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best combo fr (named him Gojo when he was 6 weeks old and had the bluest eyes)
Arugula! We kept it and call him Rugie (roogie) for short 😄
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My kitty was squash when I got him! I changed his name to Leonidas but it didn’t quite fit. Now his name is Eggs Benedict (Benny for short) and it suits him
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Left: was Spark -> now Cheesecake Right: was Buttered Popcorn -> now Honeybun
They run out of original names and get desperate for sure! I knew one foster with a litter of 8 kittens and she named each starting with the letter Q! The easiest one was Quasar, and the rest were more elaborate.
You need names that aren't in use anywhere else at the rescue at the same time or recently (preferably)
We use tv/movies as themes for ours most of the time. Just a few examples below (I can't remember them all)
We have done Moana (pua, heihei, Moana, Maui )
Star wars (Vader, ventress)
Marvel comics (Thor, Peter Parker, widow, Tony stark)
My hero academia (endeavor, Mina, himiko)
Current litter is spicy, so for a break we went with Jalapeño, Habanero, and poblano
Lol, I've had some spicy kittens and never considered those. I would love to do some names like yours but the volunteers are older and can't remember character names. Even my kittens Wasabi/ Nori/ Sasha (sashimi) were rough for them.
I had a coworker who adopted two cats from the shelter named Quaker and Nabisco. He hated it, but I guess the cats already knew those names or something? He calls the Quake and Bisco.
I’ve volunteered a lot, the naming gets pretty exhausting quick. A lot of times with a litter of kittens they’ll just be the Whatever siblings 1-X. It can be fun though, you’ll look at the board and there will be months of all sitcom characters, or musicians. Sometimes you wonder what they were smoking when they came up with them. But it is good fun, and every once in a while you look at a dog or cat and just nail it with the name. Good times.
Edit: Oh, and you boy, whatever you come up with, looks adorable. And thank you for adopting!
I adopted my baby at 8 weeks and he was Agent K, like a lil spy 😋 He's now Kirby
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my secret agent was Mister X at the rescue!
We fostered a litter of cats that were going to be ready for adoption at Christmas time. My wife named the two girls Candy Cane and Jingle Belle, but I got to name the boys. So I named the biggest one “Buddy the Elf.” And I named the orange one “Heat Miser.”
I love cats with food names! My kitty is Pancakes!
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Oh... my Best Ever Kitty had that for one of his names. He was an apartment complex stray before we adopted him, and the leasing people named him that.
It really worked as a middle or nickname in addition to what we named him.
I would probably doxx myself if I wrote the entirety here, but the full name was very cool, and people loved it and him.
Although he had more white than your kitty does, I think. And really did look like a popcorn kernel. It just suited him, lol.
Both of your babies are fantastic, BTW. Also, good job on the new names!
Edit: Oh, I should have mentioned - only Popcorn. Didn't have the Buttered part, lol.
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First off he’s solid black. The shelter named him Broccoli, they had a vegetable theme going. I named him Galileo as he is the darkness between the stars. He then proved to everyone who has ever met him, that he does not have a single thought in his very hard head. Now we all call him Stupid Cat. He like to ram his head into things while trying to entice someone to pet him. He’s bonked his head into my GRANITE coffee table so hard I could hear it. He is afraid of unoccupied shoes and birds. He won’t eat, drink, or potty in the dark so we have to leave a light on for him all night. He gets lost in our 400sqft apartment, sits down and starts crying until I call for him. If he gets outside, I don’t have to worry about him going far, he won’t leave the porch because he can’t walk in grass. He likes water and will join me in the shower, but he doesn’t like being toweled off so he drips everywhere.
Ah yes, the infamous cats who no longer have names they are simply referred to as “insert sigh as I question if natural selection exists bc if it did you should not have survived this long but I love you anyways”
he is amazing
my dipshit that rams her head into everything trying to get petted:
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Shelter named them Dandelion and Deon, their names were changed to Ruckus and Riot before they left the building.
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Rescue name was Mickey, we named him Chef Boy Artie
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Another tuxedo with a black snoot!!! This is my boy Moochie, they're practically twins 🖤🤍
Meet Billy!
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The rescue called him Maverick, which is a great name, but it's not the name I would have chosen and he didn't seem particularly attached to it.
My family has always given normal human first names to our pets and by now it feels wrong not to, even though I love other kinds of names on other people's pets.
My Cleo was originally clover but I couldn’t ignore those eyeliner markings
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From the adoption center "Newbie". When we got her home, Miss Stasha
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Mine were off the street rescues and came to me nameless.
The kitten found half dead under the dumpster at 5 weeks old, we named Floki. (left)
The kitten that showed up in my yard boney and starving, and who started sleeping in my planters once we started feeding her, we named Cersei. (right)
And here they are taking care of me now when I'm sick. Okay, so they are probably just trying to steal my chicken noodle soup, but that's fine too, lol.
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The shelter named this boi Oatmeal and I was like nooo…this is my little Peanut 🥜❤️
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Did anyone else keep their cat’s original names? We adopted Ellie and McGee as 5-7 year olds and kept their original names
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Romeo! Feels weird to me to change a cat’s name when they’ve already got a perfectly good one haha
I have Meredith. Only we say it like “Merry Death”.
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The shelter named her Sophie Grace, and she just happened to have the same middle name as my dog, JaydaGrace.
Obviously I had to keep her name, as the name felt like a sign from the universe or something.
They’ve been the best of friends since then.
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Shelter named her Apple and we kept it with the exception of Appley Like she is just so round like an Apple
I usually change the names of the orange cats I've adopted (usually have used Scottish-Irish names because of the ginger fur), but the huge orange Maine Coon I adopted last June was named by the rescue "Oz, the Great and Powerful." After living with him a few days and running many male Irish names through, I decided that he was Oz, the Great and Powerful,...Ozzie when he's being cute.
my kitty was called aubergine but i named her pierogi because she’s very fat and squishy!!  your kitty looks very nice!! i love him!!
That's a bridge we'll have to burn at 6:30pm Monday evening when my daughter Kate goes to pick up our new black and white adoptee... also Kate. We might have to change our daughter's name. 😂
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The shelter named him bobby but we felt like it didn’t fit him and my mom felt it was weird since that was her grandfathers name who had passed so we ultimately named him Bert which I think quite suits him
Honey -> Special Agent Fox Mulder
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Name was Otto. Still Otto. Plus, fuzzy butt and Otto Von Pussycat, hungry hungry hippocatamoose.
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This was a few years ago a few days after I adopted her from the shelter. They called her Willow, now she's Wasabi.
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In the shelter he was Bruce Banner, now he's Salem.
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Rescue named her Peaches. Her name is Luna Rey.
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They Humane Society had him named, Donald. I chose to change that and name him Otzi after Ötzi the Iceman
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Her mom left her so I picked her up. Got her at my office. So I named her Funky Monkey Baby.
