kitty

[phosfate]

queenberuthiel has kindly promised me the least evil kitten from Parvati's new litter. I must now think of a name. I had thought of Steve, in honor of
Steve the Vacuum, but ghostofisildur's swell doggie is called Steve, and it would only cause confusion.

Hm.

Brenda? Bob? Debbie? Ron?

This will require thought.

Comments

[ghostofisildur.livejournal.com]

My second choice was Ted, if that helps.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Ted's good. Ted the cat. Hm.

Frannie? Lionel? Louisa? Mark?

[ghostofisildur.livejournal.com]

Helen, Philip, Brucie, Graziella.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I like Phillip and Helen, too. I can't use Brucie. I once had a Chow called Bruno and I'd call new kitty by the wrong name half the time.

[ghostofisildur.livejournal.com]

I always wanted to name a cat Fortinbras, after that minor character in Hamlet, but that doesn't really roll off the tongue.

'Fortinbras The Cat'. It's very important-sounding.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Read A Wrinkel in Time waaaaay to many times as a child, and Fortinbras belongs to black Labs everywhere. Osric is good, though...

I still like Ted.

[ghostofisildur.livejournal.com]

May I also suggest something absurdly-Italian, like Goffredo or Ornella?

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

I like Louisa.

I'm going to be getting a psych dept. lab rat in a couple weeks. I think I'm going to name here Elsa, after the woman who played the Bride of Frankenstein. Seemed appropriate for a lab rat.

Rats so far: Delilah, Simone, Lucia, Cecile, Beatrice, Tiny Tim, Rose, and Lily.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Those are lovely rat names, especially Lily.

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

Lily is a lovely girl, a little seal-point Siamese rattie. Which is why we've thrown over her perfectly lovely, poetic name in favor of calling her Mud-Butt.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Suppose it would depend on whether you get a boy kitty or a girl kitty. But if you happen to end up with a male orange tabby, how about Aslan? And call me a traditionalist, but I've always wanted a kitty named Pyewacket or Grimalkin. (Read too many accounts of the witch trials as a kid.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I can't call it Pyewacket! The other kitties would beat it up on the playground!

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

I knew a gorgeous black cat with yellow eyes named Pyewacket. Pye was the perfect Halloween cat, and none of the other cats bothered it ever, possibly because Pyewacket would have turned them into toads and then eaten them.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but mine'll go to public school...

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

It'll be the biggest bully on the playground.

::starts mp3 search for "A Boy Named Sue."::

::desperately fights off urge to break out into "Cats"::

[mlledelilah.livejournal.com]

Roofshadow, Crackerline, Pouncequick...

Re: ::desperately fights off urge to break out into "Cats"::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

NO!!! EVIL!!!

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

I think French names are very well suited to cats. Maybe something from an opera. Or Indian, as Devi, Kali, and of course Parvati could tell you. I work with a couple thousand Indian people, I could look you up a name if you like.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

This is a Gondoran cat, so it needs an exotic name like Stan or Lisa.