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Cat Names & Nicknames Thread
Why Not? The Dog forum is having fun with this, so why shouldn't we? :)
Perhaps if someone is looking for a new pet name, they can get it from one of us right out of this ol' thread here.
now, i'm going to list out some names and nicknames in groups, as they come to me. We try to never recycle a name here, which has led to some unusal names over the years (Like the time we took in three tabbys and called them "This, That, (the other) Thing." :)
Pouncequick
T.F. (Tiny Friend)
Princess (of course)
Goldie
Bumpers
Ted Ford (Started as Ted-e-Bear, some how became the former)
Nighteyes
Whump (Originally Stumpy due to only half a tail, became "Whump" over time)
Ariel (also Michael, Rahpael, Gabriel and Cassiel (angel of temperance), to name a few in the angel category)
Frannie (Full name is Frannie funny Face)
Groucho
Rosemary, Parsley, Thyme (there are many, many spices... :) )
Moonshadow
Mouse
...enough from me for now! :)
Perhaps if someone is looking for a new pet name, they can get it from one of us right out of this ol' thread here.
now, i'm going to list out some names and nicknames in groups, as they come to me. We try to never recycle a name here, which has led to some unusal names over the years (Like the time we took in three tabbys and called them "This, That, (the other) Thing." :)
Pouncequick
T.F. (Tiny Friend)
Princess (of course)
Goldie
Bumpers
Ted Ford (Started as Ted-e-Bear, some how became the former)
Nighteyes
Whump (Originally Stumpy due to only half a tail, became "Whump" over time)
Ariel (also Michael, Rahpael, Gabriel and Cassiel (angel of temperance), to name a few in the angel category)
Frannie (Full name is Frannie funny Face)
Groucho
Rosemary, Parsley, Thyme (there are many, many spices... :) )
Moonshadow
Mouse
...enough from me for now! :)
To answer your question, we are one of those inter-species households. In addition to the furry kids, we also have:
Paco - She's a green-cheeked conure with a large vocabulary, most of it foul. She was three years old on April 10th. I live and work at a hotel, and as part of my salary package my hubby and I get an apartment, all bills paid. There was another couple who worked here, and they had the apartment right next door to us. Because our bedrooms used to be adjoining rooms before they were turned into apartments, there is an adjoining door between the bedrooms. The soundproofing is not all that bad, unless you are screaming at the top of your lungs, which this couple often was. They fought CONSTANTLY, and as a result, Paco has the vocabulary of the love child of Andrew Dice Clay and Chris Rock. It took me about six months of constant repetition to teach her how to say "Gimme a kiss!", and it took her less than three weeks of listening to this couple fight to be able to question the marital status of your parents. Birds. Gotta love 'em.
Next, we have the herps, the reptiles. Mason is a red eared slider, which is a turtle. More specifically, she is one of those "little green turtles" that anyone over 40 had dozens of as a kid. You know the ones, they ate those dried flies in the little cardboard Hartz Mountain box and died before the next full moon. Mason got her name because I brought her home in a jar. She was a hatchling when I got her, she was about the size of a quarter and she still had her egg tooth on the end of her nose. Her hatch day is July 15th, and next month she will celebrate her sixth birthday! No more little turtle, her shell is eight inches across and she weighs about three pounds. Now that people are more aware of the correct way to keep reptiles as pets, there are much better diets available than the dried flies of yesteryear. ReptoMin sticks and live fish have her growing by leaps and bounds. Every week when I wash her shell she sheds a few scutes because growing is her favorite hobby!
And, last, but certainly not least, we have our snake. She's a ball python named Lucille. OK, so it's corny, I know. Lucille Ball. But it works for her. When I bought her for DH she, too, was a hatchling, and now, nine years later, she is just a shade over five feet long. Ball pythons aren't terribly large snakes, which works well for us because with all the cats, we didn't want a snake that would get large enough to look at our cats and think he was living in a deli.
And that's the rest of our crew. Erm, I mean ZOO.
