Cat Names & Nicknames Thread

Why Not? The Dog forum is having fun with this, so why shouldn't we? :)

Perhaps if someone is looking for a new pet name, they can get it from one of us right out of this ol' thread here.
now, i'm going to list out some names and nicknames in groups, as they come to me. We try to never recycle a name here, which has led to some unusal names over the years (Like the time we took in three tabbys and called them "This, That, (the other) Thing." :)

Pouncequick

T.F. (Tiny Friend)

Princess (of course)

Goldie

Bumpers

Ted Ford (Started as Ted-e-Bear, some how became the former)

Nighteyes

Whump (Originally Stumpy due to only half a tail, became "Whump" over time)

Ariel (also Michael, Rahpael, Gabriel and Cassiel (angel of temperance), to name a few in the angel category)

Frannie (Full name is Frannie funny Face)

Groucho

Rosemary, Parsley, Thyme  (there are many, many spices... :)  )

Moonshadow

Mouse

...enough from me for now! :)

[lindasp62]

Here is the story of how one cat's name morphed into the name it is now, which is "Fwee" :

Little Kitty > Weedle Kitty > Weedle Beetle > Weedle Bee >
Tweedle Fwee > Fwee

(I can visualise everyone's expressions as they imagine the diaglogue that goes on between owner (me!) and cat (Fwee!) as these names developed! :-P  Fwee really does respond, however, by actually talking back!)

[bedtimestory]

Well, I really want to adopt a female cat and I'll name her Sophia. I have always loved this name for a female cat. Go figure. My cat's name is Abby but I like to call him Cookie because he is very sweet. He happens to understand that he is also Baby, silly goose, etc...je je je.....smart cat huh? Whenever he does something I want him to do I always say 'GOOD DEAL AB' and he seems to like it as he looks back at me and meows, as if he was saying 'good deal mom'. lol

[hopfulEparents]

Our cats name is keiko which is japannese for "the beloved one" (my husband is fluent) but usually we call her: "hey stupid get out of that!" or sometimes "dont do that you crazy animal

[mrwjd]

Cat names here go through constellations, depending on the space we household members are in at the time.  As an undergraduate math major, I named my first cat, a Siamese who appears elsewhere on this website, Sherman for my professor of number theory and mathematical reasoning at UC-Davis, Sherman K. Stein.  I see today he's selling a calculus book on Amazon for $165, but I'm pretty sure we aren't in line for royalties.  Sherman's little sister--my first Tonkinese, before Tonks were officially a breed--was named Lemma, for obvious reasons (if you are a mathematician).  Her daughter, the third, was named Zorn:  having studied Zorn's Lemma with no particular joy, it amused me to have Lemma's Zorn in the household.  

Sherman was an excellently wonderful cat in every way, but Lemma was irreplaceable.  She took care of me (not a common feline inclination) for sixteen years, through some very hard times.  I've had lots of cats since, one or two stand out, but I'm still likely to tear up when I think about Lemma.  

A dark Burmese was added a couple of years later, and named Toke.  Apparently I had left behind undergraduate math, but not college.

And that was the first generation.

[HR_PuffnStuff]

Ours is Freckles because our then 6 year old son just thought it sounded cute. I have always wanted a buff colored cat and I would name her Butterscotch.

Poor Freckles gets called Brat Cat, Bratster, and my husband not so fondly refers to her as General Grievous (sith (bad) character from Star Wars). This is due to her uncanny resemblance to him (in the face at least) as well as her disposition.

[aligator79]

Oh Boy-  I always give my cat's a name and then call them about 12 different variations depending on the situation.

1st Cat-  Kitty Clover-  for the potato chip brand-  that was her name when we got her.

Shadow
Rascal

Currently I have:
Oliver- Ollie, Little Bas*tard, Whitey, Ollie-wally, Wally, Buddy, Bud-Bud, Budman

Lucy-  Lucille, Lucifer-haha, Squeaky (Because her meow is more of a squeak), squeaks, squeaker, Kee-kee, my sister calls her meow-meow because she is always talking. LuLu, Brat, Silly Girl, No- the bug (bird, insect or whatever she is trying to bring into the house) has to stay outside, girly

Taz-  Tazzy,  Tazman, man-man, silly boy, Fat boy (he has very short legs and has a barrel body), boy-kitty,

Hmm,  I'll have to think of other things I have called them-  It's a wonder they answer to anything.

