# Daring highway kitten rescue! Footage inside. (Also, we need a kitty name...) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508 "2008-07-14T22:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/21 "2008-07-15T00:29:36Z")
Since she was in the engine, how about [FOD](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage)? ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/22 "2008-07-15T00:30:27Z")
Oh, she looks like velvet! (Velvet! Awesome kitty name!) She looks a bit like a cat I used to have. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/23 "2008-07-15T00:32:19Z")
Jaguar, of course! ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/24 "2008-07-15T00:41:34Z")
Good on you for your quick thinking and kind heart! I had a grey cat once, and her name was Fog. I’m also a fan of Gaelic. Ceo (pronounced “kyoh”) is fog in Gaelic. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/25 "2008-07-15T00:52:57Z")
I like Serendipity, Sera for short maybe. I’m hesitant to call her Miracle and Mira for short because my other cat’s name is Mara. By the way, they are not excited to meet eachother. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/26 "2008-07-15T00:56:57Z")
Lilth is classy, although she was Adam’s first wife who killed her children. It has a certain cat sound to it. Milagro is also cool. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/27 "2008-07-15T00:58:53Z")
She is very, very sweet by the way. Very affectionate, likes cuddling very close to me. She is currently sitting on my chest while I lay on the couch. Does the cute kitty head bump. Still need to get her to the vet for some deworming and ear mite medicine. She lets me pick at her and groom her, pick out fleas and ear mites and stuff. Gosh, she’s so lovable. It makes me sick to think of what might have happened if I someone hadn’t found her. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/28 "2008-07-15T01:04:11Z")
What model Toyota? (Camry might make a good name.) Given her aptitude (or beginner’s luck) for crossing multi-lanes of pavement, how 'bout “Frogger”? ---
**Author:** ![badkittypriestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8baadc/32.png) [@badkittypriestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badkittypriestess)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/29 "2008-07-15T01:05:23Z")
My youngest and I had a sqeeeeee fest at baby kitty pics! 3 cheers for saving her!!! I go now and scritch the ears of my two kittehs if I can find them 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/30 "2008-07-15T01:10:41Z")
She is pretty. I like the little steak on the forehead. There’s some cat like thing in an anime with a diamond shape on it’s forehead but I’m blanking on the name and the anime I saw it in. Although it’s not exactly a diamond shape on her that’s the image that popped into my head when I saw her. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/31 "2008-07-15T01:17:30Z")
She’s adorable, and that was one awesome tale of derring-do. Glad it had a happy ending! She looks like this other cat I wanted to adopt (someone else got to her first though) - I’d already named her Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke in my head. I’d call her Sidney for short. (My current cat came with the name Olive, which suited her so well I just kept it.) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/32 "2008-07-15T01:20:56Z")
She’s beautiful! I don’t have any name ideas right now, but I just wanted to say that you’re my hero for taking the time and effort to rescue her. I’m a sucker for rescued kitty stories with happy endings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/33 "2008-07-15T01:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] I like the little steak on the forehead. [/QUOTE] What is the term for a mark that bleeds through on a painting? Impegio, impegmato, pegamento… ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/34 "2008-07-15T01:40:30Z")
Oh she’s _gorgeous_. Such a hero! You must give her a good name. Yasmin? Suri? Oh, how about [Bindi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindi_%28decoration%29)? Because of the mark on her forehead? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/35 "2008-07-15T01:42:55Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] What is the term for a mark that bleeds through on a painting? [/QUOTE] [Pentimento.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimento) Apparently something that was painted over marking the “new” painting. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/36 "2008-07-15T01:47:23Z")
[Kirara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirara). Search for images for the cuter kitten form. The color isn’t right though but it’s a nice name. ---
**Author:** ![Penchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Penchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penchan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/37 "2008-07-15T01:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] She is pretty. I like the little steak on the forehead. There’s some cat like thing in an anime with a diamond shape on it’s forehead but I’m blanking on the name and the anime I saw it in. Although it’s not exactly a diamond shape on her that’s the image that popped into my head when I saw her. [/QUOTE] RyoOhki. Good on you for rescuing the itty bitty kitty! ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/38 "2008-07-15T02:05:27Z")
A lot of the names above are great; take your pick. But you have to wonder what the cat was thinking as it started to cross the highway, and in the succeeding moments. “What kind of world have I entered into? Will life continue like this? Do I have to live in the engine compartment of an automobile forever? Why is this human pursuing me? (I have enough problems as it is.) Who cares about fleas? At least my whiskers aren’t burning anymore. You can call me whatever you want. Even “Cat” will be fine. As long as I don’t have to live in the engine compartment of your car.” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/39 "2008-07-15T02:15:50Z")
The engineering term to work, i.e., be stressed under heat and vibration such as under the hood of a car is to"dither". ---
**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:** [July 15, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508/40 "2008-07-15T02:31:15Z")
She’s so lucky to have found you, and you her! Brava! How about naming her [Ubasti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubasti), or just plain Bast, for the Egyptian goddess of cats? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daring-highway-kitten-rescue-footage-inside-also-we-need-a-kitty-name/456508.md?page=3)