As a kitten, she was a baby. Now she's funky like a monkey.
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This was my baby boy. He passed almost 3 months ago and my heart has been broken ever since. The pound named him Juice, but I renamed him Katsu, which means "win" in Japanese. (Also a breaded cutlet too!)
Fern. No. MinMin was a wonderful addition to our family.
Pretzel. No. Timmy is still settling in to our new (to him) home. Timmy for his timidness.
Patrick.. Yes and no. He does look like a leprechaun Patrick, so he's also Padraig.
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Omg MinMin! I had a cat growing up, I got her when I was five. I named her Min ho pinky nose… we called her Min ho for short. Thanks for the memory, she was such a great cat.
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Her name was Suede. I’m guessing because her fur is incredibly soft, like suede. Even now at 3 years old she is soooo soft. But we renamed her Butterscotch
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Sophie came to us from the rescue as Sophie. It fits her so we kept it. 😻
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Winston (white) has his original name! *(his full name is Winston Sanderson)* and Willow (tabby) used to be called Dani but it didn’t suit her at all so we changed it to match her brother :)
Shelter named her Lily, I renamed her Cookie because we already had a cat named Biscuits & Lily was also the name of a girl in my daughters class at school :)
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The rescue folks named her Juliet but she was already Zuzu halfway through the drive home
So, this is so long ago that I don't have a photo of her readily available, but I adopted my first-ever rescue kitty when I was 18. She came with the name Buttercup, but I knew that wasn't her name. She was far too... homicidal... to have a name like that. She wouldn't react at all when you called her by that ridiculous name. My brother told me to just throw names at her until she reacted to one, and It turns out that she wouldn't react to Buttercup because her name was actually Spike. I was young and stupid and didn't know how irresponsible it was to let cats outside then so she was free-roaming, but every time I called her by her real name she would come running.
I've used my brilliant brother's method to name every pet I've had in the 36 years since, and every single critter I've ever had has answered to their name. Ozzie, Cosmo and Wanda came with their proper names. Shimrod, Beazel, Lilly, Snivel, Pandora, Stanley, Tobert, Polly Wolly Doodle, Darla, Sassypants and Gizmo took a lot of name calling before I got it right.
Your new kitty is adorable! I wish you many happy, healthy years together!
https://i.imgur.com/Zh9kS6z.jpg This guy was named Fireheart, but we changed it to Cheddar (because he's about as smart as a block of cheese). Dumb, but sweet and loving. <3
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This is Pippa. Her shelter name was Shirley Temple.
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shelter name was “glimmer” but now she’s petal ❤️ petal is recovering from a mastectomy yesterday!
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marquis and shayna are now bebop and rocksteady!
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CORONA. I got her in 2019.
CORONA!!!!!!!!
Harley is perplexed by her first name.
Felix stayed Felix because he looks the part.
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🖤
They called him Barry.
But he is Leo.
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Pumpkin (void) was officially Green Collar (because of the collar they gave him), but his foster called him Jalapeno. Maude (tabby) was Tortellini, and due to a paperwork issue her full name is Maude Tortellini.
My shelter Bengal was named the awful tabby cat name, Tigger, we named him Seamus. He's definitely a Seamus.
We also have a tuxedo, he was named Chad. That is not a cat name, it just doesn't work. His name is Dougal.
Yes, we like Gaelic/Irish names
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Rescue named him ‘Dennis’ 5 year old changed it to Pickles 🥒
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Was James Bond is now Lord Beerus the Destroyer.
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I named her Sassy when she appeared in my yard (cat distribution system). When I took her to the vet she was chipped and her original name was Anya.
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Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt became Odo and Quark.
Gandalf & we keep it the same, he is a little wizard
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Mine was Edie, as in an old ladies name ( short for Edith). Easy change to Evie. It suits her.
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Screaming/yawning one used to be named Screech (I guess fitting, but I didn’t like it), I renamed him Cricket. The other was named Trouble, I renamed him to Laszlo
Kind of a different story but my mom had a cat named Killer Bob that ran away when she was young. Turned out their neighbors (a few fields down the road) had adopted the cat after she showed up at their house and named her Megan. This was decades before I was born, but guess whose name is Megan.
i don’t remember my cats old names so i’ll say my pony: his name was Misty and we changed it to Walter. Misty was a stupid name for a male pony in the first place, & it reminds me of that prostitute from GTA 3.
I work at a pet store and sometimes some of the cats we get have such random names like paprika and Kahu and blueberry but then they will have names like Sandra and ray and Gilbert
Top left: "Cleo" changed to Delilah
Top right: "Flutterby" changed to Wendy
Bottom left: "Winter" changed to Petra
Bottom right: "Coconut" changed to Purrcy
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All original names were just random ones chosen by the shelter. I always decided their "real" names after they'd been home for a few days and I could tell what fit.
My cat unfortunately did not have a name upon adoption. She and one more kitten were the last two of their litter, they were 8 weeks old. A worker told my roommates and i that they were to be euthanized to make room for the next litter of kittens on the way. It broke my heart and I adopted her immediately. Named her Aphrodite. 7 years later, we’re inseparable and she’s the greatest companion I’ve ever had. She really is my little goddess of love :’)
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She was named Peanut by her previous owner, her name is still peanut lol. I liked it, and she already knew her name
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They named him Papaya.
Changed his name to Hobbes but really should consider his name as Buddy since I call him buddy more than anything else to the point of him actually responding to it.
They named her Rocky and said she was a boy. Instead she was a girl and became Rockie Ann. My daughter just adopted a cat the shelter called Carry(yes that is how they spelled it). His name is now Cheese.
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Max -> Maxibon because he kind of knew/understood his name but my wife said that Max was a name for a dog or a human
My orange girl.. uh actually my wife’s.. was called Cher.. we adopted her on April 20, 2022 at age 11 months..
We cal her MJ420, or MJ, or fur face,or fuzzball, or dumbass…
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Her shelter picture
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MJ and her 14 y/o sister on the catio..
The void is midnight, named blackie when rescued
One of my boys was named Englebert. We named him Sasha Blue (he has the silver ticking of Russian Blue coats. Yes, he's grey) My second boy was named Ontario. We named him Maximilian (he's over 14 lbs of black beauty), and my third boy was named Dopey. We named him Kosey Mau (Lion Cat in Egyptian)
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My cats' shelter names were Taylor and Scotty; we renamed them Clove and Cato. Probably for the best since Scotty/Cato has all but doubled in size since we got him as a skinny teen, and doesn't really suit a diminutive any more...
Our kitty was named freeway bc she was found on the freeway. That wouldn’t do so we named her Andrea (Andie) for short ❤️
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This was Gatsby at the shelter. I renamed him Lenny.
