# Hello Kitty? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325 "2011-04-30T23:02:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/1 "2011-04-30T23:02:08Z")
I came home this afternoon after running errands, and there, sitting on my bed like he owned the place, was a grey tabby with white socks. Neither my 6 large dogs nor my four cats seem to think there’s anything strange about this. I’d left the window open while I was gone, without the screen, so my cats could sun themselves on the porch. I wasn’t expecting this! St ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/2 "2011-04-30T23:10:05Z")
What are you going to name him? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/3 "2011-04-30T23:11:13Z")
Mew! Hello Kitty sneaks in where least expected. Sanity departs. [Hello Kitty haiku thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278752). ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/4 "2011-05-01T01:30:14Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > What are you going to name him? 😛 > [@StGermain](#): > > I wasn’t expecting this! I suggest Torquemada. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/5 "2011-05-01T03:07:51Z")
Congratulations, you’ve been adopted! You have been found to be Worthy. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/6 "2011-05-01T04:58:01Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > I suggest Torquemada. No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! In that case, I’d be partial to “Cardinal Fang.” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/7 "2011-05-01T04:58:51Z")
So?? I the newcomer still hanging around? I predict a long and happy relationship… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/8 "2011-05-01T07:25:02Z")
I once had a cat that had rave parties in the middle of the night. If I happened to get up in the night, I had to turn on the hallway light to avoid stepping on one of 5 or 6 cats lying all along the carpet. They were always gone by morning, That cat’s name was Downtown Spot Brown. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/9 "2011-05-01T15:26:43Z")
He was apparently someone’s pet at one time. When I opened the tuna cans to make tuna sald for dinner, he jumped right up. Then fell in the sink full of dishwater!:eek: Then I didn’t see him for a while, and thought he moved on, but later, when I put the screen he, he was in the window pushing at the screen, trying to get in. I let him in, and after a few hisses from Sabrina and Nick, everything settled down. The kitty must’ve been dumped. I live about a 1/2 mile from my nearest neighbor, and they don’t have cats. StG ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-kitty/580325/10 "2011-05-01T15:47:16Z")
I once had an “English basement” apartment that had a swinging window at what was ground level outside. My streetwise cat was allowed out, and could return on his own by pushing through this window and jumping down to the bed below. I once returned to find he’d brought home a friend. I opened the door and got a split-second glimpse of two cats frolicking and chasing each other about. Then they both froze and turned to me with perfect “oh, busted!” looks. 😛 Stranger cat did the low zigzag dash for the door and was never seen again. By me.