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Enoch
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Haile as in the late emperor Haile Selassie seems an appropriate moniker for an Abyssinian moggy.
I agree.
Or if you want a pun, Pushkin, who was descended inter alia from an African, though he may not have come from Ethiopia.
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BessLane
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When I was a child, my mother raised show quality Cornish Rex cats. After much pleading and begging, my younger brother and I were allowed to name a litter of kits *all by ourselves* As a result my mother had the dubious honor of registering one Caiystane's Electric Woodpecker with the CFA ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif) . We were not allowed to name any more kittens...
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Eigon
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When we had cats, we got the kittens from a friend who insisted on the TS Eliot method of naming - so three names, which he entered into the family history. The mother of our two had the everyday name of Mole, so the boys were surnamed MacMole (nobody knew who daddy had been, though he may have been a silver tabby. Grandad Imran Khan was a full Siamese). So our silver tabby was Cathcart-King Greebo MacMole (after an archaeologist who surveyed Welsh castles and Nanny Ogg's cat from Discworld - and cath is Welsh for cat) and the other was Kingston Blackmalkin MacMole (Kingston Black is a local cider apple and Blackmalkin is the helpful cat from The Midnight Folk). We had wanted a 'King' and a 'Queen' - Malkin's original name was Regan, until we found he was a little boy.
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ArachnidinElmet
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A Kitty of my former acquaintance was called Cooking Fat, so that its owners could express their displeasure at it in front of the children.
As a slightly more sensible suggestion, perhaps Frost for a silver cat?
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basso
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My mother named most of our family cats. We had Floyd ("such a pretty boy" - he was but that was about all he had going for himself), Jud ("pore Jud is daid" and he was all but that when he started hanging around the house), Tazzy (as in Tasmanian Devil, and an even greater waste of catflesh than the others). All of those cats were rescued from the street.
Mom's best name was for the all-white cat she got as a kitten during the Olympics one year. We were watching a lot of the running, and a real star of the year was the great Kenyan Kip Keino. So her white kitten was named Kit Keino. Years earlier we'd had an all-black cat that my sister named Pinky. (He had a pink tongue, natch.)
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by ArachnidinElmet:
A Kitty of my former acquaintance was called Cooking Fat, so that its owners could express their displeasure at it in front of the children.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) Okay, I'm slow on the uptake.
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St. Gwladys
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Thanks to evryone for their suggestions - we've finally decided to call the new kitten Solomon, which, apparently, is an Ethiopian name meaning "peaceful", according to the list of Ethiopian boy's names I found on the net. Let's hope he lives up to his name!
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