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Question: This Is My Dog, Reginald McPimplewagon

spamguy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:59:09 -0800

I now own an untitled cat. Inspire me with ridiculous pet names you've encountered.

Followup from last week's kitteh post. I adopted a fuzzball [.jpg] today! As predicted, he's freaking out under my bed right now—good call on that.

I have always looked forward to adopting a pet, because I'd get to give it an incredibly stupid, original name. Now that the time has arrived, I'm actually coming up short on ideas. I considered Mega Man and Proto Man, but Wernher von Braun is my top idea right now.

I need inspiration. What pets have you known with unbelievably bizarre names? Real pets only, please; the realm of potential stupid names is infinite.

By: emptyinside

emptyinside — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:03:05 -0800

I found the Necronomicon to be a fine source for pet names. Azazel ran away from my house a day before he was to be neutered. ;)

By: carmicha

carmicha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:04:56 -0800

A friend who lived in an apartment where no pets were allowed named his cat "Fish." That way, he figured, if the landlord asked whether any pets (or cats) were living in the unit he could reply truthfully, saying, "Only Fish."

By: pushing paper and bottoming chairs

pushing paper and bottoming chairs — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:05:00 -0800

I've always liked Eustace and Boomer for cat names.

By: Picklegnome

Picklegnome — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:06:06 -0800

Xangor: Bringer of Doom.

By: veronicacorningstone

veronicacorningstone — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:06:34 -0800

My boyfriends roommate has a cat named 'Snoopy'... which is so ridiculous that we all just call her 'kitty'. So I can't exactly call that a recommendation...

I also am partial to "Mr. Bigglesworth", Dr. Evil's cat in the Austin Powers movies.

By: b33j

b33j — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:02 -0800

My family has had the following pets over the last 30 years (obviously this is not all of them)

Blob (a whiny puppy who grew up)
Oscar Foppington Swish (his brother, a pretty labrador cross)
Morticia (their mother - a black lab cross)

Catrin (a cat)
Darling (a cat)
Wobbles (her brother)
Dingaling (their kid)
Uncle Bill (some relation but not certain exactly)
Nutsy (their cohabitant cat)

Boris (another cat)

Priscilla aka Scrap (another cat)

Dr Gordon Freeman aka Dooty (not duty) (another cat)
Vladimyr Tepes (his cohabitant cat)

Doc (another cat)
Arthur aka Arfur (another cat)

Sam and Roger (brother cats)

Holly and Cam (cats of a rev head)

Napoleon (the guinea pig) aka Nappy

By: pearlybob

pearlybob — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:03 -0800

Bruce. Just.....Bruce.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:09 -0800

Doctor Harbl. It's the nerdiest name ever because it references (a) Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; (b) LOLcats; (c) Doctor Who, if only because we can refer to him as "The Doctor."

By: GaelFC

GaelFC — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:32 -0800

JR Mewing

By: Green Eyed Monster

Green Eyed Monster — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:08:39 -0800

the little girls across the street got a kitten, and named him Zeus. I thought it was funny, anyway.

If we get a dog, I want to name it Chris, Jr. (after the husband, we don't plan on having kids, so...) and just calling it "junior".

By: pamspanda

pamspanda — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:13 -0800

I have 2 dogs and 2 cats and have decided - the "LOST" fan that I am - that if I ever get another dog/cat it's name will be "ECHO"!

By: jtfowl0

jtfowl0 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:11:00 -0800

Chairman Meow

By: tristeza

tristeza — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:12:36 -0800

My cat is officially named "El Diablo de la Tierra del Fuego". Semi-officially he is "Diablo".

Of course, the only thing I call him is "D".

By: ifjuly

ifjuly — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:13:29 -0800

Pumpernickel. Merkshire. Horace. Gefilte Fish. Lazio. Omar. Dungeon. Proust. Basil. Brentwood.

We know a cat named Merkshire and have two ourselves, Horace and Trudy. The rest just came to me in free association while staring at your cutie (aw!).

By: k8t

k8t — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:14:49 -0800

I like people names for pets...
Examples: Greg, Linda, Martha, Steve, Ronald...

By: overhauser

overhauser — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:15:12 -0800

Poop sandwich. It's a long story.

But a great cat.

By: kellyblah

kellyblah — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:16:13 -0800

It doesn't matter what you name the cat. Generally, you'll never actually call it that. I have three cats, named Zoey, Pippin & Trixie.

Mostly, they are w00t, Beeper & LuluBeez. Additionally, Cody the dog is typically Bear, or Stankboy, when he gets into the cat litter for delicious snacks.

By: Weighted Companion Cube

Weighted Companion Cube — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:17:31 -0800

I knew a cat named Fuggles, after the type of hops. These were dedicated closet-brewers, though.

By: chrisbucks

chrisbucks — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:18:39 -0800

Astrophe.

As in Cat-Astrophe.

By: exceptinsects

exceptinsects — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:20:01 -0800

I think I may have mentioned this on MeFi somewhere before, but when I was growing up my parents got a cat from some (presumably) hippie friend of theirs, and her name (the cat, not the hippie) was Bright New Ray of Hope.
My dad decided that this was too unwieldy for everyday use, so we just called her Of for short.

By: fructose

fructose — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:20:47 -0800

I've known of animals named Showcase Showdown, and Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P., and my boyfriend is still mad that we didn't name our dog Pancakes & Waffles. My boyfriend and I always try to think of the most human names that would be funny for pets. Like Jonathan, Jeremy, Blake, Lindsay, Courtney, or basically any name that was popular for people who are teenagers or in their early 20s now that aren't classic enough or funny enough to be a traditionally good dog name.

By: Large Marge

Large Marge — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:21:29 -0800

I have a friend who has a cat named poo foot (guess why). An old roommate almost named her cat poopfred (after her great grandfather Poopfred Reinhardt!!!) Also we used to have a cat named Skeletor (and who was emasculated by our female roommates who called him skelly-poo). All good cat names. My current roommate's cat is named Toonces, has gotten the nickname of Shithead (pronounced Shith-EED). Man, I keep a certain type of friend, huh?

