Would you keep the name of the feline given to your cat if adopted from a shelter or rescue, bought from a breeder, given or sold to you by someone, or acquired through any means?
You all probably know how excited I am that Bob has joined our family. He was adopted from a no kill shelter and has already cost us over a whopping $1,200 in damages, by removing a heavy ornate vent and finding himself in my ductwork. No kitten is free, right? No kitten is $20.00 either.
Anyway, I had the name Poppy picked out for my new cat or kitten regardless of gender. I love Jerry Seinfeld, and Poppy was a man who took revenge on him on the television show by urinating on his sofa. Or perhaps it was an accident. We'll give Poppy a reasonable doubt.
(The majority of my cats didn't come named, so it was never an issue before. Then along came Bob. He is a five-month-old stumpy-tailed Manx kitten, and I thought the name was so cute that I kept it. It fit! He knew his name on about the third day (maybe sooner), we had him, because he is more intelligent than me or DH combined.
He is still not socialized, but we are making progress quickly. Sometimes I do call him Bobber, since my preferred method of fishing is with a cane pole and a bobber, though I have not fished for years. I've never had many cats with people names before, because I am a little on the whimsical side. There is Elsie, Oscar, Sally, and there was Daisy. 
My question is, (and I am super jealous the members who do get to ask the question of the day) would you change your new kittens' or cats' name if they were already named?
And to the people in power out there, sorry for asking a Question of the Day, which will be asked by someone who a professional/assigned question asker. My apologies to those members, too, for trying to steal their job! And if nobody kicks me off the Site, how does one apply for the position, at least once in a while? I can be much more concise, I promise!
You all probably know how excited I am that Bob has joined our family. He was adopted from a no kill shelter and has already cost us over a whopping $1,200 in damages, by removing a heavy ornate vent and finding himself in my ductwork. No kitten is free, right? No kitten is $20.00 either.
Anyway, I had the name Poppy picked out for my new cat or kitten regardless of gender. I love Jerry Seinfeld, and Poppy was a man who took revenge on him on the television show by urinating on his sofa. Or perhaps it was an accident. We'll give Poppy a reasonable doubt.
(The majority of my cats didn't come named, so it was never an issue before. Then along came Bob. He is a five-month-old stumpy-tailed Manx kitten, and I thought the name was so cute that I kept it. It fit! He knew his name on about the third day (maybe sooner), we had him, because he is more intelligent than me or DH combined.
He is still not socialized, but we are making progress quickly. Sometimes I do call him Bobber, since my preferred method of fishing is with a cane pole and a bobber, though I have not fished for years. I've never had many cats with people names before, because I am a little on the whimsical side. There is Elsie, Oscar, Sally, and there was Daisy. My question is, (and I am super jealous the members who do get to ask the question of the day) would you change your new kittens' or cats' name if they were already named?
And to the people in power out there, sorry for asking a Question of the Day, which will be asked by someone who a professional/assigned question asker. My apologies to those members, too, for trying to steal their job! And if nobody kicks me off the Site, how does one apply for the position, at least once in a while? I can be much more concise, I promise!
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When I saw one of the little boys we trapped and sent through a rescue to the no kill shelter where we got Bob, they had named him Sarge! I couldn't believe it! No offense if your German Shephard or Doberman or a cat or even a child named Sarge, but I was so upset that the boy kittens (one who looked like a Siamese, the other who looked like a snowshoe, and could have easily passed for purebreds) weren't adopted together and at least one called by a name that didn't fit, I started to cry. Mostly because I wanted them to go together. I had to make some tough choices regarding those kittens, so I chose them to go the shelter because they were so beautiful that I thought they had the best chance at adoption. Afterward, the woman affiliated with the rescue that helped us said they were so wild they would probably end up as barn cats and that I should have sent Bree because she was so sweet. (I kept both black kittens because I thought that black cats and dogs were more difficult to find homes for.)