I've also had 3 huge goldfish I called Curly, Moe and Larry.

[April2]

HR_PuffnStuff, we have a cat we call brat cat too! She's our latest addition and is totally different than my sweet, shy older cat. She has her own personality, that's for sure!

mrwjd, I love tonkinese cats! I always said if I got another cat it'd be a tonkinese. Either that or a Burmese. My mom has a Burmese cat and she's a real love bug. Are they always like that? I heard Tonks are affectionate and talkers! They're so pretty.

My oldest cat I just usually call pretty girl. Lol, so original, I know.

[Ghilly]

Oy, this could get lengthy!  LOL

We have Eugene, our senior cat.  He will be 13 in January.  We call him E-Dean because our parrot can't say Eugene, I guess his name sounds like E-Dean to her.  As if E-Dean isn't bad enough, we also call him Blue Jean, Blue Dean, The E-Deany-Weenie-Chili-Beany-Boy, and The Weenish One.

Next is Ed-A-Puss.  His names are legion.  Anything with A-Puss after it, or Ed-A-whatever the situation calls for.  We also call him Edweird, Special Ed, Little Lord Fatleroy (he weighs 20 pounds), Ed-A-Meezer Scrooge (his Christmas name), Meezer Man and Eee-A-Pee.

Elizabeth is Lizzie, Lizzie Tish, Elizab*tch, Yizzy, Lizzle, and Izzle.

Marty is also known as Marthur, Martimer, Martini, Martoonie

Walter is Waltie-Poo, Waltini and Voltaire

Stuart is Stewie, Stuberger, Schtooooieeee!!!!, Stoogatz

Fiona is Feeee!!!!, Missafee, Feeborgie, Feeanootz, FeeonieBalonie

Toemas is TomTom, Toemy, Tommy Toodles

Mary Pat was very ill when we found her.  Her chest was gaping open from what appeared to be a horrendous case of mastitis from having had a litter too early in life.  The vet estimated her to be about seven months old, and the hole in her chest was so big you could see the whole muscle wall.  She is truly a miracle cat, because she has completely healed and even her hair grew back in.  She looks as though there was never a thing wrong with her.  So she became Mary Pat The Wonder Cat, also known as Mary Pat The Super Cat, and Mary Pat the [fill in the situation] Cat.  The Mary Pat the [blank] Cat works for any situation.

Last but not least we have Buddy, the Siamese we found almost starved to death early this Spring.  His nicknames are already starting to build up.  We already call him Bud Man, Buddinski and Butter Butt.

Ghilly

[cat9841]

socks became socker, then sockerman,
talon because she has the longest nails I've ever seen, she is also brat-cat
shadow, the baby because when I first saw her, as a kitten in my  yard, I thought she was just a shadow under the cars tire.
and then there is brave, brave-boy because he is the most scaryed cat I've ever seen in my life.
in the past, we've had sir lance a lot, sheba, kizzy-kizzycat and mary hartman, I've had bootsy, silky, pumpkin, pumpkin pie and sweet pumpkin pie. spice, ramain, rainman,(I found him in a rainstorm)  and snowball,
my next cats will be oreo, spiderman Lucy and ????????????
I've never been without a cat and I never will be!! check out my own nickname.
CAT

[Avas_Mom]

Wow this is long havent got to read through them all but we have SAMMY who we call daddy sam. Jaeger we just call Jae Jae. Babygirl we call Momma, i have no idea why. And Bella i call Bella Boo..its nice to know im not the only cat crazed person to speak baby talk to my pets haha

[Savas]

heh heh...some of these names are just great. We have a "Cookie" also, although we often call him "Belly of the beast" when he's laying on his back (he's cookie colored and VERY fat).

Hmmm...we have Speck (because he was a runt...a little speck in a large world; grew to be fairly big and lanky).

We had a Taz as well at one point. Although we also called him "the devil".

I find when naming a cat we usually wait a few days or a week to see what characteristics jump out.