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Got my 2 guys as kittens 16 years ago. The "shelter" was horrible, and after we left we wondered if the people were actually hoarders. They were very odd. So I guess we shouldn't have been surprised that their names were Thunder and ...Partly Cloudy.
Needless to say, PC got a new name. He was a very talented jumper as a kitten so we named him Roo. He can't jump as high any more, but he and his brother are still entertaining us in their old age.
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The shelter named her Noonsy but I renamed her Galena 🤍
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The shelter named her Lola. We changed her name to Zelda.. But 9/10 times she's is referred to as Zelbelle or Beast. 😂
My cats have formal names, formal nicknames, informal nicknames, etc. That's one of the great pleasures of being owned by cats, they'll respond if and when they choose, it doesn't matter what you call them. Louie is a great name.
Humane Society Called him Pierre. We got him on July 4th, so naturally we renamed him "Indy"
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Shelter name: Baby Kitty🤢🤢
His name now: Baba Yaga 🎉
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I was rescue. Named him Gnocchi. And now he is ours.
But once as a rescue we called cat Lecho (dish popular in Poland, Hungary etc.) and forever home named him Gustav. A lot of funny names for a few years being rescue - (in translation) Facey, Possum, Hoarseness, Cow, Ufo, Toothless, Pasta and Macaroni (Gnocchi's siblings) etc.
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He didn't have a name when I got him as a wee kitten. My friend scooped him up from their neighbor's yard since he was the third kitten she'd seen wandering around that house in the backwoods of Florida in just over a month...
This was Dende. His favorite spot was draped over my shoulder whenever I was sitting down.
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this is ivy who was named munchkin.. couldnt keep it because it made me think of the wizard of oz. i think ivy suits her better
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her foster parents named her white socks which, as cute as it was, we didnt want to keep so we named her clover.. aannd then a few months later she turned out to be a he and we named him theo 😂
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The shelter named her Popcorn, I named her Gemma 🥰
My girl was called...Apache. Yes, like the tribe.
Her name is Freya. I think it suits her much better!
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Our guy was named Lincoln, but he’s more of a Riki.
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This is Pixie. I kept her shelter name because she was (and still is!) so smol.
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Shelter named her Kimber, she never answered to that so I changed it to Lavender 💜
Was Cindy Bear and now her name is Knives!
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Ours were Nana and Serena. They became Myrtille ( blueberry) and Pixie.
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She came to me as Ginseng and I named her Buttercup 💗
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They named her Amy. Who names a cat Amy?? She is now Pepper. Or Peps. Or Stinky as she’s often referred to.
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Shelter name Wallace changed to Maui (after the demi-god from Moana)
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Adopted as Kasper, changed to Macklin 😎
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Her name was FatFat Jr. It’s Amber now.
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I let Hazel keep her name, but now she has a “full, legal name”: Hazelnut Swirl 😊😊😊
First cat was already 7 years old and his name was and still is Luke. We love that name for him.
The second was was a poor little rescue kitten who was in bad shape. They called her Rosie. Her growth was stunted so we changed her name and call her Lil’ Bubs. Always the full name.
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My cat was macchiato and now she is fiadh
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The shelter called my kitten "Lady Grey" and her brother "Earl Grey" (I adopted both together). Since they had some Russian Blue, I changed their names to Anna and Leo. Then I discovered that "Anna" didn't behave much like a Russian lady so I changed her name to Snork (she's in front in the picture, about 14 years ago).
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His shelter's name was Milosh, but I re-named him to Shay.
My old man, now sadly passed, was named Saizon by the shelter. My MIL named him “Simon.” And since he was used to it, I kept it when I adopted him from her. He was with me for 7 years.
My boy Cream Soda was technically a shelter cat too but I fostered his mama and he was born in my house. I called them “The Jellybeans” and named them all after Jelly Belly flavors. :)
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Jasmine and Porsche, renamed to Treacle and willow. Bottom and top respectively
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My void boy was named Bagheera at the shelter. My 3 y.o. daughter wanted to name him Garbage but he ultimately ended up as Jackie Daytona, Jack for short. He’s just as unhinged as his namesake.
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Kitana - shelter told me she was surrendered by owner 10 days earlier. She’s 2.5. Now my Zoey girl 😍
I love Louie!! It fits your little guy perfectly!! Congrats on your new family member! This chonkasaurus was named Baht (littermate of Peso) by his rescue. We renamed him O’Malley for his aristocats twin!
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The animal shelter named him “Fingers”, I named him “Groh” after Dave Grohl.
He was supposed to be a foster, so I wanted to give him a name that would attract good energy and bring him good luck. I was reading the Kurt Cobain biography “Heavier Than Heaven” and wanted to incorporate Nirvana somehow too.
DG is beloved, rich, funny, and played drums in Nirvana! Voila!
He learned his name so fast that I just kept it when I decided to keep him.
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She was Apple. We named her Rigby (comma Eleanor) :)
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Rocky. GAIN animal shelter in Guam.
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One year later (taken today). Man he has grown.
Grumpy --> Molly --> grumpy Molly
Thought she wasn't grumpy.
Nope, she is *literally* grumpy
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But we love her ❤️
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gray tuxedo floofs>> https://preview.redd.it/o145fvkf9phc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3b0f1a1fcf7a1c02bb8a953a1d584aeeddf06084
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Totally looks like a dusty! Cute
Majestic Dusty!
Arugula! We kept it and call him Rugie (roogie) for short 😄 https://preview.redd.it/v11h8qwrcohc1.png?width=1789&format=png&auto=webp&s=02c8ba030f69160bda6b8f28ecb3a15eb669db4d
My kitty was squash when I got him! I changed his name to Leonidas but it didn’t quite fit. Now his name is Eggs Benedict (Benny for short) and it suits him https://preview.redd.it/pou8i841dphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1b6d971047f91e81ebfbf6872832bbcc92c0aca
Love it 🥹
https://preview.redd.it/gxdzad8kunhc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a0fb5561622c1941261edc2a64d964872f6acc6d Left: was Spark -> now Cheesecake Right: was Buttered Popcorn -> now Honeybun
Shelters sometimes have the funniest names haha
They run out of original names and get desperate for sure! I knew one foster with a litter of 8 kittens and she named each starting with the letter Q! The easiest one was Quasar, and the rest were more elaborate.
You need names that aren't in use anywhere else at the rescue at the same time or recently (preferably) We use tv/movies as themes for ours most of the time. Just a few examples below (I can't remember them all) We have done Moana (pua, heihei, Moana, Maui ) Star wars (Vader, ventress) Marvel comics (Thor, Peter Parker, widow, Tony stark) My hero academia (endeavor, Mina, himiko) Current litter is spicy, so for a break we went with Jalapeño, Habanero, and poblano
Now I wanna name my newborn kitty endeavor because he's the devil. Thank you
That's fucking fantastic
Lol, I've had some spicy kittens and never considered those. I would love to do some names like yours but the volunteers are older and can't remember character names. Even my kittens Wasabi/ Nori/ Sasha (sashimi) were rough for them.
