The Crazy Cat Name Thread

I'll start (of course)
Taco! (--because I left her with my old fiance one time and he left his taco bell out on the table when he went into the kitchen; came back 2 min. later and it was ALL gone)

and Bootsie, which isn't really a crazy name, but she's a crazy cat!

Silas.......after a rock band
Phoenix....after the street he was found on.
Dietrich....after the factory he was found in.

A very hyper cat that was given to be by someone moving out of their apartment. He just seemed like a Stergil.

Officially, her name is Audrey, but my boyfriend started calling her munchkin-head a few years ago and it stuck (she put on some weight and became rather round).

She really only answers when you call her Cat-Cat - and only if you are shaking the treats.

It started out as a joke but ended up sticking.

and he was a Fraidy-cat too/

I live alone and named my male cat Honey so that whenever I've been out, I can come back in and say "Hi Honey, I'm home". When he acts up, he's Cattila the Hon.

That's the funniest name I ever heard.

"Schrodinger" is a classic.

I'm going to start following your posts. You make me laff.

We called him Tiny Kitten when we found him - he fit in the palm of my hand. He thrived and grew, and grew and grew... we called him TK.... he kept growing and became the Lord of Reality - he is now TeeKayzer.,

For some reason people think that's funny. Do they not READ? (or watch movies?)

them spike. :)

Guadalupe, because I like to say that word.
Chaquita, because I like to say that word too.

Needless to say, my cat's get to hear their names a lot. Fortunately, I think they like their names too, because they always respond positively.

(She sang)

Also Boston (he's black)
Also Murphy (she's brown and she murfs rather than meows)

*sniff* I miss the big sweet guy.

My other kitties have fairly non-unusual names.

A friend had a beautiful female dark tabby with a snowy white bib.

a friend named a cat I helped him adopt (another Maine Coon) that.

Your Maine Coon is so gorgeous I want one!! I never seen one before and wow!! Big, fluffy, and looks incredibly loveable!

Speaking of adopting.. I do have room for another cat or two.. I should go to the shelter.

if you do a search for Maine Coons in your area, you'll probably find a few. One would be quite a contrast to your current kitty, lol!

Looked on petfinder and the closest was about a 3 hour drive from here :(

Maine coon breeders" plus your state. many times breeders will offer adult Maine Coons for adoption. Sometimes they are retired show cats, sometimes they are cats that came back to them after the owners could no longer care for them (death, illness, moving to London, etc.). some breeders do rescue without advertising, so if there is one located in your town it's worth asking them if they have any cats available, or if they think they will soon.

See-ay-tee (C-A-T) is a fave. (Dee-oh-Gee is good too, for a dog)

Tinker was my aunt's childhood attack cat

My mom has Ralph, Lauren, and BB; I had one named Polo in hs. don't ask.

Aunt's current cat is Irie.

My cousins mentally challenged (seriously) cats' name is Weeble, yes, after Weeble-Wobbles. Cause he does, but he falls down too.

a friend in college had an all white cat they named Honkey.

putting my tongue aginst the hole and sucking in air. Kind of like the squeaky sound made by a balloon when you pull the opening tight as the air escapes... or when you lay a big smooch on someone... it's pretty much un-spellable. Anyway, that sound was his name. When I took him to the vet I wrote down his name as Gremlin. That was my landlady's name for him.

a character of the book "The doll in the grass", a fairy tale book my brother was reading at that moment. Lillekort is a tiny prince.

When she was a kitten all she did was pass the worst smelling gas I've ever smelt in my life. She would clear out a room and make your eyes tear up.

Heres the culprit:

in 1975, my boyfriend and i were watching tv. a commercial came on, and a little boy's face suddenly filled the screen, and he said 'BISQUICK!' we cracked up (we were wasted) and named one of our new cats that. i can't now remember the name of the other cat....

Our cats. Okay maybe not "crazy" but very cool IMHO

My aunt named her cat after her boss. I don't know why. She's crazy, I guess. :)

Not that I am a big fan of LBJ's or anything I just ....well have you ever heard of a cat named "Lyndon Johnson"?

One of my best friends still calls him that.

Richard & Harry are litter mates, so named because at the time I got them, Nixon died, and I was reading Truman by David McCullough....

Daddy because we figure he MUST be the daddy to two of our kits, born to a feral cat in our basement on 9/11/01. He was a stray and we took him in about a year later.

Skittles is so named, of course, because she KICKED MY ASS! See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2055275

Occasionally people assume her name is actually "Buddha Cat" and they just heard it wrong.

Other cats I've had in the past:
Balzac
Spode (because of the P.G. Wodehouse description of Sir Roderick Spode as "something Nature began as a gorilla but changed its mind halfway through")
Stupid (whose real name was Cindy, but "Stupid Cat" was the only thing she answered to)

Pete died so then it was Repete and Damnit.

:shrug:

Cracked me up every time.

:)

:D

Trinity was named after the Matrix character :D

Because he looks like a long thin rice noodle!

Our daughter got it mixed up with "heffalump" from "heffalumps and woozils" and it just stuck.

one of his daughter's named her Bevis which was kind of funny because my cat Lucifer earned the nickname "Butthead".

pronounced too-pee

named after Peanut, who was affectionately know as Pea, hence 2-Pea

..of course, 2 days later (after a huge argument about having too many cats in the house) I came home and she was curled up on his lap. GO fig.

So named because when he was a kitten, he fell off our (rather high) deck. Twice. Oops.

May they rest in peace. O8)

Catta was the mother cat
angel and snowball were her kittens--pure white
bacon and cookie were also her kittens and reminded me of...guess.

i was about eight years old when i named them.

we found out i was alergic and my mom took them to the humane society. i stuck my head into the cage, crying and saying good-bye. i promised them i'd come back for them. of course, i couldn't and didn't. i never forgot it though. and i've never broken a promise since then.

it was a horrible experience.

are my babies

zildjian-named after drum cymbols

princess jasmine twinkletoes-she has brown feet and white toes (duh)

lady isabella boogybeans-she gets the boogy and uses my bathtub as a mosh pit.

one warm spring night I heard a cat crying outside. Thought it was our "old lady" cat. It sounded like a cry for help -- so I went outside and looked around

I heard the cry again and realized it wasn't the "old lady" cat - but rather a kitten cry. I located the cry from under a forsythia bush - bending down I spied two eyes looking back at me -- "who are you?" I asked

next thing I know this kitten is crawling up my leg. I brought her into the house and asked my (then) partner if she knew who it belonged to? Didn't know.

Kitten had a collar on so she belonged to someone. We called the neighbors - they didn't know anything about it. We put an ad in the paper -- no response.

so a couple of days after finding her - I asked my partner what we should name her -- I was told in no uncertain terms that I couldn't name her ANYTHING because then the kitten would stay.

since I couldn't name her ANYTHING I named her SOMETHING - it started out as a joke, but the name stuck as did the cat.

She was 8 yrs old...and is still missed 1995-2003

Acme - tortoiseshell Persian
Zerox (the Copy Cat) - solid black shorthair
Shadow - tuxedo shorthair

While we are responsible for Shadow's name (named because he became Zerox's shadow), we did not name the other two. We took in Acme and Zerox when a friend of ours had to move to an apartment and couldn't keep these guys. She leans towards silly names for her pets and chose these names so she could have cats from A to Z...