Maybe Richard Parker? Catty Catterson?

By: exceptinsects

exceptinsects — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:22:55 -0800

Oh, and a friend of mine had cats named "Salad" and "Ronald Reagan".

By: Monday, stony Monday

Monday, stony Monday — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:26:44 -0800

Louis Hémon had it right: "Cat" is the best name for a cat.

By: mrbarrett.com

mrbarrett.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:27:39 -0800

A few cats I've know: Crackbaby, Pixel, Ziggy, Herman, Lardo, Shiznit.

By: carmicha

carmicha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:29:00 -0800

Hooter.

By: thisisnotkatrina

thisisnotkatrina — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:30:16 -0800

my friend had a cat named "short dog" it still makes me laugh to this day.

By: Jezebella

Jezebella — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:30:18 -0800

Oh sweet-looking kitteh! I kinda like Wernher Von Braun, though I hear it spoken by my german mother: Venner Phon ....
Speaking of Mutti, she INSISTS that cats prefer names with an "s" sound in it, so maybe einstein, max planck, heisenberg, niels bohr. Or, along that theme, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (4 "s" sounds!), the EWG many worlds theory of wave collapse (I think there's a better name for that theory). Or more to the point: Schroedinger's kitteh? Quantum Chaos? (This may become particularly suitable for general kitty rambunctiousness and abbreviates to kwoo-see nicely.)

Maybe it's just me, but pets' names kinda seem to organically arise with some nudging. Nicknames are a free-for-all, but I would wait to see what kinda personality your kitteh reveals after the freakout period for the name. (For the record, the SO and I play hand percussion and named our new kittens after indigenous drums: the male is Udu, an african "vessel" drum, and the female is Bouka, short for darbouka, a hugely popular goblet drum.)

Good luck and have fun!

By: pokeedog

pokeedog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:31:29 -0800

Add Mister, Doctor, Colonel or some other such nonsense to whatever name you choose. I've known cats named Mr. Pants (Adult Swim reference), Colonel Pumpkin, a standard for the ladies is Miss Kitty.

I had a cat named Cyrano de Bergacat (Cyrano for short), because he had a big nose.

A friend of a friend had a cat named Fat Cat (after the sandwich), he got another cat and named it Baby Fat. However Baby Fat wound up growing up to big MUCH bigger than Fat Cat.

By: coriolisdave

coriolisdave — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:33:15 -0800

I prefer names which reflect the animal in question, so we have Grizelda Grizzleguts, the whingiest cat in the world. Known usually as and "kitty", "zelda", "fathead", "primary cat" or (and only by my parents) "Grizzy". And the second addition, Tabitha de Broglie (she's both stripey AND spotty), more often "Tabby", "Secondary Cat", or "wothaveyougotnowCOMEBACKHEREdamitOW".

They do not get along.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:33:40 -0800

Sir Pukesalot. Pestilence Joe (a cat who was sick a lot). Vomitous Rex. Jabba the Cat.

By: nelleish

nelleish — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:34:11 -0800

Doodlebug
Tigerlilly
Fuss Bucket
Fuzzzzface
The Little Miss
The Baroness Von Meowzershine
Puppy

These are all names and titles of just one beloved cat, who we usually call "Kitten" said in a singsong voice so it's more like "KEHt-ten!"

Other cats I have known:
Yawp
Malajust
Stripe
Gandolf

By: cooker girl

cooker girl — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:35:07 -0800

We've always named our cats with human names that end in the "ee" sound. That's awfully boring, but the cats who live across the street were named by their then-nine-year-old boy owner: Booger (huge, HUGE black cat who follows families down the street for attention) and Mr. Wiggles (who is a girl-cat). I don't know if it's just the fact that I know the kid, but dammit if the name "Mr. Wiggles" for a girl cat doesn't make me smile every day.

By: Mr. Anthropomorphism

Mr. Anthropomorphism — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:40:17 -0800

I want to name my next cat Chairman Meow.

By: meeshell

meeshell — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:40:35 -0800

I like this person's cat's name "Edward Appleby"

By: baggers

baggers — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:41:06 -0800

I had two fish called Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun (after the characters from the Brit comedy show Bottom. He looks like he could be a Dave Hedgehog to me.

Or perhaps Ernst Stavro Blofeld, named after the Bond villan with the cat. As in "no, Mr Bond, I expect you to die". The cat does look like he's planning an evil scheme, possibly involving a nuclear warhead and a bit of string.

My wife also makes the suggestion of Morpheus, in honor of the king of dreams.

By: workerant

workerant — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:43:08 -0800

Four standouts for me:

Velcro - tried to hold on to the carpet when he was being picked up
Spite - self-evident
Asphalt - a black cat

And my very own black kitty, Rosa Parks. I adopted Rosa lo these many years from the Tucson Humane Society, along with her brother Einstein (yeah, he was really dumb). Rosa was in the cat carrier in the back seat of my old Volkswagen, meowing her head off the whole way home. Well, she was black and didn't want to sit in the back seat. What would you call her?

By: JujuB

JujuB — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:43:14 -0800

Pywacket, Mr Choo, Fiver, Asa, Ashton are some names I remember when I worked for a vet in high school.

When I was about 5, I insisted on naming the new cat Pinky. I didn't care that it was a male, I loved the color pink and after all, his nose was pink.

I now own Smokey and Bentley. Both shelter cats. Bentley is named after the motor car, his little motor (purring) never stops.

By: Thin Lizzy

Thin Lizzy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:44:57 -0800

A friend of mine had a rabbit named Spatula. My rabbit's name is Holly Golightly, but we never call her that- we usually just go with Rabbit, (the) Rabs, or Senorita Fuzzbutt (but only when she's shedding).

By: Mr. Anthropomorphism

Mr. Anthropomorphism — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:45:02 -0800

Dammit, are you kidding me jtfowl0?