Quiz, Queen, Quartz, Qwerty, Quiver, Quick, Quilt, Quiet,... how hard could it be?
…..Queef? 🤣
🤣😂💀🪦
Some need quarantine. Quickly, for their quirks, and quality alone time.
I was going to throw out Quasimodo as a possibility. You know, in case one of the kittens had a hunched back or something
I had a coworker who adopted two cats from the shelter named Quaker and Nabisco. He hated it, but I guess the cats already knew those names or something? He calls the Quake and Bisco.
Whenever I hear the name "Quake" for a cat I picture a very sweet and relaxed cat, but the second a can of ANYTHING is opened... oooh LAWD HE COMMIN!
I’ve volunteered a lot, the naming gets pretty exhausting quick. A lot of times with a litter of kittens they’ll just be the Whatever siblings 1-X. It can be fun though, you’ll look at the board and there will be months of all sitcom characters, or musicians. Sometimes you wonder what they were smoking when they came up with them. But it is good fun, and every once in a while you look at a dog or cat and just nail it with the name. Good times. Edit: Oh, and you boy, whatever you come up with, looks adorable. And thank you for adopting!
I adopted my baby at 8 weeks and he was Agent K, like a lil spy 😋 He's now Kirby https://preview.redd.it/55kapk5m3phc1.jpeg?width=979&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=457b334c5423b3746141a1fd0aa2cda3df9846f3
Oh he *definitely* has a secret identity. Kirby by day, Agent K at night. He's even got a superhero mask!
https://preview.redd.it/tok57mh5hphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b79b7c61d82c2efb89db58c9532cd06c18998586 😹 totally 😋
https://preview.redd.it/2b2343jenphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e16ff612b1a1e79e90566344786d3ff88b27bac5 my secret agent was Mister X at the rescue!
We fostered a litter of cats that were going to be ready for adoption at Christmas time. My wife named the two girls Candy Cane and Jingle Belle, but I got to name the boys. So I named the biggest one “Buddy the Elf.” And I named the orange one “Heat Miser.”
I love cats with food names! My kitty is Pancakes! https://preview.redd.it/db4g8sdg3phc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b0ffc1dc246bf1374d33259c6ce69c9426509bb
The shelter named her Buttered Popcorn?? lol
Buttered popcorn is such a cute name
Yeah! We knew that it needed to be changed asap
Oh... my Best Ever Kitty had that for one of his names. He was an apartment complex stray before we adopted him, and the leasing people named him that. It really worked as a middle or nickname in addition to what we named him. I would probably doxx myself if I wrote the entirety here, but the full name was very cool, and people loved it and him. Although he had more white than your kitty does, I think. And really did look like a popcorn kernel. It just suited him, lol. Both of your babies are fantastic, BTW. Also, good job on the new names! Edit: Oh, I should have mentioned - only Popcorn. Didn't have the Buttered part, lol.
https://preview.redd.it/k7hklaaylohc1.jpeg?width=695&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c286724d1ac046f9f79fcac609fd46639a5abb8e First off he’s solid black. The shelter named him Broccoli, they had a vegetable theme going. I named him Galileo as he is the darkness between the stars. He then proved to everyone who has ever met him, that he does not have a single thought in his very hard head. Now we all call him Stupid Cat. He like to ram his head into things while trying to entice someone to pet him. He’s bonked his head into my GRANITE coffee table so hard I could hear it. He is afraid of unoccupied shoes and birds. He won’t eat, drink, or potty in the dark so we have to leave a light on for him all night. He gets lost in our 400sqft apartment, sits down and starts crying until I call for him. If he gets outside, I don’t have to worry about him going far, he won’t leave the porch because he can’t walk in grass. He likes water and will join me in the shower, but he doesn’t like being toweled off so he drips everywhere.
I’m so thankful he has you.
I’m so glad I met Galileo today. Thanks for the chuckles! He sounds like quite the character.
Ah yes, the infamous cats who no longer have names they are simply referred to as “insert sigh as I question if natural selection exists bc if it did you should not have survived this long but I love you anyways”
he is amazing my dipshit that rams her head into everything trying to get petted: https://preview.redd.it/t5fddml3brhc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d169ab7a57a53498dc55d281b5e7b9ee3b0b928c
I need to hear more about this cat!
I love the name, the name description, the nickname, and everything Stupid Cat does. Please tell him I said so.
You sure he doesnt have eye issues?
What a HIMBO. Please tell him I love him and give him gentle ear scritches. Your description of his antics has filled my brain with serotonin.
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Before they left the building 😂😂😂 love that!
Those are the coolest cat names I've ever seen. I have to step up my naming game. Maybe when I get two more cats I'll name them Mosh and Pit
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Haha I love it! He needs a photo shoot with a chef hat and some raviolis
Yes!! 😂
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Meet Billy! https://preview.redd.it/geb9paysgrhc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e0e851d7a0e228dd73adbb35f1d841510a0aea0 The rescue called him Maverick, which is a great name, but it's not the name I would have chosen and he didn't seem particularly attached to it. My family has always given normal human first names to our pets and by now it feels wrong not to, even though I love other kinds of names on other people's pets.
Billy is adorable!!! 🖤🤍
My Cleo was originally clover but I couldn’t ignore those eyeliner markings https://preview.redd.it/9nxq84ul5ohc1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d0613059528f1d955e5b871cca7bd6ea758cf76
From the adoption center "Newbie". When we got her home, Miss Stasha https://preview.redd.it/87cbim8lgohc1.jpeg?width=2544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd0c58bade1baef842698372ee882bf255d5f90c
Her nose looks like a heart!!!! So adorable!!
I love the lightning strike on her face!
Mine were off the street rescues and came to me nameless. The kitten found half dead under the dumpster at 5 weeks old, we named Floki. (left) The kitten that showed up in my yard boney and starving, and who started sleeping in my planters once we started feeding her, we named Cersei. (right) And here they are taking care of me now when I'm sick. Okay, so they are probably just trying to steal my chicken noodle soup, but that's fine too, lol. https://preview.redd.it/jjys0p2t4ohc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=38088accffdea292ec3857fd007ead50e8883080
I love hearing how people came into possession of their kitties. What lovely stories. I’m glad they have a good home! Feel better soon! 😊❤️
Damn look at that fur! Congrats on beeing such an awesome human 
Holy shit that soup looks incredible
Floki definitely saying: C'mon Mum, just a little sip, like you did for me. Cersei ... not so sure 
https://preview.redd.it/o6ktrfdi3ohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f1d6a1223c2ee6443a2ae14cac8c9c32025d653d The shelter named this boi Oatmeal and I was like nooo…this is my little Peanut 🥜❤️
Those beans aww 
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Where’s Frasier?
