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Kitteh NAMING

 
  

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Happy Dave
20:40 / 05.08.07
So me an my SO just went to Battersea Dog's Home, and we've got a gorgeous 5 month old mostly-black-with-white-feet-and-chest kitten, very energetic, coming to live with us on Tuesday. He's a stray, and was christened 'Monkey' by the centre staff, for his habit of scaling the side of his pen and being a touch mischievious. We're not sure about that name, but we're having trouble coming up with names that communicate that same mischievious, gregarious personality.

'Lithers - can you name our kitteh?
 
 
Pingle music is not a crime
20:49 / 05.08.07
*Ahem*... and the photos are...?

Ingmar Bergman. It's topical and black and white. Probably not so full of the mischievous playfulness, though.
 
 
COG
20:51 / 05.08.07
Jolson - continuing the black & white theme.

My friends have a dog called Monkey. Odd, but we've got used to it. Feel a bit weird in the park when you're calling to him.
 
 
Happy Dave
20:57 / 05.08.07
Photos will be coming as soon as we've got him home.

Yeah, we weren't sure about calling out the back-door for Monkey, just didn't sound right.
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
21:03 / 05.08.07
Obviously Ingmar Bergman needs to be remembered, but we should always remember that Iggy Pop is really, really awesome, therefore I suggest you name your Kitteh Ingy Pop.
 
 
Boboss
21:21 / 05.08.07
Justice
 
 
Feverfew
23:12 / 05.08.07
Cosime.
 
 
Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)
23:30 / 05.08.07
Lucretius van de Shnooflegrachten
 
 
HCE
00:48 / 06.08.07
Spot.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
01:51 / 06.08.07
Big Time
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:25 / 06.08.07
Let's give it an Elizabethan name.

Clorinda, Caliban, Miranda, Rosader, Comus, Puck, Ariel ... Pye-wacket, Vinegar Tom, Pulcinello ...
 
 
nixwilliams
13:29 / 06.08.07
LOL

*ducks for cover*
 
 
XK
17:56 / 06.08.07
a gorgeous 5 month old mostly-black-with-white-feet-and-chest kitten, very energetic

well now you've got yourself a jellicle! Which means of course the naming of cats is a serious matter.

so you need two names. An everyday name like Monkey and a high elegant name.
Like Magellian Monkey, or Monkey Machiavelli.

My catsons are Grendel Halewshkapaw (Warrior-paw) Fleasson and Feydraes Loup Garou Fleasson.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
00:48 / 07.08.07
If you name him Whisky, and he escapes, you might get a few drinks while calling for him up and down the street. Someone asks you why the name, you can put on a very pretentious air with talk of black and white in a perfect balance, which almost makes sense.

Alternately, name the cat after your favorite Transformer.

Caveat lector: There's a joke in Utena about making your cat's name mysterious by adding 'Mysterious' to the front of their otherwise prosaic name that's destroyed my ability for high-handles and titles. Next animal I get's going to be 'Bluey' or 'George' or something. No more fanciness with foreign languages and bad puns. Bluey, George, Starscream... these are cat names.
 
 
Katherine
09:53 / 07.08.07
I actually like the idea of the name Jellicle for the cat, mind you it is impossible to name a cat without seeing at least a picture of the furry bundle.

You could put your favorite ideas for a name on pieces of paper on the floor and let the wandering kitten pick it's own name, but then it's liable to ignore them and go to sleep on your newspaper.
 
 
Happy Dave
13:17 / 07.08.07
Well, we're picking him up from Battersea Dog's Home today, so I'll have a pic up this evening.

Awesome ideas thus far folks. My wife seems quite keen on 'Milo' or 'Baxter' at the moment.

But he shall have a sekrit name, oh yes.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
13:36 / 07.08.07
Milos should be orange, but for what it's worth (stop laughing! you in the back) Baxter is a perfectly marvelous name for any cat. I wholeheartedly approve.