By: marylynn

marylynn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:46:11 -0800

My cat started out as just "Baz". Three years later he now prefers the more formal version: Baron the Inspector Sir Sebastian Bazzy Baz of Bazington the Third.

So don't think whatever you come up with now is in any way limiting.

By: lxs

lxs — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:48:07 -0800

Paypal
Professor Meowsington

By: GPF

GPF — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:48:27 -0800

I know a cat named, "Dog." He's awesome.

By: Mouse Army

Mouse Army — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:51:33 -0800

My cat is Puddle. He doesn't make puddles, he's just a puddle of love.

I like mythological names for cats too: Fenrir, Freyja, Bastet (obviously), Osiris, Odin, Hera, Zeus, Jupiter.

It makes them sound all properly dignified (although they would argue they don't need a name for that :D

By: chesty_a_arthur

chesty_a_arthur — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:51:59 -0800

Scotty Floorboards.
Baby Sparkle.
Little Baby Jesus --> time passes --> Big Baby Jesus

By: chesty_a_arthur

chesty_a_arthur — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:52:17 -0800

Oh, and
Fucko.

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:52:49 -0800

George Herbert Walker Bush Kat, but call him 1 for short. (1 because he is your first cat. Or 41 after the prez) Or call him Barack Husein Obama and call him BAMmer or Barry for short.

By: amarynth

amarynth — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:54:32 -0800

I just met a dog named Pork.

By: biscotti

biscotti — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:55:03 -0800

Marbles
Smooch
Lunch
Dog
Smidgen
Tyranny

By: ninazer0

ninazer0 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:59:36 -0800

My cat doesn't have a name per se. She has a title.

The Mogget.

By: brain cloud

brain cloud — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:59:42 -0800

HRH Percival Fur-Legs, the Duke of Buttlick-upon-Duvet

By: divabat

divabat — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:59:56 -0800

One of my friends has a cat named Wendell. She is not a member of Metafilter.

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:01:31 -0800

My puss was named "Sampson" at the shelter, but he now goes by "Sam Katz" like the fat Jewish man that he is.

By: PhoBWanKenobi

PhoBWanKenobi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:02:40 -0800

(Oh, and my mom's Jack Russell is Barney Google)

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:04:49 -0800

my rabbit is named Baron von Floppy Ears.

By: theiconoclast31

theiconoclast31 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:10:24 -0800

Your cat should be Ron Paul.

By: TochterAusElysium

TochterAusElysium — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:10:57 -0800

I met a cat named "Face Man" some time ago; that's always amused me.

By: cachondeo45

cachondeo45 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:20:07 -0800

Friar Tuck.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:26:04 -0800

My cat (Kali) just climbed onto my lap, so I better answer.

My favorite cat name is "Loaf" because that's what they do.

But why are you asking us? Do you need a name right away? My experience is that cat names usually present themselves depending on the cat's personality. We have had cats named Scoop (who liked to be scooped up), Rocket (who would dart quickly to the other end of the house very quickly for no reason), Estela Maria Rodriguez (who ate most of a plate of tacos I foolishly left on the table), Squeak (who squeaked a lot), Wad (who was curled up in a ball on the couch much of the time), and Chicken Biscuit (I have no idea where this came from).

I swear I have never had more than two cats at a time.

By: Kudos

Kudos — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:28:55 -0800

Colors.

By: oflinkey

oflinkey — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:32:53 -0800

My brother's cat is Mr. President. As in "Are you hungry, Mr. President?! Did Mr. President do a poo pooo?"

A friend named her cat Dinner.

There is always Claude Lemieux.

By: medeine

medeine — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:33:50 -0800

One of my cats was Count Chocula. Because he was so regal and chocolaty.

The other was Sasquatch. Since he was mysterious as hell.

By: hooper4

hooper4 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:37:02 -0800

Mork! Our cat's name is Mork... there was a dog named Mindy but she's moved on to another world. But Mork alone is just fantastic.

By: dirtdirt

dirtdirt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:39:48 -0800

Potsie.

By: equalpants

equalpants — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:45:31 -0800

From my aunt, Alex P. Kitten. From a friend of my girlfriend, Margaret Catwood.

By: dlugoczaj

dlugoczaj — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:48:08 -0800

It doesn't matter what you name the cat. Generally, you'll never actually call it that.

Sad but true. They usually end up with all manner of stupid nicknames. My dear cat Digory spent much of her life being called "Boogs" (short for "you little booger.")

One of my current cats is "Maledicta" (basically means "swear words")--she's very squawky.

I'm a great fan of The Usual Suspects and would love to have a pair of male cats named Verbal Kitt and Dean Kitten. My husband has a weird prejudice against male cats, though, so I doubt I'll ever get my wish.

By: lgandme0717

lgandme0717 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:49:51 -0800

My favorite name of all the cats I've ever known: Eartha Kitten

By: alpha_betty

alpha_betty — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:54:05 -0800

My cats are named Frankenstein and Turkey. Female and male, respectively.

By: Verdandi

Verdandi — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:55:52 -0800

I've always been partial to naming a fluffy animal "total annihilation".

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:58:18 -0800

Joe the cat?

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:58:20 -0800

Rex.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:59:04 -0800

Brad Pitt.

By: epersonae

epersonae — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:03:02 -0800

Boingo, even when he was tiny, could bounce quite nicely over the neighbor's little fence. Pica has also been known as Pika-pika (like Picachu!). There's a couple of strays that come by fairly often who have acquired names: Captain Ocelot & Creamsicle Kitty. Oh, and our beloved lost Madeline (Maddy) was sometimes called Greymalkin (I don't know why), and Madeline Not-Bright. (We got her in the late 90s.) Our habit lately has been to come up with "Code Name: N" type names: Code Name Orca, Code Name Cinna-bomb, etc.

