The Naming of Cats

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A la T.S Elliot of course.

Mine are Portia (play on 'paws' and I love Shakespeare) and Morpheus (RIP) the god of dreams.

It is inevitable that a new Maine Coon baby will enter our lives and hearts in the next few months, I cannot be without two cats and Morphy has spoiled me for anything but another Coon, so I am sure I will be searching for the perfect name again before too long.

How did you name your cats, and why?

We have Smokey, a grey tortoiseshell (named by DS) but can never agree how to spell it. I like Smoky, the vet records say Smokie but somehow she's ended up as Smokey

We also have Pepper, a dark tortoiseshell, named because she is dark with cream/orange patches, a bit like crushed black peppercorns but also I thought she might make DH sneeze

resident cats
Biscuit ginger and white because when he came from the rescue as a kittens my exH said he smelled of cat biscuits
Blue because hes half siamese so has blue eyes and exH an everton fan

jasper tuxie when deciding what to call our new kitten liked jasper or jester and went for jasper

JoJo his sister when she wriggled her way into our affection and we picked up two instead of one went for a name that went with jasper

Charlie the stray fluffy black he just suited charlie

fosters some came with names already from the rescue

sable and sadie private foster friend named sable and sadie went with that

shiela and june rescue fosters one was named shiela by finder and i said as shes got one of my sisters names the other one may as well have my other sisters name hence June

leo and lucy two feral kittens we rescued they just suited their names

My neighbour has a beautiful big pedigree boy called Hermes.

Tigger because she's stripy and bouncy and has a tail shaped like a spring (v short and z shaped).

She was Whiskers at the adoption centre - didn't suit her at all.

Chester - he just looks like a Chester, a v handsome boy. DH named him after he vetoed Alan, my choice

Adopted xmas eve as a kitten - he was called Claus and his brother was Santa...much too festive and on his own it just sounded like Claws!

Tiggy here. Also called Princess or Poo-bum

Our first cat was Murphy (RIP) (after Murphy's irish stout) as he was black.
Our second cat was Tabitha (RIP) as she had tabby fur.
Our current oldest cat is McGonagall (AKA Moggy) after professor McGonagall from Harry Potter who turns into a cat.
Cat 4 is Boddington (after the beer)
Cat 5 is Trevor after magical trevor www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/magical+trevor/
Cat 6 is Mabel - I wanted a pretty name for a pretty girl.
Cat 7 is Freddie - he was from an oops litter a friend's cat had and I watched him being born and we named all the litter F names - Frank, Freddie, Ferdie and Freya.
Cat 8 is Marmite - she's a very dark tortie - very similar in colour to marmite.
Cat 9 is a big fluffie maine coon cross and I was browsing beer/brewery names and came across a brewery with the name Douglas in it and it seemed perfect - it suits him perfectly :D

My son named his kittens after Anime characters Momo and Appa.