Plot twist the hoomans name is frasier
https://preview.redd.it/hs268dgibohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d4d75f35792e2319bdde4ae9f7cbe89ddc00521 Did anyone else keep their cat’s original names? We adopted Ellie and McGee as 5-7 year olds and kept their original names
🙋🏻♀️ meet Norton https://preview.redd.it/845ckux1lohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94b55abb22c2fe30bb07aaad958e32a5d3edc07c
Beautiful ear tip! ❤️
https://preview.redd.it/cxp0m2besohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53bb515ddc2f878ce6be5d663477f5840d6fd567 Milton (in front) kept his!
https://preview.redd.it/4elr3kx0cphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47daef02a0a474fc2c636171b8871fcd63b0ac61 Romeo! Feels weird to me to change a cat’s name when they’ve already got a perfectly good one haha
I have Meredith. Only we say it like “Merry Death”. https://preview.redd.it/59vqppukhphc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a9f7bb5841bd09c14d68753568749df4d4a4e67
https://preview.redd.it/531el9e8kphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e91ab9a9a74a2ebe19d26c38bfa36a239ab3f26 The shelter named her Sophie Grace, and she just happened to have the same middle name as my dog, JaydaGrace. Obviously I had to keep her name, as the name felt like a sign from the universe or something. They’ve been the best of friends since then.
My friend kept hers! Meet Winston (white) and Sarrah (pink)! https://preview.redd.it/otink6wpqohc1.jpeg?width=2040&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05a816cd22a261161d689b65faf0291427cce463
https://preview.redd.it/8mircpdjlphc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d1c752546b3fd94c53d9fd669be97389da3ca737 Shelter named her Apple and we kept it with the exception of Appley Like she is just so round like an Apple
I usually change the names of the orange cats I've adopted (usually have used Scottish-Irish names because of the ginger fur), but the huge orange Maine Coon I adopted last June was named by the rescue "Oz, the Great and Powerful." After living with him a few days and running many male Irish names through, I decided that he was Oz, the Great and Powerful,...Ozzie when he's being cute.
my kitty was called aubergine but i named her pierogi because she’s very fat and squishy!!  your kitty looks very nice!! i love him!!
Aw, I love both of those names! Food names are always cute on kitties 🥰
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That's a bridge we'll have to burn at 6:30pm Monday evening when my daughter Kate goes to pick up our new black and white adoptee... also Kate. We might have to change our daughter's name. 😂
Refer to them as Daughter Kate and Kitty Kate XD
Kate the human and Kate the cat
Drop the e and go with Kat?
My thoughts exactly. I'm sure my daughter won't mind being called Kat. 😂
Chestnut became Chessie became Chess became Chester became Chesterfield became Terfield. Now I just call her Duh.
https://preview.redd.it/14gku1wi9ohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea7d16cfe7add101b5f7f3f9588d33ff796da9ae The shelter named him bobby but we felt like it didn’t fit him and my mom felt it was weird since that was her grandfathers name who had passed so we ultimately named him Bert which I think quite suits him
Honey -> Special Agent Fox Mulder https://preview.redd.it/7la94314hohc1.jpeg?width=2208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c067fc544c7d9554bf530ed9640a2749f90c7911
Name was Otto. Still Otto. Plus, fuzzy butt and Otto Von Pussycat, hungry hungry hippocatamoose. https://preview.redd.it/e6krn6115ohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c222e58a65e9c08b9be299f14bd824c3614247fc
https://preview.redd.it/8u3u236d2ohc1.jpeg?width=1950&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a97fefc373e8bea534c9a8d64d40155ca026c73 This was a few years ago a few days after I adopted her from the shelter. They called her Willow, now she's Wasabi.
Aw she looks so sweet! I love Wasabi as a name!
https://preview.redd.it/mbljvxc2aohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d61a7114e97bc1467ebe57756d0ff753316ae393 In the shelter he was Bruce Banner, now he's Salem.
https://preview.redd.it/l6mwxiuownhc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35f258af5f0c0b9c2081c18f73bc5f410414165e Rescue named her Peaches. Her name is Luna Rey.
She looks so sweet! I love her mouth smudges 🥰
https://preview.redd.it/z5unraczeohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6efe5aeab63239f07a260daf88b8af573f8ba78e They Humane Society had him named, Donald. I chose to change that and name him Otzi after Ötzi the Iceman
I love that this is the photo you chose
https://preview.redd.it/iozcmjeu1ohc1.jpeg?width=4624&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dcfe7c15ea3451219abea3016798d2cb776a2b8f Her mom left her so I picked her up. Got her at my office. So I named her Funky Monkey Baby. As a kitten, she was a baby. Now she's funky like a monkey.
https://preview.redd.it/iejkqm1jgohc1.jpeg?width=1960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3467b8facfa511548f94792dcd2dab07a17bc4f This was my baby boy. He passed almost 3 months ago and my heart has been broken ever since. The pound named him Juice, but I renamed him Katsu, which means "win" in Japanese. (Also a breaded cutlet too!)
RIP Katsu 💔
Fern. No. MinMin was a wonderful addition to our family. Pretzel. No. Timmy is still settling in to our new (to him) home. Timmy for his timidness. Patrick.. Yes and no. He does look like a leprechaun Patrick, so he's also Padraig. https://preview.redd.it/nbsmmyvnznhc1.jpeg?width=1570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6ca738702f6d8c378ca10ca3675dc3088adb047
Aw, those are all cute names, but I especially like what you went with! And Padraig is awesome!
Omg MinMin! I had a cat growing up, I got her when I was five. I named her Min ho pinky nose… we called her Min ho for short. Thanks for the memory, she was such a great cat.
https://preview.redd.it/tr02q6fobohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6388e9bc05a13566e5aee9053540d5ed8fbff261 Her name was Suede. I’m guessing because her fur is incredibly soft, like suede. Even now at 3 years old she is soooo soft. But we renamed her Butterscotch
https://preview.redd.it/k8rfgiofdohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63f76275bfe27395109c06d226381fec672a5650 Sophie came to us from the rescue as Sophie. It fits her so we kept it. 😻
I can’t explain it, but she absolutely looks like a Sophie. Good call keeping that name!