Of course, sometimes your a bit stuck. That's how you end up with a name like "Bonkers" (Well, he does like "bonkers" (the cat treat's name)...

Or "Cricket" because he's jumping around quite a bit.

My favorite is still my first cat, "Stoic". He was a Russian blue who was unflappable. nothing phased that animal.

Although there was that one time my second cat, "Havoc" as a kitten was attacking him playfully without mercy for days on end. I came home one day to find Stoic sitting placidly in the center of the room and Havoc hiding under a chair from which he refused to come out from under.

I suppose even Stoic had his limits before snapping... :)

[NewLeaf]

Oh how these names morph in so many endearing ways

Fred....Little Fred.....  Red Fred... Red Fred who lives on the bed.... Al Freddo.....
!!!!!FRED!!!! ...... Fat Fred ....  Really Fat Fred...... Freddy ...... Phred ...... Juicy....
.... Juicy Kitty

Now, if anyone can guess how he became to be known as Juicy Kitty in certain circles there will be a prize involved. Nothing like free cat food for life but a prize none the less.
;)

[Savas]

I would guess he's a fat, squishy kitty. :)

...or you squeeze him like an orange and funny noises come out?

[Logan206]

My mom has a neighbor with 2 cats.  Their names are really cute:

"Claw"dia
"Purr"silla

[mrwjd]

I have to say, Tonks are everything you've heard and everything you wish for in a cat.  

I started having Tonks before show breeders turned Siamese (which I had from age 12 through college) into pointed-faced, neurotic, unhappy cats, but having seen that, I recommend Tonks even more enthusiastically.  (For Siamese people--before you yell at me, I do know there is a movement to raise "apple-heads."  This has ended up in tragedy for Burmese, I'm sorry to say, but is probably okay in Siamese.)

So now all I care about is that show people don't start to find Tonks boring and breed a "new model" as happened with both their ancestor breeds.  They are too perfect as they are!

(Stop by my profile if you get a chance and see our year-old kitten Rain demonstrating the cozy mellowness of the breed with her baby brother.)

[mrwjd]

Ed-A-Puss!  Oh, no!  I can't stop laughing!

[NewLeaf]

Fat and squishey indeed. You nailed that one and came quite close in the fruit department.

Thank god he doesn't emit juices when he gets poked or petted!! Hairballs and the odd barf is quite enough thank you very much.

Since no one else seems to be inclined to guess, you do win the prize.  Hummm, what shall it be.. a nice mouse shaped laser pointer to drive your kitty pals crazy with, nope that wouldn't fit through email or PM.... I shall have to think about this for a bit, a cyber quiz prize.

[NewLeaf]

I have killed two birds with one stone as they say.  I am posting your prize as FREE kitty porn in my photo section. Just go to the photo tab in my profile..... enjoy.

[dawnetrn]

My cats names
Midnight (black cat of course)
Fluffy
Tasha (named for an Avon fragrance)
Scutterbotch (calico with butterscotch coloring), Scutter for short
Thunderbolt (and he was)
Current cat is Oliver (adopted from the pound, he was found almost frozen and starving in a snowbank and named for Oliver Twist), middle name is Eugene, also known as Ollie, Ols, Mr. Puss
A friend of mine had a mean cat named Shithead
Another friend adopted a mother cat and baby, named them Mamooshka and Babooshka (?spelling, Russian names for Mom and baby)

[Ghilly]

I loved the name (Ed-A-Puss) when it popped into my head, and DH and I laughed about it for a few days and then decided that it was perfect for the kitty and so he was named.  I am the type of person who puts a great deal of thought into the names of my "kids" because, after all, they are going to have those names for a lifetime, so they have to be good ones.  When we adopted Elizabeth, we were told that she was already spayed.  Since Ed was only four months old, we waited a while to neuter him, and we figured there was really no rush since Lizzie was spayed and our two older boys were already neutered.  Everyone would get along even though Ed was intact because he still bowed to the seniority of the other two males.  

