not a cat, but..

I know someone who was working for a public transportation company (ie. bus lines) in Philadelphia.
 Her roomate, who worked for the same company, named his dog Rosa Barks.

My cousin had a kitten when he was about 3 and named it Sheila.  It's not
really a strange name, but it was kind of strange that at 3, it was the name
he came up with.  The family never knew a single Sheila, so to this day, no
one knows where he got the name from.  Now he's in his 30s and he doesn't
even know why.  ;)
Strange along those lines is our cat Sally... DS named her, and he as well
was about 3 when he named her.  I don't recall the name Sally coming up
until he brought it up out of the blue.  A pair of brothers of Sally's went
to a friend of mine who named one Pumpkinhead and the other Freddy Kruger.
I guess the cats both ended up being destructive to his old ratty furniture,
and since he didn't care, he just gave them fairly appropriate names.
My brother's cat's name is Chevy... He found an abandoned litter of 3
kittens in the back seat of an old Chev and when him and his friends were
positive the litter had definitely been abandoned, my brother took this
6-toed, oddly long tailed, backwards foot little girl in and his friend took
the other 2.
There was a girl my age in my (parents') neighbourhood who had a cat named
Snowball.  He was a blackish-grey color.

Many years ago my brother named his cat "Furrball."

lol......All good names!
I enjoy hearing what creative names people come
up with for their pets.

Mine current kitty is named Big Momma.
Because that was what I called my grandmother when
I was a little kid.

My landlord has about 12 cats.
One named Snowshoes.
Because he's an all black cat except for his feet
which are white.

One tenant he had, had one named Tripod...
because he only had 3 legs!

Learned Hand was a famous American judge.  Some time ago, I noticed that
someone on one of the newsgroups had a cat named Learned Paw.  I laughed out
loud when I saw it (but I don't remember which one, and this was several
years ago).

MaryL

My parents had two Siamese (until recently all we had were Siamese, now I've
gone tabby: he's named Taboo). But their last ones were called Snowball and
Blizzard. They never replaced them after Blizzard was hit by a car (lived
near a blind turn hill) and later Snowball was killed by stray dogs. Great
cats both, but just as a gentle tease I used to usually call "Snowball" by
another name. Hint: he was neutered.

We've rescued a litter of five kittens. They were all about one week
old and their eyes were still closed, so we named them:
Ray (now dead =( )
Stevie Wonderbread (he's white as wonderbread!) aka Sir Purrs-a-lot
Ellen Keller (she only liked to hang on the girls)
Sanba (3-8 in Chinese; slang for "bitchy" - she cries a lot)
and Spot (we're not very creative) aka Purrbot

Aside from us, I have a cousin who named her cat Chairman Meow and
another who named every cat Minu (French for kitty). I honestly don't
know how she told them all apart.