# Help name this black-and-white cat! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541 "2010-12-01T15:15:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/61 "2010-12-03T02:58:07Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Sorry but if he came with a name that is his name. Oh you can call him Percy or Skeelers or whatever you like but God knows his name is Kittyman and that is what it really is. > > So don’t try to change him, love him, he loves you 😃 I agree. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/62 "2010-12-03T03:26:51Z")
I have successfully changed my cat Max’s name from Gadget to Max, but then what sort of name is Gadget? I had a cat like the OP’s once and his name, he told me, was Boots. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/63 "2010-12-03T04:06:42Z")
Since he’s a Thanksgiving cat, how about Turk? (Turkeycat) Or Tuck? (Tuxedocat) How about Shad? (Shadowcat) A neighbor of mine used to have a cat with a name that sounded like Siayti. I commented on the unusual name, and she laughed and said it was actually C-A-T spelled out, since they couldn’t think of a name for him, and it just kinda stuck. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/64 "2010-12-03T04:34:18Z")
**Jester** **Quinn** , short for Harlequin. ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/65 "2010-12-03T04:40:13Z")
How about beef boat. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/66 "2010-12-03T04:51:38Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > After Marcel Ledbetter, of chain saw and beer joint fame? 😃 Haw! That’s only in Yazoo City. (Dear bleeding Jesus, you can take the girl out of the country, but…why do I even know that anymore??) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/67 "2010-12-03T07:12:20Z")
Holy cow, that cat looks just like my cat Domino. But Zorro’s good, too. Or Guido. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/68 "2010-12-03T07:19:38Z")
Bustopher. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/69 "2010-12-03T08:39:22Z")
Tennessee As in _Tennessee Tuxedo_. Or Domino, like my last B&W kitty. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/70 "2010-12-03T08:48:45Z")
**Brunhilde** ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/71 "2010-12-09T14:59:00Z")
I need closure. Paging **appleciders**! What did you name _le chat_? Oswald Cobblepot! Oswald Cobblepot! ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/72 "2010-12-09T15:47:41Z")
Fido or Bowser or Spike ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/73 "2010-12-09T17:29:35Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > _Snort_ > > I, for one, vote for Michael. Or MJ. Or Emjay. Or **notfrommensa** winning the thread. My new favorite poster on the SDMB. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/74 "2010-12-09T17:34:11Z")
Can’t open the photos from work. But being black and white, how does “Ascot” work? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/75 "2010-12-09T17:55:11Z")
**Obama** ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/76 "2010-12-11T13:48:32Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I need closure. Paging **appleciders**! What did you name _le chat_? > > Oswald Cobblepot! Oswald Cobblepot! He has become “Pirate”. A little uninventive, I think, but it’s my parents’ cat, not mine. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/77 "2010-12-11T14:39:46Z")
Since the decision has been made, I just came in to add…SQUEEEEEEEEE! Very handsome kitteh! ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/78 "2010-12-12T03:19:08Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > He’s a tuxedo kitty, so you could figure out a famous tuxedo wearing handsome fellow. Tennessee ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/79 "2010-12-12T03:54:18Z")
I always wanted to name a cat Mousey Tongue (ala Mao Tse-tung) because mao is also the Chinese word for cat. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-name-this-black-and-white-cat/562541/80 "2010-12-12T03:59:36Z")
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