My first 2 cats I got from a litter my brother's barn cat had.  I was
really into Steve King at the time.  The female is named Annie, from
Misery.  The male started out as Gage, from Pet Cemetery.  I didn't
really like that and no other male character's name didn't seem to fit.
Somehow I came up with Jake.  Turns out this is a Steven King
character in the Dark Tower series, which I haven't read.

Penny (RB) was Peaches when I adopted her.  I guess because she was a
calico but the orange looked more of a rust/peach color.  I changed it
to Penny just 'cause it seemed to fit her better.  

Theresa

Frank was named after Frank Zappa, because he has a little black spot on
his chin, just like Zappa's beard (the goatee hadn't come back into
fashion yet in 1987, when Frank was born).

Miranda's name was originally Cashmere. That had become Mere by the time
she came to me. That gradually evolved into Mir-mir. Suddenly I
remembered that I had resolved, years ago, to call one of my cats
Miranda. She was to be a tabby, and her nickname would be Randi, which
means stripey in Swedish (randig). Well, Miranda isn't a tabby (though
she has faint stripes along her tail, like all Russian Blues), and I
don't call her Randi, I call her Mir-mir or Mirsan.

Caliban was named thus because of his hoolikitten ways, and because
Miranda thought he was disgusting at first (see The Tempest ;o)).
They're best friends now, though.

Persia told me her name... she had been with me a couple of weeks and I
turned around and looked at her.  She was walking away from me and the name
'Persia' just popped in my head.  I said "Persia!" and she turned around and
ran back towards me.  She has answered to it ever since.  So that is her
name.

Jill

I just liked the name Lily, so when I got my sweetie I named her Lily. She
answers to it whenever I call her, so I guess her name is Lily.
Lily & her mama

Fluffy - she's a very fluffy cat
Spooky - most anything spooks this very nervous cat
Fleagor - the lead character in a defunct web comic
Tigger - came with the name
Avery - supporting character in the "Ozy and Millie" web comic
Mudpie - lead character in the "Mudpie" web comic
Ozy and Millie - lead characters in the "Ozy and Millie" web comic
Dandy - lead character in the "Dandy and Company" web comic
Maryweather - supporting character in "Dandy and Company"
Snowball - came with descriptive name
CJ - came with name

Snoopy was named by her previous slave's little boy, considering he was only
three years old at the time I think he did quite well. Bagheera is named
after the black panther in 'Jungle Book'

I've never been owned by a female cat, until the latest incumbent.
That's why she's just plain old "Mrs Cat" :-)

...Google!  (named that because of the goggle-like black patches
around her eyes).

My current cat, Cinders, was named by her original owner.  The name is
based on her fur colors.  She is a calico (gray, brown, white, and
black fur), but the gray color predominates, giving her a mottled
appearance like wood ashes.

Katie, her former adoptive sister (died early 2003), was named by the
same original owner.  I don't know the origin of that name.  She was a
tuxedo kitty.

Annabel Lee (died Feb. 2002 in a house fire) was that rare beast, an
orange-and-white female.  My parents had had cats named Tinkerbelle
and Kentucky Belle, so I was somewhat keeping up the tradition.
Annabel Lee's name came from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.  Her original
owner had named her "Little Girl", as she was the runt of the litter
and only weighed about 7 pounds when full-grown.

My first kitten was named snowball.  For the obvious reason.

Our first cat was Dammit Sam.  Sam cause the dog was named Willie, dammit -
well he was Siamese.

Then came the feral Ginger, named by my daughter, and Maggie another feral,
named after a bar where we used to hang out.  (My mother actually thought I
had a friend named Maggie at one time.)  Then Henry.  Well after Willie and
Sam there really was no other choice.  Jacob, our third Siamese is named
after my father, Rosie because Jacob and Rose sound right together.  And now
our little feral calico Molly, just because.  It probably isn't her name.
She has never once answered to it.  But we have to refer to her as something
when we talk about her.  She does show some slight response to Baby Girl.

Jo

Soncek (which is Slovenian for Sunshine) is named because he is my
sunshine.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek

Lindy - Driving her home from the shelter, I tried to think of a good name
for her.  She's very pretty, so I thought of Linda (pronounced "leenda"),
which is Spanish for pretty.  However, I knew people would call her Linda
which wasn't what I wanted.  Then I started thinking about all the other
cats at the shelter I couldn't bring home.  I told her, "You're a lucky
little girl, you know."  And then it hit me - Lucky Lindy!

