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   What are the best/funniest cat names you've ever encountered?

   For me, credit for inspiration goes to my uncle, who lives with my aunt on a cul-de-sac in what was (in my not-THAT-distant childhood) a small town in the country, but is now a full-fledged suburb of Atlanta. Being convenient yet remote meant that their street was a frequent dumping ground for unwanted kittens, most of whom found their way to my aunt's screened porch. At any given time there were never fewer than a dozen cats living there, with gusts of up to 30.

   At one of those peak-kitten-occupancy periods, my uncle came home from work to encounter a new, tiny black kitten (obvious because no kitten heretofore had been said color). My uncle, who has never liked cats but indulges my aunt in everything, roared "Another cat?!? Dammit!"

   The blackie kept the moniker "Dammit" the rest of his life and was a favorite of us kids because we could ask for it by name and couldn't get in trouble!

   Posted 4 years ago by gatakitty #

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   Hah! Reminds me of a time when a friend of my mother's had finally decided that as her work travel demands were increasing, her vet could no longer foist all the injured/found/homeless cats on her. She'd keep her existing gang, but no more new ones.

   So about six weeks after the last one died of old age, a storm brought a tiny wisp of shivering wet fur to her back porch. As she looked out and saw the little guy, she groaned, "Lord, not again!" So the cat acquired the name "Lord Nottigin."

   Posted 4 years ago by AnnF #

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   One of my friends had a cat named Bratwurst Elvis. We called him Bratty.

   Posted 4 years ago by HuddysMama #

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   My grandmother had a cat she named "Tasmanian Devil". Taz came to us one day when my boyfriend (now roommate/ex-boyfriend), who was renting a room at my grandmother's house at the time, and a friend of his found this skinny, scrawny little grey kitten up in the foothills where they had been hiking. My roommate's idea was to see if my mom or somebody else wanted the kitten and he wasn't too happy when my grandmother wanted to keep Taz instead because he thought there were too many cats in the house already. Considering two of the cats were his and two were mine, I felt that it was about time that my grandmother had another cat of her own. Besides, it was her house so he had no say in the matter. So Taz stayed.

   Taz got the name Tasmanian Devil because, once he recovered from having nearly starved to death and got used to his new home, he became a whirlwind of trouble! He never grew very big and, during the time we had him, always looked like he was about 6 months old. But trouble sometimes comes in small packages. He was such a little troublemaker that, whenever we heard any kind of commotion - a cat fight, something falling(usually something big falling), sounds of breaking glass, the garbage can being tipped over.. etc... we would simply yell, "TAZ WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!!" and Taz would usually appear from the general vicinity of the noise.

   Unfortunately Taz' time with us was all too brief. Not long after my grandmother passed away, Taz disappeared. I think he was about 1 1/2 years old when he vanished. But he gave us a lot of entertainment in that short period of time.

   Posted 4 years ago by owlwatcher_974 #

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   One of my cats is named Jimmy the Weasel. He was very skinny and weaselly looking when he was found, but the name was from a skit of an old cartoon from about 10 years ago called Dr. Katz. Dr. Katz was a psychiatrist and Ray Romano played a patient who talked about his grandfather naming his toes "Fat Tony" and "Jimmy the Weasel." We thought it was hysterical.

   Another cat is named 120 because my ex grabbed him from that highway as a stray kitten.

   Toula is named after Tallulah Bankhead. Boy has she lived up to that name--she is a little prima donna beeotch.

   Lucky was on his last day at Cobb County animal control when we adopted him.

   Tristan was named after the Brad Pitt character in Legends of the Fall.

   Boo Radley is afraid of everything and a little crazy, but harmless.

   Teensie's orginal name was Minnaloushe from the poem, but he never grew too much and my kids could never remember what his name was.

   Wolfie loves to attack and bite stuff. Plus our last name is Wolven and I thought Wolfgang Wolven was funny. (I used to threaten my poor father-in-law every time I was pregnant that I was going to name the baby Wolfgang.)

