Great Cat Names And Their Origin (BUT...whatever happened to 'Pyewacket')

[Atlas Mugged]

I used to know so many cats named 'Pyewacket', which is taken from the book and 1958 movie 'Bell, Book & Candle'. Obviously, the film isn't seen very much anymore, but it's still a great cat name; and since no one uses it much anymore, it's up for grabs.

Mine are:

Huey - yes Huey. As in Huey P. Newton. He's 8 years old, so he far out-dates the comic strip, 'Boondocks', but I'm delighted at that connection, too. He was a feral kitten that my SO tamed and is now a total lap cat. A very BIG lap cat. Needless to say, he looks like a Black Panther.

Ditto - Huey's litter mate. Also adorable. Loves to take walks around my quarter acre pond and heels like well trained dog.

Gracie - as in Gracie Allen. Litter mate to Huey and Ditto, but a beautiful brown tabby. Was the hardest to tame, now the hardest to evict from your lap. Speaks in purring churls. Was the litter dingbat, but is now elegant and refined. But still something of a dingbat.

Pandora - my cat. A purebred Himalayan I rescued from an attic in Summer heat well into the 90's. An ignorant brat of a 20 year old left her husband, blasted his credit through the roof (Pandora cost $600 at a pet shop), and when her husband reconciled (idiot) with her because she was pregnant, she ditched the cat because it was no longer a kitten and she couldn't have the cat "sucking a babies breath out of it's lungs" (her desperate attempt at "concerned mother"). So she left the cat in an attic with one bowl of food and water. My SOs mother told me about the incident and it me took a fucking week to get the cat. She was terrified of me at first, but is now one of my appendages. Was named 'Panda' (ugh) but I named her 'Pandora' because she's beautiful...BUT...her litter box contains all the evils of the world. This was 9 years ago - woe to the child they had.

My two recent kitten shelter rescues are 'Hector' and 'Grendel'. One's a warrior in training, the other an evil (but cuddly) fiend.

My other cat is 'Charlie'. Pedestrian name - wonderful cat. My SO named him after I caught him in a Hav-A-Hart trap with a piece of turkey as bait when he was a kitten. After all the histories of my other cats, it was unfair to leave him out. But I still look at my SO and go, "Why 'Charlie', you lunkhead???", after 11 years.

[newfaceinhell]

1. Pyewacket is an interesting name

It was also the name of a witch's familiar during the Matthew Hopkins witch-trials in 17th century England. I guess that's where, ultimately at least, the book took the name from; it's funny how it ended up becoming quite a common name- there's even a cafe called Pyewackett's in my home town.

[liberalitch]

2. Montana and spooky

Spooky (a black cat) because it fits his personality.
I got him from Meower Power ferral cat rescue.... he came from the Norfolk International terminal down the street.
He was hard to tame and afraid of everything, but now he's my timid little love boy.

Montana.... a BIG gray tabby..... my SO thought he looked like a cougar in a B/W film..... cougars live in Montana... so.... well the commie has his own logic.

My mom's cat's name is Otis (after otis the drunk on the andy griffith show)

[Atlas Mugged]

11. Otis is a great name

My brother and sister-in-law had a cat that limped a bit as a kitten. He was saddled with Chester, for obvious reasons to anyone old enough to watch 60's television.

I love the name Montana, too. Lived there for a while.

[kedrys]

3. Indoor cat nomenclature

Caesar: he came, he saw, he took over. Tan and black tabby.

Socrates: gray with white paws, a bit too obvious to call him Socks after Bill Clinton's cat, so Socks is actually the abbreviation.

Plato: Socrates' brother, white tabby, looks like he's wearing a torn sweater or a toga.

Evie: Socrates' and Plato's sister, named after Rachel Weisz' character in The Mummy. Black with green eyes.

Quark: white with blue eyes, his mom's name is Antimatter because she's the perfect negative of Evie: white with blue eyes.

Neutrino: Quark's sister, white with one blue eye and one green eye.

Imhotep: the dad of all the above except Caesar, large and black. Evie looks *exactly* like him, except smaller.

[Atlas Mugged]

8. Quark, Neutrino and Antimatter...

...are utterly fabulous names. My hat's off to you; if I wore one.

I love the Greek philosopher thing, too.

[kedrys]

9. Quark and Neutrino had a brother named Tachyon

Black with green eyes, he took off before we could get him neutered and adopted. He actually turned out to be faster than light, so it was an appropriate name. :)

I had a black and white cat named Aristotle Longfoot Wu several years ago - engineer and philosopher both, that one.

[purr]

4. Osiris & Stinky

Osiris - When I got my Sphynx I wanted an Egyptian name for her. Ran through lists of names and the only one I really liked and fit her was Osiris. It fits her, she acts like a ruler :)

Stinky - When my fat calico (15 lbs) was a kitten, she'd have the WORST gas I've ever smelt. This gas would bring tears to ones eyes within a short range. She even cleared out rooms with her stench. She still has the smell, but not as often.