Nanki-Poo - Again, on the way home from the shelter I was trying to think of
a good name for him.  He was meowing and yowling all over the place.  I
said, "You're really giving me a concert, aren't you?"  Immediately a song
popped into my head, and I started singing, "A wandering minstrel I" - and I
had a name.  That song is sung by Nanki-Poo, a character in Gilbert &
Sullivan's "The Mikado".

Herbie (RB) - He wasn't a shelter cat.  Some neighbors had a cat, always
kept outdoors, who had a litter of kittens.  One of our cats used to play
with one of the kittens and eventually brought him home to stay.  He was a
very affectionate kitten, and would lie next to, or on, my head in bed.  One
night I said, "You're a regular little love bug, aren't you?"  So naturally
he was Herbie from then on.

Pyewacket/Pye (RB) - Many years earlier, I saw the stage play, "Bell, Book
and Candle".  The witch's familiar was a black cat named Pyewacket (Yes, I
know the cat in the movie was a Siamese, but this one was black).  At the
time, I had had only dogs, but I said, "If I ever get a black cat, I'm going
to name it Pyewacket."  I did.

Rudy (RB) - Back to Spanish.  He was another kitten brought home by one of
my cats.  He was very noisy.  When he purred, it was really loud.  Ye meowed
and yowled a lot, especially when we took him to the vent.  Ruidoso means
'noisy' in Spanish, so he became Rudy.  He actually joined my son's PTA as
Rudolfo L. Gato.

Joy

OK, you asked for it:

_Smokey_ - she was named by a previous owner as Stormy, because she was
temperamental.  Turns out she just wasn't spayed.  She's all grey, like a
Russian Blue.  But was born to a barn cat, so in is no way purebred.

_Tennessee_ _ Tuxedo_ - he is all black, except for a white 'bow tie' (white
spot on his throat) and 'cummerbund's (white spot on his belly), named after
the cartoon character (a penguin) of the same name.

_Ivy_ - 4-6 weeks old when we 'captured' her in our neighbor's wooded back
yard, in a patch of poison Ivy.  She was a calico, but in no way had the
'calico' temperament.

_Lizzie_ - rescued from the local shelter, was about 8 months old (a
guestimate), tri-colored, but not your normal calico - she is white belly,
face & legs, with the majority of her body being grey tiger, with orange
splotches and orange tiger splotches on her legs and face.  She does display
the 'calico' temperament.  Named after Queen Elizabeth.

_Weeble_ - was only a day or so old when I found him (and a sister, RIP)
abandoned by their MamaKat.  He still had his umbilical cord attached,
though it was dried up.  He tried to 'walk' on all fours the first day I had
him (and ended up as a tripod, on his front legs and nose), so I said "he's
all weebly-wobbly" and it stuck.  Formal name is Sir Weeble Wobblybottom.
His girlfriend is Persia, who lives with Jill.

_Ernie_ _Mimi_ _Minnie_ & _Moe_:  there were four, who's MamaKat is the same
as Weeble's, they were about 4 weeks old.  They were originally Eenie Meenie
Miney & Moe.  I thought they were all girls, but Eenie sprung some new
'parts' seemingly overnight.  His named morphed into Ernie.  Meenie, who
upon first sighting me, hissed at me (though she was so small, I couldn't
hear the hiss, but her mouth movements gave it away), is a tri-colored and
does *not* display the 'calico' temperament, morphed into Mimi as she used
to follow me around the house screaming "meeeeeeeeee meeeeeeee" in her
squeaky little voice, Mimi's boyfriend is named Boyfriend (and looks a lot
like Moe) who lives with Tweed in England.  Miney, whom we regret that we
adopted out (even though she has *the* life for a cat, being the queen of
her house) morphed into Minnie (I used to sing to her "Little Minnie-cat,
little Minne-cat, gettin' into trouble, no matter where she's at), and Moe,
well, she's Moe!

_Ping_ - a Siamese, got into our basement through a dog-door, and announced
his presence loudly!  Was named after a character in the Disney movie
/Mulan/, as we had just watched that movie the night before his arrival.  I
had wanted to name him Frank, after Frank Sinatra, for his blue eyes, but DH
over-ruled me.  Posted fliers all over, and notified the local shelter, and
the only person who called was missing her green-eyed grey tiger!

