Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

The litter tray

Join our community of cat lovers on the Mumsnet Cat forum for kitten advice and help with cat behaviour.

What exotic name can we call black and white cats so they dont get overlooked in the rescue centres?

93 replies

Fluffycloudland77 · 08/08/2015 19:41

We need to make them more desirable.

I'm not creative with words so one of you will have to think of something.

Sylvester & Tom are not allowed --making the rules up as I go- because no one watches those cartoons anymore and they wont have the faintest idea who Sylvester is.

OP posts:
Thread gallery
11
howtodrainyourflagon · 08/08/2015 19:44

go for geek appeal

Atom
Quantum
Quark
Neutron
Electron
??

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 08/08/2015 19:45

Sad isn't it? I was gobsmacked when I read this on the rescue websites

iKnackered · 08/08/2015 19:48

Yingyangs

Panda breed

Pengcats (as in penguins)

G1veMeStrength · 08/08/2015 19:50

Mr Poppers Pussies.

(Ok maybe not)

RoosterCogburn · 08/08/2015 19:53

YingYangs is brilliant

Chessboard Cats

I love black and white cats.

Fluffycloudland77 · 08/08/2015 19:54

Everybody LOVES pandas.

If we come up with something good TCN will see it and get the rescue she works at to adopt it and it will start the re-branding.

People will be queuing up to get them.

OP posts:
PaigeMahoney · 08/08/2015 19:56

I genuinely don't understand other people much, black and white cats are my absolute favourite and my old black and white girl is sitting purring away on my lap (and is the best cat in the world ever.....IMO)

MissMuffetisin · 08/08/2015 19:58

I think in the USA they are known as Jellico cats, which sound a bit more exiting ! The one that look like postman pats cat Jess are Tuxedo cats !

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/08/2015 19:58

They're called tuxedo cats in America Smile

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/08/2015 19:59

X post, Muffet Smile

PatriarchalHandmaiden · 08/08/2015 20:00

Jellicle Cats, as coined by T.S Elliott, was my favourite poem in the collection when I was growing up!

derektheladyhamster · 08/08/2015 20:01

Oreo cats - love a black & white myself

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/08/2015 20:02

Felix cats!

What exotic name can we call black and white cats so they dont get overlooked in the rescue centres?
coffeenowalnuts · 08/08/2015 20:05

Sherlock and Moriarty? Or Sherlock and Mycroft? Thor and Loki?

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 08/08/2015 20:08

When we had a bunch of tabby and black and white foster kittens we gave them a wide assortment of cutesy names but the one who was snapped up the instant he went on the website was the black one named (for reasons which seemed to make sense at the time) Gavin.

Based on that I'd go for eyecatchingly banal names like Dave or Ethel. Or possibly something with a strong pop culture resonance that no fan will be able to resist, like Luke, Leia, Han, Darth and Lando. I was very tempted to call our litter of 6 Rob, Bran, Rickon, Sansa, Arya and Jon Snow. Who could resist a black kitten called Jon Snow?

Hellionandfriends · 08/08/2015 20:08

Do you mean black and white cats (one cat two colours) or cats that are black, plus other cars that are white?

Sapphire
Ruby
Diamond
Pearl
Cloudy
vanilla
icecream
Treacle
Chess
Midnight
Fluffy
Sooty
Zebra
penguin
Smarties
Rolo
Chocolate
Coco
Sweets

OurMiracle1106 · 08/08/2015 20:11

skittles
Buster
Patch
Spot
Kizzy
Munchkin
Mittens

KumiOri · 08/08/2015 20:11

hostein (like those black&white cows) and dalmatian (the dog breed)

AintNobodyHereButUsKittens · 08/08/2015 20:11

I'm sorry it's been a long day and I a) completely misinterpreted you post b) now I understand it I haven't got any clever ideas at all. All our tabbies died young but we have two fabulous rescue black and whites now.

Lurkedforever1 · 08/08/2015 20:12

Piebald ( old name for a black and white horse) or 'gypsy vanner colouring' (gypsy vanner is the traditional gypsy cob breed, although they aren't all black and white)
Or cow cats

PestoSwimissimos · 08/08/2015 20:15

Minstrel
Humbug

Marcipex · 08/08/2015 20:16

Tuxedo cats is a brilliant name.

TheOneWiththeNicestSmile · 08/08/2015 20:18

My beautiful tuxedo Smile

What exotic name can we call black and white cats so they dont get overlooked in the rescue centres?
TSSDNCOP · 08/08/2015 20:20

Guinness

Zebra

Pepe (le peu)

Mike (not black and white but I think it rocks)

LeopardLamp · 08/08/2015 20:20

Tuxedo cats! That's what we have always referred to our black and white girl as.