Well, one night at 3 am, DH and I were awakened by a blood-curdling cat scream to find Elizabeth, our spayed kitty, giving birth on the loveseat!!!!  Talk about a surprise!!  But, thanks to the fact that we had been lied to about Elizabeth's fertility status, we now had two more kids in the family, and they were both VERY polydactyl, both having six toes on each foot all the way around.  Two kittens, FORTY EIGHT TOES!!!  There was a little female, whom I named "Fiona", which was a very easy choice because she was my little princess, just like Princess Fiona in the movie "Shrek".  The male kitten didn't look like a "Shrek", kittens just don't look like ogres, so I put on my thinking cap and came up with "Toemas", because God knows he has toes, and I have always liked the name "Thomas" for a boy.  And then it hit me - he IS the son of Ed-A-Puss, so his name officially became -



wait for it...




Toemas Ed-A-Son!!!

I'll see myself out now.  

Ghilly

[marissposa]

Sativa = Titi, Teats, tatuba, teataleato, tivo, toobow, tiva, tiba, stevie, missmiss, tito, miss, teatea-ana, insani-cat, kitkat, t.t. minor, t-bone barnett, tito jackson, touvalou, tartuba, satie... more later........

[Auntiedotes]

What a fun post.  Ok, here goes.

Mr. Woogs = Woogies, Wiggles, Squiggles, Squiggle-butt, Grampa Woogs
Felix = Lovebug, Chickadee, Chickster kitty
Dusty = Dustmop, Dust bunny
Muffin = Muffy, Muffy Von Hissington, The Evil One (she's feral, been with us for almost 10 years, hates humans, loves cats!!).  Hisses at me every chance she gets.
Cubbie = Cubster, Cubbiekins, Cuteypie

And I, too, am happy to know I'm not the only one....LOL!

[mrwjd]

Okay, I'll get back to you later.  Right now, I'm rolling on the floor laughing.  

[Savas]

Heh heh...this is to much. I'll admit, I had a horse once I called sh*thead when I was a kid, but that was before I got to know him better. He rolled on me since I cinched him up to tight and nearly broke both my legs, which started us off on a terrible footing. Eventually i started calling him "Old Glue." :) (Forgive me, i was young.)

I see from pic's that quite a few of us have mixed pets, dogs and birds. Does any one have snakes, lizards, rabbits as well? I find the inter-special relationships interesting.

We've got a family of woodchucks out back and it's startling to see they mingle with the cats quite happily. I've seen woodchuck babes sleeping in a pile with the cats, or eating along side them.
The possums are a problem because the do kill the kit's which I hate to see but there's not much we can do.

(I don't see how a cat can live with a bird without an inevitable "Sylvester vs. tweety" outbreak, btw.)

[marissposa]

woodchucks sleeping with kitties....... too adorable!

[NewLeaf]

Woodchucks in NYC??? help me out here, these must be the urban variety.  

I know there are raccoons, skunks and opossoms in cities but woodchucks???

[marissposa]

add coyotes to that list of urban beasts.  Seattle has 'em

[NewLeaf]

True, there are coyotes in many cities. We used to see them where I am but development has cut off their easy travel corridor from a semi wild area where they would nip into neighborhoods to find strays (mainly cats and those small dogs). There is also the occasional mountain lion as well. Once, during a late night airport drop-off I saw a fox run accross the main road out by LAX in LA. That was surprising. Then there was the bear that loved swimming in this guys swimming pool in Banning. Neeedless to say, the bear was relocated by fish and game, hopefully somewhere he could indulge his nightly bathing ritual..

[Ghilly]

To answer your question, we are one of those inter-species households.  In addition to the furry kids, we also have:

Paco - She's a green-cheeked conure with a large vocabulary, most of it foul.  She was three years old on April 10th.  I live and work at a hotel, and as part of my salary package my hubby and I get an apartment, all bills paid.  There was another couple who worked here, and they had the apartment right next door to us.  Because our bedrooms used to be adjoining rooms before they were turned into apartments, there is an adjoining door between the bedrooms.  The soundproofing is not all that bad, unless you are screaming at the top of your lungs, which this couple often was.  They fought CONSTANTLY, and as a result, Paco has the vocabulary of the love child of Andrew Dice Clay and Chris Rock.  It took me about six months of constant repetition to teach her how to say "Gimme a kiss!", and it took her less than three weeks of listening to this couple fight to be able to question the marital status of your parents.  Birds.  Gotta love 'em.  

