How on earth did you name your cat?

[Africasmyhome]

Ours is brown. I'm really struggling to name her. She came from a rescue, but as it was a litter, they all had really silly names! Hers is Cello... Seems very masculine she doesn't know her name. She is so little.

[Oldraver]

I wanted Reggie but was veto-ed by the family and we went for Ernie..we had a few others we liked.

It actually took longer t name him than it did DS2

[FunkyBarnYardBroom]

We got two black kittens

One chewed everything so called her Tulip (although mostly we call her chewy)

Tje other climbed everywhere so we named her Ivy!

[dementedma]

Meet General Jericho Jones

[midsomermurderess]

Bruna, perhaps.

[TroysMammy]

I had 2 brothers called Barnaby and Troy after the main characters in Midsomer Murders. Barnaby had bluish eyes just like the lovely John Nettles.

[MooseBeTimeForSnow]

DH and I named our cats after stars, Talitha (Tally), Bellatrix (Bella) etc.

We are about to acquire our first cat since moving to Canada 6 years ago. We now have DS (5). He likes to call everything “Bob” -m We have reached a compromise. Please meet Eta Delphini, also known as the star called Bob.

[MorganKitten]

Harley and Quinn, in order

[MorganKitten]

The one we took in we called 'The Cat' because we were looking for her owners but it stuck after 6 months of not finding her owners, so Cat and then we had Kitten/Kit when she got older.
As they both have gone - made it to 22 years old!

We now have two sisters from a litter- mirror image of each other so they are Harley and Quinn? We have Harley Davidson bikes, support the Quinns and like the comic book character so works on a few levels.

[DragonNoodleCake]

A very large Jaffa Cake!

[KittyLover91]

@DragonNoodleCake Thank you

I only named him Bailey as I tried it for the first time before Christmas last year in hot chocolate and I couldn't believe what I've been missing out on!

If I was ever to get another though I'd like a girl and she'd be Bella

[DragonNoodleCake]

Love ❤️ Bailey

[KittyLover91]

Bailey

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

Very interesting! Thank you.

[CatchingBabies]

All cats are genetically black (or red but that's a complex sex linked gene) and then other genes change the black. So if a cat has a tabby gene it covers the black with tabby stripes, if a cat has a dilute gene it lightens the black to grey. If a cat has the white spotting gene it covers some of the black with white and so on. Cats have many many genes affecting their colour but take it all away and underneath they are genetically black.

Chocolate is possible, it's the Burmese gene but it isn't present in the moggy population. The kitten might stay brown but actually 99% will darken to black as that's their colour and it's just not developed fully yet. The same way Siamese kittens are born pure white and the colour develops (in certain places) later.

It's baffling but very interesting. I'm a self confessed genetics geek lol.

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

@CatchingBabies since when have brown kittens been black adults? I've honestly never heard of that.

[DragonNoodleCake]

Ours is called Jaffa! He's a huge ginger tom and it was the name the rescue centre gave him and it suits him, we have a cake related surname and we thought it was funny to name him Jaffa Cake, so we did!

[DragonNoodleCake]

Treacle!!

[YouCantBeSirius]

My boy is called Blue. He's a Russian Blue and it seemed a fitting name. Answers to booboo or blob.

[FenellaMaycroft]

Oh she's a coco

Or Mabel

I want a kitten!

[tinytemper66]

Mine is tortoiseshell and she had Amber steaks so I called her Amber. My husband named the new kitten Stella as he loves the drink!

[ooerrmissus]

Mine are all soft as grease, friendly balls of fluff and are all named after vicious warriors or communist dictators. It tickles me.

That said they are usually known as Womble, Barrel and Oh You Gorgeous Boy.

[picklemepopcorn]

@Africasmyhome, what have you gone for?

[CatchingBabies]

Gorgeous!

I would avoid colour related names as there's a very high chance she will be black as an adult and you'd then look silly with a black cat called caramel etc.

[thatsahairballnotabloodysweet]

That dark brown X on her face makes me think of the X men, so storm or rogue ?

[Kibobear]

Ours are Todd (because he's a cool dude), Hermione (Harry Potter fans and she's a super smart Siamese) and (Christmas) Evie - darling sweet girl who came at Christmas