i’m a kitty mama!
i waited all day yesterday for a phone call. i kept checking my answering machine remotely, wishing for a message. i rushed home and watched the clock anxiously until 5pm, when the shelter closed, only to feel sad and resigned myself to wait another day. then, at about 5:55pm, when the phone rang and the on-tv-screen caller id revealed it was the shelter, i answered, bracing myself for bad news.
it was a long and information packed phone call which not once contained concrete statements of acceptance until the very end. it gave me a stress headache, actually. but, the end result is worth it. i get to pick up my new kitties on saturday morning! i could have fetched them sooner, but i think this will work out best as then we’ll have the whole weekend to get them settled and used to our new life together.
OMG KITTIES!!!!11111ONE
so, now that i’m bringing these tiny balls of fluffy claws into my life, i need to give them new names. seriously, there’s no way i’m going to own cats named Tuti & Fruity. how awful! that’s where you guys come in. i have a (very) long list of possible names and i need help whiddling it down. i’ve a few favourites in the bunch, but i’d really like to solicit some popular opinion on the matter. to that end, here’s my list:
| huff & puff | mish/mash |
| frick & frack | charlotte & emily |
| peaches & pixie | salt’n’pepa |
| kate & allie | thelma & louise |
| rose & amy | betty & wilma |
| ginger & mary-ann | laverne & shirley |
| buffy & willow | wendy & tinkerbell |
| lucy & ethel | betty & veronica |
| romi & michelle | tigger & pooh |
| mouse & bird | meatball & dumpling |
| sugar & spice | sushi & pho |
| bubble & pearl | whiskers & kitten |
| geek & nerd | php & perl |
| canon & nikon | aperture & shutter |
| flickr & twitter | mac & pc |
| tivo & boxee | peachy & keen |
| peach & rosalina | tiny & teeny |
| grey & brown | saffron & violet |
| dilly & pickle | boo & squeak |
| peas & carrots | sudo & grep |
please leave your top two name pairs in the comments. i can’t guarantee i’ll use any of your picks, but i think they’ll help steer me in the right direction.
yay! hurry up, caturday!
If I had to pick, I’d go with:
That’s just me though :)
Yay cats! I like
dilly/pickle
boo/squeak (or peek/boo?)
lucy/ethel
meatball/dumpling
mouse/bird
I can’t vote for betty/veronica (though I think it’s totally cute) cause Josh’s cat, Reggie’s sister, was named Veronica. I guess they came from a litter of seven who all had Archie names. And Veronica was awesome. And I miss her. But it’s a good name! Anyways, I’ll stop rambling in your comments now.
yay cats!
my faves:
mouse & bird
dilly & pickle
mac & pc (HAHA)
I like:
– Saffron and Violet
– Boo and Squeak
I’m so glad you got your kitties! Can’t wait to hear and see more about them.
Someone once told me that how you name your pet shows how you think of them.
If you give them a human name, then you think of them as people. If you give them the name of an object, you think of them as property.
I don’t know how true that is, but it’s just something I’ve remembered.
On the other hand a friend of mine knows all these people with cats with software code names and he figures if he knows enough of us he can get a whole script’s worth (i.e. a script always starts with #!, that is, Shebang).
Lucy & Ethel
Mouse & Bird
or my write-in:
Sully & Boo
WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Mouse & Bird crack me up for some reason. That’s probably what I’d pick. All the showbiz names slay me.
No name recommendations from me, just wanted to say congratulations on your new pets!
Mish and Mash – fun to say!
Nikon/Canon or Litter/Box ;-)
hey where’d my other comment go? :(
I said I liked dilly/pickle, mac/pc, mouse/bird.
Humm, if one of the cats always bugs the other one then it can be Charlie (Brown) and Lucy (van Pelt). Or you can call them iPhone / BlackBerry (then you can have another crazier cat called – Android)
You can name them after Linux distributions? Slackware / Ubuntu
What about web related? HTML / CSS ? (C and H for short)
What about Dog? Dog 1 and Dog 2?
Ok, I’mma stop now.
meatball & dumpling are pretty awesome
With as much as you talk about it, I’d go with Pho & Sushi. Love all of the choices though!
That reminds me… I found a site of Pho puns and meant to send it your way. I’ll have to search for it.
I like Lucy & Ethel or Canon & Nikon. Congratulations! :)
These aren’t on your list, but a close friend named his twin cats hannibal and clarice. And I’m so stealing that for my next two. Mine tend to respond to “dumbass” more than anything (as in: Dumbass, don’t chew on electric cords). That being said, I’m fond of frick & frack.
Maybe do ruby (ruby on rails) & perl?
aloe and lanolin? scooter and libby? Perception and Reason.
Wee! Naming new kitties! This is so exciting. You lucky duck.
From your list, my picks are:
– Rose and Amy
– Charlotte (Lottie, Charlie) and Emily (Em, Lee)
– Whiskers and Kitten
– Saffron and Violet
– Mouse and Bird
From my own list of great pet names:
– Duck and Bug
– Scout and Bug
– Marmalade
– Georgia
– Lily (for the little one)
– Sparkle and Stormy (depending on their personalities)
– Abby
– Moon and Star
– Chirp
– Lucy
– Rain
– Sprout
– Bird and Blue
Any prizes to be given?? :)