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If you read my Klepto Cat and\/or Calico Cat Mystery series, you know how much fun I have using cat-related terms in my titles and coming up with interesting cat names. I thought it would be fun to talk about our cat names and what inspires them.<\/p>\n
A few years ago a neighbor took in a tiny kitten that ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/catshowtxtiger-225x300.jpg\")
showed up on her doorstep (despite the fact that she has three large dogs). When she\u2019d touch the kitten, he would purr, thus his eventual name, Purrsy. Other cat-related descriptive names might include Whiskers, Bootsie (Boots, Socks), ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/CatMollieCouch-300x225.jpg\")
Mittens, Miss Kitty, Puss, Tom, Leo.<\/p>\n
We name cats for their color: Cali or Patches (for a calico), Blackie (we just talked about black cats this week), Marmalade![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/winfieldIMG_1781-300x225.jpg\")
\u2014Butterscotch\u2014Pumpkin, Stripey, Smokey, snowflake. We might choose names from a cat character, Garfield, Nala, Simba, Felix. Or we just use a name we like the sound of\u2014Daisy, Katy, Max. I thought our tortie had an old-fashioned look to her and I gave her an old-fashioned-sounding name\u2014Sophie. One ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/catMillicentsMac-300x226.jpg\")
cat we rescued from a shelter came with the same name as a cat we already had\u2014Katy. That wasn\u2019t going to work, so we needed to rename her, even though she was already six-months old.<\/p>\n
We started throwing names out at her. Nothing was sticking, until I noticed that she spent a lot of time in the kitchen with us. If we were in the kitchen, so was this cat. One evening I burst out in song, \u201cSomeone\u2019s in the kitchen with Dinah.\u201d Yup, her name became Dinah and she wore it well.<\/p>\n
People wonder how our calico got her name. Olivia came with the name. Evidently a volunteer at the rescue shelter gave her the name in honor of a cat she once knew. I thought it fit her purrfectly, so we kept it.<\/p>\n
How did you name your cats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you read my Klepto Cat and\/or Calico Cat Mystery series, you know how much fun I have using cat-related terms in my titles and coming up with interesting cat names. I thought it would be fun to talk about … Continue reading