Thing here needs a name. Suggestions?
19In the apartment backyard we were conveniently providing dinner bait in the bird feeder for this 4 mo old bony, scraggly, male kitten who apparently had been abandoned. He is a real lap cat, purr bucket sweetie. Anyway he needs a name. I’d normally take him to the no kill shelter, but I posted elsewhere what happened there and so I am fostering him. Any suggestions appreciated (well except Max as that was the name of my loving 17 year old who died last month) as I can’t seem to think of any name that seems to fit.
- 55 comments, 46 replies
- Comment
‘Meh’ would be a good name. He seems indifferent.
@heartny Oh he is not indifferent to snuggling LOL. He actually hasn’t hissed at anybody else in this household though even when they hiss and growl at him,
How about Mister Fuzzles? What a cutie!
I had one that looked like that. My daughter named him Kittyface.
Found a picture, this is my Kittyface.
Sorry to hear about Max”s passing
. What about naming him Magnum PI- Magnum because he is magnificent and PI because he is a pretty individual (cat)
My friend Sue had one named Dude. I’ve always loved that
Irk
Colby - orange cheese, orange cat
Sam/Sammy.
Timothy
Because he’s a red haired Irishman Kitty
and when I had cats I always wanted an orange one named Timothy George
Puppy. It’ll mess with everyone’s mind.
@narfcake This is true - new idea for a halloween cat shirt?
@narfcake But @Puppycat is @Thumperchick’s and @Humper’s daughter!
@Humper @msklzannie @narfcake @PuppyCat She can share the name. She’s got a few million other nicknames around here now.
That’s obviously Oscar… and company
@lilsrm123 An orange swirl cat I rescued (neighbor left their cats behind when they moved) was named Oscar. He was a really loving cat as well.
Here’s a pic of my Cheddar.
@mg2175 We had an orange cat named Cheddar (female, tho)
@mg2175 That’s a pretty cat. and @mg2175 aren’t female orange cats rare?
@Kidsandliz @mg2175 I have 2 female orange tabby cat. One named Momma kitty and the other named last cat I ever own I swear.
@olddognewtricks And the next one will be named “I lied”?
@Kidsandliz @mg2175 @olddognewtricks We had a Momma Kitty, too. Came with its own Baby Kitty.
@Kidsandliz Nope she was called “absolutely the last cat we will ever own, I swear” called her absolutely for short. We have had numerous cats since she passed, and are now at 4 and holding. My husband has a lot of cats dropped off at his job.
@olddognewtricks So what you are telling us then is your name should be “I lied”
Wolfgang. Or Ludwig. Or Amadeus. Or Gustav. I’m all about composer first names for cats and goldfish.
@luvche21 Classical composers only?
@Kidsandliz I would go with classical composers because their names are more fun. Other non-classical composers that I really enjoy aren’t as fun:
@Kidsandliz Even classic Hollywood film composers could work, but not all are that fun:
@Kidsandliz @luvche21 Claude, Antonio, Franz
Frank. It’s a great pet name. Try it out.
I had an orange tabby like that, named him Frank after my friend Mike who had red hair.
@stolicat using that logic I’d be naming him Alex after my cousin’s kid.
@stolicat Frank’s a good name. Robin Day had a hedgehog named Frank.
@Kidsandliz Frank was a shortened version of Mike’s last name. And Mike’s real first name was John, but he didn’t like that so he went by his middle name.
Frank’s (the cat) partner in cat-crime was Sam, a b/w part-Siamese female named after another friend named Carmella, who also didn’t like her name so …
What tangled webs we weave.
Mr. Super Monkey Cat
@ACraigL I’ll have to see if he starts getting himself into trouble. He certainly hangs on to me like a baby monkey.
Smitty
@cranky1950 I’ll throw it in the hat with the other names.
Jeff. Or Keith. Maybe Larry
@capguncowboy Wait wait wait. 3 names is making my choices harder as the list of potential names is growing.
