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Draheid

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 06:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Is it a golden power of veto? :O

Bigd

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 07:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Spook?

Kristylovesbb

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 07:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I named my black Persian Zilla, after Godzilla. He would stand on his hind legs and try to scare me when he was a little guy.
I also named a cat Taz because he ran around the house like a freak jumping in the air at me. The names I have selected for my cats have always reflected their attitudes.

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 07:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
we had a black kitty named "tar baby" when i was small.

calicos are my all-time favorite. i had an 'april calico' when i was about 12. people always wanted her kittens! she was gorgeous.

i like the name 'Stardust', because the cat has dark with lighter colors (stars)...

Squaredsc

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<unfortunately the name spook and tar baby have negative meanings to some a/a's, not saying that anyone is wrong in naming their kitty that but it gave me pause. this is strictly fyi, and i wasn't even going to mention it but i wouldn't be me if i didn't. again, just fyi, not judging anyone, please don't take this the wrong way. which is why i put it in small writing.>

Bigd

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I suggested spook when I read Julieboo's post describing the color of the cat, "mixed with color (black & Orange) not patches at all", cause this made me think of Halloween, mixed in with her screen name - "JulieBoo".

Spook - Halloween - get it?

Squaredsc

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i get it. i also get the tar baby, just giving info about how it stands out to some people.

Wcv63

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have two black cats....Brat and Ditto. I like to get to know the cats' personalities before I name them....I had a cat named Sonic who was so named because she used to dash around the house as fast as she could.

Fluff

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How about Patti?

Babyruth

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ditto what Squared so graciously pointed out.

Julieboo

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
So you guys would veto Jambalaya?

Squaredsc

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
julieboo, i like jambalaya, jam for short.

Wcv63

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 10:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well if we're going with cajun inspired names I've always liked Lagniappe. (pronounced lan-yap) It means a little gift. Apropos no?

Cinnamongirl

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
C.C. short for Calico Cat
K.C. short for Kitty Cat

Tashakinz

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Friends of ours did something neat that you might be able to play with with your own family's names: They named their rabbit JAMS. They took the first letter of the first name of each member of the family and anagrammed them.

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
wow, squared...we had our 'tar baby' because we loved the brer rabbit books and not for any racist reasons! we were little kids. i never considered what it might sound like to someone else, but i also never thought about 'being politically correct', when i have never had any prejudices (okay, i don't like russ on bachelorette, but that doesn't really count!)--but it was an indoor cat anyway, so it's not like i would be running down the street screaming 'tar baby!' at the top of my lungs lol it was just a little cat that was the color of tar...

there were some guys at UC santa barbara who called their cat 'virgin' so they could go out and yell for a virgin at night....go figger!

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i like jambalaya--if it gets huge, you can call it 'jumbo' for short (is 'jumbo for short' an oxymoron?!)...or you can name it 'gumbo' and then it will be a 'jumbo gumbo'! and if it turns out to be mentally impaired, you can call it 'jumbo gumbo dumbo'!

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 12:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
or how about 'trista', LOL it is a girl cat, obviously.

time to clean the litterbox--my cat left me several lagniappes!

squared, i re-read my post that starts, 'wow, squared' and i don't mean it to sound rude or defensive, so please don't read it that way!!

Bigd

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 03:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I consider myself to be well informed and enlightened. I keep up with current events. I try to be considerate of others. I work hard at being fair and impartial and try to assume the best. I came into this innocent little thread with no ulterior motive. I did not come here to be enlightened or informed. And yet both times I have made innocent name suggestions that make up this thread, they have been taken completely out of context and the very spirit in which they were intended. Why must we assume that anyone, not just me, but anyone would suggest a name in a mean spirited manner? That is certainly not the case here. I know I shouldn’t take offense, but none the less, my humanity has reared its ugly head and I have. When I did a general web search on the term “scat” I had to go to the bottom of the second page of search results to find the negative slang that has so wrongly been attached to this harmless little word. That was not my intention when I suggested it. I might be showing my age, but scat has and always will mean to leave in a hurry in slang, i.e., "skit, scat, skidoodle", or a type of singing. Even in my “enlightened” state, I still find it harmless and will continue in that attitude. Then my suggestion of “Spook” was just as harmless, and yet a negative spin was placed on it too. Why must we assume the worst? Which is what I did when I went back and explained my reasoning for the name. That was my only mistake. I come here for fun, I do not like feeling as though I have to consider and reconsider every word I say for fear of being misinterpreted, that is not fun. Let’s not be so quick to assume that someone needs to be enlightened on an issue that is not even present. Like my accomplice, I would not be true to myself with my silence. Nothing racist or negative was intended by my suggestion of the name Spook, I do not find the word racist or negative and I would prefer that not be insinuated.

