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Funniest, unusual, lovely names you've heard for cats

94 replies

Arrowheart · 26/05/2021 07:32

Please can you let me know if you have heard any cat names which come under these categories. Love the idea of funny names for pets.

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Catlady31 · 27/05/2021 17:57

Our tabby is Ziggy and our girls are Arya and Phoebe.

And yes Stardust, Stark and Buffet for anyone that twigs it Grin

MustardRose · 27/05/2021 18:03

Gandalf
Oberon
Herman

Cailleach · 27/05/2021 18:13

Fishfinger
Onion
Bumble (black and ginger striped in band-type patterns and ponderous. Really suited him.)
Nip
Womble (originally called Boris but renamed after a habit of bringing home bits of litter developed)

TheWeeDonkeyFella · 27/05/2021 19:03

@TroysMammy

My cat Haribo was a Cats Protection kitten fostered with his 2 brothers. They were originally called Maurice, Barry and Robin after the BeeGees. They are on YouTube under BeeGees kittens Swansea Cats Protection. Haribo is the nutter pawing the specs and running around at the end. He loves watching himself on tv.
The video is very sweet (no pun intended!) - I wonder what Haribo though the glasses were?
TroysMammy · 27/05/2021 21:33

@TheWeeDonkeyFella goodness knows but he's never done that with my glasses. Recently he's had a thing about pipe cleaners which makes a change from slyly taking an opened packet of Dreamies out of a bag, carrying it upstairs and mauling the packet until all the Dreamies are eaten. Luckily the packet wasn't a full one.

thatonesmine · 27/05/2021 23:50

A former neighbour of mine had a beautiful chocolate Oriental called Lord George Brown

TooInvested · 27/05/2021 23:54

Killmouseki

Shannith · 27/05/2021 23:57

Scratchytwat

Shannith · 28/05/2021 00:00

@AlfonsoTheTerrible

Littermates named Sid and Not Sid.
That's just wonderful. Grin
Shannith · 28/05/2021 00:02

I have a cat called a very respectable Disco.

Full name Disco Biscuit. Less respectable.

JellyTeapot · 28/05/2021 00:04

My 9 week old kittens are called Molly Weasley (calico) and Minerva McGonagall (tabby) though DH refuses to call them by their names and calls them Cat 1 and Cat 2. Told him I might start window shopping for Husband 2...

MiddlesexGirl · 28/05/2021 00:05

Henry Purcell
Katherine Purr
Perkins

All one family though different generations.

MiddlesexGirl · 28/05/2021 00:05

@JellyTeapot

My 9 week old kittens are called Molly Weasley (calico) and Minerva McGonagall (tabby) though DH refuses to call them by their names and calls them Cat 1 and Cat 2. Told him I might start window shopping for Husband 2...
Call DH Cat 3?
TooManyButtons · 28/05/2021 00:08

I'm getting a kitten next week - he will be called John Grin

Babdoc · 28/05/2021 00:13

My old biology teacher in the 1970’s had a cat called Poltergeist, because it was large and clumsy and could be heard at night crashing round the house breaking things!
One of my SILs had a very musically minded flatmate who named her cat Claude. When asked why, she said he was Claude dePussey!

CoelacanthSharpener · 28/05/2021 03:51

@cricketmum84

The most beautiful silver tabby Maine coon named Vienna. I was so in love with that cat!
Oh, how lovely Smile I love Maine Coons (we have two) and I've promised myself one day I will own a silver tabby, they're just beautiful.

Ours are Jake and Elwood (inspired by the Blues Brothers).

Stilllivinginazoo · 28/05/2021 03:59

Atticus
Sir mystic the third
Carbonelle
Cossima
Dumpling

MooseBeTimeForSummer · 28/05/2021 04:35

We name our cats after stars, particularly ones that aren’t very bright and usually hard to find (like most of the cats). We’ve had:

Zubenelgenubi (Zoob)
Rasalhague (Raz)
Bellatrix (Bella)
Vindemiateix (Vindy)

Current edition is a silver spottted tabby Siberian. Our son, who was 5 when we got her, went through a phase of calling everything Bob - Bob the dragon, Bob the pet rock etc. I found a star called Eta Delphini, which is also known as the star called Bob. So there we are. Her name is Bob. She tends to respond better to GetDown or GetOff ...

BikeRunSki · 28/05/2021 05:25

Mouse, short for Septimus, as he was that family’s 7th cat.

TheWashingMachine · 28/05/2021 05:40

Catiswood when I was a child

KobaniDaughters · 28/05/2021 05:57

Oberon Kenobi is our boy

piefacedClique · 28/05/2021 06:19

A family member had cat and a dog called ceefa (C for cat) and deefa.... and (D for dog)... still makes me smile

BikeRunSki · 28/05/2021 06:24

Along similar lines to Ceefa and Deefer, DSis had a rabbit called Arthur.

Eminybob · 28/05/2021 06:24

When I was little I wanted a ginger tom so I could call him Garfield.
I ended up with a little grey girl called Nermal. She lived to a ripe old age, long after I had grown up and move out of home, and my mum had to keep explaining her name Grin

OldTinHat · 28/05/2021 06:50

Mr Alan Chow!