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Topic Other Boards / Foo / What to call our kittens........
- By louisechris1 [gb] Date 10.08.06 09:36 UTC
We went to get a kitten last night from a farm nearby and decided to take two as we couldn't decide which we liked best.  The kittens are proper farm cats, haven't been handled much and are very timid when it comes to humans, but used to dogs.  The farmers wife couldn't catch one of them, so she is ringing me when she catches them both to come and collect them.  One is a tortoiseshell and the other is dark brown/black and has a curly tail that he/she carries high over his/her back!

We have no idea what to call the kittens yet - the tortie is a girl, obviously, but we have no idea what sex the black one is so we need a name that is not gender specific.  To give you ideas on names we like, the dogs are Freya, Lola, Casper, Meg and Elsa, and our last two cats were called Milo and Oscar (who was renamed Pig due to his huge appetite and food stealing abilities!). 

Any ideas?
- By Tracey123 [gb] Date 10.08.06 09:54 UTC
I like the name Missie for a female cat and smokey for an ungendered one!! I once called mine Tinkerbell and it turned out to be a boy!!
- By Boxacrazy [gb] Date 10.08.06 10:53 UTC
Frank/Frankie

My dark Tortie is called Saffron or Saffy for short..
What about Sugar & Spice? Spice isn't necessarily for a girl or a boy..
Or Cadbury or Galaxy for the dark brown/black cat...as they do look chocolate brown in the sunshine
I also have a black and white semi-longhaired cat and he's got a smoke effect on parts of his coat
but in the sunshine his coat looks a chocolate brown colour..He's called Clyde :)

Oooh kittens are lovely - they grow up so fast though :cool:
- By copper_girl [gb] Date 10.08.06 10:57 UTC
My boy and girl cats were called Max and Lulu.  My other boy cats were Chancer, John (??) and Harley.  Loved them all :)

CG
- By Carrington Date 10.08.06 16:49 UTC
Well, I can see from your post that you like real people names, (so my usual unusual names will not be of any help) but I shall give it a go how about for the tortoise shell girl, Brandy, Briony, Rosie, Misty. For the unknown one, what about Bex (female short for Rebecca :confused: sort of and male similar to Becks) 
- By Goldmali Date 10.08.06 16:56 UTC
I've just a few minutes ago sold a kitten. His registered name is GARIBALDI. :D (Well mum's pet name is Biscuit!) He's going to be known as Oscar though.

Do you know what colours the parents were? Or at least mum?
- By Boxacrazy [in] Date 10.08.06 17:52 UTC
I LIKE it very original ....plus kittens love squashing flies...
Which as I child I always called Garibaldi biscuits :D Squashed fly biccys
- By rachelsetters Date 10.08.06 18:10 UTC
isn't that what everyone called them!! :)
- By Minny_Minsk [gb] Date 10.08.06 18:56 UTC
When my MIL couldn't decide in names for her kittens, they ended up being called Boy and Girl :-)  I've got a tortie girl called Tsar and a tabby boy called Mortimer (or Moo, Minny-Minsk, Iddy-Biddy-Cat, Moo-Bah, Minny-B or Moominskypuskypuss for 'short')!!!

What about Flump, Filo, Beanie, Fish?

Helen
- By supervizsla Date 10.08.06 19:02 UTC
I used to have two boys from the same litter called Puss and Boots.
I then had Wiggi (earwig was his real name - Don't ask)
Now i have Uno (as in the best - numero uno)
And Izzy who is a boy but the vet got it wrong and only found out as they were about to spay him eeeeekkkk!!!
(his is very fluffy so i do trust my vet )
- By gundogsrbest [gb] Date 10.08.06 19:28 UTC
over the years our cats have been called   Catty, Pussy Willow (puss for short), Scampi, Jazzy, Arnie, Barney, Willie (or William) Tilly, the cats at work are Cat, Kitkat and Lucky, Tom was rehomed when he ate the gamekeepers day old ducklings :eek: completely natural but as the gamekeeper threatened to shoot him, it was best for Tom to be rehomed.
How about chocolate bars for the brown one that way there not gender specific, Twix is a great name for a cat :D

tanya
- By ChristineW Date 10.08.06 20:11 UTC Edited 10.08.06 20:14 UTC
You'll probably find the brown/black one finishes up black, the b&w moggie kittens we've had in the past have sometimes had a few faint tabby stripes through their coats but they darken up and finish black & white so 'chocolate' themed names might not be too good!

