I was walking by the shelter and in the window was a sweet baby calico. I have wanted a calico for years and years, and Caddie. my lone kitty, gets very lonely when I go on vacation, so I think a friend will help. So I got a new baby kitty and now I need a name!
(Caddie is a bit dubious about the kitten now. She was fine until she realized “Hey, this kitten is staying? In MY house?” So she is doing a little hissing and poking of paws under the door. The kitten is staying in the bathroom until I’m sure she didn’t pick anything up at the shelter, so they will have time to adjust. I hope they will get along; the new kitten is a little darling.)
Now I need some name ideas. Personality-wise, she is very playful and affectionate, as most kittens are, though she’ll take a little bit to warm up to you before she will purr. I’d like a art/color/computer graphics related name that relates to her coloring (though mythical/fictional character names are also a possibility). Caddie, my other cat, is named Cadmium because that produces the red/yellow/orange pigments and that’s what her fur has. I’d also like a name that can be shortened to a female-sounding nickname. My thoughts so far.
Pixel aka Pixie–good but maybe overused?
Seurat aka Suri–Doesn’t ring my bell
Tritone aka Toni–mm, Toni reminds me of a girl in High School who was a bit of a snob
There was also a painting I thought of when I saw her, of a impressionist piece, fairly well known, of a seated girl with an off the shoulder white dress looking at a calico cat colored much the same as my kitten, and the cat is done in a very thick impasto while the girl is painted very delicately and thinly. But I can’t find the painting! Perhaps the artist would make a good name for the kitten.
It’s weird, but my family used to have the best cat in the world. She was a calico, too, and everyone called her Toad. I think her real name was Patchwork, but it was too bad, she was a Toad. If your kitty is half as good a cat as Toad, she could be a Toad too (even if the name’s a little weird).
I go for offbeat cat names - I’m saving up Kunkles and Niblet for the next cats I get, but you can use them if you like. My parent’s calico (that I named, and that I stole my moniker from) is Snickers. You know, 'cuz she’s Snicker-colored, chocolate and nougat and peanut.
My friend has an old eccentric uncle who names every cat he’s ever owned “Calico”. The current Calico is male and decidedly not calico. But it’d fit your kitten!
If she’s anything like my calico, Honey, “Bitchy” will be a good name in a few years.
That cat grew quite the attitude. The vet said calicos are prone to that (Siamese, too).
Well, Chloe was the first name to come ot me. How about Motley, (but I wouldn’t know a nickname, except perhaps Molly?) or Kaleidoscope (nickname Kalli?) Iris, (as in Rainbow), or Polychrome (nickname Poly)?
Is this the painting you were thinking of? It’s called Girl and Cat by Renoir.
Rennie could work. Now I’m pretty sure we could get the kitty to pose like that but getting you to wear that outfit and recreate the painting might take some work;)