Though Jellicle has been growing on me.
 
 
XK
18:00 / 07.08.07
It's good to have some options but I find even if you don't get it right straight off they will end up with the correct names. Like Fleabean, Mr. Stinkypants, He-Who-Squeeks, Fazul of Doom, and Mrs. Purrbody.
 
 
Happy Dave
18:08 / 07.08.07
Oooo. He's at home with my wife now! I'm rather excited about going home to see him gambolling around the flat.
 
 
Happy Dave
21:53 / 07.08.07
And here's the little chap. He's quite the feisty one.

Newest member of the family
 
 
XK
22:02 / 07.08.07
SQUEEE! SQUEE!

welcome new barbekitteh! YAY!
 
 
Cailín
22:30 / 07.08.07
For the love of god, don't let these people name your cat. I did. Qalyn named him Doom. I haven't slept in nearly three years, half my stuff is destroyed, the other half is missing, and I think he's recruiting an army of cats and dogs to take over our building in a bloody coup, and I swear, it's all because of the name. Seriously, bad things come from letting these people name your pets. I just want my life back...
{Crumples to the floor weeping}
 
 
Mistletoffelees
(prev. Mist van der Rohe)
22:55 / 07.08.07
Pish Posh, Cailín; don´t dramatize! Happy Quadrangle, don´t listen to him. Your cat definitely looks like a Lucretius to me, and that man was much nicer than Viktor von Doom. Lucretius was a poet, whose poem´s purpose was to free men's minds of superstition and the fear of death. Sounds good, no? Lucretius link here
 
 
Feverfew
22:57 / 07.08.07
I'm sticking with Cosime...
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
23:41 / 07.08.07
He looks like a Malloy...
 
 
ALL KINDS OF DEAD TREES
(prev. Papers regarding Tlön & Uqbar)
23:54 / 07.08.07
Oddly, he looks like a Haus to me. Malloy's quite nice, though.
 
 
Nuke Kids on the Bloc
00:47 / 08.08.07
SKRULL
 
 
Mono is the new Stereo
12:17 / 08.08.07
Severus.
 
 
Katherine
13:04 / 08.08.07
He looks gorgeous but that butter wouldn't melt look is just to fool you. Macavity (sp?) after one of TS Elliot's cats would be good.
 
 
Happy Dave
13:24 / 08.08.07
He is gorgeous, although a bit of a tike. He's currently following me around the house wherever I go, which is cute, although I keep worrying I'm going to turn around and stand on him or something. Last night after I turned out the light he sprinted around the room for about half an hour before getting tired out and flopping over in the middle of the floor. He woke us up at 5 this morning murphing from the ground (we're in a loft bed, and he has trouble getting up there to stamp on our heads, though no doubt he'll learn).

Ah, the joys of small, mobile beings in the house.
 
 
Happy Dave
13:26 / 08.08.07
Oh, and as for naming, it looks like we're settling with Baxter.

Although his sekrit name is likely to be something like Lord Grimpaw.
 
 
Katherine
13:31 / 08.08.07
My two have long since grown up but I remember the running around little kittens do at night. Bad news is they still trample on heads even as adults, although the purrings and head rubbings are a nice wake up call.
 
 
Deculture Decedent
13:40 / 08.08.07
Now, that's a cute cat. One of those faces - if it stays as he ages, I'd put money down he'll get away with more than he should. Who can resist that cuteness?
 
 
Kali is proud of her country
(prev. Always Pro Neil Gaiman Kali)
16:21 / 08.08.07
No ONE can resist kitten cuteness.

Or at least they shouldn't.
 
 
iamus
16:35 / 08.08.07
Oh, and as for naming, it looks like we're settling with Baxter


You should get another one and call him Campbell. And another called Cup-A.

Then if you get more you can start subdividing them into Miso, Borscht, Cock-a-leekie and so forth...
 
  

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