[Atlas Mugged]

10. I love that picture of Osiris

I'll admit that when I saw my first Sphynx at a cat show I inwardly freaked. Now I'm fascinated with them. That face is unlike any other. Great name, too, and gender defiant, which I also like.

Poor Stinky! Burdened with the legacy of a gastro intestinal disorder!

[Corgigal]

5. Cats

1.Tino Martinez- after the baseball player with the same name who plays for the Yankees. (aka also the man)

2.Terra-ists- because she is causes more terror in our home then one cat should be. We lie to the vet and tell him her name is Tara.

3.Cleo- with eyes like that, you know they have kitty makeup somewhere.

4.BayBee- (baby) must be shouted to annoy the cat. Beautiful munchkin kitty that I fell in love with on the "internets" and gave up 500 bucks. I still tell the family, I can't believe I bought a cat for 500 bucks. However shes the cutest damn thing.

[Atlas Mugged]

13. I'm fascinated by Munchkins

One of our feral cats, The Fabulous Fluffy, looked so much like a Munchkin when he was a kitten skittering around on the parking lot that we thought he might've been a natuaral Munchkin mutant of some kind. Actually, it turned out he was just terrified and was doing that feral cat belly crawl kind of run. It was interesting to have a long haired feral, which he turned out to be. Loved that cat dearly, but he also came with Feline Leukemia which killed him in his 6th year. We lost 4 of our feral rescues to that fucking horrible disease. But at least the cats knew they were loved when they died. One was a kitten I rescued one hour after her mother (Gidget - whom we also lost this last year) abandoned her. I bottle raised Kublai Khat from infancy. Easily, the most important animal I've ever owned. But, she was born with the infection and I lost her Christmas Eve, 2003, at 7 months of age. I buried her Christmas day, and, quite frankly, I've never been the same since.

Terra-ist is a hell of a great name, too. And I totally understand the name change for the vet; my vet is something of a thud, also. Personality wise.

BTW, when we finally had Kublai tested for Feline Leukemia, and it turned out positive the vet had the unmitigated gaul to ask if I wanted to put her to sleep. I almost killed him on the spot. It was bad enough to get such horrible news, but to be hammered with that kind of question at that instant was one of the worst things that have ever happened to me. And I've got a major "worst things" list.

[Corgigal]

19. Sorry you had to go through that pain

Feline Leukemia is brutal. I had a cat die several years ago of FIV. Oscar (female cat) use to love to lie in our screened in porch and some wild crazy cat torn one of the screens down to get at her.
She passed away, quietly at aged 13. I didn't think that was too bad for a FIV victim.

I can PM you a pic of my Munckin. I bought her from this breeder:

http://www.immeressen.com/soldkittens.html

Look for Halo (aka BAYBEE)

[havocmom]

6. Havoc was trouble on four paws when he was a kitten

Grew up to be the most gentlemanly of giant cats! Guess he shot his wad of ornery early. He was a love of a cat. Also a very BIG one.

[Atlas Mugged]

12. 'Havoc' is pure genius for a cat name

[supernova]

7. Pyewacket was also a restuarant here

A local instituion for many years for veggies. But alas it bit the dust several years ago.

[annagull]

14. Sammy Davis Jr.--a fabulous cat!

Sammy Davis Jr. was the best cat, he could fetch and he brought me a black crow on valentine's day! He passed away in 1997, broke my heart, but he was a fantastic cat.

BTW, my Mother inlaw has a siamese named pyewackett.

[Atlas Mugged]

17. Great name!

And, if you don't mind, I've set it aside for possible future use.

[Maine-ah]

15. My kitty's name is Zero

he's a big fat orange tabby. When he was tiny, his stripes looked like zeros, now that he's big and fat, they're kind of distorted but you can still see them.

[sugar magnolia]

16. Alice Smith

A siamese cat named after my great-grandmother. The name drives my grandmother absolutely insane. She thinks its disrespecting her mother.

[LibraLiz1973]

18. Aww! I had a Pyewacket

& I still miss her. It's been almost 7 years since she passed- & I havent gotten another kitty since.

[skygazer]

20. My cat is named Oops

He earned his name as a kitten when he fell off our rather high deck.... twice. Oops.

[samplegirl]

21. I've got three cats

Silas, Phoenix & dietrich

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Lewis because he was an intrepid explorer and thefirst one

of thekittens to escape from the birthing box. Clark because, well if we had Lewis somebody had to be Clark.
Thomas came with that name.

And CatZilla was named because as a very young kitten he was just HUGE. AFter they got on kitty chow, Lewis over took him and now is the big boy. CatZilla is not small, but Lewis and Clark are both larger now.