I want you to have five and name them Pestilence, Famine, War, Plague, and Scooterpie. But just using one of these wouldn’t do at all, obviously.
“Damn” is a pretty good name for a cat. Sometimes it just happens naturally.
We just lost a cat named “Mouse” this last summer. I offer the name with my blessings. Mouse was a stray who was caring for three kittens in the woods. She had an eye out, hanging by the nerve on her cheek, the socket infected, and yet she took good care of her kittens. A fellow we knew found her and got her eye fixed (it actually went back into the socket, though it always looked wrong and we’re not sure it worked). We adopted her and found good homes for the kittens. The fellow who gave her to us told us she’d only eat mice, not cat food, and he gave us a big bloody bag of dead ones. When we got her home and she found the cat food, she started hammering her head into the bowl, trying to eat it all at once. We never gave her another mouse. But of course we had to name her “Mouse”.
Mau. It’s an Egyptian word for cat, a breed of cat from Egypt, and sounds like the sounds a cat makes so your kitten will know you’re talking to it. Can’t go wrong there.
Cats like Y or I or long E sounds, like “kitty”. Musical sounds. Here are several things that came to mind.
Slink
Ssur
Shush
Swish
Swoop
Foop (As in the Spoonerism Swell Foop, instead of Fell Swoop.)
Zip
Zap
Zing
Swing
Pit
Pat
Drop
Flick
Whisk
Blink
Glint
Gleam
Tip
Foom
Whoosh
Ow
Murr? Prrt? (These are two “conversational” sounds that cats often make when interacting with those they consider equals.)
Quirk (As in what they do with their whiskers, tails, and ears.)
Why? (If it’s nosy, or inquisitive)
Spark
Sheen
Spook
Glow
Wink
Stripe, Zig, or Zag (If it’s tabby)
Kit maybe?
Show us a picture, we’ll better be able to come up with names. Tell us what it’s personality is like too, please?
It’s two syllables, but we’ve named the little kitty we rescued this fall “Rhiow” (Pronounced RRhee-ow!) because as I was looking her over to see what she needed, that’s all she would say. It also comes from the novel titled “The Book of Night With Moon”
Poor little thing, she nearly died due to the number of fleas on her. We gave her a bath, got rid of most of the fleas, fed her, gave her plenty of water, and wormed her. She’s much better now. (We used a mixture of a gentle shampoo and rubbing alcohol on her, being VERY careful not to get it in her mouth, nose, ears or eyes. She was so young, and so tiny we didn’t dare risk the other kind of cat flea shampoo.)
Sorry to forgo your second criterion, but if you take a look at a network cable, you can’t help (or I can’t, at any rate) considering naming the kitten “Five”
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