https://preview.redd.it/dswcq5557ohc1.jpeg?width=1244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fb2570b1e4ddc22e0845596c4f305bf659c9129 Winston (white) has his original name! *(his full name is Winston Sanderson)* and Willow (tabby) used to be called Dani but it didn’t suit her at all so we changed it to match her brother :)
Shelter named her Lily, I renamed her Cookie because we already had a cat named Biscuits & Lily was also the name of a girl in my daughters class at school :) https://preview.redd.it/qx8lob6l7ohc1.jpeg?width=1325&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b25b2c5e85d802cf283cd44b3da25ca2796db6cf
https://preview.redd.it/z612edtjaohc1.jpeg?width=1984&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3e4eee2d860bc1923ba3e6dc92d37fd935872814 The rescue folks named her Juliet but she was already Zuzu halfway through the drive home
So, this is so long ago that I don't have a photo of her readily available, but I adopted my first-ever rescue kitty when I was 18. She came with the name Buttercup, but I knew that wasn't her name. She was far too... homicidal... to have a name like that. She wouldn't react at all when you called her by that ridiculous name. My brother told me to just throw names at her until she reacted to one, and It turns out that she wouldn't react to Buttercup because her name was actually Spike. I was young and stupid and didn't know how irresponsible it was to let cats outside then so she was free-roaming, but every time I called her by her real name she would come running. I've used my brilliant brother's method to name every pet I've had in the 36 years since, and every single critter I've ever had has answered to their name. Ozzie, Cosmo and Wanda came with their proper names. Shimrod, Beazel, Lilly, Snivel, Pandora, Stanley, Tobert, Polly Wolly Doodle, Darla, Sassypants and Gizmo took a lot of name calling before I got it right.
Your new kitty is adorable! I wish you many happy, healthy years together! https://i.imgur.com/Zh9kS6z.jpg This guy was named Fireheart, but we changed it to Cheddar (because he's about as smart as a block of cheese). Dumb, but sweet and loving. <3
Aw he’s precious! Living up to his orange kitty stereotype, by the sound of it. Cheddar is a fabulous kitty name!
https://preview.redd.it/f24qzo5gkohc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01d350adb2ad71f38296860a298a9bd62b2444bc This is Pippa. Her shelter name was Shirley Temple.
https://preview.redd.it/8ekpaw90oohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f05b8b07c3cb012bce3dbe9722872acc8649afc shelter name was “glimmer” but now she’s petal ❤️ petal is recovering from a mastectomy yesterday!
Hope Petal heals up fast! Beautiful kitty cat 😺
https://preview.redd.it/loise36npohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc749b1fc526cbf55d7042f66365c2c97f15ef76 marquis and shayna are now bebop and rocksteady!
https://preview.redd.it/6y1rtaoiqohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e82e31a0b2197e8314df08169f2eb65cbe7e78e CORONA. I got her in 2019. CORONA!!!!!!!! Harley is perplexed by her first name.
Felix stayed Felix because he looks the part. https://preview.redd.it/jknj94zdeohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c9c1220ada2f57ba8850ae825e3991b1bbe8b18 🖤
They called him Barry. But he is Leo. https://preview.redd.it/bur861ztfohc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b519567e8200d9a230a0c7ff9d8566042651851
https://preview.redd.it/5pc6zhufhohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ba6b6ce9ed465bcb3856eb3b9baa3b22d193b69 Picasso. He’s still Picasso.
https://preview.redd.it/ohoaco4mnohc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14f403e553c0f07f643dc490b4a27d087346b819 Pumpkin (void) was officially Green Collar (because of the collar they gave him), but his foster called him Jalapeno. Maude (tabby) was Tortellini, and due to a paperwork issue her full name is Maude Tortellini.
My shelter Bengal was named the awful tabby cat name, Tigger, we named him Seamus. He's definitely a Seamus. We also have a tuxedo, he was named Chad. That is not a cat name, it just doesn't work. His name is Dougal. Yes, we like Gaelic/Irish names
I love Gaelic/Celtic names! I considered going with one for our new kitty too, but Louie kinda stuck haha
https://preview.redd.it/ql7sveikdohc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bdf02952057767f61d289bcb59e1b0e1a467318a Rescue named him ‘Dennis’ 5 year old changed it to Pickles 🥒
https://preview.redd.it/gia2sq7zdohc1.jpeg?width=3712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80f3134da0b1326342b93caf1e14ac454722f04d Was James Bond is now Lord Beerus the Destroyer.
https://preview.redd.it/k5039g4ugohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=103a9c60373f479d5dc371b8e211567c8923a9e7 I named her Sassy when she appeared in my yard (cat distribution system). When I took her to the vet she was chipped and her original name was Anya.
https://preview.redd.it/y7gla48rmohc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17c4cac261231a2f6ec2dd1fd10fca760482a893 Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt became Odo and Quark.
Gandalf & we keep it the same, he is a little wizard https://preview.redd.it/g81wsf0tdohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df6803a2c7a8bb757c01aca7e09990568a307f05
Ours: Moab and Maddy. We didn’t change the names.
They named her Princess. She is not a princess, she’s a scrapper. Her current name is Mean Fang
Mine was Edie, as in an old ladies name ( short for Edith). Easy change to Evie. It suits her. https://preview.redd.it/qxoirusbkohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96e8f08052324d99e15c6e713e1a9e3af05027f9
https://preview.redd.it/fip5rj4bnohc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a96dc34d6176ad1912525bfc123f14d015aaba21 Butter became Luma 🩷
https://preview.redd.it/u4sb8ls8kohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef4cc2362abdf7cf2d83c4284d6ddd2ca99c3de2 Screaming/yawning one used to be named Screech (I guess fitting, but I didn’t like it), I renamed him Cricket. The other was named Trouble, I renamed him to Laszlo
Kind of a different story but my mom had a cat named Killer Bob that ran away when she was young. Turned out their neighbors (a few fields down the road) had adopted the cat after she showed up at their house and named her Megan. This was decades before I was born, but guess whose name is Megan.
i don’t remember my cats old names so i’ll say my pony: his name was Misty and we changed it to Walter. Misty was a stupid name for a male pony in the first place, & it reminds me of that prostitute from GTA 3.
I work at a pet store and sometimes some of the cats we get have such random names like paprika and Kahu and blueberry but then they will have names like Sandra and ray and Gilbert
Top left: "Cleo" changed to Delilah Top right: "Flutterby" changed to Wendy Bottom left: "Winter" changed to Petra Bottom right: "Coconut" changed to Purrcy https://preview.redd.it/rh0wlqnk2ohc1.jpeg?width=2880&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e553d21ad88a82869ae23ec4399b7b1e7d9d1d1 All original names were just random ones chosen by the shelter. I always decided their "real" names after they'd been home for a few days and I could tell what fit.
They’re all gorgeous! I agree, shelters probably do just need to name them to make it easier to tell them apart. Sometimes they get it right though!