_Miss_ _Priss_  - a long haired tortoise shell cat.  Took up residence in
our detached garage about 3-4 weeks before we claimed her.  She was out in
our driveway, so I took some food out.  She stared at me.  I sat down on the
walk about 1-2 feet from the food, and held my hand out like I was giving
ear-skritchies.  She came to me, ignoring the food.  I swept her up, despite
her protests, and deposited her in the bathroom.  DH started calling her
Priscilla, and I would add "queen of the bathroom".  Took her to the vet,
she is spayed and declawed (grrrr).  She does display the 'calico'
temperament, and that pisses off Tennessee and Lizzie big time.   She seemed
to answer to Miss Priss, so that's what we've been calling her.  Posted
fliers, notified the shelter and ran an ad in the paper, but the only
callers were for short-haired or fully clawed (and one intact that had had
kittens 3 weeks prior to disappearing).

All cats, except Miss Priss, can be viewed at my webshots page (see link
below).  Miss Priss can be viewed here
http://www.monroehumane.org/lostfound/story.php?ID=190

Hi group,

Are your cat's names on the list?
http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catnames.html
You can include current and RB kitties.

Purrs to all,

Nocturne:  Dark.  Elegant.  Somewhat sinister.  Unspeakably beautiful.
She IS Nocturne.

Smokey:  Liked to hang out in the smoking circle at a military base.
He had to quit secondhand smoking when he came to live with me.

Kumani and Tyche: Names mean "Destiny" and "Luck."  We found them as
infants in the trash--maybe fate, maybe just by chance.

--Fil

Hmmmm,

Panther is Panther because he is all black.  Not very imaginative,
perhaps, but we don't mind, around here. I can him "Pan my love" most
of the time.

Isadora (RB) whom I adopted at the same time I got Panther, acquired
her name after the dancer Isadora Duncan.  Isadora would pursue her
toys with amazing, balletic leaps and twists in the air. Lots of
exuberance, very little formal training.

Francesca is Isadora's successor. I named her that after St. Francis of
Asissi.  (I've always kind of had a soft spot for him in my heart.) St.
Francis made life more bearable for cats in the late medieval period,
so I thought it was a good name. AND... I'm just plain in love with
Italy. =o)

Nina, Francesca's one kitten, got named Nina because I've always liked
the name.

Melissa

Punkin...was named by my son when he was little.
Calvin & Hobbes...yellow tabby sibs named for the cartoon (rb)
Homebrew...dh's BIG yellow tabby...he and his buddy decided the name
Loki...d*g...norse god of mischief
M.J. (Emmie)...d*g...son named her Mary Jane

Vino was named by our niece who was 7 at the time.  She's severely
allergic to all cats, dogs, rabbits, etc and has bad asthma, so she
can't have pets.  We figured we'd let her name ours.  We thought she
said it was some sort of Disney character, but this confused us for
the longest time because we don't know of any such character.  Last
year we asked her again (she's 13 now) and she said no, it just means
wine.  She thought it was a good name because we were always making
wine and drinking it.  Great, our 7 year old niece caught onto that
;-)
--
Britta
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown
Check out pictures of Vino at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

his

<delurk>
Ours is a beautiful brown & black adult tabby with gorgeous green eyes, who
was named Jasmine when we found her in the local shelter. SWMBO and I are
both in the IT field, and SWMBO agreed to my request to name her "Five" as
appeared in: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000222&mode=classic
--
annoyed@net.spammers
I don't dial 911, I dial 1911 instead.

Bandit (a she) got her name in a kind of hokey way.  About 15 years ago I
opened my front door and a six-week-old kitten came running inside.  I
picked her up and brought her back outside to the food bowls I kept outside
for the ferals and strays, but she just ran right back inside.  So "Bandit"
because she stole our home *and*our hearts that day.

Demi got her name because of her appearance - tiny, prissy, *gorgeous*.

Jessie got her name because of her personality - hint, her nickname is "Jet
Ski".  ;>

Sammy got her name because of her personality - she's like a little girl
tomboy whose body is ten sizes too big for her brain!  ;>

Hugs,

CatNipped

Will -- I brought him home from the shelter on St. Patrick's
Day, so our first thought was to call him Paddy.  But then we
looked at him an said, "Wait -- this is an *orange* cat; we
can't call him Paddy."  So he became William of Orange.

Heidi -- That's the name they used for her at the shelter.  All
I can't figure out is why her paper-work lists a last name, when
they told me she was a stray.  She definitely seemed like a
stray -- very scrawny, even before she developed a URI.

Zubie (RB) -- She was a tuxedo kitty named by my mother after
Zubin Mehta.