Next, we have the herps, the reptiles.  Mason is a red eared slider, which is a turtle.  More specifically, she is one of those "little green turtles" that anyone over 40 had dozens of as a kid.  You know the ones, they ate those dried flies in the little cardboard Hartz Mountain box and died before the next full moon.  Mason got her name because I brought her home in a jar.  She was a hatchling when I got her, she was about the size of a quarter and she still had her egg tooth on the end of her nose.  Her hatch day is July 15th, and next month she will celebrate her sixth birthday!  No more little turtle, her shell is eight inches across and she weighs about three pounds.  Now that people are more aware of the correct way to keep reptiles as pets, there are much better diets available than the dried flies of yesteryear.  ReptoMin sticks and live fish have her growing by leaps and bounds.  Every week when I wash her shell she sheds a few scutes because growing is her favorite hobby!

And, last, but certainly not least, we have our snake.  She's a ball python named Lucille.  OK, so it's corny, I know.  Lucille Ball.  But it works for her.  When I bought her for DH she, too, was a hatchling, and now, nine years later, she is just a shade over five feet long.  Ball pythons aren't terribly large snakes, which works well for us because with all the cats, we didn't want a snake that would get large enough to look at our cats and think he was living in a deli.  

And that's the rest of our crew.  Erm, I mean ZOO.  

Ghilly

[marissposa]

You can take the bear out of SoCal but you cannot take the SoCal out of the bear. I'm sure he is still wondering around looking for his barca lounger and cabana boy.

[Jaybay]

  Savas, I can't resist: COPY CAT!!!!  :-D

[Savas]

Ah, for those confused, we've been staying over the border in New Jersey. New York is way to expensive right now! We're looking for a new place as they raised our rent to $3,000 a month and that was further than we could afford to go (at 2,500 it was barely manageable).. So for the moment, I'm out here in injun' country. :)

We've got what looks like a a large undeveloped area nearby that apparently is home to many critters. I've seen possums, 'coons, 'chucks...and pigeons. Lots, and lots of pigeons, which the cats around here hunt voraciously!

you have a Paco? That was the name of my dog as a kid. :)  And if you think your snake's name is bad, my wife called her pet python "Snake-speare" as a child. I shudder to think. I suppose it's about as bad!

Jaybay, I good writer knows to plagiarize from the best. It's how I get my best work. :)

[mrwjd]

"we didn't want a snake that would get large enough to look at our cats and think he was livingAdvanced care directives in a deli."
_____

At that, Ghilly, you are far more courageous than I.  

In our family, most of the dogs and cats merely tolerate each other.  There are exceptions--one cat frequently lay limp on her side while one of the puppies pulled her across the tile by an ear, but it appears they have left the game back in their pup- and kittenhood days.  The dogs are not big enough to be a danger, and the cats are merely an intellectual threat to the dogs, who are fortunately not bright enough to understand that.  

Small enough to fit with the cats means too small to go horseback riding along the river, though, so except for the occasional orchestrated lick on the nose by an arm-held dog, the horse is consigned to her equine neighbors, the rabbits that inhabit her paddock and the coyotes that eat them.  (When she was much younger, I saw her actually chase a rabbit, just for the fun of it.  The rabbit took a sharp right and slipped under the fence; Mystic took a sharp right and...we'll leave the picture just there.

The point, if there was one, is that as we have gone through periods of longing for guinea pigs, mice, gerbils, bunnies and the like, I have held firm:  No pairs of pets for which one is the natural prey of the other.  If ever I doubted the wisdom of the rule, I'm reminded periodically when some parent of some one of my daughter's peers reports yet another dastardly murder in the family.

btw, Ghilly, I've introduced everyone I know to Ed-a-puss and Toe-mas Ed-a-son.  I'm decreeing "Mason" to be right up there.

[mrwjd]

You see?  A missing close paren.  If ever there were an argument for modifying the system to permit post-submission edits, there you have it!

You have been following that discussion, right?

[mrwjd]

"Ah, for those confused, we've been staying over the border in New Jersey."

My other friend who "lives in New York" also lives in NJ--but he can look across the water at Manhattan from his umpteenth floor apartment.  Does that count?