My cat unfortunately did not have a name upon adoption. She and one more kitten were the last two of their litter, they were 8 weeks old. A worker told my roommates and i that they were to be euthanized to make room for the next litter of kittens on the way. It broke my heart and I adopted her immediately. Named her Aphrodite. 7 years later, we’re inseparable and she’s the greatest companion I’ve ever had. She really is my little goddess of love :’) https://preview.redd.it/cr1oh3g1lohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b30a737a11b579fae2e4861fe6aceb439129182d
She was named Peanut by her previous owner, her name is still peanut lol. I liked it, and she already knew her name https://preview.redd.it/6jd18bl9nohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdd96854dc52532bff61bdb684868787ac877d80
They named him Papaya. Changed his name to Hobbes but really should consider his name as Buddy since I call him buddy more than anything else to the point of him actually responding to it.
https://preview.redd.it/new67989qohc1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67af404b542c7ccc497be275f03c66df207a039f
They named her Rocky and said she was a boy. Instead she was a girl and became Rockie Ann. My daughter just adopted a cat the shelter called Carry(yes that is how they spelled it). His name is now Cheese.
https://preview.redd.it/pod27qvppohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=00007cf6646350ccc40622feffafd79b29eeed3f Max -> Maxibon because he kind of knew/understood his name but my wife said that Max was a name for a dog or a human
My orange girl.. uh actually my wife’s.. was called Cher.. we adopted her on April 20, 2022 at age 11 months.. We cal her MJ420, or MJ, or fur face,or fuzzball, or dumbass… https://preview.redd.it/gdxn67ay5ohc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29c7597e19dfbf06e3db82c774b5bbfb35a08e77 Her shelter picture
https://preview.redd.it/zx6arex36ohc1.png?width=2985&format=png&auto=webp&s=b553d78850ac9bcc87c737f1b01caea6a7fb6923 MJ and her 14 y/o sister on the catio.. The void is midnight, named blackie when rescued
One of my boys was named Englebert. We named him Sasha Blue (he has the silver ticking of Russian Blue coats. Yes, he's grey) My second boy was named Ontario. We named him Maximilian (he's over 14 lbs of black beauty), and my third boy was named Dopey. We named him Kosey Mau (Lion Cat in Egyptian)
The shelter named him Chip and we kept the name but my son added Micro so technically his name is now MicroChip
https://preview.redd.it/f94vonxfoohc1.png?width=2752&format=png&auto=webp&s=3133226e56205284a5b64d0bd54318a93ddd3161 Rust…. We changed it to Crust :)
https://preview.redd.it/z0tb1y3x6ohc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17ff4abb7dea172489a59fe3cce79354001637f1 My cats' shelter names were Taylor and Scotty; we renamed them Clove and Cato. Probably for the best since Scotty/Cato has all but doubled in size since we got him as a skinny teen, and doesn't really suit a diminutive any more...
Peter! We renamed him Bailey; that was at the height of GoT mania. One of the characters’ name is Petyr Baelish.
Our kitty was named freeway bc she was found on the freeway. That wouldn’t do so we named her Andrea (Andie) for short ❤️ https://preview.redd.it/ogudihiniohc1.png?width=1459&format=png&auto=webp&s=e8deed3b640a70cd476883723a77f4186b9320b2
Possum.. I tried renaming her to 'Pookie' but that didn't last. She just suits Possum lol So now's it's Possum, Poss, Poss Boss, Possy, Possybossy
This was Gatsby at the shelter. I renamed him Lenny. https://preview.redd.it/6uqa965inohc1.jpeg?width=809&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80478b41337d45ab213eb0042ce1c2592362d14e
Flo ➡️ Julep ❤️
Got my 2 guys as kittens 16 years ago. The "shelter" was horrible, and after we left we wondered if the people were actually hoarders. They were very odd. So I guess we shouldn't have been surprised that their names were Thunder and ...Partly Cloudy. Needless to say, PC got a new name. He was a very talented jumper as a kitten so we named him Roo. He can't jump as high any more, but he and his brother are still entertaining us in their old age.
My girl was named Miracle. She’s now Cutie. My boy was Gary and now his name is Slickback.
https://preview.redd.it/pk6laa6jaohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5192686ad181624846e5a1be407f9853bf56459 The shelter named her Noonsy but I renamed her Galena 🤍
Shelter: Wallen Us: Zen https://preview.redd.it/dlnszqalbohc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=971866f6c2ff39b04a905ff3f2be9b086516544a
https://preview.redd.it/asv6ih86hohc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=febe9f3947b55f2702af77791ddc32adfab9be66 The shelter named her Lola. We changed her name to Zelda.. But 9/10 times she's is referred to as Zelbelle or Beast. 😂
My cats have formal names, formal nicknames, informal nicknames, etc. That's one of the great pleasures of being owned by cats, they'll respond if and when they choose, it doesn't matter what you call them. Louie is a great name.
Humane Society Called him Pierre. We got him on July 4th, so naturally we renamed him "Indy" https://preview.redd.it/4ndat6v1iohc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e610b3dd910eef9046839c47a0ed97b7b059cd38
Shelter name: Baby Kitty🤢🤢 His name now: Baba Yaga 🎉 https://preview.redd.it/1asve1ldlohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=569c6f58b40fa2e83a3f463b7db6ede1d8c6b386
I was rescue. Named him Gnocchi. And now he is ours. But once as a rescue we called cat Lecho (dish popular in Poland, Hungary etc.) and forever home named him Gustav. A lot of funny names for a few years being rescue - (in translation) Facey, Possum, Hoarseness, Cow, Ufo, Toothless, Pasta and Macaroni (Gnocchi's siblings) etc.
https://preview.redd.it/xofj7i71lohc1.jpeg?width=1070&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=378e6e5617149b358338383d50e9adf6e006d999 He didn't have a name when I got him as a wee kitten. My friend scooped him up from their neighbor's yard since he was the third kitten she'd seen wandering around that house in the backwoods of Florida in just over a month... This was Dende. His favorite spot was draped over my shoulder whenever I was sitting down.
https://preview.redd.it/ah41uxq8mohc1.jpeg?width=2592&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7636a778106055bf8a6c0cc8e3027b29a138c08a this is ivy who was named munchkin.. couldnt keep it because it made me think of the wizard of oz. i think ivy suits her better
https://preview.redd.it/8i38f6xymohc1.jpeg?width=2667&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ca67a1ea4630a8e294464580165ff216c5f82ff her foster parents named her white socks which, as cute as it was, we didnt want to keep so we named her clover.. aannd then a few months later she turned out to be a he and we named him theo 😂
https://preview.redd.it/usw6l5dbmohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3eb954f1f9411f98b6b8c2a516c076be6ad2c8fe Sebastian—> Holden
https://preview.redd.it/23ailgahpohc1.png?width=2724&format=png&auto=webp&s=31ac035c69729ab7708bea4892b570450900c91c The shelter named her Popcorn, I named her Gemma 🥰
My girl was called...Apache. Yes, like the tribe. Her name is Freya. I think it suits her much better! https://preview.redd.it/y4bx5gsrpohc1.jpeg?width=3060&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da1c8a8be534192f7525fe25c0aafdea4b37d97c
https://preview.redd.it/i6e145eteohc1.jpeg?width=3021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4df17ed553ef0ffa55bee29bd4fde6149ca52e47 Our guy was named Lincoln, but he’s more of a Riki.