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bigd, i totally agree with you on all counts. why can't we just name a cat a cute, fitting name without having to worry that someone would see it the wrong way and therefore, see us the 'wrong way'?! i also came here to suggest names and mention various ones my pets have had....

but--and i have a big one, lol-- i don't think that is what squared meant; squared would never say something to 'hurt' us. i feel squared just meant 'someone out there' could possibly take offense at it. i am sure that people who know me personally would never think i did anything to make a racist statement, or infer my cat was s#it, if i called it tar baby, spook, or scat. would i still name a cat 'tar baby' if it were black as coal and cute as a bug's ear? you betcha, because i call my cat a 'baby' all the time, even though he's really named 'webpee'.... but it would never be meant to be offensive to anyone. it reminds me of snuggling up with my sisters and our pet in a big old antique sleigh bed and listening to my father read to us many long years ago. long nights of 'the wind in the willows' and 'brer rabbit' and 'alice in wonderland'.
if someone found something i did offensive, it would be their inference, not my intent.

Bigd

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
TabbyKing said: "if someone found something i did offensive, it would be their inference, not my intent." Exactly my point.

Fanny

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<thinks this is not the time to say I once had a kitty named Phucke, but I did>

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
fanny, it's the perphucked time to mention that! lol

Fanny

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
((((((tabby, bigd, square)))))

Twiggyish

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Fanny..LOL That's a riot. I bet you got lots of looks when you called your kitty.

Squaredsc

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
obviously my post was taken the wrong way. which is why i wasn't going to say anything. so just forget i said anything. not trying to make anyone "politically correct" just saying what popped in my head. jeez. unfortunately or fortunately i come from a different culture and it comes out in the way that i think and see things. which is going to be different from others. again, forget i said anything. and no i am not offended.

Teatime

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
When I met Mr. Tea, he had a long haired black beauty named Phydeaux (Fido). Extra funny because she was ultra feminine and slinky.

Jbean

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
lol fanny. that is hilarious.

Tabbyking

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 06:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
squared, you are not who i meant by my 'if someone out there found something i did offensive'....i meant a generic 'someone'! so i am glad you said you weren't offended... because you shouldn't be!

i didn't take your original post the wrong way, it actually just surprised me a little because it never crossed my mind that someone might be offended by my tar baby kitty (well, unless they saw how he ate!!) when i posted about his name.

it was kinda like "huh?!" and i had to think what was wrong with 'tar baby' and then i knew what you were saying.

i am sure you are right and some people might find it in poor taste, in this day and age, but sometimes people (not you!! the generic 'people'!) look too hard at something innocent.

i have an a/a friend who named her parrot 'crackers' and i never ever thought for one minute that she was making a comment on 'white people'. i was thinking as in 'polly wanna cracker', which is undoubtedly why she named him that... actually, since pamy told us what 'crackers' are in her joke under another topic, i am kind of embarrassed that my friend named her parrot after someone's privates! LOL

Serate

Friday, January 24, 2003 - 07:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree that if you are going to have a pet outside you might want to consider it's name. I had a beautiful dog I named Tristan, but nobody liked the name and my 2 year old cousin called him a cow so the name Cow stuck. My brother came home from Japan [ex-Marine] and one morning and Tristan did something and Brian hollered "stop it Cow" and the neighbor lady looked up and got a weird look on her face. Found out 3 weeks later she thought my brother called her an old cow, and never talked to the family again. [I need to insert here that both my brother and my dad said they would have actually called her an old cow years ago if it meant she'd keep to herself *L*].

I thought a cracker was either 1. a saltine or 2. somebody who did crack. Guess you learn something new every day.

We had a black cat we called Spooky. She lived up to her name, she was scary. Would climb the walls when the phone rang and growl at the paper boy.