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Renaming a rescue cat

51 replies

Apple23 · 08/02/2020 23:32

Ginger female cat coming home next week.

I can't use her current name (please don't ask as it's outing) so looking for suggestions as to what to call her.

Hopefully picture attached, but some imagination needed as she's not so miserable-looking in read-life.

Renaming a rescue cat
OP posts:
GreenTulips · 09/02/2020 10:30

Tigger

Stabbitha1 · 09/02/2020 10:32

Symba the forehead patch looks like symba to me

Mabelface · 09/02/2020 10:35

Esmarelda
Edith
Brenda
Susan

Skyejuly · 09/02/2020 10:37

Demelza
Juniper

Gingernaut · 09/02/2020 10:39

Queenie

grincheux · 09/02/2020 10:47

She's lovely! How about Paloma?

Stabbitha1 · 09/02/2020 10:48

Tallulah
Tabitha
Johnnie
Ella
Rory
Mina
Butterscotch
Fudge
Madge
Toast

Icequeen01 · 09/02/2020 11:00

How about Marnie (short for Marmalade) I think that would be cute. I have two huge monster fluffy gingers called Archie and Angus and we went down the Scottish route with their names 😀

She is absolutely beautiful and her little paws reaching out looks like she’s saying “pick me, pick me!” which of course up you did!

HuggedTheRedwoods · 09/02/2020 11:12

Lottie?

I think a rescue cat finding a loving forever slave home must be the cat equivilent of winning the lottery. She's beautiful.

Stabbitha1 · 09/02/2020 11:35

Marta?
Edith
Judy
Betty
Louisa

Original poster
Apple23 · 09/02/2020 11:42

Thank you all.

Not looking for a Hitchhiker's reference, just sparked by the Zaphod suggestion, but love the way threads develop.
@thecatneuterer Please use the combination that includes Zaphod. It's a brilliant cat name for a boy.

@Stabbitha1 please explain the Symba reference. I don't get it ('cos I'm old and out of touch, and Google isn't helping me).

OP posts:
StCharlotte · 09/02/2020 12:10

Symba should be spelt Simba I think which might help. Unless there's a Symba I don't know about either!

(We had two Simbas waaaay before the Lion King - Mum had lived in Southern Africa for a few years.)

gypsywater · 09/02/2020 12:12

Persephone!

FredWinnie · 09/02/2020 22:02

Saffy/Saffron

Miljea · 10/02/2020 00:18

Nah, like I said earlier. You're looking at Zaphod.

😊

Miljea · 10/02/2020 00:21

And, I am 100% not HGttG. I did read it, finally, a couple of years ago. In my 50s.

So not a Hitch-hiker nerd whatsoever.

But that puss is Zaphod.

😊

CallItLoneliness · 10/02/2020 00:36

Ruska (ROO-skah) is the Finnish word for autumn colours and would be an awesome name for a girl cat. Rosa would also be a cool name, as would Naranja (Naranya, means orange--the fruit)

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 10/02/2020 08:56

I love Demelza

YetAnotherSpartacus · 10/02/2020 11:01

Actually, with the picture, she could be a CLAWdine.

thecatneuterer · 10/02/2020 14:09

Ha ha at Clawdine - I'm stealing that.

Ellmau · 10/02/2020 17:05

She looks quite like a very cute lion so Leonie/Leona.

dustibooks · 10/02/2020 17:51

Simba is the Swahili word for lion.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 10/02/2020 20:41

Ahh lovely girl.

We always change our animals names , even if we know them - New Name for their New Life Smile

When we were short listing names for our Cats To Be , we liked "Phoenix" if we got a ginger cat . The burnt orange of the flame and the being given a new life .

(We got two jet black)

chocolatespiders · 11/02/2020 08:19

Marmalade
Nala
Cookie
Bagpuss

recklessruby · 11/02/2020 13:47

Miranda. I always imagine Mirandas to be big and glamourous with gorgeous orange hair