# Name my new kitten!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 10, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099 "2007-08-10T02:58:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/41 "2007-08-11T14:17:38Z")
He looks like Vin Diesel to me. So either Vin or Diesel is my vote.
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### Author:  [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/42 "2007-08-11T16:38:32Z")
mrs essell says he looks like he’s called _“Silver”_
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/43 "2007-08-11T21:23:28Z")
I still like Spock, for the ears. 😃
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/44 "2007-08-11T21:31:23Z")
I’d call him Captain.
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/45 "2007-08-11T21:39:14Z")
Arthur, or Oscar. He’s a dignified fellow, though demonstrative.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/46 "2007-08-11T21:41:36Z")
Roy.
_Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes. . . ."_
Actually, that is about the most laid back, (nearly lethargic), cat I’ve seen in photos in a while.
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### Author:  [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/47 "2007-08-11T22:02:59Z")
I think he looks very dignified, I think he needs a name and a title.
His Fuzziness, Sir Edmund Willoughby.
Montgomery is cool, too.
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/48 "2007-08-11T22:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb]
Roy.
_Pardon me, Roy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes. . . ."_
Actually, that is about the most laid back, (nearly lethargic), cat I’ve seen in photos in a while.
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Believe me, that cat is rarely lethargic. If he was sitting still it was only because he had been running around a lot previously.
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/49 "2007-08-11T22:18:46Z")
Ok, Hermes or [Mercury](http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mercury.html) then, given his silvery fur? ETA: Or even Alipes, which was another name for Mercury?
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### Author:  [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/50 "2007-08-11T22:56:20Z")
Cecil. 😃
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/51 "2007-08-12T06:46:27Z")
It’s so hard to decide! There are so many good choices…
**tomndeb** , it’s incredibly difficult to take photos because he does not stop moving. It could be my verizon bill, a toy mouse, my shoe, or a nail file…he’s after it.
Here are some new pics.
[Attitude](http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7672/81007030largecl7.jpg)
[Closeup](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7558/81007028largeik0.jpg)
[Comfortable as only a cat can be](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8044/81007007largedt2.jpg)
[Where he as I type this…](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6279/81007038largexn5.jpg)
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### Author:  [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/52 "2007-08-12T16:22:26Z")
Awwww, kitty naps are so sweet!
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/53 "2007-08-12T16:27:56Z")
How about “Buford”?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/54 "2007-08-12T23:38:18Z")
Clarence.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/55 "2007-08-14T03:39:58Z")
With his striped legs, he looks a little like an [Okapi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi).
So call him O’Cappy. 🙂
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/56 "2007-08-14T13:39:25Z")
Oh my, I don’t have a name, but he is drop-dead gorgeous. And I bet he knows it!
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/57 "2007-08-16T19:43:23Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit]
Oh my, I don’t have a name
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Well, it’s never too late. What kind of personality do you have, and we can suggest something.
😛
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### Author:  [@HillKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HillKat)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/58 "2007-08-16T19:52:45Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV]
It’s so hard to decide! There are so many good choices…
**tomndeb** , it’s incredibly difficult to take photos because he does not stop moving. It could be my verizon bill, a toy mouse, my shoe, or a nail file…he’s after it.
Here are some new pics.
[Attitude](http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/7672/81007030largecl7.jpg)
[Closeup](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7558/81007028largeik0.jpg)
[Comfortable as only a cat can be](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/8044/81007007largedt2.jpg)
[Where he as I type this…](http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6279/81007038largexn5.jpg)
[/QUOTE]
From the first pic, how about Cattitude, maybe 'tude for short?
He isn’t, by any chance, a pixbob is he? (Part domestic, part bobcat). The ones I’ve see have exactly that marking/coloring pattern.
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### Author:  [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/59 "2007-08-17T19:43:12Z")
Yikes! I’d sort of forgotten this thread…
I’ve decided to call the little guy **Wile E. Lynx**. Thanks to \*\*snakescatlady \*\* and **dottygumdrop**! I was pushing hard for \*\*gigi’s \*\* Muffle because it’s so darn unique, but…
He constantly stalks his furry mice, scratches the bark off my corn plant, and hides behind my chairs to leap out and ‘surprise’ me as I walk past. Definitely a wildcat at heart.
He’s wicked loving still…perfectly content to lay his head and paws on my arm as I surf the Dope at home. When I wake up in the morning, he meows his little heart out, glad to see me. And I know it’s not cause he’s hungry!
I’ll post more pictures later tonight…his kitty condo just arrived today and I’m dying to see how he takes to it!
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-my-new-kitten/415099/60 "2007-08-17T21:03:02Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV]
Yikes! I’d sort of forgotten this thread…
I’ve decided to call the little guy **Wile E. Lynx**. Thanks to \*\*snakescatlady \*\* and **dottygumdrop**! …
[/QUOTE]
Wile E!? _sniff_ I’m honored. _sniffle_ I think I’m getting a little verklempt again.
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