A friend of mine recently gave me a little ball of razor-sharp-clawed energy covered in fluffy black fur and with striking blue eyes. I've been calling him "Sweety", "Precious" and "Kitty" for a few days and think he is now in need of a proper name. I've pretty much given up on coming up with anything so I turn to you, the amazing forum dwellers!

I'll post a picture when I can track down my camera.

Both my supporters and my detractors feel that "Xinemus" would make a good name, although for marginally different reasons.

"Pup."

EDIT: Or "Dog." I guess.

Patchou or Patchouli, in memory =D

Kitter! That was my cat's name. My family has never been very good at names...

furball

Menchie, Kreem, Hanna, Cielo, Cheech, Chong (Don't ask where I get the last two names).

Pusa (Cat in my language)

If you're up for other languages, I always thought that "Sev" (Armenian for 'black') would be a nice name for a black cat. But that's just me.

Along the other languages, I have a cat named Caillte (gaelic for 'lost' - though that was fitting for how I acquired this one).

EDIT: so you could do something in another language, that matches a characteristic about the feline.

Scratch Fury, Destroyer of Worlds!

Also:

I read somewhere that cats respond more to names with the 'S' sound in them. I don't recall where I saw that, but it popped into my head just now

Name it, Hamster. Or Tabitha

Squibbles! or Fuzzywumplekins, if you want to get strange looks from visitors

That would be an acceptable alternative to "Dog", yes. One-syllable names are better for pets so you can call them easily though.

Illy or Ildy is all the rave for kittens now a days

what about Diddy?

I've found that pets, least all the one's I've had, tend to take after their name. My current pet, a long-haired white cat, Dutchess, expectes to be treated as such.

As far as naming a black furball with claws... I prefer foreign words. Simply because they can be something simple and still not sound to Cliche or cheesey.

If it were my cat, I might name it something like...


Perscitus
Malus
Sha-pu

or maybe

Ashi

... I want a kitten now. *sniffle*

Oh I remember one of the kittens we rescued once we named spitty. I still like that name.

ooooh! Call it Nejii, that way when it sheds all over the house you won't feel so bad yelling at it

Yini, Nejii, and Jitwix are among my top choices for my pet names.

I can picture Viravain chasing a kitten around with a spray bottle, yelling 'Bad Nejii, not on the carpet!"

We had a black cat that we raised as a stray kitten. Bottle fed and everything. We couldn't come up with a name for him. He eventually got named Kitty Buddy. It was written on a picture frame we had.

He grew up to be a psychopathic murderer hellbent on conquering the human race and very nearly succeeded. Don't name your cat Kitty Buddy.