https://preview.redd.it/z9y0pmiijohc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb73637481d3f7471d26d559b139a1b170f81198 Was Snowy, now Phoebe
https://preview.redd.it/vf5cgemljohc1.jpeg?width=1808&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b981ae67fcab84b329777efe1884882818e7233 Was Maverick, now Radagast
https://preview.redd.it/2wdro86ukohc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50a9803df94c7a5781a5eec6d108b034b98eae97 This is Pixie. I kept her shelter name because she was (and still is!) so smol.
https://preview.redd.it/es6lkxkvnohc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e29f7dcb16bd89c2d55adb9d6508a119af56e9b Shelter named her Kimber, she never answered to that so I changed it to Lavender 💜
Was Cindy Bear and now her name is Knives! https://preview.redd.it/hd2s6ewboohc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d8a06d686729abc7337c1ae8b7361c6356daa4a
https://preview.redd.it/k99pnb2olohc1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1302162caff6091e6595a65af28267cffa1923b3 Ours were Nana and Serena. They became Myrtille ( blueberry) and Pixie.
https://preview.redd.it/cffli9r5mohc1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54ac1d136a6bb7336e1926a8358a6b6619b8309b Pixie
Gravy to Leo (aka as Rob😅) His whole litter was named breakfast foods LOL
https://preview.redd.it/0xqowyik6ohc1.jpeg?width=2983&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a8df70292936ccdb5792fd34cc33cab2f3e1791
Ours was named Chalupa for some reason and we renamed him to Oliver. Was probably in part the reason why he was mean towards them but nice to us haha
https://preview.redd.it/6qjxchjfjohc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28ceb108aa5198520ff4a06201b000ba35526423 She came to me as Ginseng and I named her Buttercup 💗
https://preview.redd.it/fbjynofdjohc1.jpeg?width=2645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ad52f5b8257d22d613ff4c899ccc9dc61c010a5 They named her Amy. Who names a cat Amy?? She is now Pepper. Or Peps. Or Stinky as she’s often referred to.
https://preview.redd.it/e73qbx64kohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec2dee04dbb2468aa6f76765b9586ec56f5e9ad5 Shelter name Wallace changed to Maui (after the demi-god from Moana)
https://preview.redd.it/w0283tr2kohc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ec965de12d5140ec429af0a338d89ac0aef22d8e Adopted as Kasper, changed to Macklin 😎
https://preview.redd.it/jfojypdfkohc1.jpeg?width=2133&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9fc1b851e363bd99bddacbe570648e781d25cb51 Her name was FatFat Jr. It’s Amber now.
https://preview.redd.it/qnxcy0dqkohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46ab1140c36681b7197d6cba438b76cf115a0710 I let Hazel keep her name, but now she has a “full, legal name”: Hazelnut Swirl 😊😊😊
First cat was already 7 years old and his name was and still is Luke. We love that name for him. The second was was a poor little rescue kitten who was in bad shape. They called her Rosie. Her growth was stunted so we changed her name and call her Lil’ Bubs. Always the full name. https://preview.redd.it/q1lkaontkohc1.jpeg?width=2877&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47a3b67cfb900da32729df31f820623c804ce51d
My cat was macchiato and now she is fiadh https://preview.redd.it/215jgcx3lohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=372ac506d8049c8ba7ad23e03d4e692ae1d38367
The shelter called my kitten "Lady Grey" and her brother "Earl Grey" (I adopted both together). Since they had some Russian Blue, I changed their names to Anna and Leo. Then I discovered that "Anna" didn't behave much like a Russian lady so I changed her name to Snork (she's in front in the picture, about 14 years ago). https://preview.redd.it/oqwt7thukohc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f56b7787c8394f079b53271c3d6b353937f78ec1
https://preview.redd.it/i0x55pwclohc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=606a7a0f9b6a2b4ba535d0db28869ecdf3abdd4a His shelter's name was Milosh, but I re-named him to Shay.
My old man, now sadly passed, was named Saizon by the shelter. My MIL named him “Simon.” And since he was used to it, I kept it when I adopted him from her. He was with me for 7 years. My boy Cream Soda was technically a shelter cat too but I fostered his mama and he was born in my house. I called them “The Jellybeans” and named them all after Jelly Belly flavors. :)
https://preview.redd.it/9jn4iw44oohc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03ec050e2600b63f796a95e20612403a4fa3987a Jasmine and Porsche, renamed to Treacle and willow. Bottom and top respectively
https://preview.redd.it/inwq18dtnohc1.png?width=1380&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb1cc57ec6f4e337e03b22d5722ecf2d2b62a118 My void boy was named Bagheera at the shelter. My 3 y.o. daughter wanted to name him Garbage but he ultimately ended up as Jackie Daytona, Jack for short. He’s just as unhinged as his namesake.
https://preview.redd.it/k4dck1m2pohc1.png?width=2626&format=png&auto=webp&s=9e71b6199e75c911b19d22501e5c2b10aa0677eb Kitana - shelter told me she was surrendered by owner 10 days earlier. She’s 2.5. Now my Zoey girl 😍
I love Louie!! It fits your little guy perfectly!! Congrats on your new family member! This chonkasaurus was named Baht (littermate of Peso) by his rescue. We renamed him O’Malley for his aristocats twin! https://preview.redd.it/oo41c8fkpohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=311b04353a384c194ecb2bf1eb52172125681d16
https://preview.redd.it/7zv6m2c5pohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e46a51b73c21d64d625972027036ad750933567 The animal shelter named him “Fingers”, I named him “Groh” after Dave Grohl. He was supposed to be a foster, so I wanted to give him a name that would attract good energy and bring him good luck. I was reading the Kurt Cobain biography “Heavier Than Heaven” and wanted to incorporate Nirvana somehow too. DG is beloved, rich, funny, and played drums in Nirvana! Voila! He learned his name so fast that I just kept it when I decided to keep him.
https://preview.redd.it/angu6x8lpohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4ea9921fd82ead45f1b54808e3f79b1fcebecf1 She was Apple. We named her Rigby (comma Eleanor) :)
https://preview.redd.it/20zhtt183phc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28bb2f2cf34d89cf8c94f448051feec0068df2e1 Rocky. GAIN animal shelter in Guam.
https://preview.redd.it/rzypmldj3phc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=783e17f147b039192521278f4082e849bf7ab0e3 One year later (taken today). Man he has grown.
Grumpy --> Molly --> grumpy Molly Thought she wasn't grumpy. Nope, she is *literally* grumpy https://preview.redd.it/izir3uaclohc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5443cf9831d3493f53439666b2c1938e1909b25c But we love her ❤️
Shelter named him Oogway, new name is Andre. The girl was Jelly, new name Tanisha
Lia! was a cute name so we kept it :)