By: curagea

curagea — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:04:59 -0800

My cousin's cats are named Mocha and Maruko. Cute name, but every time I think of Mocha, I want to drink him. Just kidding.

Foo, then next cat's Bar, then Baz.

Fubar, but then you got a beautiful kitty, so don't go with that.

Baron Munchmeowsen.

By: majick

majick — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:08 -0800

Houseguest: "So, what's your new kitties' names?"

Me: "This one is Mouse. Isn't he cute. And the white one? Well, his name is still pending."

Houseguest: "How cute! C'mere, Pending! Pending? Pennnnding..."

And it stuck.

By: Elysum

Elysum — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:12:24 -0800

We inherited Mary Tyler Moore & Ted Baxter.

It was funnier when I didn't know who Mary Tyler Moore was, but I just find something amusing about non-pet names on cats, and especially when you've got a full name, all pronounced.

But I'd probably just go for something like 'Dog'.
(I called my first goldfish Bear, and clearly I was an inspired 3 year old)

By: chicainthecity

chicainthecity — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:12:56 -0800

I've known people who named their cats K.L. (after kale--yes, the vegetable) and Slench (after, uh, slenches?).

Not sure what that says about the people I run with. . . .

By: fairytale of los angeles

fairytale of los angeles — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:15:21 -0800

My supervisor at work's cat was named Porkchop; my coworker's cats are Mordred (since deceased) and Morgana. I've known a Beethoven as well.

John Scalzi, the SF author, has a cat named Ghlaghghee, whom you know better as Bacon Cat. It's pronounced "Fluffy."

By: youcancallmeal

youcancallmeal — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:15:54 -0800

Mt cat is named Lord Borax Killinghurst. We were watching Olympic dressage and saw a horse named Lord Killinghurst and Borax was his shelter name and it just kind of fit.

By: mostlymartha

mostlymartha — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:20:32 -0800

A few of my previous kitty names: Hazel Banana, Splotch, Big Johnson (he was a tiny, skinny, nonthreatening kitty), and Harley. I named my mom's new cat Tallulah (called LuLu) and my own current kitty Imogene (a.k.a. Mo, MoMo, Madame Mo, Momogene, Moany Mo, MoMo the Destroyer, Mo the Deadly Panther, Pity Kitty, and Our Psychotic Mistress).

By: SampleSize

SampleSize — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:36:21 -0800

My sister had a cat named Button Scooter Ladder.

By: lottie

lottie — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:36:53 -0800

I knew someone who had cats named Jeff, Greg, Janine and Dennis. Personally I find these names pretty outrageous on, you know, a cat. It was kind of cool too because you could never tell whether she was talking about friends or her pets; "I was so upset with Jeff last night... I had to use a spray bottle on him to stop him tearing up the couch again. He's out late so too. Do you think he's upset that Janine has been rejecting his advances?"

Like an awesome soap opera.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:49:49 -0800

My dad's roommate once had a cat named "The Richard J. Daley Memorial Cat", but they called it "hizzonnah" for short

My roommate had a cat who's name changed several times. First he named it "Leo", but we thought that was boring, so I called it "Trotsky" and another roommate called it "the other cat", so he changed the name to "Fats". Ok, so not that silly or stupid, but for some reason, he decided to change the name one more time, deciding on "Shithead". When he got name tags printed out at the pet store, the cashier said "I'm just going to pretend this is pronounced 'shi-theed'."

A couple of friends of mine currently own a cat named "Swim-Swim Newton".

Previously these same friends had also named all the cats that hung out near their back porch. Somehow, two of the cats got named "Buster", so to distinguish them, they decided to change the names to "Buster With A Stripe" and "Buster Without A Stripe".

General pet-naming advice. Don't rush it. If you do, you may find the perfect name as soon as you have the name tags printed out.

By: spinifex23

spinifex23 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:54:43 -0800

My last awesome cat? Her Royal Highness, Miss Lady Qu'Appelle, Queen of the Universe and Arbiter of All That is Good in the World, May She be Worshipped and Adored at All Times by All Beings Linde.

She was a Tonkinese, see, and thus thought of herself as royalty.

We just called her Qu'Appelle, Cat, or Walnut Brain.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:55:24 -0800

Rereading your question, I think you really should just name it "Untitled".

By: changeling

changeling — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:57:43 -0800

I grew up with a cat named Ralph. A girl cat. So for years, I thought Ralph was a girl's name. Even now, it sounds kind of androgynous.

By: DiscourseMarker

DiscourseMarker — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:01:57 -0800

My cats are Kali and Perseus. My college roommate had two half-Siamese cats names Indigo and Misha, and she later got a kitten named Pisces.

My parents' cat (now departed this realm) was called, inexplicably, Poopie.

By: silkygreenbelly

silkygreenbelly — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:03:27 -0800

Our cats, Dante and Absinthe, frequently get called "Chaco-Taco" and "Potato Head"
After Absinthe jumped into the fireplace and rolled around in the soot (the second time) she is frequently referred to as "Dirty Bitch"

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:03:38 -0800

Squishy Kitty aka Squishy, Squish (real name Casper)

Or Pickles.

Also had a friend whose mom named their cat "Lambchop" - this seemed absolutely ridiculous to him, so he insisted on just calling her "cat."

By: cheeken

cheeken — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:04:42 -0800

My cat came to me named Lily. So I named her Lily Monkey. I have never called her either of those names, however. The two names I have settled on yelling at her several times a day are:

Killy
Farty Schaivo (yes, it's terrible. When company's over, it's just Farty for short.)

By: spamguy

spamguy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:05:57 -0800

Just for clarification, I'm not seeking to plagiarise other people's ideas. I just want to experience the world of Odd Pet Names before I think of one myself.

As for me, my mum knew a cat named Fred & Ethel Mertz. A cat. Also, the house across the street years ago had brother/sister cats named Muggles & Cowboy. And I have a friend whose kitteh is named Binky.

