I'm definitely a 1.
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How do you name your cats?
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I'm definitely a 1.
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Well, I've only named Lelia. She's a style 4 (my betta fish in college was Loki, so there's a two pet theme).
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None of the above. Ours were named for their personalities or behavioral quirks; e.g. Burdock, the clinger, or Digger, Stretch, and Bashful; or Prancer. The only one with a 'regular' name is Miss Eleanor, and we didn't name her. .
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I guess you can say group 1... Artie kept his original name; he was 8 years old when I adopted him..
Geoffrey is another matter. His original name was Goofy. I could not keep it. I had to change it.
The previous owner asked if, when adopted, he could keep his name. I could not call a sweet kitty, Goofy.. I had to rename him. I just chose a human name.. from a baby book. I did keep the "G",
to honor the wishes of his previous owner....
Geoffrey is another matter. His original name was Goofy. I could not keep it. I had to change it.
The previous owner asked if, when adopted, he could keep his name. I could not call a sweet kitty, Goofy.. I had to rename him. I just chose a human name.. from a baby book. I did keep the "G",
to honor the wishes of his previous owner....
I don't know.
Circe (name previously given ... kept it--she was 6.5 years old when I adopted her)
Autumn (what else would you name a calico found in September?)
Domino (because he's black and white)
TV (because she's black and white)
Cosette - literature ... she was found as a poor, starving, sick waif of a cat at 10 months outside my house one freezing February night; she has grown into a beautiful lady cat
Jemmy - short form for Jemmy-any-dots, a masculinization of Jenny-any-dots from Cats due to the coat being of the "tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots"
Leo - it just seemed right for my little orange fellow
(Jemmy and Leo were both named when they were outdoor cats before I thought about keeping them)
Appearance seems to be the main driving factor.
Circe (name previously given ... kept it--she was 6.5 years old when I adopted her)
Autumn (what else would you name a calico found in September?)
Domino (because he's black and white)
TV (because she's black and white)
Cosette - literature ... she was found as a poor, starving, sick waif of a cat at 10 months outside my house one freezing February night; she has grown into a beautiful lady cat
Jemmy - short form for Jemmy-any-dots, a masculinization of Jenny-any-dots from Cats due to the coat being of the "tabby kind with tiger stripes and leopard spots"
Leo - it just seemed right for my little orange fellow
(Jemmy and Leo were both named when they were outdoor cats before I thought about keeping them)
Appearance seems to be the main driving factor.
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musical , mythological and astronomy sometimes
I've been style 2 with Toffee and Fudge so far - they're the first cats I've had. I have a soft spot for food names.
One of mine is a style 4 after a fashion (Sir Eats-A-Lot); the others don't fit the categories very well. Meep was named that because that's the noise she made when she was little. Chesterfield was an extension of the name they gave him at the shelter (his original name was just Chester).
I went with 4, one a biblical reference and one an ancient Greek myth (although that could be classified as 6 as well I guess) in the end, both of the names really seemed to fit them, and I prefer them over the shelter names they had.
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Not really any of the above - I used to choose names from a specific country but more recently it's a combination of looks and personality.
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If given a chance to name I consider naming after gods, but it has to fit. This new kitten is Billy Ghost. I had no chance. Both were references made the nigh we got him to some cartoon and said he was pale like a ghost.
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My first cat is Meffy, short for Mephistopheles. She was quite a rascal at 6 weeks old. Second cat is Meimey, which means “little sister” in Chinese.
I refuse to use "typical cat" names for my cats, they will always have a "human" name, so I guess 1. I generally choose the names for my cats based on names I love but probably don't love enough to name a child. Of course, the issue then becomes when I name a cat one of these names, I love the name even more that I start to wish that I had saved it for a baby. Remy was named after the rat in Ratatouille and my dog was named after a character from the movie Trolls, so half of my animals are named after movies.
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Most of my pets (dogs and cats) are named from a beverage or food.
Most of my pets (dogs and cats) are named from a beverage or food.
*None of the above* for the most part. I've found that most cats eventually let their names be known (kind of like T.S. Eliot's poem insinuates) and usually it has to do with attributes, whether personal or physical. But there have been over 60 cats in my life so far, so it kind of runs the gamut. Baby Su was named after the wife of a public figure because he passed on at the time she found us, and it was a globally important event. It has nothing to do with liking or not liking them. Elvis was adopted at age 9 from someone who had named him that. He asked if I was going to change his name, to which I responded, "His name is Elvis!"