Flicka (RB) -- She was Zubie's litter-mate and got named after
Frederica von Stade, just to keep the operatic theme.

Let's see....

Xoxo - he was called a ridiculous name by our neighbor who brought him
to the condos we used to live in at the time. While vacationing in
southern Mexico, we drove by a town called Xoxocotlan. We though the
name was super cool and decided to name Xoxo after it. :)

Luna and Maya - they look like ocelotls, so we decided on central
american sounding names. :)

Basho and Issa - they are Tonkinese, but for some reason ended up with
names of Japanese Zen poets.

Fez and Rufous - these guys truly fit their names. Fez was named (I
didn't know it at the time) after a bar here in Austin called "Red Fez".
Rufous is a total Rufous. :)

Cats current:

Carrie came with the name at the shelter, and we saw no reason to change
it.

Jasper: we got him and his mum, Jemima (RB) from a shelter.  She just
looked like a Jemima, so he had to have a name beginning with J too, and
Jasper it was.  He's grown into it very well; he's very suave-looking,
the Bryan Ferry of the feline world.

Fenchurch: we tried all sorts of names with this one, but none seemed to
work.  We started off with Trillian (guess who'd just watched the
Hitch-Hiker's Guide movie?) but no.  I thought Sophie, but a work
colleague's very new grand-daughter also had claim to the name.  A
friend suggested Fenchurch, a relatively minor character in Hitch-Hiker
(the girl in the cafe in Rickmansworth - she doesn't get identified
until later on in the series), and in the absence of a better name, it
stuck.

Cats past:

Jemima - as above under Jasper

Izzie (RB): short for Isadora as in  Duncan.  When I picked her up for
the first time she leapt from my arms and landed very elegantly, toes
turned out, like a ballet dancer.  But elegant was not an adjective you
could normally apply to this tiny but incredibly clumsy cat.  Very like
Fenchurch to look at; white with blotches rather than a defined tux
(although Izzie's blotches were dark tabby, as opposed to Fenny's
black).

Purdey (RB): named after the character in the New Avengers.  I was
eleven at the time, and thought Joanna Lumley was the height of
sophistication and elegance.  Trouble was, Purdey was in fact a male
and, by the time we found out, the name had stuck.

Tigger (RB):  My first cat.  She was a tabby.  My apologies for the
unoriginality, but I was only nine!

Laku was named by his mom's owner. Laku is an abbreviated form of
lakritsa, which is licorice in Finnish - Laku's a solid black kitty.

As for Nico, well, we just "tried on" different names and this one
stuck. His namesakes are:
- Nico Rosberg, the son of a Finnish F1-driver (nowadays a manager
etc.), who this year won the GP2-series and will be racing in F1 next
season. Nico - the kitty - does "race" around the apartment at times.
- Nico Toscani, Steven Seagal's role name in Above the Law (DH's a film
nut). Nico - the kitty - has got lots of attitude, but perhaps he's more
into wrestling than martial arts... :)

Figaro  A tuxedo cat with a black nose was found on a loading dock at
work by a coworker who then started looking for a home for it. His
nickname is Figgy kitty. ( most mellow cat in the world). Never meows,
except when he is frustrated about something.

Tito    A friend's cat had kittens so I took one. I really did not
have a name for him when I took him to the vet for his checkup right
after I picked him up. He was so tiny the he could sit completely in
the palm of my hand. The Spanish word gatitio came to my mind while I
was registering him so I just wrote down Tito.  He is now 16 lbs. (big
boy)

Antonio  He was found outside the house with his two sisters, who I
found homes for. He is named after the gardener in the "Marriage of
Figaro"

   My brother has a cat named Snowball.  He is a solid pitch-black
cat from ear tip to tail tip, not a single other color on him but for
his gold eyes.  

  Jeanne

    Current cats:

    Hobo - So named because that's what he was.  A scrawny, dirty
stray who only came around for a handout - until he adopted us.

   Speckles (aka Speck or Sweetie) - Another stray always referred to
as "that speckled cat" until she adopted us and the "speckles"
reference stuck.

   Jeanne

Am 29.10.2005 schrieb Ann:

Tientje (RB): black male cat with a little white spot on his throat and
beautiful golden eyes. He came from a Dutch shelter and had cost 'en
tientje' (Dutch currency, 10 guilders) then. He was 19 years old.

Pim (RB): tuxedo male cat. He was rescued from cruel people and was named
after a good friend of ours. He was 21,5 years old.