   Posted 4 years ago by Catwoman #

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   I had a cat we called Kazoo, because that's what she sounded like.
   We had a pair of brown tabbies: Bonnie and Clyde.
   I name my purebreds after artists, so I had a mama cat we called Trekkie - Her name was Tee LaTrec. And we kept her daughter who we never showed, hence: Shuttle.

   Posted 4 years ago by artistabobbi TX 1/17 #

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   i have ; Quirk, he has many. Slinky, she has to make an entrance. Loki, he is full of mischif and Pharoah, he looks like a picture of an Egyption cat like you would see on the wall of a tomb.

   Posted 4 years ago by MEOWMEOW64 #

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   When one of my granddaughters was little we adopted a throw-away cat who was a long-haired orangie. I let her name him and she (at the age of 3) named him Marmalade after her favorite jam. One day she caught me giving him heck for being on the counter and I was yelling "Get off there you Fuzz-head! Well she had trouble saying her F's at the time so he became "Puzzhead". My ex still has that cat and he is still Puzzhead and it has been 10 years!

   Posted 4 years ago by Shelley #

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   When I was a little girl, we lived in Malawi (Central Africa), and we adopted a tiny 5 week old black kitten, who'd been hurled out of a car window (he somehow made his way up to where parents collected their kids from my school, and, not wanting to hold up the flow of traffic, Mum rapidly acquiesed to my pleas of *oh please Mummy, Mummy, can we take him home!!).

   Anyway, I named him Mischief. Nothing too unusual about that I hear you say, and you're quite right. However, if ever a cat lived up to his name, it was Mischief, and his favourite trick was to run up the sunfilter curtains - remember them? Very popular in the 70's, and very unforgiving of a kitten's claws. Pulled threads galore. We used to scold him in the local language Chichewa, as he was a Malawian moggy.

   *wana wa impagga wachabi quambiri* - very naughty kitten (with apolgies for spelling if anyone recognises this!)

   We left Malawi at the end of 1979, and Mischief came with us. A few weeks after joining us back at home after 6 very long months in quarantine, he was playing about, and knocked something over. Mum scolded him - in Chichewa - and he shot her a look *well if you're going to be like THAT* - and scooted up the nearest pair of curtains!!

   I think I've told this story in abbreviated form before, so apologies for the duplication, but I thought it worth repeating in its entirety!!

   Posted 4 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #

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    My daughter, "Ladybug," thinks our house cats are very appropriately named. Linus and Lucy are littermates. Lucy is as thin and lithe as Linus is large and lazy. Linus lives for only three things (in this order): eating, sleeping, and being cuddled. Lucy, on the other hand, is a fussbudget who is most insistent on getting her way and has a temper to match the proportion of pointy sides to non-pointy. When they were kittens, Linus started the fights but Lucy finished them.

    Enter this past May our 8-wk-old new addition whom we named Sally. Baby Sally Semi-meezer ADORES Linus, her Sweet Babboo ("I'm NOT your 'Sweet Babboo,'" Linus would retort if he could). Sally gives Linus no end of grief, insisting on either cuddling him or attacking him. I'll put it this way: if you didn't know better, you'd think that Sally was the male, Linus was the female, and neither one was "fixed"! Linus is torn between the overwhelming need to find a place where Sally can't get to him and the inescapable drive to expend as little energy as possible.

    Any other fan of "Peanuts" would agree that these three are aptly named indeed!

