Changing Your Cat's Name Once a Week: Classic Or Dud?

"Ooh check it out Ron Paul, tonight we're having 'Neptune's Feast'"

My kitty friend Chester/Zero/Hoju/Homer Simpson/Jon Conner thinks it's alright.

Cat #1: Knows her name. Comes when called.
Cat #2: May or may not know her name. Never comes. Now has 3 names.

Cat #1 also will play fetch. Not yr normal cat.

my cats know their names & respond to them but i do give them new nicknames every couple of days or so which they mostly ignore

I've never had a cat that didn't seem to know its name.

Georgia knows her name, her sister Murder does not. But then Murder has never been the brightest little cat.

this is terrible.

"Horse Rotorvator, you have made a horrible mess in the catbox. Next week you will be named after a Nitzer Ebb b-side as punishment"

Point being that the sCATologist should have made the horrible mess in someone's mouth, I suppose?

my cat's name from 9-11 tonight is "Dave"

he loves it

....from 9-11 tonight.....

Dave.

Is this a secret message and should I be making p1p3 b0mbs right now or making a f1l3 cake???

Our orange cat was officially named Fox. The animal shelter and the vet think her name is Fox. And they're right, that is her "real" name but what she actually gets called, and what we've been calling her at home from day 3 or 4 is Titty (or, informally, Titface, Titballs, or Titsmell).

My mother has had her cat for a few years now, and refuses to give her a name. She's just 'the cat' or 'the little black cat'. So my sister and I have taken it on ourselves to try out names when we visit, to see if she responds favorably to any. So far, she seems largely indifferent to Lulu, Mimi, Emma, The Darkness, Pepper, Miss Kittybottoms, and (my favorite) Herr Professor Kittybottoms.

Really I suppose she should be Frau Professor Kittybottoms or something, but somehow I don't like the sound of that, and as a cat she's probably unconcerned with issues of gender in names anyway.

tito
professor mittenstein meowmaduke III
meowmie
mittie
subway
tito

the eldest jackson

Our younger family cat went from Blackie to Blackkat to Fuzzycat to Fuzzy to Heygetoffthat with a nice revolving regularity, and depending on who was yelling at him.

My cat turned 13 last year, so lately I've been greeting her by saying "You're OLD!" in the most spiteful tone I can muster. If she believes You're Old is her new name, then she definitely hasn't shown it yet.

There are a bunch around here but only one is actually cool. So either they're named 'Sunkiss' (the good one) or "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE'. They know who they are. I'm a nice enough guy but you have to draw a line. The bad cats actually have other names but they are all variants of 'GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE'.

yeah this is kind of evil j0hn, srsly

haha i forgot "HEY" AND "BITCH"

Evil? Renaming pets willy-nilly is one of the great small pleasures in life. Hell, I'd do it to children if I thought I could get away with it.

J0hn has inspired me to rename my cat "Maldoror is Ded Ded Ded Ded"

I call my cat "furbag" and "beeyatch" and other rude names a lot when I am mad at her, and "meow see tung" when I'm being stupid.

so many 'chairman meow's

mine wasn't skinny enough

Fellow: Hey your new cat is kinda washed up. Where did you get him.
JOhn: From a kennel. He was thrown in their.
Fellow: Ah..What's his name?
JOhn: Lautreamont.

"Evil? Renaming pets willy-nilly is one of the great small pleasures in life. Hell, I'd do it to children if I thought I could get away with it."

I suspect this is why my father gave up on "names" and decided everyone who was a kid (my brother's, me, my friends) should be called "Billy". Also, he insisted on being called Andy. Although his name was George. Or Dad.
We also had a lot of cats, so maybe it was confusing for him.
Is it ok to mention he was Scottish, so all of this happened in a brogue, which somehow made it socially "okay" for all those kids he might have scared?
Also he was short, and USUALLY a wee bit tipsy.

Our cats: Hamish, Georgie, Harry, Tiggy, Oliver, Arco, Oscar, Fred, Mac...that's all I can remember right now. From childhood!

My three; Pudding (lost, presumed forever), her brother Trouble and Monster.
Monster doesn't really get called any names. he's just Monster, for some very good reasons.

Trouble gets called troubador, trub, fatty, cooper, coopachoo, choopeechoo in varying "kitty" voices with no discernible effect on his general loviness and yet sense of dignity. Until he rolls over, belly up. Then I call him a slut!