My actual New Yorker friend lives in Maryland.  

[mrwjd]

My son is the worst nicknamer in the world, but he won't stop.  I'm pretty sure he does it largely to annoy his "baby" sister.  This generation has ended up with weather names, but the nicknames he gives them are pretty random.  

Our mama cat he used to call "Eyeballs" but when she had kittens, he took to calling her "Milkbags."  That made my 13-y-o breathe fire, which just encourages him.  Her sister he calls Orca, although I've never really gotten why.

The handsome father of the kittens took a very long time, more than two years, to get a clue about becoming a father, so my son took to calling him Fauntleroy--no insult intended to any fops out there.  Fauntleroy's litter mate he calls "Sister" which is annoying to my daughter because it deprives her of a personal identity.

The older kitten whose points contrast particularly strongly with her body color is "Socks," which amuses him because it's trite and because my daughter...well, you know.  He has her litter mate, named Leaf by his contemplative 5-y-o who explained to me seriously, "It's the only weather name I could think of."  The younger kitten, from the younger litter of the same parents, looks more like Leaf than like "Socks," and he calls her Leaflet.

The Bengal we named Cloud (for clouded leopard), but she is rarely called that.  I liked Storm, for the turbulence of her coat pattern, but it wouldn't have mattered because she is generally called "Spotty" or "Knock it off!"

I won't go into their real names now; it's another tedious laundry list.  

[Savas]

That's terrible! Calling a cat "milk bags"...wait, I'd done that. :)
We also refer to them as "Cat skin rugs" as well. It's a threat and a dream...

Ah well, siblings tend to torment each other. Be thankful they don't gang up and work together. That's when things get very dangerous for you!

We moved out to jersey about two months ago. It's sort of a joke around here, true NY'rs now live in NJ, wealthy celebrities from LA live in Manhattan.

We're actually considering moving out of country seriously for the first time ever. We're both disgusted by the state of the country and are fed up. I don't really see things getting better any time soon.

i do wish they allowed you do edits after posting. It's irritating to miss something and realize you just made no sense because you said something like;

He passed away peacefully in his jeep. :)

[Jaybay]

Jaybay, I good writer knows to plagiarize from the best. It's how I get my best work. :)
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Aaahhh.... flattery will get you anywhere when you're dealing with a dog.  WOOF!  :-)

[petitepdx]

I like to name my pets with foreign names. My animals are pure bred so I have to name with them sometimes with specific letters...

My dog's name is Katsu Kiku... My cat Franklin Jacks...

I think foreign names can be really fun!

[April2]

My cats have foreign names too. The cat we adopted from the Humane Society already had a name as she was 2 years old when we adopted her. Her name is Misha. I thought that was such a pretty name and then I looked it up and it's Russian and means Male!! (???) I guess that was somebody's idea of funny. A female cat named "Male" Hmmm.

Then we got a kitten last year and since my daughter was really into Japanese things she wanted to name her a Japanese name. I let her choose her name. It's Sakura, which means Cherry Blossom. Ha! She is nothing like a delicate flower, more like a stink weed. Hee, hee. She can be such a stinker.
Misha's my sweet baby. She will cuddle with me. Sakura just wants to play and knock over all my things on the counters. I'm hoping it's just because of her youth and she'll calm down as she gets older. Sigh. It's almost like having children. ;)

[Savas]

The secret to getting on a Dog's good side is flattery AND food! Make sure your dog never learns how to use a can opener. He may discover he no longer needs you!!!


...a female cat named "Male"? Why not? I've got a cat named "Mouse". :)   Misha is a great name for not just a cat, but a girl as well. I'd swear I knew a Misha once. I'll have to try to remember...hmmm...

[mrwjd]

That's interesting.  The parents of the kid who carpools with us are from Russia, and his name is Misha.  I understand from them that it is Michael.  Which is also a boy name, I suppose, until Michael Learned.

But my daughter's name is Ethan, so what do I know?

(We had a "Mouse" once, the runt of a feral litter we brought in and placed in homes.  She stayed small, minute, and the mom and daughter who took her home liked that she fit so neatly in their laps.)