Baggwinkle he looks like fuzzy line
Or Ketch
@CaptAmehrican Yeah he is a fuzzy mess right now. I think when he fills out a bit more he will become a bit more sleek. If there was a baggywrinkle on the deck though he’d be all over it trying to kill it or drag it off. He’d be a good boat cat as he definitely knows how to kill things. Actually so does feral kitty. She caught and killed a mouse at about 10 or so weeks old and left it in the parking lot. Didn’t eat it (she and her family were being fed)
Chauncey
@medz You will laugh at this. When I googled what this name meant an advertising banner of cat trees and beds came up.
Oscar
@eonfifty I know another orange cat named Oscar.
@Kidsandliz
Oscar 2. You can call him O2 for short.
You could name him Murphy, after my
.
Lucky. (What’s the name of the apts?) I always liked on Hart to Hart they found the dog on the side of the freeway so they called him Freeway.
We got a stray dog that ran out in front of my husbands car at 2am and got hit. Hubby took him to vet next morning and we kept him. Named him Fred… Freddy Fender to go with the other stray we already had, Joe Cocker.
@lseeber That is what my nearly 18 year old part Main Coon is named as I bottle fed her and the vet said she was lucky to have lived.
@Kidsandliz Yup… that’s why I said Lucky. Lucky to have you find it.
That’s pretty much what the vet said about most of our acquisitions also. But we couldn’t name them all Lucky, lol. Is he fast? Name him Turbo
We had a ginger tomcat that we named, er, Tom. But Rufus or Reddy might’ve been more imaginative. Slightly.
Anyway, what difference does it make to name a cat?
(Incidentally, the real name of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s cat was Orangey and she won her second Patsy award for that film, the first as the title character in Rhubarb.)
Gordon.
Butterscotch
Toast
Crème Brûlée
Swifflebottom.
he looks like a Sherman. NO, wait, Carmine.
Marvin, as in Starvin’ Marvin.
SpeedBump
I rather like Bucket Sweetie.
Opie Taylor.
Grandma
Alfred / Alfie
Conan
Dewey
Ferguson
Finnegan / Finn
Reginald / Reggie
Verne
Victor
Wilbur
FridgieBatterie
Three of my favorite names for a cat (a couple used by friends and one coined by my eldest brother):
My first wife came up with the name Romeo Butterscotch Creampuff (and, honestly, there may have been more to it than that) for a very similarly colored cat, clearly abandoned, who, when we adopted him, still showed the signs of violence of some sort. His back was furless, raw and bloody; his tail had somehow been truncated and was also similarly bloody and raw. It took a while for all of that to heal. He is most fluffy now and you can’t even tell; though his tail is maybe a little short, which you might notice if he were in a lineup (which he probably should be at times).
As it happens, this creature took to me–without question the least cat-loving member of our household–and we are quite bonded to this day. And I take some credit for his peculiar personality. He used to sleep against my neck and on my electronics, and still prefers me as a snuggling partner. I just call him Buddy, somewhat after the fashion of Pauly Shore and Skipper from Gilligan’s Island. Sometimes we just call him Boy. Other times, in his less endearing moments, we refer to him as “you little shit”.
@joelmw Very pretty cat - looks like a sweetie. Lucky to land in your house.
@Kidsandliz Well, I think he’s sweet. He’s definitely adorable; it’s been said (by most who know him) that his adorable appearance is deceptive.
Waffles
Or
Marshmallow
Hyper as in Hi, purr. If he is a little wild child.
We are terribly fancy with our kitty names…Little Kitty aka Thing One, Thing Two, and White Shoes. We started with Little Kitty. About a year later, we got her daughter from the adoptive home who could not keep her. Then It became One and Two. We had a Three for a couple years. The most recent addition, Shoes has mostly white paws. All are former shelter or strays.
Clearly that cat is named Hunter.
@thismyusername
/image Hunter Fisher believe
I would probably name that cat Lenny after Michael McKean’s Laverne & Shirley character.
The wife took one look at the pictures and said “Morris”.
“Otter” cuz he flops on his back, like an otter.
@distractedriver Or like roadkill
Or stick with the aquatic theme and go with something like “Speedo.”
On this forum? I say Mehgnificent.
So many names… making this problem worse (grin). At the moment he is still just kitty or baby (or at the vet ‘no name’).
