Please name our new one-eyed kitten (PICS!!!)

In My Humble Opinion
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So about a month ago I went to throw away some toner cartridges in the work dumpster. I opened the lid and up popped a kitten head. She quickly buried herself in the dumpster, making it impossible for me to get her. I could tell something was wrong with her right eye, but couldn’t tell what. Since she was feral, I sort of let it go.

I go back to the dumpster three days later and THERE SHE IS AGAIN! My mom and I tried to go through the dumpster to catch her, but she jumped out and ran into the woods. I get very upset and call my FABULOUS veterinarian and ask if they have an animal trap that I could borrow. YES, they do! It’s one of the last things my vet’s dad gave him before he died, so I have to be extremely careful with it. So I set the trap up behind the dumpster with a can of wet food. It was supposed to be extremely cold that night AND it was supposed to pour the next day, so I was pretty stressed.

One of our vendors flew in to take Mom and I out that night so we went to dinner. When we were done saying our goodbyes I drove back to the office to check the trap. I GOT HER!!!

So my parents live close to the office and the vet (I live 30 minutes south) so I take the kitten in the trap to my parents and set her up with a towel, food and water in the cage and put her inside my parent’s garage where it would be warm. My mom took the kitten to the vet for me the next day (since I was off and 30 minutes south of there).

Vet calls me and says she’s FIV and FELV neg. The eye isn’t salvageable, but looks like it doesn’t need surgery, but it is infected. My husband and I already have two rescue cats, one elderly rescue dog and a young Electus Parrot, so I ask the vet if he will adopt the kitten out for me. He says he will, but that I need to foster her while she gets better before he can adopt her out.

Long story short, our 2 year old rescue boy cat has fallen madly in love with the kitten. They play all day and night and we can’t bear to seperate them now. So we hadn’t named her in an attempt to not get attached, but now we would like to name her before she goes in for her spay and surgery on her eye (at the same time). There’s too much tissue left in her eye and it stays infected, so it has to be operated on.

So please help us name our playful one eyed kitten! Our other pet names are St. Peter the Patron Saint of Chaos {PETEY}, Kitty <my last name here>, and Paget (the English Springer Spaniel). Her buddy is Petey.

Pics as promised: Kitten
Our Menagerie
Petey, her buddy

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Snake

Rooster

Hathaway

I got nothing

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Ha ha! I was thinking Hathaway, too! But she doesn’t look like a Hathaway to me.

How about Pirate?

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Wynken (winking). Then you’ll have to rename the others.

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:wink:
I used to have a gray tabby one-eyed cat! His name was Carmichael and he was the coolest cat!

We would let him out every evening and let him back in right before we all went to bed. One night, he tore into the house and ran right to my bedroom, where I had just laid down for sleep. He plopped himself on my chest and I somehow knew something was wrong. I wasn’t prepared for what I would discover once I turned on the lights. His left-eye was hanging out of by a bloody string! Apparently he had had a bad scuffle during his playtime, probably with a mean old dog. He lost the eye, but his one-eyedness made him very special.

Twelve years later and I still miss Carmichael sorely.

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You’ve got a Petey and a Paget, so how about a Polly? (Short for “Polyphelis”). Polly also has favorable pirate connotations, which seem appropriate under the circumstances. Aaaarrrrmewrrrrrr!

(Did I just participate non-sarcastically in a cat thread? Jesus christ, you people are warping my mind.)

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Cyla-short for Cyclops?

Or how about One-Eyed-Willa, and just call her Willa for short.

Maybe Anne Bonny?

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Oooh, I just thought of this right after I hit submit-are you a fan of Futurama? How about Leela then?

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Pixie?, my husband had a cat named Pooka, he says to name her precious… poppy? Pansy?? Prilla?? :confused:

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Winky?

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Another vote for Leela. She could be the worst Blernsball player ever!

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Leee-la! Leee-la!

We have a winner. You must name the cat Leela.

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Pokey.

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Peekaboo

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I your’re an X-Man fan, name her Callisto.

If you like sci-fi, there’s Honor Harrington ( she has her eyepatch in the middle bottom image ). You could just call her Honor, and people who know the series would get it, and those who don’t wouldn’t ask you what the name meant.

Or Leela. Outside of those three, I can’t think of more famous one eyed females offhand.

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Another Leela vote here.

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I really like Leela, but when I first saw her picture the name Halo came to me.

Thank you for rescuing a feral baby. In addition to love, you get bonus karma points for that.

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We had a one eyed cat when I was little, when I grew up and began to lean towards the literary I always wished we’d called her Pluto, after the cat from Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ - left one eyed by it’s drunk owner.

So I vote Pluto.

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Greeba ? As a feminine version of Greebo ? Greebi ? Greebette ? Gribea ?

How would one feminize Greebo ? ( And no, I wouldn’t suggest trying neutering . . . )

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Fans of Miles O’Keeffe’s Ator the Invincible films will no doubt also regard the name of Griba favorably, as will those who enjoyed his all-too-brief uncredited flashback appearance on Episode 301 of MST3K…

CROW: “–son of Throgmarr, Keeper of the Seven Keys of Fentoozler–”