The outside of my house looks like a nightime safari ride in the serengeti...but with cats. regular friggin cats.

When my cat Death to Christians had kittens, they were all named Bumblebee until they were about a year old, then they got seperate, proper names.

OK I love the idea you'd be outside waving a can of Wiskas, shouting "death to christians!" and banging on the tin.=)

Missy has been renamed Pissy and will be until she stops peeing in the corner of the living room. Also Whiffy when she farts.

My sister's now-very-big-and-grown-up cat is still called Kitten, although my Dad always calls him Graham. we are not sure why.

yeah this is kind of evil j0hn, srsly

I don't actually do this, I just thought the idea was really funnily when I accidentally called one of our cats "Greg" last night

my cat's name from 9-11 tonight is "Dave"

he loves it

-- J0hn D., Monday, April 14, 2008 1:57 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

you named your cat after 9/11? cold.

yes but this morning his name is "Enduring Freedom" so it's OK

Things I regularly call my dog:

Snitter (real)
The Snits
Mister Guy
The Snitulon
Bellen Hat
Leffety Leffety
Lop Lop Superior
Hemi
Little Baby Boy

No 'Fess Parker'?

I think J0hn should let ILX select his cat's new name every week. I have no suggestions right now.

rolling cat naming thread 2008

yeah i'm getting a cat this week and am taking naming suggestions

#3 with blackbean sauce

Do you know what it will look like (ie breed/coloring)? My name suggestions will be dependant on that info.

begemot or behemoth

"diffused" orange tabby short hair, male, 1 yr old, likes long pees on the beach.

[nabisco]

id be curious to see some studies done abt whether any cats actually know their names at all - in my experience its more of a tone of voice type thing.

hey Abbott is that name from Plague Dogs?

me too. my own unscientific studies are inconclusive, but lean towards it being a vocal tone thing.

btw, his name at the shelter is "Yuri" wtf. The other cats will tease him, call him Urea.

Clara is usually just "Clara" or "Clarapuss," but she does get more situation-specific nicknames like Aquapuss (on account of her habitually jumping into the shower to drink up the standing water) and Chickenpuss/Turkeypuss/Salmonpuss/etc. (whenever she shows a comically intense interest in the food we're eating).

The animal shelter called her "Catalina." Stupid animal shelter.

Yuri is great! He is a super-soviet spacecat.

animal shelters name cats terrible things. my cat was "jessie" (no offense any jessies out there) but is now Quimby/Quim/Quimb/Quimbot/Quimbat/Quimbotomy + some other stuff when the mood strikes.

"Quim"?

Slang must be different where you are than it is here.

you are obviously thinking i treat my cat with respect and dignity

I figured he was referencing skateboard legend Quim Cardona

I suppose lots of people (historically, at least) have called their cats variations on pussy...

STEVIE!

Granny, I suggest Stankfinger. Stank or Stanky for short.

Of our cats, Zippy definitely knows his name, but he's had 17 years to learn it. Frosty (11) knows his, but it might be a tone of voice thing. Harvey (7) knows his because he knows to run like hell when he hears us scream it.

I plan on naming my first-born human child 'Quim'. My cat is Ollie but there was a time when i called him Comrade Hodger and subsequently, The Comrade.

Mikhail
Mikadeamus
Fuckface
Lil' Shit
Golden Boy
Flower Paws
Freckle Lip
Michael
Mutt
Peterbilt
Il Gato
Mr. Whiskers

one of my cats definitely knows her name. i can tell because she used to not know it, when her brain was too small to learn things.

my other cat probably knows it, but he is too deaf to hear it so it doesn't really matter.

Granny, in months beginning with the letter "J" your new cat's name is "Slint Practice Tape"

Sleeve YES that name IS from The Plague Dogs and you are the first to recognize it!

just reread it a coupla months ago, so awesome.

#3 with blackbean sauce

Hey get off my damn dick, gear.

the "black" in blackbean wasn't a goth dig i swear!

it wasn't a zing btw

Well then get off my dick for copying me, dammit!

i'm more concerned about this dick revelation

It's a revelation now?

Hangovers turning me into Tombot C/D.

why you gotta be confusing the animul

Bob / Bob-Bob / The Bob / Bobert definitely recognises "Bob-Bob" when you say it.

Hey get off my damn dick, gear

this has been my cat's name for the past few hours and he seems to like it