[mrwjd]

I wouldn't like this to get out, but dogs seem to respond well to bullying.  Yell at them, and they'll grovel and bit and devotedly lick your hand.  And the way they watch you, struggling to figure out what you want before you say it, before you even KNOW it!

Is it any wonder that cats hold dogs in contempt?

[lonewolf07]

Just saw this and couldn't resist  = )

We have a 23 yr old cat named Pond Scum; nicknamed The Old Man

A gray striped tabby named Icepick (he likes mice)

A black and white cat named Anakin; nicknamed Ugh or the Ugholator

PS:  One of our dogs has a favorite toy - a cat toy named Snake

[nissah46]

Our almost 10 year old cat came to us as a stray kitten, born under our deck to a wild mother.  We caught the 4 kittens in a live trap to save them from the wild life of their mother.  We found homes for all of them, and did this many more times as we could not catch the mother.  She was too smart to get caught in the live trap. Anyway, we called him Riley. Unfortunately when he was about 6 months old I accidently ran over him, and he had to have his right back leg removed. He soon was called Triley, or Tripod, but I still call him Riley.

[mrwjd]

Triley!  

I have just one thing to say:  It's a good thing cats don't have self-esteem issues!

:-)

(I'm giving you permission:  you can let go of the guilt now.  It's been more than 9 years and he's been loved all this time, a deal not every cat gets.)

[nissah46]

Oh, and loved he is. He is also the most loving cat ever.  People say that strays don't make good pets, but he would prove them so wrong.  He also got a little spoiled after the accident.  My husband would leave the TV on if we were not going to be home, so Riley would have company.  And he knows when our older daughter comes home he will be allowed in her room , on her bed, pretty well wherever he wants. Don't even talk about the guilt! I still haven't told our younger daughter all the details of what happened, because she would still be upset to this day.  Sometimes I have to catch myself, because I told little white lies at the time.  

[mrwjd]

"He passed away peacefully in his jeep. :) "
___

Worthy of the Bulwer-Lytton contest.

[mrwjd]

Okay, just for today we're having a two-for-one sale on absolution.  You can forgive yourself for the white lie, no extra charge.  

[nissah46]

Much appreciated!

[CatShapedHeart3]

We call our girl penny gwen which was because she looks like a penguin
her nicknames are:
-pencil
-penguin
-pingin
-penelope
-pen
-penicillin
-poopsil --she poos on the carpet :(
-deadsil --looks dead when she sleeps :p
-mama

we call luffy  pronounced loofy vtw
-luffers
-luff-un-kun
-luppy

we call shanks
-shankst
-shanksy

our newest addition jasmine hasnt  adopted many nicknames yet we basically just call little one... or lemur...lol

oh and my wife call them all "my babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy(s)"

Love Catshapedheart3

[Sharon2714]

i had a very loving big headed tabby that i named TJ
we called him Junior after his dad and my daughter who was three at the
time called him "tickles" because his whiskers tickled her
so we combined it inot TJ
he was an excellent companion cat ... the best for an insomniac like me
sharon

[Kate883]

It took me months to think of a name for my little black cat...I finally settled on Atticus, which turned into Atticus Catticus, which turned into Atticus Catticus Finch III, until finally Atticus Kitty Catticus Finch III.  Nicknames include:  Kitty, Catticus, Kitty Catticus, Atticus Catticus, and Mr. Finch Fuzzy-Pants

[FurballsMom]

My cat has a wide range of nicknames.  Let's see...
Baby girl
Sweet girl
Furball
Fluffmeister
Die Katze
Goof Goof
Honey

She knows when I come up with a new one that I'm still talking about her.  I love it that she learned the German phrases that I've repeated to her enough times.  She knows I'm talking about her, regardless of which language I'm speaking.  I'll say:  Bist du eine Katze?  Bist du meine Katze?  It's pretty awesome that she has figured out that she is a Katze and a Fluffmeister.

[FurballsMom]

I forgot to add one nickname I call the cat when she is being "naughty" or "clever":

Little Stinker

[Jade59]

I called our first kitty, Abby, "Baby Girl" since she was just a baby when we got her.  

I call Jade "Cutie," my husband calls her "Punkin" or "The Punkinator" and we both call her "Punkinhead."

