kitty names

Do you know where your cats are coming from? i have a friend who just rescued a slew of kittens who were taped inside a box and left on the street on the lower east side. It was so sad. People are awful sometimes. Let me know if you'd like to meet them!

That said, OMG NOODLES! THAT IS SO CUTE! Mine are Roger and Clive, as I prefer stable human names for my animals, but I like cute object names for others. My coworker has a cat named Pockets, and that just about kills me every time.

here are some others:
* utopia
* huck & berry
* trouble

To keep with the Latin theme you've got going, how 'bout Chevere? That means "great" or "cool" in Mexico. And you can shorten it to "Che" which is an Argentine nickname (or you could say it's for Che Guevara).

Jonah has a whole book with photos of kittens but the names are too cutesy (e.g. Toffee & Taffy) to suggest...

frijoles!

jarrito! (which is the spanish word for a little barrel / jar, but also the name of those super sweet mexican sodas).

and, of course, the exclamation point must be part of the name.

Personally, I learn towards book characters. I have four cats, Gandalf (the gray tabby), Gimli, Hannibal and Dashiell. Someday, I want one I can name Hekate.

I like Splat, I've read those books too, and Kerberos. Sticking with Greek mythology, if it's a girl, you could try Kore or Dionysis if it's a boy.

Hahaha re: Splat!! Although I think that might be dooming the cat to a bad end. Perhaps I am biased, though: when I was a kid we had a dog I named Smudgie (after a dog story I read) & when he got hit by a car all my friends referred to him as Smushie. :P

BTW I finished the last Harrison book last night. Meh. I agree w/you that mopey Rachel is less interesting. Also why does everything have to come down to children when there's a female protagonist? Maybe it's just the urban fantasy I've been reading, but it's still blah.

Also yay for new kitties!!!!

I know that you read my blog and are familiar with how my recently departed TAZ got his name.

Back in the early 90s, my ex-girlfriend and I got this charcoal gray kitten which we named Socrates. I'm not sure if the cat is still alive or not, but he'd be around 18 now if he is alive. Socrates got his name when my girlfriend asked him to pick a name out of a book that she was reading. His paw fell on "Socrates" so that became his name.

My personal obsession with cat names is finding one that sounds good to a cat. They never seem to respond to their names when called, so I guess it doesn't matter what you call them. Was it T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings who wrote about how cats have three names?

I really can't bring myself to even think about getting a new cat right now. It's still too soon after TAZ left me. I'm thinking that I'll get a new cat when I get my own place this summer, if the employment gods finally smile on me.