{"id":4219,"date":"2020-06-03T03:04:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2020-06-03T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:04:20","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-how-do-you-name-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4219","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 How Do You Name a Cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes, when we bring a new cat or kitten into the home, we already have a name picked out\u2014a name we heard and held onto in case\u2026 Some of us name our cats for their color or markings, Oreo (for a black and white cat), Marmalade, Blanca, Midnight, Snowball, Groucho, Fluffy, Grumpy Cat, etc. Other times it is a real ordeal to find the right name. But there are websites to help you with that decision. Did \"\"you know that?<\/p>\n

I use these sites to name characters in my stories\u2014both animal and human. There are sites just for cat names, showing the most popular to the most unique and ridiculous. These sites are fun just to look through. https:\/\/www.cuteness.com\/popular-cat-names<\/a> or https:\/\/www.rover.com\/blog\/best-cat-names\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"What is your most unusual cat name and why did you choose it? Mine was probably Dinah. The long-haired tortie came to us as a teen and she had the same name as one of my resident cats, Katy. She needed a new name, but we couldn\u2019t come up with one. So I decided to let her name herself. I\u2019d throw names at her, but none of them would stick (so to speak). One day when she showed up in the kitchen with me, I broke out in song, \u201cSomeone\u2019s in the kitchen with Dinah.\u201d And Dinah became her name.<\/p>\n

Some of you will remember that lyric. What I didn\u2019t remember is that it’s not a song in and of itself, it’s part of the song, \u201cI\u2019ve Been Working on the Railroad.\u201d A little trivia for us this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, when we bring a new cat or kitten into the home, we already have a name picked out\u2014a name we heard and held onto in case\u2026 Some of us name our cats for their color or markings, Oreo (for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}