Ghilly
Paco - She's a green-cheeked conure with a large vocabulary, most of it foul. She was three years old on April 10th. I live and work at a hotel, and as part of my salary package my hubby and I get an apartment, all bills paid. There was another couple who worked here, and they had the apartment right next door to us. Because our bedrooms used to be adjoining rooms before they were turned into apartments, there is an adjoining door between the bedrooms. The soundproofing is not all that bad, unless you are screaming at the top of your lungs, which this couple often was. They fought CONSTANTLY, and as a result, Paco has the vocabulary of the love child of Andrew Dice Clay and Chris Rock. It took me about six months of constant repetition to teach her how to say "Gimme a kiss!", and it took her less than three weeks of listening to this couple fight to be able to question the marital status of your parents. Birds. Gotta love 'em.
Next, we have the herps, the reptiles. Mason is a red eared slider, which is a turtle. More specifically, she is one of those "little green turtles" that anyone over 40 had dozens of as a kid. You know the ones, they ate those dried flies in the little cardboard Hartz Mountain box and died before the next full moon. Mason got her name because I brought her home in a jar. She was a hatchling when I got her, she was about the size of a quarter and she still had her egg tooth on the end of her nose. Her hatch day is July 15th, and next month she will celebrate her sixth birthday! No more little turtle, her shell is eight inches across and she weighs about three pounds. Now that people are more aware of the correct way to keep reptiles as pets, there are much better diets available than the dried flies of yesteryear. ReptoMin sticks and live fish have her growing by leaps and bounds. Every week when I wash her shell she sheds a few scutes because growing is her favorite hobby!
And, last, but certainly not least, we have our snake. She's a ball python named Lucille. OK, so it's corny, I know. Lucille Ball. But it works for her. When I bought her for DH she, too, was a hatchling, and now, nine years later, she is just a shade over five feet long. Ball pythons aren't terribly large snakes, which works well for us because with all the cats, we didn't want a snake that would get large enough to look at our cats and think he was living in a deli.
And that's the rest of our crew. Erm, I mean ZOO.
Ghilly
True, there are coyotes in many cities. We used to see them where I am but development has cut off their easy travel corridor from a semi wild area where they would nip into neighborhoods to find strays (mainly cats and those small dogs). There is also the occasional mountain lion as well. Once, during a late night airport drop-off I saw a fox run accross the main road out by LAX in LA. That was surprising. Then there was the bear that loved swimming in this guys swimming pool in Banning. Neeedless to say, the bear was relocated by fish and game, hopefully somewhere he could indulge his nightly bathing ritual..
add coyotes to that list of urban beasts. Seattle has 'em
Woodchucks in NYC??? help me out here, these must be the urban variety.
I know there are raccoons, skunks and opossoms in cities but woodchucks???
I know there are raccoons, skunks and opossoms in cities but woodchucks???
woodchucks sleeping with kitties....... too adorable!
Heh heh...this is to much. I'll admit, I had a horse once I called sh*thead when I was a kid, but that was before I got to know him better. He rolled on me since I cinched him up to tight and nearly broke both my legs, which started us off on a terrible footing. Eventually i started calling him "Old Glue." :) (Forgive me, i was young.)
I see from pic's that quite a few of us have mixed pets, dogs and birds. Does any one have snakes, lizards, rabbits as well? I find the inter-special relationships interesting.
We've got a family of woodchucks out back and it's startling to see they mingle with the cats quite happily. I've seen woodchuck babes sleeping in a pile with the cats, or eating along side them.
The possums are a problem because the do kill the kit's which I hate to see but there's not much we can do.
(I don't see how a cat can live with a bird without an inevitable "Sylvester vs. tweety" outbreak, btw.)
I see from pic's that quite a few of us have mixed pets, dogs and birds. Does any one have snakes, lizards, rabbits as well? I find the inter-special relationships interesting.
We've got a family of woodchucks out back and it's startling to see they mingle with the cats quite happily. I've seen woodchuck babes sleeping in a pile with the cats, or eating along side them.
The possums are a problem because the do kill the kit's which I hate to see but there's not much we can do.
(I don't see how a cat can live with a bird without an inevitable "Sylvester vs. tweety" outbreak, btw.)
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