# My son named our new kitten. Oh god. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112 "2000-12-12T00:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/21 "2000-12-12T08:45:36Z")
Very Cute. However, I really do think "Oh God’ is gonna be a tough name to call him with. 😃 Mine are : Dove (maine coon), Rajah, & Sirdar (_bengals_) ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/22 "2000-12-12T08:47:39Z")
It looks like your kid is trying to suffocate that cat. The kitty is cute 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/23 "2000-12-12T11:41:02Z")
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 _warm fuzzies_ Thanks Opal. Rough day but that makes it better. Cool name too btw. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/24 "2000-12-12T12:26:16Z")
Oooooooooh…now **I** want a kitten too… ☹ jr8 “Kitten: small homicidal muffin on legs; affects human sensibilities to the point of endowing the most wanton and ruthless acts of destruction with near-mythical overtones of cuteness. Not recommended for beginners. Get at least two.” – strata@psyche.mit.edu ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/25 "2000-12-12T13:42:06Z")
My parents let me name my beagle as a kid. ::sniff:: I sure miss Peppy Lou. Too bad I didn’t think of Mr. Tornado Sweaty Guy! You can call him Mr. TSG and let people wonder… ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/26 "2000-12-12T13:54:02Z")
Cute kitty – cuter kid. > [@](#): > > Kids can think up the coolest names before they get those filters that adults have. So true! When my daughter was three, she got two dolls for christmas. She named the boy doll, Pootie, and the girl, Sadie-Bob. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/27 "2000-12-12T14:37:50Z")
Actually, I’ve found that the name the cat is supposed to have always comes to the surface. I tried naming my former kitty Thunder, but it just didn’t work, so she became Fuzzy. Is Tornado camera shy? No pics of him looking right at the camera? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sasquatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/28 "2000-12-12T15:11:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > \*\*[http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado3.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado3.jpg) - with Nicky > [http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado4.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado4.jpg) - with my husband > [http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado5.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado5.jpg) - solo > [http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado6.jpg](http://fathom.org/opalcat/livejournal/tornado6.jpg) - in a towel blankie > > \*\* Your cat = cute Your son = cute Your husband = Satan That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/29 "2000-12-12T15:33:34Z")
Awwwwww! Cute picture! Mr. Tornado Sweaty Guy… Well, if nothing else the kids definatly got a future in a Japanese advertizing firm naming fortified softdrinks. I’m afraid to ask what your retriever is named… ---
**Author:** ![LazarusLong42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LazarusLong42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LazarusLong42)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/30 "2000-12-12T15:41:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hedra \* > \*\*What amazing eyes your son has! Absolutely beautiful. > > And I like both Tornado and Sweaty Guy as names, actually. Some real characters of cats show up that way… > > Shovel Head. > > Crocodile Dunderhead. > > PoorHungryKitty. > > Cthulu (stray who announced hunger by knawing on human toes) > > My mom always named the cats, but we NICKNAMED them. Mergatroid Kitty Sprockets was my favorite. Though “Nit” usually worked, too.\*\* Some of the best cat names came from Heinlein’s _To Sail Beyond the Sunset_: Princess Polly Ponderosa Penelope Peachfuzz Random Numbers Captain Blood (And don’t forget Pixel, who still doesn’t understand that walls are solid.) LL ---
**Author:** ![Pyrrho12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@Pyrrho12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyrrho12)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/31 "2000-12-12T15:48:51Z")
Awwwww! I love black cats! Your kitten is so cute! I wish I could have a cat…☹ I just got some rabbit kittens myself. Been living on my own for a few years, and I miss the pets in my parent’s home. My first choice was a dog, but I work too long in the day to properly look after a puppy. Second choice was a cat, but the SO is afraid of them and I’m allergic. So, I got a pair of rabbits. Their names are Emu and Kiki. Their nicknames are Ddongjengi and Kongju Byung, meaning “She who craps a lot” and “Princess Complex”. They’re very cute and have endeared themselves to me with their ability to rearrange the furniture for nefarious purposes. Anyhow… cute kitten. And cute name. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/32 "2000-12-12T15:57:50Z")
I already have names picked out for my next cat: Gypsy, if it’s a girl Crow, if it’s a boy MST3K-of course! It’ll probably be female, though. My mom won’t get a male. My late, beautiful Fluffy was named when I was six…I STILL miss her…I know I bring it up all the time, but it’s so fucking hard… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Danimal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Danimal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danimal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/33 "2000-12-12T17:18:00Z")
All cats have the same name: “Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…” (which is about the best written description of the sound of an electric can-opener) When called by that name, they invariably come. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/34 "2000-12-12T17:47:49Z")
TOO CUTE!! now I miss my cats…going home in less than a week, though! Since people are sharing, my cats are Midnight(yes, she’s black) and Levis (a tradition continued by a dog named Nike…though unfortunately he passed away when he was 2 1/2 ☹ ). The new dog is Sully, whose favorite play-toy happens to be Levis… :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/35 "2000-12-12T21:07:05Z")
Our other animals: kitties: Ding Kaia Claude doggy: Sparky (though his “full name” for his papers is “Golden Sparcules of that ilk”) ---
**Author:** ![caircair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@caircair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caircair)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/36 "2000-12-12T21:45:12Z")
Congratulations on the new family member! Since this thread has turned into “weird names we gave our cats” may I share: Genius: Personality of a barracuda. Fairly bright, though. Sassers (short for Sasquatch): “The brainless wonder” Lucky: All black. Named for the original “Morris”, whose real name was Lucky. Trooper: a big gold tabby, personality of a sofa pillow. Misha: named after dancer Mikhael Barishnikov. Had the ability to leap and hover in mid air for a moment before touching ground. Also had the bluest eyes of any cat I’ve ever known. And finally: George, the 20 year old Himalayan/Siamese mix. Named George because my sister refused to let us name him anything oriental (my choice: Ko-ko or Suki) while my mom refused to let them name him “Meatball Chickenlips”. So Tornado is in good company! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/37 "2000-12-12T23:04:24Z")
my uncle named his cat ‘The Little Reverand’ after a character in the tv show, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman I have no idea why. I named my border collie mutt ‘Prozac’ when he was a puppy, because he was an excellent antidepressant. I have an alleged Min Pin, named Lilly, for no apparent reason. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Creant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Miss\_Creant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Creant)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/38 "2000-12-12T23:06:32Z")
BTW, I call him Zac and only use the full name when he gets in trouble. And he still is a great antidepressant. I inadvertantly used the past tense in that first post ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/39 "2000-12-12T23:18:20Z")
Everyone knows that weird names are the best kind! I haven’t had enough pets to name strangely: Cats I’ve had: Tippy, Muffin, Puff, Tigger Dog I have now: Max Hermit Crabs I’ve owned: Felix, Woody Cute kitty and adorable son, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![wyldelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4491bb/32.png) [@wyldelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wyldelf)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112/40 "2000-12-12T23:51:05Z")
Wow - what an awesome name for a cat!! It is fantastic that your adorable son has such a great imagination. We used to have a cat that started out being called Nibbles (cause it was just so tiny) and then progressed to Little Lunch, Big Lunch and then was finally named Banquet as it grew into a huge ginger tom cat. Anyways - beautiful cat and beautiful son. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-son-named-our-new-kitten-oh-god/45112.md?page=3)