Getting my first cat tomorrow...

[mgbeach]

According to Terry Pratchett, you should give your cat a name you won't be embarrassed about calling out in the middle of the night while you're banging a spoon against a foodbowl. (I know from personal experience that "Agamemnon" doesn't fall into this category.)

He also says that no matter what you decide to call your cat, at some point it will always end up being called "Aaargh-get-out-of-there!" or "Well-you-shouldn't-have-been-standing-there-then!"

Your cat looks great, by the way. You can tell there's lots of personality there. Have fun!

Haha! That's really great advice. Here are a few more shots of the little guy. He got going in an all-out play session and then crashed..

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[Dannyalcatraz]

I like photo #2 of set #2 the best so far.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

According to Terry Pratchett, you should give your cat a name you won't be embarrassed about calling out in the middle of the night while you're banging a spoon against a foodbowl. (I know from personal experience that "Agamemnon" doesn't fall into this category.)

Our cats' names were typically descriptive and not terribly creative or unique.

My parents currently have two outdoor/garage cats...a queen named Callie (short for Calico), whose mind is so gloriously empty that she'd be an excellent picker of stocks, and Fluffy, a longhair tom who was both spayed *and* neutered.

While Callie is a bit of a homebody, Fluffy likes to wander about, being a tomcat (despite being fixed), but they live in a rural area with coyotes, owls, and other things that can and will happily eat a furball. So, Mom likes to lock them up at night. In order to make sure that Fluffy knows to come in about dark, Mom brings out little pieces of cheese for him to eat. He's actually showing up earlier and earlier.

Brad

 

[TheNovaLord]

Ceefor

 

[mgbeach]

He's really not much of a "Rocky" as it turns out, so the name game continues My niece is not as heartbroken as I thought she might be.

Was thinking maybe Nero, since he seems to be kind of crazy and sociopathic, and it's also Italian for "black"... Also, Nero the emperor was adopted

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tut

Donnie Darko

Schwartz

 

[Blackrat]

He's really not much of a "Rocky" as it turns out, so the name game continues My niece is not as heartbroken as I thought she might be.

Was thinking maybe Nero, since he seems to be kind of crazy and sociopathic, and it's also Italian for "black"... Also, Nero the emperor was adopted

I say go with it. That's an awesome name for such a cute little monster. The pics are awesome

 

[TheAuldGrump]

How about the old standby 'Jack' - as in 'the Ripper', 'Springheel', 'palsy', 'jumping', 'in the Box', 'Nicholson'.... The name can stay the same, even as the connotations change....

'Nick' might also work....

The Auld Grump

 

[mgbeach]

How about the old standby 'Jack' - as in 'the Ripper', 'Springheel', 'palsy', 'jumping', 'in the Box', 'Nicholson'.... The name can stay the same, even as the connotations change....

'Nick' might also work....

The Auld Grump

My mom actually has a cat called Jack who is a notorious street fighter. He came home and had one eye damaged, so now of course is One Eyed Jack.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The card reference of course conjures up names like Ace.