    Posted 4 years ago by gatakitty #

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    One bright,brisk and blustery wet morning in autumn '95 I opened my trailer door in Friday Harbor to go chop wood for my stove and in minutes was adopted by a scraggly but majestic orange&white female homesteader I named Leah. Though 100% feral,she quickly ensconced herself in a cardboard box in the crawlspace beneath. I was soon to learn why as 4.5mo. later in spring she delivered 4 beautiful calico girls I dubbed Zoe,Angel,Meagan and Gwen(dolyn).(Never fear, they all got neutered,but that's another hilarious tail 4 later.) Zoe's a grey/white amazonian alpha female w/a soft heart.Angel a white w/orange&brown markings(most outgoing & tree-climbing champ.)Meagan,shy but sweet dark brown bit of orange and white(holds the world's land-speed record). And finally Gwen,sadly the sickliest,mostly white w/a lil'orange/brown going on. All were fearless survivor/outdoor meezers thanks to Mom,no raccoon could ever sneak up on them and we had plenty in my neck o'the woods.

    Posted 4 years ago by Tigger #

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    Years ago, our neighbors got a cat called Monkey. I always thought that was a strange name for a cat - until I got one of my own! We are always telling Tikka what a little monkey she is. And when I look back on what a character little Monkey was, I realize the name was perfect!

    Posted 4 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #

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    People always crack up when I tell them I have a cat named Rattlesnake (Snake, for short). It's because of the patterned tail and the slow way he twitches it. It's great fun playing with his name, too — the other day we had a Snake in the linen closet.

    He's also the cuddliest d*** Snake I've ever known!

    Love the stories, gang. It's always great fun naming cats.

    Posted 4 years ago by Cats4Cats #

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    I can't speak for anyone else, but I've enjoyed some of the cat names I've come up with.

    There was Karma... sometimes she was Good Karma, other times she was Bad Karma.

    Keph was named after a character in a book (Kephias was the name of the character).

    Odd was the name of an odd-eyed white cat with red van markings.
    Therefore, when a white cat with same-color eyes and black van markings showed up, his name became Even.

    My dad named a black & white kitten Spindacular (combination of Spin and spectacular, which is what he did best).

    There was Bunky, short for Carbunculus, named for the rusty-red undercoat under a dull black topcoat (when he arrived, seriously malnourished and very thin).

    But my favorite was Booger, also known as the Boogerman, Boogerboy, the Boogermonster, the Boogermeister, the Hooded Avenger, the Masked Avenger, and Butthead. He was the smartest cat I ever had, very much a 'mama's boy,' and had a black mask, white chops, and a tiny black mark coming out of one nostril. After I saw his marking, what *else* was I supposed to call him?!?

    Posted 4 years ago by anncetera2 #

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    My cats nickname is boyboy =)

    Posted 4 years ago by Iloveboots838 #

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    At the shelter I worked at there was a cat named "Fig" as he was so elusive and timid as he was rarely seen. It's short for Figment of the imagination.

    Posted 4 years ago by Buttercup #

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    Tiger us usually called TigerButt or Tig Tig! We called him Ti, but my granddaughter's name is Tia and she was getting confused. She's only 4 so it's easy to see how that happened.

    Posted 4 years ago by Bogman, Clark and Andy's mama 2/27 Florida #

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    Had a cute kitten when I was in high school we named John Boy, because my mentally challenged sister loved the Waltons so much. Mom dropped him off for neutering, and later that day recieved a phone call from the vet who said he was sorry, he couldn't neuter John Boy, but wanted to make sure it was okay to spay her. We decided to not change her name and she remained John Boy until the day she died.

    Posted 4 years ago by Jo in Blairsville #

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    One of my cats is named Tweek for the South Park character who is a bit spazzy because of coffee. My little brother gave him the name.

    It ended up fitting him perfectly with regards to the coffee. Soon after we brought him home, we got a new coffee machine that you could program to brew in the morning. It sounded a little different so every morning at 6:30, he would rush from wherever he was in the house to watch the coffee brew.

    Eventually, the coffee machine novelty wore off, but every morning when I have my coffee, he "loafs" on the table in front of me for morning pettins while I drink my coffee.

    Posted 4 years ago by ladynaberrie #

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    Nora's real name is Le Noir (everyone pronounces it like Lenore). She is not all black, but she had a brother who was all white and his name was Le Blanc. Nora is a very dark tabby. They were my sister-in-law's cats; Nora now lives with me and Le Blanc went to live with another family.

