Did You Change Your Cats Name?

[susanm9006]

When I adopted Willow her shelter name was Shannon. New life, new name as far as I was concerned.

I did have a kitten I adopted and named “April” but she was such a hell raiser I changed her name to “Murphy” after the TV character Murphy Brown.

 

[carebearbaby1]

Lilly's shelter name was Datha, which means color or dye. She's very colorfull so I guess it fit but ugh, changed it right away.

Toby's shelter name was Rowan. Not bad, but not a name I would pick.

 

[PipersMom]

Piper was a stray, so I have no idea what her previous name was (even though I know she had a previous owner). She knows it, but more often than not, I refer to her as "Kicky cat" because my 4 year old can't say kitty and it stuck.

My previous pets were all dogs and I did rename 2 of them. Sydney used to be Zelda (she had a sister named Zoe who was renamed Malley by her adoptive mom). Cody was "Stray" because he was a stray, so obviously that changed. His proper name was Dakota, but we always called him Cody. Casey kept his name because it just suited him and Phoenix didn't have a name when we adopted him.