@Kidsandliz awww, I’m jealous nevertheless. The fun of naming a new furball to love
@Kidsandliz HAHA It even made harder for you to decide huh. My vote for GARFIELD!
…I wish I have that color of that kitty. We have Snowbell the white one with 2 colored eye. Naynay a tri-colored (black, orange, and white) kitty (my youngest named her that). And Jack the most playful gray-ish kitty of ours.
…just shared this for you might find it cool to have this names too.
The stray dog who showed up at my house was always known as Stray Dog. It was his official name at the vets office. I’d say your kitty is ‘Lucky’ he chose you. Also Butterscotch seems to fit.
@tngrannyd I have a Lucky who will turn 18 in a month. I got her at 10 days and bottle fed her.
Bruce Wayne
My wife’s long departed kitty (an orange tabby) was named Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky after a Russiam mathematician. Something to do with him bouncing off walls with angular precision like a billiard cat.
@duodec We had an Ivan the Terrible that ended up called Ivy. He was a seal point Siamese. Sister kitty was Penelope aka Penny.
@speediedelivery
He was generally Nikolai or Nik, except when he was in trouble. Hearing his full name would often send him under the bed or behind the couch, from whence sounds of ferocious claw sharpening would commence.
He was also spaghetti cat for his habit of snarfing pasta and sauce from any unguarded dinner plate. And olives were like catnip to him but that never earned him a nickname other than ‘silly kitty’.
@duodec One of ours needs to inspect all food in the kitchen. She will follow me then reach up and meow if I do not allow her to sniff. Most things get an annoyed look and she stalks off. Sometimes we have something worthy of begging for her share.
Olives! As toy and snack? Pasta is funny too. I love the unique personalities of the cats we have/had.
The Great Zamboni. His entrance to any room should be announced with fanfare.
So are you going to announce the final answer?
@CaptAmehrican Yes - gotta pick first and I am having trouble. Creating this thread is creating me more trouble not less in that regards
. Also not been on the threads much as I was out yesterday begging for pet food for those cattery workers I am trying to help (irony - a different shelter bought some for them yesterday and shortly I am headed to Petsmart as they said they’d go look through damaged stuff to donate) and I have a ton of grading to do by midnight tonight as I have spent so much time driving around town begging to post the gofundme for them and for dog, cat, rat food and cat litter.
Orange kitty still doesn’t have a name. He’s a sweet baby though. Feral kitty finally has recovered from having her nose bent out of shape by this one being added to the household. Now I have a nutso 7.5 mo and 4.5 mo old (with the 3 year old joining in - that one was dumped on campus and she is actually my sweetest cat) chasing each other. My 18 year old next (bottle fed) month is like, “Seriously? You are upsetting my senior years with this?”. The 8 year old (found on the side of the highway as a kitten) is still slow to warm up.
@CaptAmehrican THE NAMING OF ORANGE KITTY…
Drum Roll Please…
This expensive little bugger ($132 extra to fix due to a non descended testicle and then an infection in the incision) finally has a name. Named by a 4 year old and seconded by a 5 year old his name is Tigger (yeah that is what I get for reading them Winnie the Pooh, although I guess I was lucky I wasn’t reading them something stupid like Sponge Bob at the time of the naming).
Of course the one I swiped from campus nearly 15 months ago, who looks very similar to goat cat (mix lynx Siamese), is still being called “Thing Thing” and probably needs a better name than that. A friend named feral kitty and another one. My two that died, brat child renamed them when she had a fit about her American name and I made the mistake of telling her that grownups name children and children can name pets so she immediately changed both of their names. I have gotten to name a couple over the years myself, including the one I bottle fed, but not all that many.
So Tigger he is. And I decided to keep him.
In the rear is feral kitty (Peaches 10 mo), orange kitty (Tigger 5 mo) and campus kitty (Thing Thing 3). I then still have goat cat who is 8 and Lucky who is 18
So cute they all are. And how could you not keep him?
@cf1 Yes cute they are and most of them are loving lap cats. Money for that many cats, live in 2 rooms… that is the problem and I don’t think that problem will be solved any time soon.