By: hip_plumber

hip_plumber — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:09:44 -0800

This book inspired my 5-year-old self to name my new orange kitten Pickle, the variants of which include Picky, Picky-o, Pickle Bean and Pickletosh. Last year, we were adopted by a little stray that agreed to respond to Puss-Puss, which stuck because there was initially no intention of keeping her. She won us over in the end, and we were given the honour of also calling her The Little French Duke, and Little Bean.

Tonight I met a Scratch Fury: Destroyer of Worlds (which I am told is from PvP), who was adopted by friends less than a day ago. She has already been given the alias of Happy Farts.

By: funkiwan

funkiwan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:09:58 -0800

Apparently the following conversation happened between my friend and her friend, Steve:

Friend: What'd you name your cat?
Steve: Steve.

Perhaps it's just me, but I find that hilarious.

My second favorite name for a cat: Mr. Girl Dog

By: Kimothy

Kimothy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:10:25 -0800

Oh, and your cat is adorable and somewhat similar in looks to the aforementioned Casper...

By: bradth27

bradth27 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:01 -0800

The last eight animals that I have had have all been named Bob. I figure it saves time making up new names.

However, I have cats names Taterhead and Poop Dragon, and a dog named Ultimate California Fish Taco, or UlCalfico for short.

By: gnutron

gnutron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:17:29 -0800

Poster Nutbag

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:21:06 -0800

The BF named all his cats with slightly musty lady names regardless of gender.

"Edith! Get off the counter!"

"Martha! Stop clawing Vanessa!"

"Jane is craping on everything."

It was like working at a poorly run retirement home.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:22:51 -0800

And my own cat was named "Samantha" on offical records, but was just called "Sammy" or "Cat!" 99% of the time.

By: julen

julen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:30:06 -0800

When I was in high school, my family was playing a game of homemade scattergories, and one of the categories I came up with was "Stupid Names for Pets". My father's entry for R was "Root Beer." At this point, our elderly cat (Sir Thomas Tuddenham, aka Tudd - named after a crony of a distant ancestor who basically got betrayed by said ancestor all the way to the executioner) came slowly strolling by, and got saddled with the nickname. This got shortened quickly to just "root"- which was appropriate, because that cat had the worst breath ever measured by anyone, anywhere.

By: citron

citron — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:33:48 -0800

Greg Oden (plays for the Portland Trailblazers) got a dog and named it Charles Barkley McLovin

By: bowmaniac

bowmaniac — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:39:39 -0800

Simpson's fan? If so, go with Mittens.

By: emyd

emyd — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:55:11 -0800

Emergency Meat. Mrs. Boots (regardless of gender).

By: thebrokenmuse

thebrokenmuse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:22:23 -0800

Starship Zion- the stray cat on our sleep.

By: neblina_matinal

neblina_matinal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:47:00 -0800

My first (now gone, very missed) cat was called Scarlet O'Hara. It totally suited her.

Now I have Holly Golightly, a black female, who I mostly call "preta", and Yoshi Nakamura, a grey tabby. He gets called Yoshi a lot, but also variations thereof, like "Yoshito".

A friend has an orange male called Pudim Mandarino (that's "Mandarin Pudding").

Once when I was at the vet's I heard the nurse call a cat named "Miao Tse Tung".

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:10:08 -0800

Friends of mine got so exhausted arguing over all the different name suggestions from family members that they finally named their cat Etcetera.

By: indienial

indienial — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:31:55 -0800

I have a cat called Igor Zoidberg, but he is generally known as Princessboy, Squiggle or Ratbag. He's suitably confused. My neighbours call him Boggle because he is always confused and scared of his own shadow.

Previous cats have been Jebus (a mash-up of references from Tori Amos and the Simpsons), Tuesday (Jebus's sister... we couldn't call her Sunday), Moggle, Miazzle, and Doormat.

I really like the idea of standard-people-names for animals. If nothing else, it means people don't always immediately realise you're a crazy cat lady when you're talking about "your friend Sarah" all the time.

By: 5_13_23_42_69_666

5_13_23_42_69_666 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:44:11 -0800

I knew a parrot named drumstick once, but I would never name my birds something so undignified. Their names are Dr. Buzzard and Dr. Benway.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:01:42 -0800

A short list of cats I have known:

Mr. Saturday Pants
Runcible
Champipple
Professor Murder
Memphis Tennessee
Fred

Mr. Mustachio's cat was nearly named Mr. Nude - instead, she rejoices in the relatively normal name Norma, but is frequently referred to as The Nose, or Ham Nose, or Pumpkin Butt, or Butter Head. Mine ended up as Miss Pie, but she is also known as Bitchy Pie, The Loaf or The Sandwich.

One of my friends insists it doesn't matter what you call cats, an has never named his. However, he tends to refer to all cats as "Chickens." All other animals are various types of kitties (a dog is "Good Kitty," a snake might be "Long Kitty.") So there you go.

By: Menomena

Menomena — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:31:58 -0800

My bf named our second cat Orwell but when we're feeling ridiculous we call him Dr. Honey Buttons.

By: Acheman

Acheman — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:44:56 -0800

We had to name our cat before we got her, because the lady at the cattery wanted to 'acclimatise her to the name'. Several wonderful suggestions were discussed en famille; my favourites were Kant (much hilarity at the thought of calling that cat in at night; alas, my mother was too timid to run with it), Boutros-Boutros Ghali, Syntax and Number Six. All were vetoed by my little sister, and the last option made her cry ("Why would you want to call a nice cat after a number?").

In the end she was called Moriarty, because my little sister hadn't read the Sherlock Holmes books and thought it had a pleasing sound, and as I moved away shortly afterwards I was unable to prevent this from being shortened to Mori (pronounced Morrie) almost immediately.

Now, for some reason, I have for some time had a hankering to name a cat Betamax.

By: mrbarrett.com

mrbarrett.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:47:45 -0800

How about "Untitled Cat"?