Tientje (aka Schatzemann, Schnubbel): black male cat with a little white
spot on his throat and beautiful golden eyes. He came from the same Dutch
shelter as our first Tientje. We named him in memoriam.

She (aka Muckelchen, Muck-Muck): brown and black tabby with red spots on
her head and body and green eyes. She was our first girl and we couldn't
figure out a better name for her.

Owl (aka Eulchen, Owlibowl): silvertabby persian male cat with orange/green
eyes. We named him for his appearance. He has very cute white hair around
his nose. His official name is: Yashmines Palace Persians Mr. Silver Owl.

Dax (aka Daxelotl, Daxel): silvershaded point persian male cat with
beautiful blue eyes. He was named Dax from the German word 'Frechdachs'
which means rascal. His official name is: Yashmines Palace Persians Dax.

Chiara (aka Queen Mom, Püppie): silvershaded point persian female cat with
blue eys. She came with her name and we kept it, because it sounds quite
royal and she behaves like a queen. Her official name is: Kenwoods Chiara.

Bandit (aka Bandito): silvertabby persian male cat with orange eyes. He was
named after his appearance and his behaviour. Although he was the smallest
of the litter he was an adventurer and daredevil. He still is:-)His
official name is: Bandit of CatManiacs World.

Lady Mortisha (aka Morti, Mörtelchen): silvertabby persian female cat with
green eyes. She was named after Mortisha in the series 'Adams family'. Her
official name is: Lady Mortisha of CatManiacs World.

Cottonball (aka Cotti): silvershaded point persian male cat with blue eyes.
We named him after his appearance. His real name is Yoda of CatManiacs
World.

Smoke (aka Smokie, Smokel): silvershaded point persian male cat with blue
eyes. We named him after his appearance. His fur is a nuance darker than
Cottonballs. His official name is Smoke of CatManiacs World.

Rasputin (aka Raspu, Rasputino): silvershaded point persian male cat with
blue eyes. We named him for his appearance. He was the first born and
biggest of the litter. His official name is Mr. Jingles of CatManiacs
World.

Sirikit (aka Siri, Kitty, Mausezähnchen): seal-point persian female cat
with blue eyes. We named her Sirikit after the Queen of Thailand. Her
official name is Yashmines Palace Persians Sirikit.

Pictures of the cats are here:
http://www.gwsystems.com/inge/e_katzenstart.htm

Purss to all
Inge and the catgang

Cosmo -- named after Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld.  Plus I'm an
astrologer, so "Cosmo" seems appropriate!

Internet -- he picked it.  Ran through a list of hundreds of names,
tossed "Internet" out as a joke, and he responded to it immediately!

Trill -- he makes that trilling sound a lot.  Plus a "Star Trek"
reference.

Wolfie -- named after a friend's pseudonymn, Wolfgang.  And he is a
very dog-like cat.

Brando -- named after Marlon Brando.  Former feral, and when I trapped
him, he was a mess, and looked a bit like Brando at the end of "On the
Waterfront".  Name is still appropriate, because he is now FAT -- lol!

Merlyn -- I said I was going to name my next cat Merlin (from the
Arthurian stories, of course).  I assumed it would be male, because
all my other cats since 1994 have been male.  But a big, fluffy, black
female showed up instead.  She responded to the name, though!  So I
feminized the spelling.

Arthur -- I had rescued Arthur, was standing in line to get him
vaccinated at a low-cost clinic, and they handed me paperwork and I
had to put in a name.  I already had a Merlyn, so I thought "What the
heck," and named him Arthur on the spot.  Wasn't intending on keeping
him, but fell in love with him and decided he belonged here.

Kate and Jack, the temporary kitten visitors -- From two main
characters ont he TV show "Lost".

Ginger-lyn

and past kitties were Karma, Isis, Circe, Sonia, Geesha, Tiki, Mojo
and Sabra.  Karma for John Lennon's song "Instant Karma", Circe and
Isis from mythology, Geesha and Tiki were already named, Mojo for Mojo
Nixon, and Sabra telepathically told me his name.  Seriously.

Home Pages:
 http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/
 http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats)
 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy)
 http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against
                        Animals in Movies Website)

My son rescued Smokey from an undisciplined two-year-old (with the parents
consent).  He didn't have a name at first, but became Smokey in honor of a
previous Smokey who went MIA.

