# Our new kitties need names! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435 "2009-06-21T01:36:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/21 "2009-06-22T20:29:38Z")
Cute little stripey kitties! Squeeeee! My Luna has tabby patches, and sometimes I call her my stripey monster. You can call them your stripey monsters if you want. ---
**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/22 "2009-06-22T20:31:08Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Well, we have 2 new kittens. We were expecting to get one, but when we went to the shelter, the gray female “adopted” my wife, and the orange male “adopted” me. > > We need to work on names! The shelter is in the town of Melbourne, so I thought we might go with Australian names - but we are not locked into that theme. The male is about 8 weeks old, and the female is about 10 weeks - so they are not related and the names don’t have to match. > > The felines in question: > [Awwwww!](http://picasaweb.google.com/rocketsurgerysdmb/NewKitties?feat=directlink) I’d name the male D-O-G, and the female Princess Priscella Jellywompkins. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/23 "2009-06-22T20:43:30Z")
When I was a young pup, me and my roomates adopted a similar-looking pair of felines (an orange male and a gray & white females). They were christened Alley and Oop. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/24 "2009-06-22T22:00:15Z")
Mel and Jason (Bourne) > [@notfrommensa](#): > > He looks to have the same face as one of the evil gremlins in that Speilberg flick. My friend had a mostly-black one of them, which she did name Gremlyn. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/25 "2009-06-23T02:10:30Z")
You should name them after the greates Aussie soap, “Prisoner” ("Prisoner: Cell Block H). You could name them Wentworth, after the prison or Vera Bennett or Joan Ferguson, after the “bad” prison guards. Aussie cities, Perth and Darwin are good. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/26 "2009-06-23T02:25:01Z")
If I could have a kitty, I’d name it [Merkin](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/743/what-is-a-merkin). ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/27 "2009-06-23T03:02:18Z")
I always thought cats couldn’t be both orange and male? Something weird about the genetics - I don’t quite recall. . . ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/28 "2009-06-23T03:15:16Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I always thought cats couldn’t be both orange and male? Something weird about the genetics - I don’t quite recall. . . Orange cats are something like three times as likely to be male as female, IIRC. It’s tortoiseshells that are almost always female. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/29 "2009-06-23T13:56:10Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > You should name them after the greates Aussie soap, “Prisoner” ("Prisoner: Cell Block H). > > You could name them Wentworth, after the prison or Vera Bennett or Joan Ferguson, after the “bad” prison guards. > > Aussie cities, Perth and Darwin are good. Huh, and Wentworth Miller is on \*\*Prison Break \*\*in the US. Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/30 "2009-06-23T14:21:21Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I always thought cats couldn’t be both orange and male? Something weird about the genetics - I don’t quite recall. . . The gene for orange coloring is on the X chromosome. There’s also a gene for black coloring that can appear on the X chromosome, but generally not on the same X chromosome as the one for orange. Female cats need both X chromosomes to have the orange gene to be orange, while male cats need only one. A female with one orange gene and one black gene is a tortoiseshell or calico, not pure orange. Tortoiseshell or calico male cats are rare- if you see a tortoiseshell or calico cat, something like 999 times out of 1000 it will be a female. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/31 "2009-06-23T19:53:10Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > I’d name the male D-O-G, and the female Princess Priscella Jellywompkins. When I was a cashier, I always asked cat food-buyers the names of their kitties. This would have made my day. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/32 "2009-06-23T19:57:54Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > I’d name the male D-O-G, and the female Princess Priscella Jellywompkins. That’s funny, I’d name the female D-O-G, and the male Princess Priscella Jellywompkins. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/33 "2009-06-23T20:09:51Z")
“Fry” is sticking, but “Laurie” is hinting that her name is something else. So, keep up the ideas! We’re particularly open to other Futurama references. She’s not Leela or Amy, and my wife didn’t go for “Snu-snu”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/34 "2009-06-23T22:25:39Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > The gene for orange coloring is on the X chromosome. There’s also a gene for black coloring that can appear on the X chromosome, but generally not on the same X chromosome as the one for orange. Female cats need both X chromosomes to have the orange gene to be orange, while male cats need only one. A female with one orange gene and one black gene is a tortoiseshell or calico, not pure orange. Tortoiseshell or calico male cats are rare- if you see a tortoiseshell or calico cat, something like 999 times out of 1000 it will be a female. And when they do appear, they’re generally sterile chimeras. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/35 "2009-06-23T23:21:51Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > “Fry” is sticking, but “Laurie” is hinting that her name is something else. So, keep up the ideas! > > We’re particularly open to other Futurama references. She’s not Leela or Amy, and my wife didn’t go for “Snu-snu”. 😉 Maybe LaBarbara? Or Roca, after the countess? ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/36 "2009-06-23T23:34:30Z")
You don’t need to call them anything. They’re not going to come anyway. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/37 "2009-06-23T23:51:40Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > “Fry” is sticking, but “Laurie” is hinting that her name is something else. So, keep up the ideas! > > We’re particularly open to other Futurama references. She’s not Leela or Amy, and my wife didn’t go for “Snu-snu”. 😉 Fry? Fry and Lois? Fry and Fondue? Fish and Fry? Fry and Chicken? Fry and Egg? ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/38 "2009-06-23T23:58:52Z")
> [@BigNik](#): > > You don’t need to call them anything. They’re not going to come anyway. My cats consistently come when I call them, providing that I don’t call them when they’re eating, using the litter box, sleeping, or getting petted by someone else. They come running because they know that I will at least pet them, and it’s entirely possible that I am handing out kitty treats. They all know their names, too. I’ve never really had to name a cat. I always just waited until the cat let me know what its name is. And, of course, the kitties in question are adorable. ---
**Author:** ![Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@Eugene\_of\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eugene_of_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/39 "2009-06-24T00:30:18Z")
Please anyone name their kitty “Pilgrim” after the absolutely most damndest cat I’ve ever known. Ran over by a meter reader at an advanced age. Pilgrim was like a dog but he was a cat. Faithful friend. I never knew cats could be that cool until I had Pilgrim. He was named after a line from a John Wayne film but Pilgrim wound up being as such, living on a couple of different continents and several states. He was my mister chee chow. Damn fine animal. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-new-kitties-need-names/500435/40 "2009-06-24T00:33:07Z")
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