By: _Mona_

_Mona_ — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:48:50 -0800

For some reason I've never been entirely clear on, when I was about five, I named my cat Smutty. My mom let the name stand, but I'm guessing she had a lot of explaining to do for the next 10 years or so.

By: jara1953

jara1953 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:56:36 -0800

Sooner...as in "Sooner poop on the floor than use the litter box!"

By: primer_dimer

primer_dimer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:57:35 -0800

Chairman Miaow.

By: primer_dimer

primer_dimer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:58:23 -0800

On non-preview: Heh, beaten to it!

By: agentwills

agentwills — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:09:47 -0800

PITA (pain in the ass, not the bread)
Paxil (because he needed some)

By: Raybun

Raybun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:11:11 -0800

My sister had a pair of cats in the 1970s named Elliot and Margret Trudeau. She also had Kitty Shabatski (SP?)

By: Raybun

Raybun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:12:48 -0800

Also Swithin, after uncle Swithin in the Forsight Saga

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:32:04 -0800

We named our cat Puddinghead for about an hour before we chickened out and named her Lucy.

My mother-in-law had brother cats named Zeus and Apollo. They were huge, so they were nicknamed The Fat Boys.

By: craven_morhead

craven_morhead — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:36:40 -0800

My fish is named Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. I think titles are appropriate for some.

Also, my uncle had an ill-behaved dog that only responded to "Rex Goddamnit."

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:41:11 -0800

My brother's cat's name is Raistlin, which we pronounce "rass-lin." Therefore, I often call him "Wrestling."

By: gwenlister

gwenlister — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:43:00 -0800

I knew one cat named "Phillipe Assewipe" (pronounced phileeeeep assweeeeeepay, preferrably in an accent). It just always sounded funny, especially when her father would say it too in the accent.

I personally like to name pets after everyday items or food. My cat is named "Rhubarb". Usually gets a pretty awesome reaction from people. Plus, it lends itself to some awesome nicknames.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:45:35 -0800

Kats I have known:

Tennis Racquet
Footloose
Jinx
Spewie

By: fidelity

fidelity — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:01:04 -0800

My cats are named
Porkchop Porkchop Malloy
Flavius Claudius Julianus

By: boomcha76

boomcha76 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:02:35 -0800

My close friends have a female cat called "Keith Richards". ... They thought it was a male cat for a long time.

By: otolith

otolith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:52:03 -0800

My fiance works at a residential drug abuse treatment facility. The house cat there is named Relapse (he always comes back). We used to have a cat who came to us with the name Little Brother. Liked to call him Bro-heem.

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:07:21 -0800

Incidentally, the two help cats who appear in the Wii's Photo and News Channels are named Rassie and Runda:

She enters the Photo Channel from the top bar, but whether she enters from the left or right is a bit hush-hush. Giving her a name was a no-brainer, because in the Japanese version, she always ends her sentences with "~rashiyo" which means "they say" or "I heard." So it came natural to call her Rassie.

Her older brother Runda also shares that same naming phenomenon. Since he ends his statements with "~runda" to emphasize context, he gets to be named something rhyming with an energetic dance style. Runda makes his appearance at the News Channel, although it seems that the feline siblings are interchangeable from both channels for a random effect.

When I heard this, I started calling them "Ya Heard" and "Sup Bitches." From there I started calling most cats whose names I don't know Sup Bitches.

By: marginaliana

marginaliana — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:32:43 -0800

I have also known a Toonces (outdoor neighborhod cat, and I could never remember the name, so I was always going "well hello, um, Tufty? Tooner? Terrycloth?"), as well as a Webster. Our cat was named Zuleika but mostly called Pudding.

By: tdismukes

tdismukes — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:39:16 -0800

My cats are named Thing One and Thing Two, based on their Suessian rampages around the house when they were younger.

My wife's cat is officially named Quetzalcoatl, but in practice is usually just referred to as Quexal, Quetzal, Quetal, or just Q.

By: mightshould

mightshould — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:41:23 -0800

Some of my more noteworthy kitties names:

Half Watt (not too bright)

Chatter (multilingual)

Zeek the Streak (zip-zoom kitty)

UFO (first stood for unidentified feline object [seen under some equipment] then for underfoot feline object) BTW - Not an easy name to get across at the vet's office.

By: yeti

yeti — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:43:56 -0800

Our cat is named Lucius Vorenus, Legio XI Claudia.

By: pocketfluff

pocketfluff — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:52:36 -0800

When my parents were botany postgrads, they had a cat named Calendula.
My father also had a three-legged rescue cat called Tripod.

By: acorncup

acorncup — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:05:22 -0800

Sharps

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:12:28 -0800

Our dog was named KC, after mine and my brothers' first initials. My grade school best friend's dog was Mr. Baggins, and was named after Bilbo. (The parents were seriously into LORD OF THE RINGS -- they even named one of their CHILDREN Theoden, after the king of Rohan.)

A neighbor when I was a kid had a cat named Morton, and then after they moved the people who moved into that apartment had a cat named Inspector Fuzz. I've always rather liked that.

My own cat is Zach, and I just pulled that out of a baby book. (I'd actually tried out a couple of Russian or Hawaiian names first, but Zach fit best.)

One of my friends had a dachschund named Teckel when he was a kid.

My ex has co-custody of a cat named Rupert.

Another ex named his kitten Panic, largely because that's what she always seemed to be doing.

My cousin once found a barely-just-born kitten in the trash dump behind the restaurant where he worked, and he became Dempsey Diesel Dumpster.

A guy who was once at the vet at the same time as me proudly told me his dog's name was Twombly.

I once read that Steve Martin once owned a cat and named it Dr. Carlton B. Forbes.

By: kittyb

kittyb — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:17:58 -0800

Professor Catface Meowmers.

(From "Wizard People, Dear Reader"). I have tried to bestow this name upon both of my cats, but their enthusiasm was... lacking.

