How about Claude or Tiger?
I think we might have settled on a name: Birth Control.
We could call him BC for short and if we ever have kids we can tell people it stands for Bengal Cat :D.
I’ll keep you guys posted.
It will also be perfect for those times when widdle kitty gets on your nerves:
Bastard Cat!
Birth Control is for those times he gets on our nerves 
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I’ve never bathed a cat in my life, so that hadn’t occurred to me. 
Is it too late to put in a vote for Quibble?
In further news, my PITA black cat has been HOWLING for two days straight. No, he’s not in any pain or physical discomfort that I can tell, he lets me pick him up and pet him and palpate his belly and such. He’s just howling his little head off for no apparent reason. If anyone figures out how to stop the insanity, let me know.
Well, he just shit on me when I told him to shush, so I’m guessing he doesn’t like that.
Your list in the OP is similar to the thought process that we went through in naming our kitten many years back.
Using free association was Cosmo - became Cosmos - which was a book written by Carl Sagan.
Sagan was the epiphany that we were both waiting for. I had never heard of it as a pet name before, but it fit her perfectly.
That’s funny because we thought of naming him Carl for the exact same reason! :eek:
Great minds think alike I guess 
That is why you are still alive.
That’s really funny. We name our cats after people. Orson for Orson Welles. Dickens for Charles Dickens. Albert for Albert Einstein.
When we got a new kitten, we considered “Carl” but didn’t like that name for her. We considered “Sagan.” Then my husband suggested Cosmos. And then we hit on Cosmo. She’s named after Carl Sagan, just not in a completely direct way.
It finally got to this point and then I couldn’t find any of my squirt guns (believe it or not, I have about 5 of them. Yea, I’m still a big time kid at heart :)) so I tried a can of that canned air stuff.
Whoooooooo was that ever a mistake. Kitty is now scared of:
-The couch
-His favorite toy
-The canned air bottle
-My girlfriend
-Me
And he still screams just as much.
Berty Squirtbum.
:eek: Don’t you know that’s *Devil in a Can * to cats?
You’ve done all you can. I’m afraid you’re just going to have to pass the lil’ cutey - I mean PITA - on or else you’ll be driven mad.
Tell you what. Since I already am, I’ll be quite happy to take the BC off your hands.
What? I’m just trying to preserve your sanity, honest!
At this point I can’t really imagine us keeping the kitten. Everything about his behavior tells me that this is not just a phase but a habit he picked up and something he likes doing.
Everybody I talk to on the phone is shocked. The vet was dumbfounded. You really can’t imagine how bad it is until you hear it.
He WON’T. STOP. SCREAMING.
Whew! I thought you might’ve been thinking something else!
I’m going to try a watergun tomorrow, but honestly I don’t see it working any better than the can of air.
Since he never stops screaming he doesn’t realize that scream = shot of canned air. He just runs away and keeps screaming, and then I feel like an asshole for chasing him around shooting air at him.
I talked to the breeder today and all she said was “yea, the males are pretty vocal.” Listen lady, first of all this isn’t “pretty vocal.” This is non-stop screaming bloody murder like he’s got his foot caught in a beartrap. Second of all, if you knew they were so damn noisy then why didn’t you say something when I told you how concerned I was about an overly vocal cat several weeks ago?
Yikes, Cisco, will the breeder take the kitten back?
I’m sorry you’re having such problems with the little kittums. I’ve owned a Siamese cat before. She was loud, but not a screamer. I did have a parrot that was a screamer though. Made me want to pound spikes into my ears.
Best wishes–
The purring isn’t necessarily a sign of enjoyment. Cats purr for all kinds of reasons (happiness, fear, pain…). The best way to look at purring is that it’s a self-comforting thing.
As for the screaming. Man, I have no clue. We get very few pedigree cats in rescue, and I think we might have had a bengal mix or two, but none that screamed. Has he been neutered yet? If he hasn’t, maybe that will help.
Also, you’re local (to me, I mean), so I have a second suggestion to make. If you’re willing (and I don’t know what the cost is) to try to work through this issue, I can recommend and excellent pet behaviorist. I don’t know how she’d feel about having her name and number posted on the internet, but if you’re interested, shoot me an e-mail (mauvaise at cox dot net) and I’ll hook you up. She works with private parties and with several well-known shelter groups in the Valley.