oh, did you name him ET because of the small head or the big ears?"

Not even close.

When I adopted him, the SPCA had named him "Glenn." Obviously, that had to go. My grandmother was very sick and in the hospital (and passed not long after) and I decided that I wanted her to name him for me. I told her this and it took her a few days to decide, so in the meantime I called him a variety of pet names from "grey kitty" to "papi."

My grandmother was hospitalized in the Pulmonary Intensive Care Unit with severe breathing issues which were constantly being monitored. She was wearing a pulse oximeter (measures blood O2) all the time. It was one of the few non-invasive tests she was having done, and it involved a small rubber cap over her index finger. The way it works is by sending a light into the finger which looks at the amount of O2 being carried in the blood. As a consequence, the finger-cap glows with a red light. So, of course, she was inspired to name him "ET." My thoughts at first were maybe as a middle name but I began call him it, and it stuck. Now that she is no longer with us it has very special meaning to me, and he is a very special cat who helped me not only through her passing (which he still continues to do) but also through all of the little ups and downs of life

-BP

[asterix09]

I am getting my first little kitten at the end of this month

The next thing was for myslf and my girlfriend to decide on a name.

What made it hard was that my girlfriend insisted in not having a name that she would name her child after, as this would remin her of the cat

The names that I brought up were all sort of "human" (I really wanted Oliver) names so I got shot down.

My girlfriend won and we decided on Chuck