# Cute alert: I have a new kitten. Needs a name. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806 "2008-12-27T03:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/21 "2008-12-27T04:48:22Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > But now I’m off on a tangent: Genghis Khat? He’s a [drug fiend](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat) :eek:? Howabout [Hemingway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway_House)? ( note the first paragraph under “history” ) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/22 "2008-12-27T04:49:04Z")
Thumbkin to go with Pumpkin. Then he’d have a pre-written song all ready to go! The pitcher Antonio Alfonseca has polydactyly, so: Antonio! Or Alfonse/Alphonse. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/23 "2008-12-27T04:58:44Z")
Yogi Berra With hands that big, he would be natural born baseball catcher. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/24 "2008-12-27T04:59:07Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] That’s one I’ve been considering, yes – although I expanded it to “Tomtom Thumbthumb”. [/QUOTE] How about just Digit? Or sticking with the overall big feet theme, Yeti. Nine cats, huh? Bet you don’t have an unoccupied box or drawer in the place. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/25 "2008-12-27T05:03:17Z")
Or Sasquatch. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/26 "2008-12-27T05:09:27Z")
Darn you, **TVeblen,** beat me by a thumb! He totally says his name is Digit. Short for Digitus Impudicus–which is Latin for a middle finger salute! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/27 "2008-12-27T06:25:35Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Hmmmmmmmm… Norman was my father’s name. Doesn’t work, for a number of reasons. Now, let me look at some others… Ok, then I vote for Stanley. No reason other than it just popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/28 "2008-12-27T06:27:16Z")
Pollex? (From Latin for thumb) And holy cow, nine? How do they all get along? I’ve only got four and they’re always trying to do each other in. ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/29 "2008-12-27T06:39:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > That’s one I’ve been considering, yes – although I expanded it to “Tomtom Thumbthumb”. I gotta cast my vote for this one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/30 "2008-12-27T06:53:45Z")
I’ve had a pair of scars on my right palm for the past 20 years or there abouts. They’re from the teeth of a big gray tabby named Thomas (his owner said he liked to be petted, and remembered “oh, but not that hip” when he bit me). Thomas and I got along well except for that, and I think your little guy looks a lot like him. So yeah, I suggest Thomas. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/31 "2008-12-27T07:10:06Z")
Had a few cats. First names that come to mind are “Fuckhead” and “Asshole.” Had an acquaintance who lived in a Jewish neighborhood when “Fink” was an offensive name for Jews and he named his cat “Fink” so he could yell, “Hey, Fink, you stupid cat!” Seemed like a stupid name, and I was only nine. ---
**Author:** ![Jillyvn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Jillyvn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jillyvn)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/32 "2008-12-27T08:24:23Z")
WIth those paws, and those markings, he looks like he might have a bit of marble bengal in him? My cat, Izydor, looked exactly like that as a kitten. He’s now nine months old, and is HUGE… twice the size of his tabby brother, and he is a cross bengal/black cat of some sort. Obligatory pics (the most recent ones I have are of him playing fetch in the snow): [Snow Izzy 1](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-1.jpg) [Snow Izzy 2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-4.jpg) [Snow Izzy 3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-5.jpg) I throw my vote in for digit or pollox. I really like digit. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/33 "2008-12-27T08:25:47Z")
Hitch (gotta be a good hitchhiker with thumbs like that) Texter (and pretty fast with the SMS) Gene, Siskel, Roger or Ebert (he’ll aways rate it four thumbs up) ---
**Author:** ![Terraplane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Terraplane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terraplane)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/34 "2008-12-27T09:02:26Z")
He’s a polydactyl cat, which I always associate with Hemingway, and he probably is or will be neutered, so how about [Barnes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises)? Or maybe just Jake? ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/35 "2008-12-27T11:38:45Z")
I just want to say, a kitten with a nose that big and ears to match is going to be _huge_ when he grows up. HUGE I tell you. Trust me on this. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/36 "2008-12-27T11:50:50Z")
> [@Jillyvn](#): > > [Snow Izzy 1](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-1.jpg) > [Snow Izzy 2](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-4.jpg) > [Snow Izzy 3](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/Jillyvn/Snow%20Izzy/izydor-snow-5.jpg) See? I told you! Huge! That looks less like a housecat and more like a jaguar! ---
**Author:** ![conurepete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@conurepete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conurepete)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/37 "2008-12-27T12:21:06Z")
Name him Polly. I would. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/38 "2008-12-27T12:24:13Z")
He’s a Christmas kitten, so how about Santa Paws? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/39 "2008-12-27T12:53:20Z")
Yes, I’d say his infantile morphological characteristics and unskilled hunting moves make him “cute” to human eyes, as they would for almost any baby mammalian predator. If you don’t want to wait a while to get a better idea of his personality, I’d just call him Duster. Please don’t use a stupid cutesy pun or add “Mister” to his name. ---
**Author:** ![criminey.jicket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@criminey.jicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminey.jicket)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806/40 "2008-12-27T14:58:25Z")
My dad used to call really big feet ‘clod hoppers’, so my choice would be Claude. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cute-alert-i-have-a-new-kitten-needs-a-name/478806.md?page=3)