By: mrmojoflying

mrmojoflying — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:19:51 -0800

I like Jokey Smurf, or any of its derivatives:

The Ree-ro Jokey Smurf

Jokey Wan Kenobi

Bon Jokey

Count Von Jokeula

Jokey O(nassis)

By: HeyAllie

HeyAllie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:20:39 -0800

My mom misspelled our first puppy's name when she sent away for a dog tag. Bobby was now BOOBY.

Imagine being 12 years old and wandering your neighborhood screaming out, "BOOBY!" BOOOOOOBY!" Mortifying, simply mortifying.

By: RachelSmith

RachelSmith — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:30:27 -0800

Catastrophy (beautiful, perfect-looking angel cat Siamese/Himalayan mix who knew how to open the fridge door)

Growltiger (from the TS Elliot poem- our Growltiger is a formerly feral cat who occasionally takes it into his head to attempt to eviscerate us and has a rather dapper notch in his ear from being captured in one of the spay/neuter campaigns)

By: HeyAllie

HeyAllie — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:38:08 -0800

Uh, let me edit that. "Imagine being 12 years old and wandering around your neighborhood looking for your lost dog and screaming out "BOOBY! BOOOOOOOOBY!"

I didn't just willy nilly yell out the nickname for my breasts at the age of 12 while walking up and down the street. I would have been in a mental hospital by now if I did.

By: fiercekitten

fiercekitten — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:44:00 -0800

He looks like a Senior Awesome to me.

I'm a firm believer that cats need first and last names, like people. I've had a Kiki Beebus McAdoo, a Looloo Toilet (it's a long story), and now Simon Meow.

By: Ultra Laser

Ultra Laser — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:44:14 -0800

Once named a cat Ecker W. Furtickle Longtail.

We adopted a cat named Gus, but he told us his full name is Gus Fang Fuzz -- AKA Gustav Von Silkenfuzz or Wolfie.

My folks had a cat named Whiffen after "The Whiffenpoof Song."

My brother has three dogs named Rutcrash Browntop, Keera Augrah, and Royal Danno.

By: fiercekitten

fiercekitten — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:44:40 -0800

Oops, make that Señor Awesome.

By: zennoshinjou

zennoshinjou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:45:02 -0800

my grandfather had cats named ho chi (as in minh) and ali (as in muhammad). One of our cats is named little cat.. it reflects her size and was a placeholder that ended up sticking. She has about 10 names in reality though (little cat, little girl, little one, princess, etc.)

By: zennoshinjou

zennoshinjou — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:46:16 -0800

oh yeah, our other cat is named Lucas but his full name is Lucas Reginald Thickneck the Third, Esq.

By: bellbellbell

bellbellbell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:57:46 -0800

My mom had a cat growing up called Mushy Wushy Ushy Gushy Opie Opus. Opie Opus for short, thank you.

By: OolooKitty

OolooKitty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:20:59 -0800

My mother used to have a cat named Senator Estes Kefauver. My sister had a cat named Dammit Janet (after the Rocky Horror Picture Show, of course). I've also known cats named Fluffernutter, Mulder, and Apple.

By: madmethods

madmethods — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:49:18 -0800

A friend of mine named Cat has a bird named "Phish". Another friend adopted a three-legged cat which he promptly named "Tripod". That same friend had iguanas named Ivan Boesky and Robert DeNiro (and called me one day to exclaim "Ivan Boesky *ate* Robert DeNiro!". My brother kept a stray dog that wandered on to our place, and named it "Yag" for "You're a girl" after observing it going to the bathroom. Other brother had four pigs which his kids named Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, and "Millionaire". That's all I got.

By: Bibliogeek

Bibliogeek — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:11:19 -0800

My father tells the story of taking our cat, Booger, to the vet and hearing Pookie Sandwich Baby be called back to the exam room. It has become, in our family, the ultimate pet name though some of the names in this list are giving it a solid run for the money...

By: tenderman kingsaver

tenderman kingsaver — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:14:37 -0800

A friend's cat was named Chapstick who then begot Chopstick.

By: radioamy

radioamy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:17:33 -0800

I am a big fan of food names (owned a Goden Retreiver dog named Honey and buff-colored tabby cat named Tempura). Hmm...but what food is the color of your cat? Salt-in-the-shaker-when-rigged-with-pepper?

By: ekstasis23

ekstasis23 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:19:46 -0800

Current pets are named:

Lucifer J Cornstarch - (aka Lou/Louie/Lucy) - Boy Cat
Duppy (aka Dupps/Duppereeno/Licky Magoo) - Girl Dog
Popple (aka Maxwell/Max/Maxapopples/Pops/Doctor Poppleton) - Boy Dog

Why do we do this?

By: kidsleepy

kidsleepy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:24:42 -0800

We had a cat originally named Squeaky, but due to the vet's receptionist's inability to spell, she is now known as Squeky (pronounced squecky).

By: EmpressCallipygos

EmpressCallipygos — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:32:51 -0800

Oh, this isn't technically a "real animal," but it's reminded me of something -- I once worked on a play someone wrote that was very loosely based on Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown. Too long a story as to why, but there was a character therein who was mentally challenged, and had a couple of language tics -- most of what this character said consisted of quotes from the "New England Primer" repeated over and over, but the one original thought this character said -- also repeated now and then -- was the statement, "I have a cat named Phineas!"

I toyed with changing my cat's name to Phineas, briefly.

By: the luke parker fiasco

the luke parker fiasco — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:50:30 -0800

Mr. Finch and Mrs. Wilberforce were two cats referenced on The West Wing.

And he's technically a dog, but dooce has the wonderfully named "The Former Congressman Henry Buck Chucklesworth" (colloquially known as 'Chuck').

By: twiggy32

twiggy32 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:11:19 -0800

My cat is named Oscar, because he liked (still likes, unfortunately) to play in the trash can. He was also named to sound like an old fishing buddy of my dog-at-the-time, Gus. I had already picked out the name Gus before we got the dog, and had to find a dog to match it. Oscar's nickname, is Goddamit, Oscar or Ouch, Oscar.

