# Help me name my new kitten **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 24, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376 "2000-09-24T17:21:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/41 "2000-09-25T16:08:46Z")
The comic strip _Mr. Boffo_ had the perfect name for a cat. He called the cat “Dog Meat.” ---
**Author:** ![mojopitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@mojopitch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojopitch)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/42 "2000-09-25T16:44:02Z")
I named my cat, Sigmund Floyd. My brothers and I called him Floyd while my mother opted for the more luvable, “Siggy” ---
**Author:** ![Saysha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Saysha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saysha)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/43 "2000-09-25T17:10:49Z")
Piwacket, or however you would spell it. It was a cat in a movie… Bedknobs and brooksticks, was it? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/44 "2000-09-25T17:58:32Z")
(I regret the association of the work the following quote is taken from with a recent, now defunct, musical. nonetheless it makes a good point…) “The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your hoiday games” Oh c’mon. How can you name a cat you don’t really know yet? You have to live with her while. then maybe se’ll tell you what it is. “When you notice a cat in profound meditation Te reason I tell you is always the same. His mind is engaged in rapt contemplation of the thought, of the thought, of the thoughtof his name His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.” ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/45 "2000-09-25T19:08:16Z")
C’mon what we really need is a piccy of the cuty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/46 "2000-09-25T19:23:08Z")
My cat is named Tybalt. Tybalt is Juliette’s cousin in R & J and he is refered to as the Prince of Cats. But that is a boy name. A girl cat… Selina Kyle Quit Bitting my foot! Mrs. Bumbleshoots Not on my shirt! Emma or just… NO! ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/47 "2000-09-25T23:12:02Z")
_Miss Peepers_ says hello to you all and thanks so much for all the clever suggestions. _meow_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/48 "2000-09-26T00:41:07Z")
Liverwurst Killjoy Pixote ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/49 "2000-09-26T00:44:31Z")
Scheisskopf. It’s German for “smart kitty.” 🙂 ---
**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:** [September 26, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/50 "2000-09-26T00:54:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rysdad \* > \*\*Scheisskopf. It’s German for “smart kitty.” 🙂 \*\* I’ll help you give aha a hard time, but not an innocent kitten! It means “excretement head”. But, aha, on you next trip to Mexico remember that “Su Madre” means “Good evening, Officer.” ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376/51 "2000-09-26T01:39:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > **Koshka-Russian for “cat”.** Interesting. I was going to suggest a name I gave a kitten many years ago: **Koshi**. It’s a slurring of the Hopi word **kokshi** for “It is good.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-new-kitten/34376.md?page=2)