    Nibs is actually Nabby. When she is in a goofy mood I call her Abby Normal (after a certain scene in a certain movie which is one of my favorites).

    Posted 4 years ago by NNGM #

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    I have Gir who was named after Invader Zims little robot, he is my big orange love bug.
    Kuja who was named for one of my sons favorite anime characters.
    CC short for Coffee Cat, because he always wants to help me drink my coffee.
    Ashe, named after a character in one of the Final Fantasy video games. And Penny that was what they called her at the shelter where we got her we kept it because she has the same colors as an old penny.

    Posted 4 years ago by Crazycatman - CA #

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    It does seem like kids give the strangest (and best) names. My nieces named one cat Princess Sparkles. Another was named Pat Cocoa. When I had Rumpelteazer I often referred to her as "Rumpelteazer Pumpkineazer" which the kids thought was hilarious. I also referred to her as "pumpernickle" since when she laid in the "loaf" position she resembled one of the round-type breads.

    Posted 4 years ago by NNGM #

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    Bogman was "Little Gray Face" and Tiger is Punkey Bunky or Punky Brewster

    Posted 4 years ago by Bogman, Clark and Andy's mama 2/27 Florida #

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    I had a tortie named Cosmo. Sadly she crossed the Bridge in March of this year. Anyway, I got her from a dear friend. Before I brought Cosmo home, my friend only called this kitty, "Fugly". Well, I couldn't bear to call her that, and told my friend so. She then told me that her name was really Cosmo, but she had nicknamed her Fugly!

    Posted 4 years ago by Ouize in Central FL (6/19) #

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    OK, sports fans, one more story from me. I've posted this one before, but it was a long time ago and we've had quite a few newbies since then.

    When I was in college, I dated a guy whose father was the pastor of the Methodist Student Center at a smaller college in another part of the state. The family had two cats named Goodness and Mercy (from Psalm 23). Every night, the dad would let the cats out and they would be waiting for him to open the door first thing in the morning.

    One crisp fall Saturday morning, Pastor Dad opened the door in his pj's, bathrobe, and bare feet as usual, but no cats were waiting. He called, but no cats came (why WOULDN'T a cat come when it's called???). He stepped out into his yard (one of the perqs of his position was a house on campus) and began to look for his errant kitties. As his efforts continued to be unsuccessful, he broadened the range of his search, calling his cats' names the whole time.

    Enter at this point, a campus cop on routine patrol. It's early Saturday morning, when the sober are sleeping in and the sots are sleeping it off. His attention comes to the man with uncombed hair and unshaven face, in pajamas, bathrobe, and bare feet, wandering up and down the sidewalk shouting over and over again: "Goodness and Mercy! Goodness and Mercy!"

    Posted 4 years ago by gatakitty #

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    The blamed thing posted by itself before I could add my final comments:

    1. Pastor Dad did manage to convince the cop he was sane, but it took a lot of 'splainin'.

    2. If they had gotten a third cat, would they have named her "Shirley"?

    Posted 4 years ago by gatakitty #

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    Reported @ 11.10pm NZ time

    Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #

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    grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    Posted 2 years ago by JoanfromNewJersey #

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    IT.... It was a difficult cat to name. His brother Xavier came easily but the naming of It did not want to come. Since he had been promptly neutered on arrival, It was the temporary solution while we cajoled him to reveal his name.

    Eventually it became apparent that IT was his name. He knew he was IT, the be-all of catdom to be waited on by servants that knew his supreme status of the IT Cat.

    So It remained It because he was It.

    Posted 2 years ago by ailuromaniac #

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    My siamese-mix Sushi nickname was BooBoo because when she would hide and you'd say boo to her she would come out and hop around sideways with springs in her feet toward you!(She also whould leap in the air to hit tossed little paper balls...the most aerobic cat I ever had!)

    Posted 2 years ago by jeankit #

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