By: BoscosMom

BoscosMom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:18:48 -0800

Friends had a tiny kitten they named Tinkerbell. After the kitten got bigger they revised it to Tinkerballs and usually just called him Tinker.
I've never met but keep hearing about a dog called "me too". I think I may have to consider it for the next animal I get. Only if it fits, of course.
My favorite cat of all time was named Tybalt (tib'-ålt) http://forvo.com/word/tybalt/ Really the best cat I ever had. I could tap my chest and he'd jump up into my arms.

By: fidelity

fidelity — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:23:00 -0800

Also, that cat in the picture? It is a cat who requires a title. I suggest Attorney-at-Law, as in Ganymede "Tuppy" Cheesewright, Attorney at Law. 3rd Earl Scrantonton is also good.

By: clever sheep

clever sheep — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:09:37 -0800

I know a Cardinal Fang.

By: hollisimo

hollisimo — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:56:01 -0800

My SO was tiny when his family got their first cat. He was at that particular stage in childhood development when he was fascinated with, um, his man parts. Accordingly, and wanting perhaps to commemorate that time in his life forever, he wanted to name the cat "Penis."

It was shortened to "Peanut".

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:18 -0800

My own cat (who is sitting right between me and the monitor RIGHT NOW because she KNOWS I'm typing about her) has the full name of Wensleydale Archipelago Quadrilateral.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:51:05 -0800

Pica has also been known as Pika-pika (like Picachu!)

Fun fact: "pika" means "vagina" in Icelandic. True story. I swear I am not making this up.

By: grapefruitmoon

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:04:41 -0800

I can't seem to read a whole thread before commenting or make just ONE comment today. Sheesh.

While we're getting into pet nicknames: Wensleydale is just Wensleydale. Or The Dale. Sometimes, she goes by her spy name, Densleywhale Laudriquateral.

The other cat... is ostensibly named Tangerine. She's 'moonMan's cat and he had a policy against naming her that I got sick of because a) she NEEDED a name and b) people always ask "What's the kitty's name?" She's also called Kitty, Kitty Number 1, Tangerine the Jellybean, Beenie-Weenie, and lately just Bean.

I had a dog named Josh who had the nicknames Roganjosherdogafat (A mixture of Roganjosh and Josher Dogafat for Yasser Arafat), Joshy-sattva, and Reginald Q. Abernathy. Where that last one came from, I have no idea.

By: rhinny

rhinny — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:14:20 -0800

Are you a nerd?
tom servo
general alcazar
prime directive
davros
hubble
captain darling, baldrick, melchett
Nautilus (naughty for short)

I also like
Bede
and plan to use it for a pet someday

By: meeshell

meeshell — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:24:53 -0800

oh I forgot about my friends cat named RumTum as in Rum Tum Tugger from the Cats musical. As a matter of fact there are several cool names from that show....Munkustrap, Jennyanydots, Grizabella, Bustafer Jones, Macavity: The Mystery Cat, MungoJerry and Rumpleteaser, The Great Rumpuscat, Mr. Mistoffelees , Old Deuteronomy, and Demeter....all good names

By: Redhush

Redhush — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:31:42 -0800

we had a cat named K.C. stood for kitty cat. ooooo original I know. When I was five my mom let me name one of our collie pups. I picked Ginny Raquet, I know not why

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:13:39 -0800

I work at a vet hospital, and the best names I have ever seen are a cat named "Maudster.com" and a dog named "Steely Barbadoodle". I'll take a peek through the file room tomorrow to refresh my memory some more.

By: TigerMoth

TigerMoth — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:43:59 -0800

"Emergency Meat"--holy crap! I've laughed at things on the internets before, to be sure. But never have I laughed in the computer room, laughed stumbling down the hall, laughed into the kitchen--where I saw the cat sleeping next to the fridge and then burst out in an uncontrollable fit of laughter until my veins hurt--laughed back down the hall, and laughed back into the computer room where, vision blurred with laughter-tears, I stepped right in the hairball.

Fuckin' cats.

Oh. And then spotted the turd politely adjacent to the litter box.

All laughter ceased. And I spontaniously began to channel the red-faced rage of Walter from the Big Lebowski welling up within: "Fuck-in' CATS, Donnie..."

By: RedEmma

RedEmma — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:28:18 -0800

i once knew a Padunkin Fishishy Moquihedal.

also:
Julius
Sarah
Sunflower aka Sunny aka Fat Cat
Gobi
Su Ling
Callisto
and a rescued cat who was named Winnie at the shelter, but is now Winifred Libintia Nin AKA Informant X-19 (Libinitia is a Roman goddess of funerals and we live on the road to the cemetery. We usually call her Tia.)

By: pushing paper and bottoming chairs

pushing paper and bottoming chairs — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:22:58 -0800

My cats are: Bart (after Bart Simpson), Lilo and Stitch.

I mainly call them "sweetie-pie", "bebe doll" or "shithead".

By: madmethods

madmethods — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:06:47 -0800

Mrs. Methods insists that I follow up on this answer with the names of our own pets, which I apparently inexcusably neglected (thinking that they insufficiently bizarre). So I'll point out that Cryptonomicon is also a fine source for pet names, and if Mr. Stephenson is out there, he might be tickled to hear that our male Akita is named "Shaftoe" and our female Newfoundland is named "Glory".

By: magnetsphere

magnetsphere — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:34:56 -0800

You can use Simon's nickname if you want to; Admiral Adorablepants.

By: jopreacher

jopreacher — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:34:14 -0800

I have a Davey. His song is 'Davey, Davey Crockett, King of the wild cat-teeer!' also, Davey Jones. The davester. D-man. D-money.

I have a Bosco. His song is 'Bosco, Bosco bear. He's got to be, a Bosco bear." Boz.

But my favorite cat name is Cosmo. The coz. Cosmo Bob. Cosmosis. Coz-mo-politain. He is not my cat - thus he does not have a song.