My next kitten is a BSH black tortoiseshell and she's to be called Maisie.  If you get your other one sexed (And do check the tortie too, you can get the odd  male tortoiseshell who will be completely sterile) then you'll have more idea of what names you can call them.
- By Boxacrazy [in] Date 11.08.06 05:06 UTC
My black and white cat (chocolate brown in the sunshine when he's laid out sparko - we've had that with another black cat too she had a little
white spot on her chest and was called Beauty but she had a chocolate brown hue in the sun)
was originally like a chinchilla and black on his lower legs shade with smoke grey tipping all over...he has a white chest and white paws and a
white chin. He's semi-longhaired. He was really pretty as a kitten.
He then lost his kitten coat and became the colour he is now...although some of the grey smoke
is starting to come back now and he's 4yo. He's lovely and has big paws...and likes to walk all over the bloomin computer whilst I'm trying to
type here....I keep getting his long fluffy tail shoved in my face lol :D
- By Tracey123 [gb] Date 11.08.06 07:23 UTC
Have you decided on any??
- By louisechris1 [gb] Date 11.08.06 07:56 UTC
OH wants to call the black one 'Babe' - as in the pig due to its curly tail that it holds just like a pigs!  When I can get them out from under the chair where they are hiding I will put a photo on my photobucket so you can all see its tail, as I have never seen a tail like it!  I am trying to talk him into calling it Miss Piggy or Missie for short as I don't fancy standing on the doorstep shouting Babe!  The other kitten is going to be Willow.
- By Emz77 [gb] Date 11.08.06 09:10 UTC
weve had lots of cats over the years
Percy and dumpy were ginger toms!!
twinkle (black and white tabby), sparkle (silver tabby), oliver (black) my mum now has a black and white tabby called Buster, and my nan had a black and whit cat called murphy, a tortoise shell called ming and a black cat called baby.
hope you manage to find  names for them
- By Boxacrazy [gb] Date 11.08.06 10:09 UTC
My friends cat was called Piggy she was a tortie and she was as fat as a pig :D
I'd forgotten all about her until I saw Miss Piggy :)
- By ChristineW Date 11.08.06 17:07 UTC
'Branston' & 'Pickle'   :cool:
- By Carrington Date 11.08.06 18:56 UTC
Hi, I absolutely love the name Willow :cool: Good choice.

For the curly-tailed cat, which conincidently is also refered to as the pig-tail.

How about just calling her CT (for curly tail)
Or Spiral (nothing to do with BB)
The names Cassidy or Kassidy mean Curly
N.American name Navajo means Curly
Rizzo also is a nickname for someone who has Curly hair
- By skyblue22 [gb] Date 12.08.06 07:53 UTC
Well, we're a bit literary in our family! First cat was called Tosca after the opera by Puccini; second and third cats were tortoiseshell mother and daughter called Brindle, from the cat in Macbeth, and Jennie, after the brilliant book by Paul Gallico.
What about Sooty and Sweep?
But I do love Willow...
how about Willow and Hazel??
- By Goldmali Date 12.08.06 11:23 UTC
First cat was called Tosca after the opera by Puccini

Oh that's interesting! I use Tosca as a theme for kittens (well one line), but NOT after the opera, after the Swedish CAKE Tosca. :) I started with Tosca Tortie (play on words, because the Swedish word for cake is tårta which sounds similar to Tortie), then her daughter is Coconut Tosca, her daughter in turn is Toscaflarn (a flarn is a type of thin biscuit) and she now has given birth to a Blueberry Tosca -and then I needed a male name that suited so found Toscanini which apparently is a wine. Have also had Almond Tosca and a Toscana . :D :D :D I use other cake or biscuit names for siblings but try to use a tosca name for ones I keep back for breeding to keep it going.

In fact I have lots of edible cats LOL. I have Vanilla Heart (a son of the first Tosca, a vanilla heart being a custard filled cake in the shape of a heart), and his daughter is IceCream. Oh and Cotton Candy of course.
- By skyblue22 [gb] Date 12.08.06 19:53 UTC
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!! They sound like yummy kitty-cats!!!!!!!:eek:
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