Why on earth would anyone call a cat....

Small DGDs named theirs after a Disney Princess.

Most cats and dogs have human names now. I like the Reggies, Colins, Nigels, Georges etc.
Never let a small child name an animal, that's how you end up with Finger, Baji or Coal Bunker or, oh horrors! Scamp or Scruff.

My cat had a name but answered (before she got so deaf) to a chirp which I can make but not spell!

We`ve had many cats over the years and give them good appropriate names when they arrive. Unfortunately these always seem to mutate over time despite our best intentions. eg Tom became "Tam the bam" (because he wasn't daft at all- a born middle aged chap), Angus became "Fuffyboy"- mostly to annoy him. Our most recent addition was named Basil but as he grew into such a colossal cat we had to change it to "Big Basil"! Our small cat has mutated from "Minnie" to "Miniscule" as she`s so tiny especially compared to Baz. We end up just calling out a generic "puss puss" and hope for the best. Quite often other cats turn up too if we call that out!
I just like cats and they seem to like me which is great. DGS pointed out that when I`m visiting them various cats seem to appear at their doors and windows and I naturally have to go and have a wee word with them. SIL not happy though. Tough!

whoops, should edited that message !

We have acquired a beautiful cat with mushroom coloured marking called Malcom. He was found straying around a mushroom farm! Daughter doesn't like hhis name and called his mushroom. I called him toadstool when he gets on the kitchen worktop.

My dad now has dementia. He has had two cats recently and has called them both "Sue". I really think it's the illness that he forgets it's a different cat or maybe using the same name is useful for him so that he won't forget it. As long as he still knows who I am for the time being.

We had lots of cats, as I used to foster for the CPL

We had a Max, Pogue Mahone, Splat, Willow, Sherpa, Astrophe,Lester, William ,Morgan and Charlie

As a child we had Sweep, Skipper and Tramp ( the dog was lady )

Friends of ours used to muse that if they had a cat they would call it "Ceremony" - so that they could indulge in the double-entendre instruction not to stand on ceremony.

I do like your suggestion of Voltan, Slayer of a Thousand Voles phoenix Sadly my dear Titus who died many years ago would probably have been Insectus, Catcher of Six Beetles (But he was very proud of them!)

I know of a cat called 'Ceefer' as in 'C' for cat. A male friend inherited a cat with a rented cottage many years ago, and had the nightly humiliation of calling out the back door every night to get him in....'Hello Sailor, come home'. my black and white cat was called Tyson when rescued but we thought that a nasty common name so call him Felix, most original, but very appropriate for him personality wise.

Sadly, Granjura, we didn`t have Pepper very long, he got run over a few months after we took him in, miss him a lot, even now. We have another rescue cat, a white one, we decided to keep the name she came with, which is Mia.

Numberplease our best ever dog was called Pepper- because he was a collie cross and the vet said he was 'salt and pepper'- found on the East Leics streets early September, probably left to his own devices when people went on holiday. He'd been run over and was limping badly, about 3 years old- and we had him for 17 years- fit as a fiddle almost to the end- he was a wonderful addition to our family and so loved.

Little tease!

Plunge taken, new thread started!

Are you going to take the PLUNGE, Good for you !


With sprout, am I right do tell ?

Are you going to take the PLUNGE, Good for you !

Well, as long as you promise to keep his name as Sprout...

Errrrm, confession time!

Can you guess?????

The Cat Protection League are always looking for people who will foster cats but be warned, one or two may stay longer than you thought as you may want to keep them permanently!

Two of ours were going to be named Samwise and Frodo but Frodo didn't look like a Frodo (no idea what a Frodo looks like), so became Merry. All Hobbit names, since DS2 had just finished the marathon of Lord of the Rings.

Reading here about the names of cats and it seems at least some of ours weren't as unique as I thought they were at the time, such as Whiskey and Fudge. We also had a Zowie (the wall-eyed cat) and now have Boris - a RSPCA rescue at Christmas, named as such because at the time he had wild hair!
Also interested in the rehoming discussion. As a District Nurse, I used to be involved with having to get cats rehomed on occasions, particularly if the patient went into hospital, hospice or care home. The Cinnamon Trust can help with this: www.cinnamon.org.uk/.

My fluffy white girl (with yellow eyes) is called Daisy. DS and his lady's new 7-month-old rescue smooth-haired, black cat has been renamed Clawd. He came with the name Demon !

When we adopted a beautiful ginger boy just over 2 years ago, he was named Chiron, heaven knows why, but we renamed him Pepper.