Mistletoe (aka Missy, Missy Poo, HEY STOP THAT) got her name from her
adoption date.  She was what my wife wanted for Christmas 6 years ago and
got her name from one of the trappings of the season.

Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

We called our tortie Martha because it's a prim and proper name, and from
kittenhood she's been a prim and proper kitty. Besides, we liked the
old-fashioned sound of the name Martha. That's also the reason we called our
next girl-cat Emily, and ditto our most recent arrival, Sophie. In Sophie's
case she's also named for a little neighbour girl. First we asked permission
from her mom, and from Sofie herself (different spelling)The human Sophie
especially was delighted to have a cat as a namesake!

When I was a teenager, we had an orange tabby tomcat named Timothy
Tiger, after a character in a children's book.  He eventually
disappeared at the age of three or so, so we adopted another orange
tomcat kitten, and named him Timothy Tiger as well.  In order to
distinguish which cat we were talking about, the names soon morphed to
First Timothy and Second Timothy, like two of the books in the Bible.

Our first cat was Speedy Joe (RB)who was named by the person who had
his mother, as he was about 4-5 months when we got him we didn't want
to change it

Fugazi (RB)is Vietnamese for "Chaos" and really suited her

Isis (RB)Dave wanted to name Isis after the Egyptian cat goddess but
didn't like Bastet as a name so he said wasn't there an Eygptian
Goddess called Isis? And I said "The top Goddess" and she was. He
wanted to call her after an Egyptian Goddess because even as a kitten
she could sit like those Egyptian cat statues

Our current Furball duo:

Redunzel- It's actually spelt RDNZL but I write it phonetically so
people don't have to ask me. Before Isis did her Egyptian cat statue
pose, Dave was going to give her this name. It's the title of a Frank
Zappa instrumental named after a black kitten he had (His 3 year old
son changed the kittens name from RDNZL to Fightey-Bitey after seeing
him in action)and supposedly inspired by the kitten tumbling over and
over. Redunzel as a kitten was famous for tumbling everywhere

Sarrasine- The title of an Honore Balzac short story. A friend of mine
tells me the name comes from the French Medieval "Sarrasin" and means a
"Dark skinned person". Well she is black and a person

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Otis, cos he's black and is a soulful singer! He is NOT named after a
lift/escalator company...

Trixie and Bozo (RB) were already named when we acquired them,  but
I generally give my pets names of my favorite country singers, actors,
or characters.  

Clarissa (RB) was named after Melissa Joan Hart,  for the role she
played in "Clarissa Explains It All"

Currently we have:

Nelda (Nelda Sisk and the Sisko Kids)
Sisko (Nelda Sisk and the Sisko Kids)
Trisha (Trisha Yearwood)
Boudicca  (Boudicca,  queen on Iceni,  62 AD)

DW named Boudicca.  The other three were littermates,  but Boudicca
was introduced by a disgruntled neighbor,  who couldn't keep a kitten.
Boudicca was quite aggressive as a kitten,  and couldn't be bothered
by the other three kittens.  She Royally kicked a.s,  whenever the
other kitties "infringed" on her territory.  Also,  she reminded DW of
Booty (RB),  and "Boody (or Booty)" is short for "Boudicca".

They're all grown up now,  and Boudicca now resides peacefully with
the other three.  Although,  she still throws a hissy fit once in a
while,  when she doesn't want to be bothered.  Even then,  she has
never hissed at me - just at the other cats.  Go figure.

Oh,  and I also have a pet snake,  named Robin,  after Robin Lee
(another country music artist).

The cats are not interested in the snake,  except for at feeding time
(mouse alert!).

--
 -john
           wide-open at throttle dot info

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"There are two means of refuge from the miseries
of life: music and cats."  -Albert Schweitzer
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Comet (RB) was so named because she joined the household when the Comet
Hale-Bopp was visible in the night skies.

Marietta was named by the local SPCA. When I brought her home and
released her from the carrier she wandered out to explore the new digs.
I softly called, "Marietta!" She immediately turned towards me, purred
loudly and happily flopped onto her back to display her fresh spay
stitches. So the name stuck.

Gennie

Baby Eyes - given by her foster meowmie, because she has "baby eyes"
(according to Gloria)

Tommy - When adopted his name was "Pinky" which sure didn't fit...

Abelard - Name given by his breeder. I wanted something that could be
abbreviated to "Aby" (for Abyssinian)

Eli - Gloria thought this one up for me

Billy & Lily - arrived with names given by Sherry's DH

Beatrice - a friend contributed this name