[heatherlynn22]

our fur baby's name is venus. we originally thought she was a he so "his" name was mars buuutttt then we realized oh it's a girl and changed it to venus. (should have left it mars....and yes i have a thing for roman and greek gods) i call her snot ball, monster, fat cat, bad cat, fuzz butt, stinky @$$, psycho and crazy cat. when i'm mad i call her venus aphrodite (yes i know venus and aphrodite are technically the same goddess) wampler....

when we get the g.s. puppy if it's a he his name will be aries mars (yes again same god different cultures) wampler if it's a girl her name will be Athena Sasha (sasha was greg's old german shepherd) wampler.

[Jade59]

I call Jade a "Dirty Girl" quite often, too.  

White Cat + Outdoors = Dirty Girl! :)

We had never seen Jade look so white and clean as she did those 2wks in the hospital LOL...

[MJIthewriter]

Sometimes I call one or the other cat a "brat cat" Usually geared towards Waldo. He has a thing for looking practically lifeless, laying right in the middle of a path - until both of us leave the table for a second. Then he's up there trying to pull whatever is up there on the ground to eat. He knocks over garbage cans if given the chance... He's even knocked over a small metal can and gotten it open.

[opus88]

FUN FORUM...lets keep it goin.....oh and I LOVE Toemas Ed-A-Son!!!!!!

do true how we will vary off a name into some wierd version of what ever pops into our minds and just 'feels' right!!

Opus- (lunch) bucket,little general,old boy, mister puss
Sami- Sam-b,Sami brown, Sam man
Nemo- bubs/bubby
Bailey- Mrs. B/baby
Gus......
Tia Maria- Miss T (grandson would call her tia diarrhea)

[April2]

I call my daughter's cat Brat Cat, too. She really is a brat! I sure was not happy with her tonight. Grr. She broke a brand new clay pot I had just bought! I hadn't even been home for 5 minutes and she broke it!

My other cat is a different story. She never gets in trouble. She's my baby. :)

[zodiacqueen]

Opus-Tia Diarrhea......LOL

Let's see-Skunkie (original name)

AKA

Monkey
Mi Mi
Jasmine (don't know where this one came from)   =)

[April2]

Anybody want a bratty cat who likes to knock over everything she possibly can?!

[opus88]

we maybe need to start a newer thread and get more posts?

april and everyone else out there
I think all the unique habits are what makes our babies so individual and very much like the human variety!!
enjoy

[April2]

Sorry, didn't mean to vent on here last night. I'm usually pretty tolerant but last night just took the cake. I had just bought that clay pot and set it on the table and stepped away and she knocked it over and broke it. Sigh. She does test my patience!

Ok, moving on. :)

[opus88]

oh no!! there are appropriate times when one does NEED to vent for sure!
the little dickens....but mommy always forgives.
love every moment even the not soooo nice!

[chelan3]

Hi everyone,
My previous cat I called Isosceles (I was a Math teacher at the time) everyone loved the name.  I even had a student who said "you named him after the shape of his ears".  I didn't but was happy he knew what Isosceles meant!  I nicknamed him "Saucy".  I lost him about 10 years ago.
I just ventured into getting a new kitten a few weeks ago.  A beautiful tortoiseshell.  I call her Jewel. I've had Jewel since she was 2 mos old she turns 3 mos on October 1.  She is a quite a bit more "lively" than my previous cat hence the horrible nickname "Devil Cat".  She literally whips around my house at full speed and whips up the curtains and onto my piano, and onto shelves with treasures. Even as I type this she jumped on my back with her claws.  I'm hoping she settles down when she gets older.  Although she is very cuddly, and purrs so loud you can hear her from across the room.

[opus88]

Oh a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jewel...what an appropriate name, love it.

[claire38]

i have 3 cats 2 f 1m
the 2 females are:
Claire who is a bengal
her only nickname is claire bear
kiki who is a dsh she is black calico
kiki b*tch kitty b/c she hisses and swats when ever she near olie
and our newest Oliver long haired tabby
olie, olie olie oxen free (sp?), and dh has his own for olie: fur balls, fuz nuts, *** blaster (bad gas as a kitten, and ended up squirting a little poo on me after he farted then booked to litter box)
i believe thats it