Cat names are important

[dinahsmum]

Our pet names are important to us aren't they? (Just ask TS Elliot - the naming of cats** and all that)
Remember how we all went 'oh great name' when Jemma (Sweet) introduced us to her Violet?

With that in mind, do you think it would be a good idea to set up a bank of names for Smudgley and anyone else involved in rescue, so they could promote their deserving older citizens (and kittens, but they tend to move swiftly without special names). Somehow Jenkins, or M'Lord sound so much more attractive than Fred or Blackie (with apologies to any Fred or Blackie reading this ), don't you think? These cats deserve any little bit of edge they can get - especially the older, plainer (poor things) ones. Poor black beauties are hard to home

Any suggestions for really great names?

The Naming of Cats**
by TS Elliot
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.

[CJK]

I like makisha
Lord Balderdash
Lady PIffle
Mr percivle

sheena
Kira
Kofi

verona
marsi